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

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Right now.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Forever, humanity could only ever conceivably expand so far due to the expansion of the universe, so as far as we know a still insignificant portion of the universe we could colonize.