Panic?
I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.
That’s 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope…
don’t worry, it’ll just be like a small nuke, not a planet killer… (until they update the size estimates)
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.
Sigh. Why can’t it be 109%
This place sucks.
Is there any way to speed this up
I’ll only panic if it misses
Better late than never I guess.
I’m not even joking. I want this asteroid to hit our planet and make us all go the way of the dinos.
Yes, please!
Okay so how big is this meteor then
Listed in the article:
Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide
Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.
How many giraffes is it tho
It’s around 1000 millimeteors
130 - 400 meters
Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?
Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?
Wait, we could just detonate all those huge nukes here right now. Show that stupid asteroid.
Project Sundial can still make a comeback.
Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.
Wouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?
all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts
Panic?!
You mean throw a welcome party?
Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed…
i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
should I mention “don’t look up” ?
