It looks like a microscopic black hole passed through the end of your sentence. But you are still correct.

Barring total societal collapse, humans could probably cobble together some kind of interstellar life raft in the space of a thousand years. Would they be able to evacuate most of the planet to a safe destination? Hard to say for sure. With current technology it would be very unlikely. But at least they would know they needed to get to work on it.

For all we know, there's a deadly asteroid already headed toward us from a blind spot. And the Earth won't support life forever. Distant black holes or not, getting a toehold outside the solar system is a vital step if we want our lineage to continue.

Which would also not be something you want barreling straight through the solar system toward the Earth. But those are all extremely unlikely scenarios.

They are very hard to spot when they aren't consuming anything or creating enough distortion of background objects. There could easily be closer, smaller ones.

>It was identified by observing the motion of its companion star, which orbits the black hole at about the same distance as Earth orbits the sun.

As long as it isn't rapidly closing the distance on a particularly accurate collision course. Which it presumably isn't doing.

We could throw all the garbage into it, solve the landfill problem.

By the time it was shifting planetary orbits, it would be on top of us compared to anything else in the galaxy. So if it was speeding toward us from an empty area of the sky, while not getting close enough to other stars to give away its presence easily, we might not realize it until very late.

>Also glad none if them is close to us lol.

How would we know until it was almost on top of us?

Don't forget this monstrosity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Tank

Anything that tampers with the genome has the potential to contribute to cancer. It's not that shocking.