Panic?!
You mean throw a welcome party?
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.
It’ll be an equatorial impact.
Well that’s disappointing
i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?
Sync Earth’s magnetic union of it’s core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.
I’m team asteroid.
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.
is there any way to hurry it along?
should I mention “don’t look up” ?
Those are better odds than the lottery. Has anyone set up a betting pool yet?
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.
Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.
Wouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?
all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts
all i remember from my ksp days is add more
strutsboostersFixed it for you.
Alas, without the struts, the boosters shall return unto The Lord, leaving thine kerbalnauts Kerbinbound.
You think humanity would be in this spot if the average person had a fucking clue whatsoever?
Tell me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program without telling me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program.
Project Sundial can still make a comeback.
Okay so how big is this meteor then
It’s around 1000 millimeteors
Exactly one meteor wide. Do you need the height as well?
Listed in the article:
Scientists estimate that 2024 YR4 is between 130 to 300 feet (40 and 90 meters) wide
Fuck, I was hoping for a 10-15 km wide one.
Were it to hit it would hit like a large nuke
Great video, the probability will keep going up till it goes way down. Unless it doesn’t.
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up.
Eh, Paradise and Silo got me ready for the future.
Is there any way to speed this up
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.
