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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)

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[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 6 points 4 months ago

Right now.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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 2 points 4 months ago

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.

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