The way things are going down here I’m cheering for the asteroid tbh.
Eh calculated impact path ranges from south america through africa and india. None of these are where i want it to land.
Same here but I figure the rates are going to be really cheap so I can just use up my vacation days and travel to wherever it hits.
Even if it’s at the top end of the predicted range, an impact would be ~40MT equivalent. Enough to level a city, but not an extinction event by any means; plus the likely impact path is across central America, the Atlantic, central Africa and north India - not really regions that have the resources to respond to a threat like this. Personally I’m hoping it misses, because I don’t see the counties that could do something about it stepping up right now, so you’d be looking at maybe 100 million people displaced from their homes and an insurmountable humanitarian crisis
It goes without saying that this is all because of <enter your deity name here> disapproval of <enter your hated group here>.
And the flyby is a test of ‘deity’s’ approval of our next actions. Either way we should immediately lower taxes on the rich.
/s
I’m Indian and I’m OK with this hitting North India lol
Or Pakistan
Either is fine.
What happens if it crashes into Sahara? Do we get glass desert?
Came here to remark, “In hopes they can steer it at us?”
For those interested in how they come up with the impact probabilities and why it’s really important that JWST is looking at this, Scott Manley did a great video on this recently: https://youtu.be/Esk1hg2knno?si=Be2u_pxtVPPw6FWt
Finally, some good news in the current media cycle
An impact from such a rock wouldn’t trigger a mass extinction like the much larger, dino-snuffing Chicxulub impactor did 66 million years ago. But an asteroid that size could wreak regional havoc similar to the Tunguska impactor that flattened some 80 million trees in the Siberian wilderness in 1908
in 2032
Can someone tell it to hurry up already?
Can it direct the asteroid to mar a Lago?
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Spoilers: it looks like a big rock
Here’s my nominee to head up the “study”
Hey can this thing swing by and grab Apophis and hurry the fuck up?
I swear the last time I saw news about this asteroid a week or less ago it was like 1.9%
Yes, they reassessed and found it more likely to hit.
I don’t like this 2 point trend line given how much time we have lol
Things have been so wacky I think we need bingo cards for global events. We could charge for them and give bingo winners some of the proceeds.
First reference to Bruce Willis.
https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-deniz-burnham/
We don’t need Bruce Willis, we have Deniz Burnham.
I’d be interested to see if they can capture it, rather than deflect the asteroid. We need to work on space-based manufacturing anyway, and it’d be convenient if we could get this thing parked at a Lagrange point for research and practice.
What a waste
First reference to Bruce Willis.
