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What Happens If an Asteroid Heads for Earth?
Submitted 10 months ago by flango@lemmy.eco.br to technology@lemmy.world
https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetary-defense-killer-asteroids
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AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 10 months ago
catty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It gets the clamps. The laser clamps.
vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Don’t look up!
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
if it were a 10km iron bolide it would be different.
EgoNo4@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time…
TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 months ago
What happens is we hope and we pray. But we're always dismayed at the end.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only a ~2% chance 4 years from now. And it’s an order of magnitude smaller than the one that hit Chicxulub. Yawn
flango@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
And in 2029, a 340-meter asteroid called Apophis—after the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness—will pass within 32,000 km of Earth, which is closer than some geosynchronous satellites. This will happen on 13 April 2029—Friday the 13th, that is.
We’re cooked
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
funny thing the astronomers were fans of sg1, thats why its named apophis, and yes its also a egyptian god.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It’ll be disappointed when it gets here.