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vga, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

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.

rickyrigatoni,

Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.

threelonmusketeers,

Wouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?

rickyrigatoni,

all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts

Krik,

all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts boosters

Fixed it for you.

rickyrigatoni,

Alas, without the struts, the boosters shall return unto The Lord, leaving thine kerbalnauts Kerbinbound.

Comment105,

You think humanity would be in this spot if the average person had a fucking clue whatsoever?

Rivalarrival,
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today avatar

Tell me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program without telling me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program.

SARGE,
@SARGE@startrek.website avatar

Project Sundial can still make a comeback.

HorikBrun, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Panic?!

You mean throw a welcome party?

chemical_cutthroat, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed

solsangraal, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?

Chakravanti,

Sync Earth’s magnetic union of it’s core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.

burgersc12,
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Floshie, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

should I mention “don’t look up” ?

TheObviousSolution, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
@TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Those are better odds than the lottery. Has anyone set up a betting pool yet?

expatriado, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

that was Trump chances in 2016…

parpol, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

To people having panic attacks, it is not large enough to destroy the earth, and we would have plenty of time to evacuate the impact location. Though let’s hope it isn’t anywhere with permafrost.

Jimmycakes,

You mean populate the impact zone because I’m going to watch

hungprocess,
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SARGE,
@SARGE@startrek.website avatar

Yeah, my dogs will be gone by then so I would absolutely set up a tent close enough to catch it. I’d even bring a baseball glove for shits and giggles.

taiyang,

Aw, you think we’ll still have permafrost by then.

photonic_sorcerer,
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It’ll be an equatorial impact.

SuperSaiyanSwag,

Well that’s disappointing

adarza, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

is there any way to hurry it along?

MrTrono, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

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

threelonmusketeers,

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,

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, (edited )

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,

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

Mirshe,

Assuming any foreign space agency will work with NASA now…

murmelade,

Hell yeah this would be my choice too on preferred way to die. There’s something beautifully deterministic about it, a random space rock flying around for millions of years and all my lifes choices and circumstances ending up in standing on the exact spot the meteorite ends its journey. Right in my head. Lovely.

ShaggySnacks,

What about hitting the Republican National Conference?

lordnikon,

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,

You think “most of us” will be dead in … 7 years? That’s pretty doomer if you ask me.

lordnikon,

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.

llamacoffee,
@llamacoffee@lemmy.world avatar

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

LouNeko,

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,
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

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,

But I’m on team meteor

vzq, do esa w [Eric Berger] Europe has the worst imaginable idea to counter SpaceX’s launch dominance

On the one hand, it’s euro-ULA. On the other hand, I’m not sure there’s an obvious alternative.

threelonmusketeers,

Why not invest in a bunch of the smaller companies like Rocket Factory Ausburg, PLD Space, MaiaSpace, HyImpulse, etc? They won’t all be successful, but if just a couple of them are, the competition would put Europe in a much stronger position than if they were to establish Euro-ULA.

vzq,

I’m not sure we can afford an “either or” strategy.

We should be doing that, we should be doing euro-ULA, and we should be massively expanding (access to) launch infrastructure. There’s only so much you can do when your ranges are literally on the other side of the planet.

threelonmusketeers,

There’s only so much you can do when your ranges are literally on the other side of the planet.

Is suppose French Guiana is a bit far, but Andøya, Esrange, and Saxavord all have plans for orbital launches, don’t they?

oce, do astronomy w A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever
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echodot, do games w Doom in an art gallery

I love how the layout is still the same.

catloaf, do games w Doom in an art gallery

Isn’t this an art gallery in Doom though?

Fredselfish, do games w Doom in an art gallery
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

So cool to see all the things that Doom can do even all these years later. If you haven’t read it I highly suggest Masters of Doom by David Kushner. Great read all about the two Johns who created this wonderful game.

undeffeined,

"Unlike typical Doom mods, the project uses Construct 3 rather than utilizing the original Doom engine. "

This was not done in Doom but rather a Doom inspired creation.

Still,Dooms legacy has influenced more creativity ʘ‿ʘ

fluxion,

One of my favorite reads ever. What a wild ride those guys had.

Fredselfish,
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Yeah and shame that success and all they did probably can’t be replicated today.

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