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

submitted 6 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] MrTrono@lemmy.world 88 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Am I supposed to panic because it's unlikely to hit? Meanwhile I'm out here wishing for death by meteor.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 0 points 6 months ago

Honestly, at this point, there might be enough of us volunteering to bounce that fucker back to Jupiter. A lot of us will be turned into jam but I think it’s worth the sacrifice.

[–] MrTrono@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

But I'm on team meteor

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Eh, they can launch from Vandenburg if it's that important. (Or, ya know, Guiana or Baikonur or whatever.)

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Assuming any foreign space agency will work with NASA now...

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What about hitting the Republican National Convention?

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You think "most of us" will be dead in .... 7 years? That's pretty doomer if you ask me.

[–] llamacoffee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Very doomer. Does lemmy have a "remind me in 7 years" bot? 😅

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

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.