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Odds of asteroid YR4 hitting Earth just went up again, reaching new high (globalnews.ca)

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[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is the expected path the probability is going to take. Scott Manley made a great video on that.

Basically the area in which the asteroid is going to be includes the earth. When you shrink this area earth is going to take up more space, unless it left the cone. I.e. measurements increase the likelihood until they don't.

[-] padge@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Scott Manley... Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fly safe!

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

is this the aliens going "welp they elected Trump again time to press the reset button"

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

I just hope it’s bigger then they think.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

[-] isles@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't subscribe to your death cult.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Good.

Up those numbers.

We're awful.

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