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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Just in case this comment is not a joke, here's the WHO page on suicide prevention.

Either way, there are a few billion other people on this planet who would rather not die by meteor, thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eh, they can launch from Vandenburg if it's that important. (Or, ya know, Guiana or Baikonur or whatever.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

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