2024 YR4 is an asteroid recently discovered by scientists in Chile (it's not the flying Tesla "asteroid", this one is legit). It is an "Apollo-type" near-Earth object that crosses our planet's orbit.

This week, scientists learned it had a 1.2%-1.6% chance of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.

At a diameter of between 40 and 100 metres (130 and 330 ft), an impact with the ground could release approximately 8 megatons of destructive energy.

For reference, that is 533 times the bomb at Hiroshima and more than double the maximum yield of a US Navy Trident II ICMB.

All this places 2024 YR4 at a troubling 3 (out of 10) on the Torino Scale of impact hazards. It is the only non-0 threat, and the second highest ever recorded, exceeded only briefly in 2004 by 99942 Apophis before closer observations revealed that asteroid would not hit Earth.

So that is the bad news. Ready for the good news?

Calculations by NASA and the ESA show that 2024 YR4's "risk corridor" (where it would hit) doesn't pose a threat to anywhere important.

Other sources:

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/ESA_actively_monitoring_near-Earth_asteroid_2024_YR4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4

Steve Bannon Escalates Feud With Elon Musk: 'Parasitic Illegal Immigrant'

Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump, has escalated his attacks on Elon Musk, calling the billionaire a "parasitic illegal immigrant" and accusing him of using his influence to push an agenda that disregards American traditions.

The latest remarks underscore growing tensions between two key Trump loyalists. Bannon, the media executive who once served as Trump's chief strategist during his first White House term, has portrayed Musk as a dangerous force within the current administration.

Bannon, a key architect of Trump's first-term agenda, has increasingly positioned himself as a vocal critic of Musk's expanding role in the administration. He has accused Musk, the world's richest person, of being "a racist," "an agent of Chinese influence" and an existential threat to the MAGA movement.

You dumb BIPOCs were elected to make eggs cheaper and kick out immigrants, not to open on the most r-slurred fricking week in all of politics.

In his first week, President Trump:

• Renamed the Gulf of Mexico

• Withdrew from WHO for no fricking reason

• Froze medicaid, meals on wheels, student loans and farm subsidies because they're woke

• Prepared to enter a trade war with Europe over fricking Greenland and a trade war against Canada for no reason

All and all, an astonishingly shit first week that is a mind-blowing political failure

POV you're a West Virginian 70 year old Trump voter who didn't want to starve to death

So, a shitty first week. But kek on frens, that's not what it's about, is it? It's about winning. It's about the vibe shift. It's about being able to say r-slur in public, and honestly I feel that. You won. You totally won.

Just not on being unwoke. You dumb fricking r-slurs won on the economy;

Even immigration, Trump's strongest social issue, is a distant 4th to the economy. But all Trump is focused on is doing is scoring pointless cultural victories, like banning s from the military or ending affirmative action in hiring federally.

And this is the bombshell; Americans by and large liked wokeness.

The majority of Americans, with the exception of literal boomers, consider being woke a good thing. You don't like woke. Your friends don't like woke, I don't like woke. But no poll has come out to say outright that the American people by and large have a negative opinion of woke, wokeness or DEI. Yes, even DEI - it's popularity is backsliding, but it still commands a popular majority.

You dumb BIPOCs are fricked come 2026 and 2028.

BREAKING: Trump’s new minted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who promised Congress he had his drinking “under control” during his confirmation is already taking swigs of bourbon at a NATO presser earlier this week. The guy is an alcoholic & shouldn’t be leading our military! pic.twitter.com/PyOatCnTNp

— Beep🇺🇸 (@fiercefreckled) February 14, 2025

Such elite human capital, brings a tear to one's eyes

Now renamed after a WW2 soldier instead of the Confederate general

/r/army is actually for the most part okay with it but there's still some seething

Good to see the important issues are being tackled.

I'm sure you took that attitude when it was changed the first time.

I wonder how much money this will cost the DoD and the rest of the American people….

What a waste of money? This administration is stupid and petty.

Good to know that they're laser-focused on government efficiency.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ShermanPosting/comments/1imntla/braxton_bragg_is_objectively_one_of_the_biggest/

Union larpers also discuss it

Stay woke

https://rdrama.net/post/336707/pizzashill-3-minutes-after-getting-dumped/7689385#context

9 11 is canon in mlp

— domomajig (@stonydomo) January 28, 2025

How did I just get the most golden clip without prompting... pic.twitter.com/K7qO0pmZLt

— DosXXMachina (@DuosEquis) January 30, 2025

I know the last one, Franky, or whatever, isn't dead yet, but it doesn't look good.

I think Trump could squeeze in being Pope as well as being president. He's the best at multi-tasking.

I dont know if he's catholic or not, but I don't see why that should be a barrier.

This is all you need..

• Europa: The Last Battle.
• Zeitgeist.
• Hypernormalisation.
• Everything is a rich man’s trick.
• The Money Masters.

— Tyler (@TylerDurden) February 9, 2025

You left out Mein Kampf.

— REKT Specialist is unbanned! (Parody?) (@GoatRoper911) February 10, 2025

King asks about his favorite book's exclusion

Likely written by the Jews so no.

Thats the only way something goes into best seller that fast.

— Tyler (@TylerDurden) February 10, 2025

I'm 16 but I feel like I grew up to fast. I still feel like Im 8-9, my age dysphoria is bad I hate birthdays, I hate telling people my age, and I hate being around people my age or older because I feel little and even ppl who are 13 feel older than me :(. and I try my best to dress like an 8-9 year old even though I'm tall and don't look like a little kid :(, why don't people take me seriously when I say I'm trans age? I just want to be respectful and validated and taken seriously. I'm not a creep, I just have age dysphoria and I still feel like I'm mentally 8-9

!marseyartists !saiyans Can you guess who it is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder

!marseyfans

Next mass effect will be phantastic