Am I supposed to panic because it's unlikely to hit? Meanwhile I'm out here wishing for death by meteor.
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.
Florida
You jest, but the Kennedy Space Center is in Florida. Putting the world's busiest spaceport out of commission might put a damper on future asteroid deflection missions...
Eh, they can launch from Vandenburg if it's that important. (Or, ya know, Guiana or Baikonur or whatever.)
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.
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.
I just read the ipcc reports and if you read those and don't start a bucket list for the time we have left. I don't know what to tell you. Trust me I don't want to be this way I will fight where I can but I'm going to live my life the same time way a terminal patient lives. Cherish the days we got and if I'm wrong I will eat crow happily with a big smile on my face.
Better late than never I guess.
Panic?!
You mean throw a welcome party?
i don't like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
Panic?
I'm crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We're awful.
Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.
Right now.
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.
is there any way to hurry it along?
That's 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope...
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
Jesus is coming back and he's pissed...
that was Trump chances in 2016...
Sigh. Why can't it be 109%
This place sucks.
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
should I mention "don't look up" ?
Is there any way to speed this up
Okay so how big is this meteor then
Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?
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
How many giraffes is it tho
!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
Were it to hit it would hit like a large nuke
Those are better odds than the lottery. Has anyone set up a betting pool yet?
Wow this is the most depressing comment section I've ever seen.
Yeah, even for Lemmy this is bad. I hope most of them are semi-facetious?
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.
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.
Can we speed that up a bit?
If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?
Technically the solar system is a multi-body system, and everything nudges everything else, but the mass of the earth is far greater than the mass of the asteroid, to the point that it doesn't matter.
Eh, Paradise and Silo got me ready for the future.
Reading this headline instantly brought a huge smile to my face 😁