NASA's Mission to Crash a Spacecraft into a Meteor Launches in November

November 24th Launch Date to test Planetary Defense System”… … . . “Humans will save nature.” - Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

---“Our intelligence is nature’s hope. Humans appear to be nature’s ultimate defense mechanism.” - Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

NASA’s launch next month…

I’ve written extensively over the last several years on the epiphany I had that the evolution of human intelligence might be earth’s defense mechanism … that nature designed us in part to save her … that we are her ultimate survival mechanism (see example email below).

NASA next month will launch the “DART Mission” to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. This will be NASA’s first test of its ‘planetary defense system’. It will be the first time in history that a celestial body moving through the heavens will be altered by intelligent beings (to our knowledge).

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Protecting the Fate of Nature …

Human beings.

---“Our intelligence is nature’s hope. Humans appear to be nature’s ultimate defense mechanism.”- Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

Meteors hit earth. It’s never a question of if. It’s always a question of when. Nothing to fear. But on average, a collision with a 5 km object happens once every 20 million years. The last impact was 66 million years ago. That meteor knocked out ¾ of earth’s plant and animal species.

Humans have been hard on earth … but meteors have been much harder. And a meteor 60 miles wide knocks out the whole earth.

f If you are nature … which would you prefer?

Option #1: Humans hurting me as they evolve and develop technology that might save me from a meteor that will destroy 75% of me.

Option #2: No human technology. Just let me get hit by the meteor.

… If I’m nature …I prefer Option #1. Minimize the learning pain, but I like Option #1.

Email from earlier this year.

By 2050 …

human technology will evolve to the point where we are not only protecting nature from humans, but protecting nature from nature.

---“Humans are not the only forces in the world that can harm nature.”

As ironic as it might sound, the evolution of humans and human technology will likely prove to be the reason nature survives for as long as she will. In other words, without humans showing up on earth and beginning with our very crude and harmful technology to the earth, nature might not have survived for as long as she will in the first place. Paradoxical. Redemptive. Transcendent. Humans evolving to save nature—not the other way around. That’s a story-line that only God could write.

Now humans are heading into …

The Environmental Renaissance

Humans are moving from a focus on environmental protection to environmental enhancement

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  title  = {NASA's Mission to Crash a Spacecraft into a Meteor Launches in November},
  year   = {2021},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/nasas-mission-to-crash-a-spacecraft-into-a-meteor-launches-in-november},
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Anderson, J. (2021). NASA's Mission to Crash a Spacecraft into a Meteor Launches in November. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/nasas-mission-to-crash-a-spacecraft-into-a-meteor-launches-in-november

Anderson, Jed. "NASA's Mission to Crash a Spacecraft into a Meteor Launches in November." Jed Anderson, October 9, 2021, https://jedanderson.org/posts/nasas-mission-to-crash-a-spacecraft-into-a-meteor-launches-in-november.