Better late than never I guess.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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I'm team 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.
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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.
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Unexpected Waterworld dipstick guy
He's my go-to for posts like these
Underutilized meme format, honestly. It can apply to almost anything in daily life circa 2025.
Panic?
I'm crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We're awful.
Panic?!
You mean throw a welcome party?
Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide, large enough to cause localized devastation near the impact site. The asteroid responsible for the Tunguska event of 1908, which leveled some 500 square miles (1,287 square kilometers) of forest in remote Siberia, was probably about the same size.
So nothing to worry about
Provided it enters in a similarly uninhabited location.
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Wow this is the most depressing comment section I've ever seen.
it's just standard "haha self harm funi", it's so easy to post and reliably gets a few upvotes, so it's just a kneejerk response to posts like these.
Yeah, even for Lemmy this is bad. I hope most of them are semi-facetious?
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.
Aw, you think we'll still have permafrost by then.
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i don't like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
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Is there any way to get it here sooner?
That's 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope...
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I’ll only panic if it misses
Can we speed that up a bit?
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.
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is there any way to hurry it along?
Jesus is coming back and he's pissed...
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.
Okay so how big is this meteor then
It's around 1000 millimeteors
130 - 400 meters
Listed in the article:
Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide
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should I mention "don't look up" ?
that was Trump chances in 2016...
Is there any way to speed this up
Reading this headline instantly brought a huge smile to my face 😁
Those are better odds than the lottery. Has anyone set up a betting pool yet?
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