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The highest weā€™ve ever seen was 2.7% for apophisā€¦ This is no joke. Very concerning.

In 2028 we will know for sure if it will hit us. We had better have a plan ready by then.

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clt says you can get 2.8% odds off shore

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Gonna be a lot of Bruce Willis jokes, but this is serious.

If you arenā€™t familiar with who Brian Cox is, understand that if he is saying it, we need to do it.

Twice as likely as getting in a non fatal car crash.

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Yep, Cox knows his stuff. Neil deGrasse Tyson has also mentioned employing a deflection mission.

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I cannot see why we wouldnā€™t prep a deflection mission for 2028, which means we need to start planning now.

We need to stop bickering about political issues and unify behind this. Itā€™s no joke.

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clt says let Germany, Japan, and Norway figure it out. we are too busy watching tick tock videos about tay tay

Maya Rudolph Idiocracy GIF by Maudit

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Twenty four hours of YMCA :rofl:

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Yep. Canā€™t get much more ironic than that.

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Village People Dancing GIF by de chinezen

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https://baltic-grid.sympower.net/

On Saturday 8th of Feb, 2025, the electricity system of the Baltic States will disconnect from the Russian power grid and on Sunday it will synchronise with the grid of mainland Europe.

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I think itā€™s because thereā€™s reasonable chance it misses. The article I read expressed that these are generally common occurrences and they need more data to accurately predict its trajectory.

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clt asks if the meteor will hit the 50 yd line at the Rich just after we finish another expansion?

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Itā€™s the 2nd highest impact probability (behind initial estimates of Apophis) in our history of tracking near earth objects. Apophis set off alarm bells. This is barely less than that in terms of likelihood, if not magnitude.

The issue here is that we are losing our ability to track it. Pretty soon it will be too far away, and we wonā€™t be able to see it again until 2028 (in another small window)ā€¦ Which is when we need to divert it, to stop it from hitting us in 2032.

This isnā€™t the movies. You donā€™t divert an asteroid on its final approach. Gotta do it the next time around or itā€™s too late.

They are supposedly tasking the James Webb Telescope to try to track it further. I donā€™t know if Webb is well suited for that purpose, but given how precious time is on that telescope, I think it says something about how serious this threat is.

NASA did the DART mission and thatā€™s our only attempt of anything like this. I would think that prepping for this would be of major value outside of just this asteroid. At some point, we have to be ready.

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I am not an astrophysicist nor am I a politician. I commend the people with the knowledge and ability to track its path and possibly develop a method of diversion. As idiotic and short-sighted I believe the politics has become in the western world, I am certain we donā€™t explicitly live in a Donā€™t Look Up society. There will be heavy international efforts to divert its path

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