But here's the problem: our space-technology SUCKS. We do not have the means to build either an effective weapon (a black hole MIGHT slow it down if we could conjure one) or a completely- safe lifeship. So what do we do? We bank on the lifeship, it seems more promising. No, the nations do not unite...it's panic and it's every country for itself. Some take refuge in religion, some in technology; some refuse to acknowledge the coming threat, or hope that it will ignore us. But here in the Ol' U.S. of A., we bank on the lifeship concept. It's "Titan A.E." right here right now. However, those of us not brainwashed into the blind acceptance of the competence of our leaders and scientists are skeptical. They're going to build a giant fleet of ships to get as many Americans off the planet as possible...so we can DO WHAT? Float around in deep interstellar space waiting for our resources to run out and our equipment to fail? Those of us with half a brain know damn well that we don't have the technology to build a sustainable autonomous space colony in, what, a little less than a year? Decades of research are necessary, but that THING is headed RIGHT FOR US. Yet the scientists throw it into overdrive, the leaders take what they need from whomever has it, and they kill any and all opposition. You can see the damn things for miles around, there's one being constructed in ever major metropolitan area in the