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why did what we would presume are fairly professional level engineers and scientists at JPL (at least not working for TV "documentaries") write a whole paper ca

• _uhtu 4y ago
  Kinda weird to just go for an argument of authority huh? I'd recommend watching the video for a non-authority based series of arguments based on multiple sources and a lot of data. Anyway, the reason they wrote that paper is probably because they are talking about extreme hypotheticals themselves. Notice how their comparison is that it's twice as likely as a 2km asteroid impact, which are once in every few million year events. So we're still dealing with something extremely unlikely to occur in our lifetimes.
  • MichaelZuo 4y ago
    Posing an extremely large threat at 1/1000000 odds still seems like something.
  • zzzeek 4y ago
    I watched it and sure it makes sense but I'm an idiot, and so do climate change denial videos if I don't look up counterarguments. That's what I didn't get about that video, all these laypeople are like "great!". Like sure, a once in a 600k year event, and maybe not even that, great . Doesn't mean some generation of humans or otherwise arent going to get whacked someday
• pl90087 4y ago
  > why Because that's what they got their grant money for and what they want more grant money for.