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[โ€“] db2@lemmy.world 113 points 5 months ago (19 children)

The way things are going down here I'm cheering for the asteroid tbh.

[โ€“] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Even if it's at the top end of the predicted range, an impact would be ~40MT equivalent. Enough to level a city, but not an extinction event by any means; plus the likely impact path is across central America, the Atlantic, central Africa and north India - not really regions that have the resources to respond to a threat like this. Personally I'm hoping it misses, because I don't see the counties that could do something about it stepping up right now, so you'd be looking at maybe 100 million people displaced from their homes and an insurmountable humanitarian crisis

[โ€“] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Even if it misses, it has a chance to come back every 4 years

[โ€“] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Its not that catastrophic.

[โ€“] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

Probably not every 4 years. After 2032, Earth will not be near the intersection point of the two orbits for a while. It might be decades before it's even close.

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