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[Hookshot]

I'm kinda curious if "big space" (i.e. SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA, etc) actually WANT this thing to hit, preferably in a manner that is dramatic but not directly affecting first world operations, just so it would create a MASSIVE call for a planetary defense system and push trillions their way. Obviously I don't think we have the capability to MAKE this thing hit us, I just wonder if some groups would be happy if it did (and only hit along that low equatorial path not directly affecting the US or Europe). It would potentially be the largest hit in a century and I'm sure we would have time to both mitigate any loss of human life but also capture the impact in glorious 4K.

If it does hit a populated area then people will rightly demand defense against such things and those companies would stand to make money off of that. But as you said this probably isn't going to hit the west and that brings up an issue in the future.

In Starship troopers Buenos Aires gets wiped out, but what happens if something is due to hit there and by trying to divert the rock it puts it into the path of New York or Beijing, no one is going to fire to save Argentina if the remains are going to hit somewhere wealthier. So do we just let 90% get hit and save the 10% of wealthy mega cities?

 

[The Sum of Zero]

Probability has dropped to 0.28% after more observations. Cancel your apocalypse plans.

 

[SJRB]

GUYS THERE'S A 1.8% CHANCE A HUGE ASTROID WILL CRASH ON EARTH

GUYS OMG NOW IT'S A 3.2% CHANCE IT WILL ANNIHILATE A CITY

O wait, never mind, now it's a 0.28% chance.


They really couldn't have waited a few more weeks?

 

[jason10mm]

Probability has dropped to 0.28% after more observations. Cancel your apocalypse plans.

So what you are saying is that the impact chance is now 100% and it's 10 times larger than we thought, so let's just memory hole it while the Elites build their survival Ark in the Arctic?

 

[Hookshot]

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

phys.org

Best stay off the moon for a while.

 

[The Lunch Legend]

The Earth is mostly water, so..

Buckle up, Free Willy!

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

It will hit the Moon and push it towards the Earth.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

My new scientifically sound idea is to hit the asteroid WITH our planet, and not the other way around. Think about this shit. If a tiny rock can fuck up a whole city of ours, imagine what launching the city warehouse at the Tiny Rock? Mathematics can't solve for such a large projected number of WALLOFDICKANDFURY an entire planet would provide. Hell yeah.

 

[ReBurn]

Is the ice age back on?

 

[EviLore]

Is the ice age back on?

Hopefully!

 

[bitbydeath]

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

phys.org

Best stay off the moon for a while.

Whoopsie Daisy!

Wonder what would happen if it obliterates the moon instead…

 

[Paltheos]

Is the ice age back on?

(I went searching for a Simpsons gif and found an even more appropriate one than the one I was looking for)

 

[GateofD]

looks like it will pass in-between earth and moon. thats crazy.

Should get a probe or whatever ready to land on it as it passes by and hitchhike on it to see wherever it goes

 

[The Sum of Zero]

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

phys.org

Best stay off the moon for a while.

 

[jason10mm]

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

phys.org

Best stay off the moon for a while.

Lets hope the asteroid doesn't split the difference and go between the earth and moon. We've seen where that leads....

 

[sono]

Only Koenig can save the moon now

 

[Embearded]

Would be funny if we are sure it will miss the earth, then go and hit the moon on the side just enough to bounce of a big chunk of it and send it directly to the earth, 8ball style.

Deadly, but funny.

 

[mopspear]

I hope it hits the light side of the moon so we can watch and get free moon rocks.

 

[winjer]

It will hit the Moon and push it towards the Earth.

The moon is drifting away from the Earth at 3 cm per year.
It would take a really big impact to change that.

 

[jufonuk]

So we get asteroid impact before GTA6?

 

[Liljagare]

 

[BlackTron]

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon

A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

phys.org

Best stay off the moon for a while.

I don't cancel my plans over fake news

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

 

[Artoris]

The Earth is mostly water, so..

Buckle up, Free Willy!

and water can come to land with little help

 

[Nocty]

I do wonder how the government and nasa etc would react if we were one month out and the hit chance was say 75% or more.

Would we be blasting nukes into space as our only hope? would they keep it from us all and just let it hit, potentially wiping us out entirely?

Would the elite blast off into space / to the moon to wait it out?

 

[Hugare]

Would the government allow NASA to announce an impact that could exterminate all life on earth? I've always wondered about this.

The absolute chaos that would get if people knew that in 2 weeks we would all die

 

[MrCunningham]

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