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I am calling on everyone reading this, to turn in the direction of Yellowstone (rhumb and great-circle bearings both acceptable), and channel your chi into the
by lainga 7y ago
I am calling on everyone reading this, to turn in the direction of Yellowstone (rhumb and great-circle bearings both acceptable), and channel your chi into the mantra "NOT NOW"
ed: although, yes, the danger of eruption is not heightened now.
- matthoiland 7y agoThe season finale of 2020 sounds terrifying.
- dumbfoundded 7y agoThere's a close pass of a 4km asteroid happening in April. It should miss us. https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998-or2-earth-flyby-april-2020.html https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998-or2-earth-flyby-april-20...
- wikiman 7y agoI'm just not counting on should at this rate...
- Apocryphon 7y agoWhat if the asteroid strikes Yellowstone?
- dboreham 7y agoThat can't happen twice.
- gumby 7y agoWell that would likely eliminate SARS-CVD-2 so there'd be a silver lining...
- dwaltrip 7y ago"Should" is putting it a bit lightly. It has essentially zero chance of hitting us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(52768)_1998_OR2#2020_approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(52768)_1998_OR2#2020_approach
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y agoWhat if it turns?
- rootusrootus 7y agoThen we have a much bigger problem than getting hit by an asteroid.
- CarlRJ 7y ago"That's no moon..."
- codebolt 7y agoYou also have a few close ones coming up this weekend. https://www.news18.com/news/tech/four-new-asteroids-are-approaching-earth-this-weekend-says-nasa-2544259.html https://www.news18.com/news/tech/four-new-asteroids-are-appr...
- Dunedan 7y agoPlease stop spreading FUD. That's not even close to a close pass. From the linked article: > At its closest approach, which will happen at about 5:56 a.m. EDT (0956 GMT), asteroid 1998 OR2 will be 3.9 million miles (6.3 million km) from Earth. That's more than 16 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.
- magduf 7y agoTo be fair, various media outlets are also calling it a "close pass". You're right, of course, that it's much larger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon, but that doesn't stop mainstream media from calling it a close pass.
- dmitripopov 7y agoAt a space scale it's a close pass.
- marcosdumay 7y agoA "close pass" here means "it may even be visible from Earth in a normal observatory sized telescope!"
- dumbfoundded 7y agoClose pass isn't some FUD. It's a scientific definition. It's even defined in the article I linked.
- fanf2 7y agoI like https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks which gets its data from https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ the NASA JPL center for near Earth object studies. There aren't many that come closer than the moon...
- swsieber 7y agoThere was a nice big (5.7) earthquake in Utah recently. It closed an Amazon warehouse.
- unlinked_dll 7y agoForgive me for making a reddit comment, but this has been me in 2020 https://youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA https://youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA
- rbanffy 7y agoI'm happy Jeff is capable of filling his dad's comedic shoes.
- tiborsaas 7y agoHas anyone checked the expiry date on Earth?
- symplee 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
- 52-6F-62 7y agoHaha well... Apparently Jean Dixon gave this year as the year a “wave of Armageddon would wipe out the planet” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Dixon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Dixon
- Loughla 7y agoI mean, with as many psychics, and mediums, and holy people as have predicted the end of the world, eventually one will get it write. A million monkeys with a million typewriters and all that. Also, there's a literal Dixon Effect that's about ignoring all the bad and focusing on just the one or two correct things.
- _jal 7y agoI've been thinking for a while that this whole millennium has gotten off to a bad start. Maybe we should regroup and try again.
- abledon 7y agodont worry - in DBZ, channeling an energy attack usually lasts 10 episodes before its ready... so we got until 2030 to prepare
- Igelau 7y agoPlot Twist: only Sean Bean survives
- daotoad 7y agoHe /is/ legend.
- stronglikedan 7y ago2020: The Year the Earth Stood Still
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI can't even figure out the genre anymore - political drama shifted into a medical procedural, now we're going to end in a full on disaster movie? Pick a lane people.
- magduf 7y agoThis just goes to show, "truth is stranger than fiction". If someone had tried to make a movie that showed the true events of 2020, people would think it's ridiculously unrealistic.
- daotoad 7y ago12 Monkeys?
- marcosdumay 7y agoSo... Ridiculously unrealistic checks up.
- magduf 7y agoMaybe, but with all the people stuck at home, it really should be on everyone's Netflix to-watch list. Fantastic movie. Some other good picks relevant for these times: The Andromeda Strain (1971) Outbreak (1995) Contagion (2011) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978 versions) 28 Days Later (2002)
- pjc50 7y agoDon't forget that the San Andreas fault is supposed to be "overdue".
- z3t4 7y agoDrawing paralels to computer systems, It usually take 3 or more separate events to take a system down. No one thought that we would get both a pandemic, big volcano eruption, and a asteroid hit at the same time. When you roll a dice and get two sixes there is still 1/6 chance to roll a third six in a row.
- lliamander 7y agoSounds like the Mayans may have been off by a few.
- PenguinCoder 7y agoSeason? We're looking at SERIES finale...
- DoreenMichele 7y agoPlot twist: It was a huge mistake to ask all of humanity to focus their chi on this as that was what caused the explosion that made Krakatoa look like a piker.
- DanCarvajal 7y agojust got done with a decent earthquake here in Salt Lake City, we're just waiting for the third thing to drop.
- maire 7y agoThis reminds me of when the .com bubble burst in 2000 PBS's Nova series ran a set of shows on every way humanity could suddenly end from Yellowstone exploding to an asteroid hitting as the solar system passes through the galactic disk to the ice caps melting and changing the salinity of the oceans. It was strangely comforting.
- gj667cc 7y agoThere was a really well done podcast on this topic a couple years ago, The End of the World with Josh Clark. Only 10 episodes https://open.spotify.com/show/7sh9DwBEdUngxq1BefmnZ0?si=WqWFjwVlQjKPxSJtHd5eNw https://open.spotify.com/show/7sh9DwBEdUngxq1BefmnZ0?si=WqWF...
- jessehorne 7y agoSending bad vibes that way to show my disapproval. Science!
- redblacktree 7y agoIf you're going to do this kind of thing, do it with positive language, not negative. (in a very literal sense) You want to focus on peace, not anti-war. You want to focus on health, not anti-virus. You want to focus on stability in Yellowstone, not "please don't erupt."