Where do I donate to help the asteroid?
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Is there any way we can speed it up?
Let's point all our magnets towards the sky!
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Probably a carbonic asteroid rather than ferrous
No worries! Weβre working on that, too!
Melting the ice caps shifts mass, and therefore, gravity, away from the largely unpopulated poles and nearer to where the people live.
But this problem will not solve itself with any one solution. We must also petition our government to act now to stage a mission to nudge the asteroid into earthβs orbit! With modern science, we can do this.
I believe in humanityβs power to defeat humanity!
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3.1% odds are nothing to sneeze at. Ever played D&D?
XCom vets know what's about to happen
It'll climb to 95% and then phase through the earth to somehow miss entirely?
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roll for save vs. asteroid on a D30...
Balls.
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From the article
In a new update, the space agency has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth, with the probability of impact rising to 3.1 per cent or one-in-32 odds of impact β the highest probability of a collision yet.
IE - 3%.
3% events happen all of the time!
The article stresses that this probability has been going up over the past year or so, which is likely neither here nor there, but I can totally understand how itβs alarming in a post-COVID world.
Slightly more likely than rolling two sixes.
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Don't threaten me with a good time
Bring it
A direct hit would be about the size of a fission nuclear bomb. Devastating for a city, but no regional or country-wide impacts, let alone globally
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Donβt look up
Good.
Up those numbers.
We're awful.
Hit Washington DC please.
first hit moscow and take an insane bounce and hit washington DC please. that's all I'm asking.
Bruh the DC metro area is statistically one of the most anti Trump places in the US. Let's root for it to hit Maralago instead.
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is this the aliens going "welp they elected Trump again time to press the reset button"
This is the expected path the probability is going to take. Scott Manley made a great video on that.
Basically the area in which the asteroid is going to be includes the earth. When you shrink this area earth is going to take up more space, unless it left the cone. I.e. measurements increase the likelihood until they don't.
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As if fascists and climate change wheren't enough. Here, have an asteroid!
What if it lands an the fascists and dust in the atmosphere cancels climate change for a couple of decades. Could that work?
Would asking for it to both hit the Earth and for me to be right below the impact zone be asking too much?
Unless you are a terrible person, yes.
If it falls on a joint meeting of Trump and Putin who once again decided to have a meeting to discuss Ukraine without Ukraine that should be fantastic, and not at all asking too much. Hopeful musk is hanging out with bezos and Netanyahu and Xi are talking too. Really not asking enough if you think about it
How many people need to die before someone hits the Earth with a rock ?
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