More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options.
  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    1 小时前

    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.

  • MrTrono@lemmy.world
    465·
    6 小时前

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

    • LouNeko@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 小时前

      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.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      6 小时前

      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.

      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
        16·
        5 小时前

        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.

        • threelonmusketeersOPEnglish
          22·
          4 小时前

          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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            40 分钟前

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

  • parpol@programming.dev
    20·
    6 小时前

    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.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    141·
    5 小时前

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