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

submitted 1 day ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day 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.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one -1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

What about hitting the Republican National Convention?

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours 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.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 points 20 hours ago

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