More evidence of humans overcrowding this planet

First, there was this. And then there was this.

And so I really got thinking about how much we are going to be SO TOTALLY SCREWED. I mean, what I see in the future is no just just some minor inconvenience here and there, it's going to be one giant clusterfuck.

1. As far as the nuclear submarine incidents go (this was the second "this" just above if you were too lazy to click on it), it really isn't getting as much coverage as it should. Two NUCLEAR POWERED SUBMARINES with NUCLEAR WARHEADS HAD A FENDER BENDER in the Atlantic. I mean, first of all, how ridiculous is it that two giant behemoths can't see each other? I mean, we are spending billions of dollars trying to build missile shield systems that can shoot stuff out of the sky, and you can't see a 500 FOOT LONG 15,000 TONNE behemoth in front of your face??? Dude.

1a. What the hell were the subs doing that close anyway? Don't they have specific routes for their training exercises?
1b. Why the hell couldn't they see each other?
1c. Were they carrying payload? In which case, WHAT THE FUCK!!???!?!?? I mean, even without the payload, these are NUCLEAR POWERED craft. Sorry I'm shouting so much, but if there was a breach, we are talking of a massive, massive, unforgivable disaster.

On the other hand, and I KNOW this is my testosterone talking, but man, that HMS Vanguard is one sexy beast of a machine... Phew, it's giving me goosebumps.



2. The other sign that perhaps we're getting too numerous (technologically advanced for our own good) is the satellite collision that happened this past week - the first "this" above.. All that debris around the planet is going to kick our collective asses in the near future. I can promise you that.

Here's a cartoon of the simulation of the existing debris in space around the Earth (from the NS article)



Yep, all that junk is damn dangerous, irrespective of whether it starts coming down ("Ms. Smith, we regret to inform you that as your son was decapitated by an ancient soviet-era spy satellite during his soccer game today. He did however score a goal in the first half."), or whether it stays up ("Dear investors, we regret to inform you that the 3 billion dollar communications satellite that we successfully launched last year crashed into a 2 billion dollar communications satellite that was launched the year before, and is completely destroyed. However, not all the news is bad - the other satellite belonged to our competitors. Get the champagne, Charles.").

He who invents the first space poop-scoop will inherit the world.