What's all the stuff about another extinction level event

>>9001677
nah they hate earth.
compared to the rest of the planets earth is a whiny bitch

if an asteroid hits just make sure you jump right as it impacts so you cant start the human race over again for maybe like a month or two

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The next one (or ones) can come from any direction, at any time.

Chances are we won't know it until it hits us. Even if scientists did find it ahead of time, the general public would never be told.

Don't lose to much sleep over it though. Getting directly hit by an asteroid, would probably be the quickest and most painless way you could ever hope to die.

>>9001759

If it's big enough for human extinction, I just hope it hits my fucking house first.

>>9001763
If it isn't extinction level, the strong will survive. Still not worth losing sleep over.

>>9001677

There's always a chance of a decent sized object coming in with the sun behind it, effectively making it impossible to see (because they're so small in comparison to the sun).

It wouldn't be a extinction level event, realistically, but massive loss of life and property is real.

The big ones, comets and whatnot, usually have a good amount of warning, and deflection missions with KE penetrators followed by nukes is something we could do to protect us.

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>>9001677
Jupiter and Saturn haven't done shit for us in billions of years.

That said, despite the look of this animation, and the fact that two planet killers larger than the K-T event asteroid passed between us and the moon in the 90's without us even seeing them until after they passed, it isn't very likely, and is actually getting slightly less likely as time goes on (well, in terms of billions of years).

It is true it could easily happen without time for us to do anything about it, as a lot of these rocks are cold and dark, and at that distance, radar only works when you already know where the object is.

There are, however, a whole lot of other things that could go horribly wrong, with even less warning, or no warning, both cosmological and terrestrial, and a good chunk of those are much more likely to happen. Given everything we know that can go wrong, the closest thing we have to evidence of the divine, is that there's only been five major global extinction events, and not five million. (Plus, every now and again, we invent a new potential apocalypse scenario ourselves.)

But, even if this fantastic luck continues, and nothing goes wrong, and we don't kill ourselves, while we have about five billion years before the sun eats us, it'll get so hot that it'll remove all our oceans within one billion.

Whether the place is going to be fried in a billion years or before I finish writing this post, seems it would be wise to start on those backup plans.

>>9001677
Go outside. Look at the sky. Look in all different directions.

In how many of those directions do you see Jupiter or Saturn?

>>9002418
uhh, well you can see both with naked eye if that's what you mean. not sure about the exact locations tho

>>9002217
>That said, despite the look of this animation, and the fact that two planet killers larger than the K-T event asteroid passed between us and the moon in the 90's without us even seeing them until after they passed
what were the names of the asteroids?

>>9001677
They are probably too busy orbiting the sun.

>>9002991
That's the core of the whole problem - so are we.

>>9001677
Saturn and Jupiter would probably be quite happy for the Earth as it gets its inoculation against the parasites destroying its surface.

>>9001677
>asteroids attack
>planets save us
>anthropomorphization as mechanism for comprehension

there is an insult in there somewhere but not worth the time.

>>9001677
No, it is a risk. Small asteroids are fine and regularly hit Earth but there are plenty of big boys nearby. We haven't identified / aren't tracking most of them. We have shit like this but we need a proper organisation funded by the world, dedicated to near-Earth Objects, for our safety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceguard