• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Even if it’s at the top end of the predicted range, an impact would be ~40MT equivalent. Enough to level a city, but not an extinction event by any means; plus the likely impact path is across central America, the Atlantic, central Africa and north India - not really regions that have the resources to respond to a threat like this. Personally I’m hoping it misses, because I don’t see the counties that could do something about it stepping up right now, so you’d be looking at maybe 100 million people displaced from their homes and an insurmountable humanitarian crisis

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      7 hours ago

      It goes without saying that this is all because of <enter your deity name here> disapproval of <enter your hated group here>.

      And the flyby is a test of ‘deity’s’ approval of our next actions. Either way we should immediately lower taxes on the rich.

      /s

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      Most countries on Earth would treat this as a global catastrophe and put up funds regardless of where it’s projected to impact.

      Maybe not the current US, though.

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        11 hours ago

        Probably not every 4 years. After 2032, Earth will not be near the intersection point of the two orbits for a while. It might be decades before it’s even close.