Learning Goal: I’m working on a astronomy writing question and need an explanati

Learning Goal: I’m working on a astronomy writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.you will do some research on potential catastrophic events, and how mankind may prevent our own extinction. You will pick one of the topics below, research it, and write a 2+ page paper on it. (choose any topic you want below)Avoiding an Impact: Research some of the methods developed by scientists and the world’s governments as possible means to change the path of a large asteroid or comet that is on a crash collision with the Earth. Be sure to look at a minimum of 3 possible methods developed, explain how these methods work, and express in opinion in your confidence in them working. Moving Mankind: A few years ago, Stephen Hawking caused a bit of controversy when he said:”Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers … I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space.”What do you think is our best means to avoid cosmic extinction? How high on the priority list should something of this nature be? Research a few of the ways in which mankind could become extinct (both from space, Earth and ourselves) that would be prevented if we had multiple colonies on multiple planets/moons. Come up with an idea of how often an event of this nature could take place, and based on this, give your opinion as to how much of our resources should be put towards this effort.Path of Destruction: On March 5, 1979, a very powerful burst of gamma ray radiation moved its way through our solar system from somewhere outside of the solar system. This radiation was detected by many US and Soviet space probes as well as did damage to Department of Defense satellites, among others. Research this event, the amount of destruction done and the source of the radiation. Describe what happened, what object was the likely cause, why the object was able to emit such a vast amount of radiation, and discuss what the odds of a similar, or worse, event of this variety taking place. General requirements for the project are as follows:Use at least 3 reputable sources. Two must be from journal articles found on our library website.
Turn in a title page and a works cited page or bibliography. This does not get included in page count.
Put thought into your opinion. You will be graded on how well put together your ideas are.
You can include no more than one quote that is no more than 50 words long.
Plagiarism will be dealt with as outlined in the syllabus. Anything not in your own words will count as plagiarism. Just changing a few words of someone else’s sentence is still plagiarizing.
Requirements: 2+ pages   |   .doc file