Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options.
I'm team asteroid.
Panic?
I'm crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We're awful.
Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.
Right now.
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)
I wonder if the "important" people know the chances are higher, so they're going for broke in order to build their escape ship.
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
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!
I’ll only panic if it misses
Okay so how big is this meteor then
Panic?!
You mean throw a welcome party?
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.
Am I supposed to panic because it's unlikely to hit? Meanwhile I'm out here wishing for death by meteor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well that’s disappointing
Aw, you think we'll still have permafrost by then.
You mean populate the impact zone because I'm going to watch
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.
It'll be an equatorial impact.
i don't like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
Sync Earth's magnetic union of it's core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.
Jesus is coming back and he's pissed...
is there any way to hurry it along?
should I mention "don't look up" ?
that was Trump chances in 2016...
Those are better odds than the lottery. Has anyone set up a betting pool yet?
Eh, Paradise and Silo got me ready for the future.
