Could we build a massive "Ark" type space station with current technology?

Armageddon is coming. A giant Texas-sized meteorite on a collision course with planet Earth is discovered in 2020. It will hit Earth in 2030 and will wipe out 90% of living things including humanity. Calculations show that throwing rockets packed with nukes at it to deflect it would be unsuccessful. Digging a hole in it and nuking from the inside won't work either, it's just too big.

In a desperate way to survive this, leaders of the world decide to unite and build an Ark, a massive space station orbiting Earth which would house as much biodiversity as possible. The ark would need to be self sufficient for about a millennium, the time it would take for the effects of the giant asteroid crash to subside.

The original inhabitants of the ark would grow old and die in it. The ark needs to be able to sustain generations in a closed loop.

Would it be possible to build and launch such a space station with current technology within 10 years?

We assume that cost is not an issue anymore and somehow society doesn't collapse and still functions normally (the general public is not informed of the imminent catastrophe).

posted over 5 years ago

Fred‭

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