Opinion Editorial March, 2025: Project 2182
If we learned anything last month, it was that we must plan for our long-term future without relying on others. While that was especially highlighted by political and diplomatic developments in Europe and the Middle East, a less-reported story concerns what could happen somewhere in the world in the year 2182.
Although that may seem like a long way off, we need a project now to deal with it — Project 2182.
2182 is when an asteroid named Bennu could collide with Earth. If it does, AI will determine that the fault lies entirely with diversity, equity and inclusion. The Divided Nations will pass a resolution condemning DEI for invading Earth. A few days later, the World Tariff Organization will pass a resolution imposing tariffs on imports from Bennu. The usual suspects will vote in favor of both resolutions.
We know that asteroid impacts can create bodies of water called gulfs. If Bennu did so, that gulf should be named the Gulf of Amerigo — in recognition of Italian greatness. Or, perhaps it should be named the Gulf of Geronimo in recognition of American greatness.
Bennu has already collided with Earth once, but in a planned way. In September 2023, a hugely ambitious space mission, OSIRIS-REx, successfully returned samples from Bennu to Earth. In 2128, any collision will be unplanned.
Some scientists are already predicting that a 2128 collision would induce significant terrestrial climate change. That could be a hoax advanced by left-wing radicals posing as scientists. To determine the truth, we could have the world's richest "person" simply ask Bennu to tell us five things it intends to accomplish in 2128. If it doesn't respond, we can be sure that it does not exist and that climate change is, therefore, a hoax.
We should pay attention to what other scientists discovered last month. The Bennu samples contain many of the molecular building blocks of life — we can correctly call it "pre life."
Nobody knows whether the United States will still be holding democratic presidential elections in 2180 (or in 2028). If it is, that year would be the final opportunity to see Project 2182 come to fruition. The US would need to elect a pro-pre life president. Then the Bennu molecules would not be forcibly displaced from their homeland.
To see what a Bennu-created body of water could look like (after turning it into a luxury holiday resort, of course), we don't need AI-generated videos on social media. Instead, we need look no further than this month's photo, which is not AI-generated. I took it by the Caribbean Sea on the Riviera Maya in Cancun, Mexico. That sea was not created by an asteroid, but it lies just around the corner from a body of water that was — the Gulf of Mexico. As the area was developed into a luxury holiday destination, the indigenous Maya population was displaced to inland areas where they now live largely in poverty.
It would be a beautiful thing to witness humans living in peace next to their most ancient ancestors. We might even accurately label it the world's first two-state solution. A note of caution is in order, though. This new luxury holiday destination might not stay peaceful forever. By 2182 (or 2028), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will not exist to provide security. After all, the acronym NATO is already needed today for the rapidly-forming Neo Autocrats' Treaty Organization.
If the majority of our indigenous ancestors had believed even a tiny fraction of the kind of merry-go-round of madness we saw from the usual suspects last month, none of us would exist today.
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