astronomy

vga, 2 miesiące temu 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, 2 miesiące temu

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

threelonmusketeers, 2 miesiące temu

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

rickyrigatoni, 2 miesiące temu

all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts

Krik, 2 miesiące temu

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

Fixed it for you.

rickyrigatoni, 2 miesiące temu

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

Comment105, 2 miesiące temu

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

Rivalarrival, 2 miesiące temu

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

SARGE, 2 miesiące temu

Project Sundial can still make a comeback.

Majorllama, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Which direction do I need to fart to up those numbers?

Uranus_Hz, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.

Etterra, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

I’m team asteroid.

cazssiew, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/92801e29-c9ff-4e9f-a113-8e935b7172d9.gif

GrumpyDuckling, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

I wonder if the “important” people know the chances are higher, so they’re going for broke in order to build their escape ship.

parpol, 2 miesiące temu 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, 2 miesiące temu

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

hungprocess, 2 miesiące temu

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/cccdc841-e759-404f-8aa1-c753bbc4cd3e.webm

SARGE, 2 miesiące temu

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, 2 miesiące temu

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

photonic_sorcerer, 2 miesiące temu

It’ll be an equatorial impact.

SuperSaiyanSwag, 2 miesiące temu

Well that’s disappointing

shadowedcross, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f4965fa0-9f4c-43a6-8df3-941f6c0550e5.jpeg

Sterile_Technique, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Better late than never I guess.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8f8c622f-3ea5-4541-b405-8d33f28d2708.jpeg

Comment105, 2 miesiące temu

I’m not even joking. I want this asteroid to hit our planet and make us all go the way of the dinos.

Captainautism, 2 miesiące temu

Yes, please!

InFerNo, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

If we are able to nudge an asteroid, would an asteroid of this size nudge the earth?

threelonmusketeers, 2 miesiące temu

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.

Cform, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ea490103-04a4-46d0-a13f-a5c09efe6c65.gif

Coreidan, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

I’ll only panic if it misses

solsangraal, 2 miesiące temu 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, 2 miesiące temu

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

burgersc12, 2 miesiące temu

https://i.imgflip.com/7zptyt.jpg

HorikBrun, 2 miesiące temu 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, 2 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed…