Reading this headline instantly brought a huge smile to my face 😁
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.
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.
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.
Sarcasm?
Idk about you but if it levels 1287 km² of forest, I don’t think that would exactly be good news for a populated area. On the upper range, it could be equivalent to a 40 megatonne bomb.
I’m team asteroid.
Is there any way to speed this up
I wonder if the “important” people know the chances are higher, so they’re going for broke in order to build their escape ship.
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.
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.
Well that’s disappointing
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.
It’s not big enough to fix anything. If it hits, it won’t hit America or Europe
It’s in the big nuke scale of energy, enough to do a lot of damage to a small area. Were it to hit a city, the city would need a lot of rebuilding. Were it to hit, few people would be in danger as we will have years of warning. The only people in the impact area would be “storm chasers” travelling to see the impact
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)
One of the things they’re doing is calculating what it’s orbit would have to be to hit the Earth, and where it would have had to have been on its last orbit to be in that orbit
So they can look at any astronomical images of that part of the sky from then and see if it’s in the right place
If they find images of the right part of the sky at the right time and the asteroid is not in it, they know it’s not on an orbit that will hit the Earth in 2032
Fucking finally goddamn
