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Sorry, but how is colonizing another planet going to prevent a catastrophic collision?

No need to be sorry, it's a good question. See, the aliens only have the resources to throw biosphere-destroying meteors at one planet, and if we spread to more than one they will save their resources for defense against our inevitable invasion and conquering of their own planets.

It makes perfect sense once you have all the data. See http://traipse.com/upgrade/index.html for another idea about averting a catastrophic collision.

I discovered this piece of algorithmic art a few years ago and I have always liked it. You can also find lots of computer generated art at the Context Free Art Gallery.

Cmdr Taco, allow me to congratulate you on your true red-blooded americanness, unless of course you are one of the many persons on our Internets who is actually a socialist-cozening Canadian.

While your proposal to upgrade the name of one the lesser American states, which is to say one of the states which does not produce oil, is certainly sound, in fact our entire American solar system could use an image upgrade.

I know I am not alone in my preference for a more masculine and aggressive stance regarding naming conventions, and I call on every American to support this fine idea.

Or we could give the shuttle an inexpensive image upgrade. Surely aliens will respect us when they see our new attack shuttle Hostility!

Few people today realize the danger and risk that was involved in the moon missions.

Some of us do. This picture puts it into a little more perspective.

...can be built with two analog joysticks. See here

... will we be seeing some Stephenson rat things wandering around anytime soon, then?

$10k? Bah!

Drew Olbrich has a much better idea. Nothing like 3D Asteroids!

This reminds me of our Solar System's Image Upgrade . . .