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

Okay so how big is this meteor then

everett,

Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?

dellish,

Is it meteoric?

everett,

The meteorest.

Norgoroth,
@Norgoroth@lemmy.world avatar

130 - 400 meters

GooberEar,

It’s around 1000 millimeteors

threelonmusketeers,

Listed in the article:

Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide

spongeborgcubepants,

How many giraffes is it tho

threelonmusketeers,
Comment105,

Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.

psud,

Were it to hit it would hit like a large nuke

homesweethomeMrL, w JWST facing potential cuts to its operational budget

Well now that the idiots of all stripes have put us in this exciting new world, let’s see what the optoins are:

  • Change nothing, and get cut
  • Put advertising in space and get cut
  • Ask oligarchs for money to make AI use JWST real good (but don’t of course)

Or the most obvious and pathetically realistic option: rename it for trump and watch it’s funding remain the same or even get a little tiny bump.

SanctimoniousApe, w Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster

There oughtta be a sci-fi short story competition using this for a basis - what happens when aliens eventually come across this bizarre piece of junk in space?

thefartographer, w Astronomers deal a blow to theory that Venus once had liquid water on its surface

Astronomers: Nuh-uh

Phys.org: Oh shit!

Me: I bet I can be dumb on the internet

mvirts, w Who needs colors anyway

Use three different monochromatic filters in front of your optics, you have three different telescopes.

Colors? Like Jet or Hot?

lemming,

Oh no, not Jet! If you really can’t live with just Viridis and insist on some kind of spectrum, at least use Turbo, please.

rickt137, w It pains to admit but i got Bird Jones'ed when buying my first telescope
@rickt137@astrodon.social avatar

@einfach_orangensaft I had a Bird Jones - worst optics I've ever seen in a telescope. It was cute as a button sitting on my desk, though!

Peppycito,
rozlav,

not available (T_T)

Peppycito,
hemko, w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

Hey wtf put Pluto back to where it belongs. Do you have any idea how bad this is for the world economics???

mindbleach,

Would the owner of a beige 1930 dwarf planet please move it, or we will have it towed.

Murdoc,

I think a TARDIS can do that.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge, w OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Wait a goddamned fucking minutes that’s not cheese…!

cyberpunk007,

It’s cheese, gromit!

KISSmyOSFeddit, (edited ) w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

BAH GOD IT’S PLUTO WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
HE’S CLEARING HIS ORBIT!

downpunxx, w The Hubble Space Telescope has lost a majority of its gyroscopes

ground control to major tom, your circuits dead, there's something wrong, can you hear me major tom

XTL,

We can’t really say that we’re

Surprised

It’s a shame

There’s always something that gets compromised

Daxtron2, w Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail

I always love seeing the telltale Webb diffraction spikes. Great new pictures.

Voroxpete, w Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos

“Ziggy played guitar…”

Etterra, w Hundreds of black 'spiders' spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos

That’s a confusing headline. Let’s make it better:

Mars Spiders Swarm Inca City!

umbrella, w NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

that sounds very cheap in the grand scheme of things. imagine if we didnt spend so much with wars.

SoleInvictus,

Seriously. The United States just sent nearly $60B to Ukraine. Nearly 18 times more than this. If humans weren’t so intent on fighting with each other and instead spent that time, energy, and resources on advancing as a connected society, we could do amazing things. Instead, we’re barreling into the future as predicted by RoboCop.

DoctorWhookah,

I’ll buy that for a dollar!

JohnDClay,

You can’t just cut keeping tyrants at bay though. I totally agree starting a war is stupid, but defending against invasion definitely isn’t. And it prevents future wars from starting or spreading. So as cool as it would be to invest trillions into space exploration, we can’t just leave Ukraine out to dry.

SoleInvictus, (edited )

I totally agree with you, I’m all for funding Ukraine’s defense. It’s just my idealist fantasy that everyone one day wakes up and realizes we’re being collectively quite stupid for the benefit of a very small segment of the population and we could do so much more if we cut them out.

Zikeji, w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.
@Zikeji@programming.dev avatar

I happened to be able to see the 2017 one and it was so impactful I saved the date and made sure I’d make it happen. Cut forward 7 years and here I am with most of my immediate family (I have 6 siblings so having most is impressive).

It is an experience that can’t be captured by any form of digital or physical media and my only way to describe it is - it’s the closest thing to magic I’ve ever experienced.

I plan on saving up and going overseas for one as well.

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