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What's with the weird title?
Doesn't "Asteroid nearly hits Siberia" convey the information that an asteroid nearly hit earth?
I'd love to know what percentage of the Earth's population would be totally fine with an asteroid taking us all out. I'd be willing to bet it's higher that it's ever been.
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Comparing a 27" asteroid and a 1200' asteroid as comparable seems wack
I've seen jewelry made from meteorites. It's cool!
Terry Pratchett apparently had a sword made from a meteorite.
Alec Steele made a video about trying to work meteorite metal.
I've seen a movie about a meteorite once.
This would finally get rid of taxes.
Aliens were supposed to invade today but I guess there wasn't enough melee in South Korea, so I guess I'll settle for a colossal asteroid impact instead.
The simulation is officially broken...
I have "giant fucking asteroid" on my 2025 bingo card, so I hope they hold out that long.
Separately, a larger asteroid, 2020 XR, measuring 1,200 feet in diameter, will safely pass Earth on Wednesday at a distance of 1.37 million miles.
If we pray to it, do you think it'll deign to hit us?
I think many of these asteroids are caused by an intergalactic alien game of 'Road Bowling' and aliens just drunkenly throwing asteroids as far as they can while having a laugh at the local bar.
There's a not so great book called The Killing Star, where aliens that are never described in the book decide for an unknown reason that we need to be destroyed, so they just hurl as many asteroids as they can at our solar system. It worked pretty well.
Not a bad "low-tech" way to destroy a rival civilization in another solar system. A good idea in an otherwise disappointing book.
You might enjoy a similar plotline in the excellent Bobiverse book series. (I don't think it shows up until the second or maybe even third book, so don't go in expecting that immediately.)
They got us with the pog, missed us with the slammer.
(I actually have no idea how pogs work)
They usually try to avoid planets with intelligent life but we recently fell below the threshold
