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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Assuming any foreign space agency will work with NASA now...

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What about hitting the Republican National Convention?

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago

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.