The National Geographic Channel, a.k.a. NatGeo TV, had a fun
2-hour documentary on last night entitled ′Evacuate Earth.′
Sunday was a marathon of various doomsday programs, including a
mix of Doomsday Preppers along with shows about the Mayan
Calendar with their date for doomsday looming closer on December
21, 2012. The premise for Evacuate Earth is what would we do if
we knew that a neutron star was headed our way in 75 years?
Could we organize and construct a massive spacecraft to
transport an assortment of humans to another Earth-like planet
in a distant star system? Is there a lesson to be learned now?
Should we start to consider leaving Earth to escape Barack Obama
and Socialist tyranny?  evacuate earth  Okay, so image some
40,000 years ago, a nearby giant star explodes in a supernova.
Part of what is left is a neutron star, a very small but dense
object. Perhaps about ten miles wide but weighing three times
that of our own Sun. The supernova flings it off on its way
through the heavens towards us. Astro