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The season finale of 2020 sounds terrifying.
by matthoiland 7y ago
The 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.