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> we don’t live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club These chaotic orbits remind me of the chaotic solar system in Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Pro
by fritzo 3y ago
> we don’t live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club
These chaotic orbits remind me of the chaotic solar system in Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem". And they give me the same sense of terror that we can't predict where these objects will go.
- pdonis 3y ago> we can't predict where these objects will go Only on time scales like thousands of years or more, that are too long to worry about as far as any danger to Earth is concerned. On shorter time scales we can predict orbits very accurately, which is how astronomers know about objects that will pass near Earth decades in advance.