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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options.
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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Panic?

    I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.

      • Zacryon@feddit.org
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        Right now.

        • Zetta@mander.xyz
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          Forever, humanity could only ever conceivably expand so far due to the expansion of the universe, so as far as we know a still insignificant portion of the universe we could colonize.

          • Zacryon@feddit.org
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            Until we make some scientific breakthrough which might solve that problem. If there is any possible of course. There is so much we still don’t know.

  • HappyStarDiaz@real.lemmy.fan
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    Is there any way to speed this up

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    Sigh. Why can’t it be 109%

    This place sucks.

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      It’s not big enough to fix anything. If it hits, it won’t hit America or Europe

      It’s in the big nuke scale of energy, enough to do a lot of damage to a small area. Were it to hit a city, the city would need a lot of rebuilding. Were it to hit, few people would be in danger as we will have years of warning. The only people in the impact area would be “storm chasers” travelling to see the impact

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    is there any way to hurry it along?

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    To people having panic attacks, it is not large enough to destroy the earth, and we would have plenty of time to evacuate the impact location. Though let’s hope it isn’t anywhere with permafrost.

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      Aw, you think we’ll still have permafrost by then.

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip
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      Well that’s disappointing

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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      You mean populate the impact zone because I’m going to watch

      • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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        Yeah, my dogs will be gone by then so I would absolutely set up a tent close enough to catch it. I’d even bring a baseball glove for shits and giggles.

      • hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download the file instead.

  • expatriado@lemmy.world
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    that was Trump chances in 2016…

  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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    I wonder if the “important” people know the chances are higher, so they’re going for broke in order to build their escape ship.

  • Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    should I mention “don’t look up” ?

  • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
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    Those are better odds than the lottery. Has anyone set up a betting pool yet?

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    Eh, Paradise and Silo got me ready for the future.

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    Fucking finally goddamn

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    Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed…

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    That’s 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope…

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      One of the things they’re doing is calculating what it’s orbit would have to be to hit the Earth, and where it would have had to have been on its last orbit to be in that orbit

      So they can look at any astronomical images of that part of the sky from then and see if it’s in the right place

      If they find images of the right part of the sky at the right time and the asteroid is not in it, they know it’s not on an orbit that will hit the Earth in 2032

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    Panic?!

    You mean throw a welcome party?

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