At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 15, 2025
Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayinβ. pic.twitter.com/hzmIjEJRBr
Why is there no Neil DeGrasse Tyson marsey
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Good luck diverting a fricking asteroid in 8 years, not gunna happen. Isnt that what that gay climate change movie is about, some asteroid?
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It is possible. They did this in the movie Armageddon with Bruce Willis
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It's completely doable, and you don't actually need much to divert it so that it misses 100% Earth, not just 98%.
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I read on Twitter that it's actually really hard and a single DART would likely only just move it slightly which might only change the location it hits. He said only a nuke or multiple deflectors hitting it would completely negate it
The upside is Trump would likely fund a space nuke
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Gee, if only we had a few nukes to use.
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Nah, if you pick the right launch window, you can just ram it.
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So you're saying telling Trump to not be a dumbass is a pointless endeavor?
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Don't look up
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