re: NASA makes emergency call as odds of ‘city-killing’ asteroid striking Earth increase

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Can we pick which city?

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I pick Portland!

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two of the 10 greatest humans in the history of our planet

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Yikes

Man, I just got in a good hunting lease too.

Phily.

Something like 10% of the world’s population lives awfully close to the eastern edge of that impact line.

I wonder how far in advance we would really know where it was going to hit. Would all of Calcutta need to skiddadle in 48 hours.

I am not joking at all

I remember when I was a child maybe 30 years ago I remember some local news teaser spot like “more after the Game!” type cut in mentioned

“Scientists monitor a potential earth ending asteroid set to pass close to Earth near the year 2024” (which is why I think this asteroids name is 2024)

I distinctly remember that and would think about it ever so frequently

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1-in-43 chance of slamming into Earth in 2032 — up from about 1%

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That's awesome.

So an asteroid colliding with Earth has better odds than the Saints winning the Super Bowl next year?

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1/43=.02

So its gone from 1% to 2%.

I fricking hate that they made me do the math.

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You didn't do the math, you estimated.

You could have done that by thinking 1/100 is 1%, and 1/43 is close to 1/50 which is 2%, so it increased by a little more than a percentage point to just over 2%

1/40 is absolutely massive on the scale of the universe.