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This is also true for many domains. Space travel for instance... in just a few hundred years, it'll be relatively easy for a disgruntled individual to trigger a nontrivial sized piece of space debris to hurl towards a major city. Once we begin harnessing asteroids to mine them in earth orbit, Someone could eventually alter its orbit to destroy a city or worse..

The clock is ticking, and we might not make it



> to trigger a nontrivial sized piece of space debris to hurl towards a major city

How?

Also, maybe with personal space travel, comes an extension of the usual 'air'-space.

That said, 9/11 shows how both easy, and how hard something like this might be.




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