That's not even Earth
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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Scott Manley did a great video explaining how easily we could redirect it if we found out it was going to hit the earth. We have multiple launch vehicles that can launch a mass at sufficient velocity to nudge it the small amount we need.
Fly safe.
Wait...
We don't even need to land, drill into the center, drop a nuke and leave behind an American oil driller to detonate it?
I say we still do it, for good luck
But who's going to pay for it? Not MY tax dollars!
That was his main concern. Like if we find out it’s going to hit central Africa would other nations even bother stopping it when it will be a localized event?
But mah copper!?
Edit: nevermind, they'll probably justify doing nothing by saying it will create jobs and opportunities.
Plot twist the asteroid is made of copper.
I've seen Don't Look Up. Having the technology to carry out a mission like that is the easy part.
They're just trying to give us hope
In the world of astronomy a billion kilometers is like a missile hitting the neighborhood next to yours. So while there's a good amount of hyperbole there, it's still relatively close. You're still shaken up by it hitting your town. And eventually we will win the lottery and have an astronomical event outside our control devestate the earth. It's happened before.
Well, a billion kilometers is almost 7 times the mean distance between the earth and the sun. Asteroids pass in that distance all the time. We're currently closer to Ceres (the dwarf planet) than that and its on the other side of the sun from us.
Well when they're saying there's 2% odds, that's....probably still higher than you want for the probability of a world ending asteroid strike.
It's not a world ending strike. It's 2.3% odds that a city ending strike lands somewhere on earth, most likely in the ocean.
It's a fraction of a fraction of a % that it'll hit somewhere with any humans at all, much less a populated city.
And on top of that, we have until 2032 to decide what to do about it, with enough time to potentially redirect it with technology we've already demonstrated that works. And if that isn't enough, we just need one or two more data points to figure out almost exactly where it will hit, and can evacuate the area.
Just like we do for hurricanes and other natural disasters.
This is not an emergency, this is an easy mode try out for a real disaster.
This is not an emergency, this is an easy mode try out for a real disaster.
So it's going to be horribly fumbled in the stupidest manner possible and will definitely become a worldwide disaster. Got it.
45/47 is going to shoot down anything that tries to divert it, then. Gotcha.
The one caveat is, it’s going to be out of visual range soon and we won’t get any more info for a few years
City ending will cause weather chaos and possibly radioactive fallout.
But the funny part is that you think 2032 is enough time. Humans are USELESS when we need to do large international projects to a deadline.
You're clearly falling for the clickbait articles. This is not a world ender and will not cause radioactive fallout. Read better articles.
The earths crust has radioactive material. Anything that fires loads of it into the sky could cause fallout. It surely depends where it lands, but it's also not outside the realm of possibility.
Edit: you're probably right.
A billion kilometers? How much is that? A few miles? Half a parsec? A couple pounds sterling? This is really worrisome...
Trump did get re-elected, and he's going to do comparable damage to the whole world, so, there's that
It's pretty much speculation based on a probability that includes the chance to hit a narrow ring of places along earth's surface, but we don't know how dense it is, although we're relatively sure it's solid, and whether other debris will change its path before it remerges in 2028. It has no risk factor to us until 2032, just in case people are wondering why reputatable science journalists aren't completely poopooing the narratives of other outlets. We'll know what it eats for breakfast by 2029.
The aliens are a nice touch.
Also it seems to be a picture of the Earth colliding with the Earth.
They came to tell us Betelgeuse is going to go super nova any day now
Old news. It went super nova a few months back. But they'll probably keep us from seeing it for about 600 years.
Are we even training the oil drillers yet?
Promises, promises.
Work, damn you, WORK!
