arstechnica , 10 days ago Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid Someday, an NEO will pose a threat to us. Thankfully, we have options. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/outdoing-the-dinosaurs-what-we-could-do-if-we-spot-a-threatening-asteroid/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid
Someday, an NEO will pose a threat to us. Thankfully, we have options.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/outdoing-the-dinosaurs-what-we-could-do-if-we-spot-a-threatening-asteroid/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
claudius , 9 days ago @arstechnica #dontlookup
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tlhunter , 10 days ago @arstechnica frogs in boiling pot afraid of stones
@arstechnica frogs in boiling pot afraid of stones
number6 , 10 days ago @arstechnica Asteroids are very infrequent, and not always deadly. There were multiple factors that made the Cretaceous asteroid strike so deadly. But it now appears that severe solar storms, 10x greater than the Carrington event of the 1860s, may occur every few thousand years. There's almost nothing we could do about an asteroid (despite the article), but we could be hardening our electrical and communications system now.
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Asteroids are very infrequent, and not always deadly. There were multiple factors that made the Cretaceous asteroid strike so deadly.
But it now appears that severe solar storms, 10x greater than the Carrington event of the 1860s, may occur every few thousand years.
There's almost nothing we could do about an asteroid (despite the article), but we could be hardening our electrical and communications system now.
sintrenton , 10 days ago @arstechnica Like some others here said.. if it want to hit us, it better hurry up, if we are to bother, seeing it as a worse option than the climate disaster.
@arstechnica Like some others here said.. if it want to hit us, it better hurry up, if we are to bother, seeing it as a worse option than the climate disaster.
jeena , 10 days ago @arstechnica No need to wait for an asteroid, climate change is already here.
@arstechnica No need to wait for an asteroid, climate change is already here.
YellowPup , 10 days ago @arstechnica Climate change will kill us all first.
@arstechnica Climate change will kill us all first.
rubinjoni , 10 days ago @arstechnica We just won't look up.
@arstechnica We just won't look up.
gavin57 , 10 days ago @arstechnica After the past 5 years or so...actually since 2016, I'd be inclined to just let it hit us.
@arstechnica After the past 5 years or so...actually since 2016, I'd be inclined to just let it hit us.
Salty , 10 days ago @arstechnica If recent experience is any guide I expect the answer is that we will get to play Don’t Look Up in real life.
@arstechnica If recent experience is any guide I expect the answer is that we will get to play Don’t Look Up in real life.