2032? No worries we will all be dead from Climate Change by then
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks."
Question...what would happen if it struck the moon? How could that impact us?
What gave it away was the sign in the passenger lounge at the point of origin. “Unscheduled Stop: A Planet.”
Seldom considered in writing about using a nuclear bomb on incoming comets is the effect of blasting it into smaller pieces. Each piece slightly pushed sideways in its trajectory, but each much smaller mass.
Rocky asteroids and metallic objects? Less likely to split up, but the modern wave-of-hand bit of using thrusters (since nuclear bombs are yucky on campus) seems to always “First, let us assume the object is a uniform spherical cow.”
Yes, a bomb imparts little blast impulse sideways. We need way of “pushing” a solid, irregular, long and spinning irregular mass in space.
I’ll be wearing a mask so I’ll be fine /s
It looks like Science Alert finally got something to alert about. Doubling from slightly more than 1% to a little more than 2% is not that scary. Alert me when it doubles from 40% to 80%. That will help me decide whether I should worry about something that I can do absolutely nothing about.
Several articles from highly regarded sites stated that over time, the odds will very likely get LOWER...much lower.
It’s just the nature of things...as time goes by, they will have more of an idea and it historically skews towards a much smaller chance.
SMOD finally?
Who cares? There is nothing anyone can do about it. This is under the file titled: You can’t do anything about it so why worry about it?
Enjoy your life. Don’t pay attention this alarmist BS.
Good this planet needs a reboot and what’s left will eat the Leftest
Can we just defund the asteroid with DOGE?
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 2031!