First thing I'd do is get a heck of a lot of caffeine tablets, gasoline, and valuable goods (not as in electronics or jewels, but as in useful-in-a-post-apocalyptic-world items), and drive for a week straight south, as far as I can get in South America. If this thing blows, you can forget right away about transcontinental flights.
It sound like a simple constantly running mister integrated into ventilation systems could easily take care of this given problem. Ancient civilisations didn't have this luxury.
In orbit portions of the ISS will be exposed to direct sunlight 16 times per Earth day. Temperatures on these occasions can climb to over 120 degrees Celsius. The ISS will also be exposed to complete darkness or lack of radiant energy. Temperatures can plummet to -100 degrees Celsius. Thus, the internal environment of both spacecraft and space suit, developed for extravehicular activity, must have an active temperature regulation system that maintains a narrow range of thermal comfort.
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That should put a stop to most of it without the guv'mint encroaching on anyone's liberties, yes?
Why the hell do you imply we ought to put a stop to it?
Don't kid yourself. Pretty much all of our geological knowledge points toward the prediction that it will, in fact, happen.
In a decade or a couple hundred thousand of years, we don't know that yet.
First thing I'd do is get a heck of a lot of caffeine tablets, gasoline, and valuable goods (not as in electronics or jewels, but as in useful-in-a-post-apocalyptic-world items), and drive for a week straight south, as far as I can get in South America. If this thing blows, you can forget right away about transcontinental flights.
It might, just might, have been nerdy about 10 years ago. Darn, I was 12 and already about it.
Nowadays, if you google that date, you get 1.4 million hits.
Hollywood, and popular culture in general, has appropriated itself this specific doomsday scenario in order to make the most money out of it.
Disturbingly capitalistic, I know.
It sound like a simple constantly running mister integrated into ventilation systems could easily take care of this given problem. Ancient civilisations didn't have this luxury.
Mostly, they do.
From http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/pdf/educator-ecosystem_edu.pdf
In orbit portions of the ISS will be exposed to direct sunlight 16 times per Earth day.
Temperatures on these occasions can climb to over 120 degrees Celsius. The ISS will
also be exposed to complete darkness or lack of radiant energy. Temperatures can
plummet to -100 degrees Celsius. Thus, the internal environment of both spacecraft
and space suit, developed for extravehicular activity, must have an active temperature
regulation system that maintains a narrow range of thermal comfort.
Either that, or there is an international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.