Are you planning on living for another 160 years? If so you may want to start building a bunker in a few decades times. Asteroid 1999 RQ36 is on the way, and there’s a whopping 1 in 1400 chance that it will strike the Earth. New Scientist has more details for the nervous.
(Hat tip to Maura)
Well that’s settled it then. Absolutely no point in paying to extend the lease beyond 99 years.
As I keep telling people, by that time we will all be software routines running on Charlie Stross’s laptop, so we won’t need homes, or even a planet.
But aren’t we then dependent on Charlie Stross’s laptop surviving, complete with adequate power source? Maybe we should all get together and dig a bunker for CS and his laptop. Or build an ark . . .
I’m sure that Charlie has a solution to this, but because it is behind the event horizon of the technology singularity he can’t tell us what it is.