Better late than never I guess.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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Am I supposed to panic because it's unlikely to hit? Meanwhile I'm out here wishing for death by meteor.
Yeah I'll take one for the team. I go to the point of impact and when it finaly hits, I'm gonna try to punch it back into orbit.
You don't have to thank me.
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Just in case this comment is not a joke, here's the WHO page on suicide prevention.
Either way, there are a few billion other people on this planet who would rather not die by meteor, thank you very much.
I mean, if I was going to go out, then getting my shit mixed by a meteor is pretty awesome. I'm sure I'll make it on to a few Buzzfeed articles over the next ten or twenty years.
All things considered though, it would indeed be nice if it landed somewhere inconsequential like the ocean; the desert; or Florida.
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Not to be a doomer but most of us will be dead by then I just hope the meteor takes out any lucky oligarchs still alive in a bunker.
You think "most of us" will be dead in .... 7 years? That's pretty doomer if you ask me.
Very doomer. Does lemmy have a "remind me in 7 years" bot? 😅
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I'm team asteroid.
Panic?!
You mean throw a welcome party?
Panic?
I'm crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We're awful.
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.
You mean populate the impact zone because I'm going to watch
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.
Aw, you think we'll still have permafrost by then.
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Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide, large enough to cause localized devastation near the impact site. The asteroid responsible for the Tunguska event of 1908, which leveled some 500 square miles (1,287 square kilometers) of forest in remote Siberia, was probably about the same size.
So nothing to worry about
Provided it enters in a similarly uninhabited location.
i don't like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
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Wow this is the most depressing comment section I've ever seen.
it's just standard "haha self harm funi", it's so easy to post and reliably gets a few upvotes, so it's just a kneejerk response to posts like these.
Yeah, even for Lemmy this is bad. I hope most of them are semi-facetious?
That's 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope...
I science podcast I follow already warned last week that the probability would go up at first as they narrow down its trajectory.
They gave the example of a fan closing, as it gets narrow, the earth represents a bigger percentage of the remaining fan. If you keep closing the fan the Earth eventually will fall outside the fan and the percentage drop to zero.
Unless it turns out that it is dead center.
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I’ll only panic if it misses
Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?
Wait, we could just detonate all those huge nukes here right now. Show that stupid asteroid.
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is there any way to hurry it along?
Jesus is coming back and he's pissed...
Is there any way to get it here sooner?
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.
Can we speed that up a bit?
should I mention "don't look up" ?
Okay so how big is this meteor then
It's around 1000 millimeteors
130 - 400 meters
Listed in the article:
Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide
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that was Trump chances in 2016...
Is there any way to speed this up
Those are better odds than the lottery. Has anyone set up a betting pool yet?
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