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What is it? Advertising?

gcr 2y ago
It’s a visit from asteroid 99942 Apophis. This is notable because this asteroid may have a small but nonzero chance of striking the earth.
- defrost 2y ago
  Non zero eventually, for now: Further observations ruled out a collision in 2029, as well as in 2036 and 2068, though they will still be close encounters. “A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore," Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies said of the asteroid, "and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years."
- raldi 2y ago
  It’s really confusing that they open by mentioning a supernova.
spacecadet 2y ago
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- dylan604 2y ago
  No, it means your point is totally useless towards the discussion of this article. If you were really interested, a simple web search would bring up plenty of other sites about this event. For example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=99942+Apophis+2029&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=99942+Apophis+2029&t=h_&ia=web Your laziness towards contributing meaningful discussion is what's really gross
  - spacecadet 2y ago
    More ads for products sir. What meaningful discussion was being had here before I posted? Post a clean original source next time.
    - dylan604 2y ago
      It's called the internet. People attempt to make money with ads. If you don't like ads, you can use any of the various ways of avoiding them. Complaining about it when you perfectly well know about them is just epitome of childish tantrums
- hagbard_c 2y ago
  Use Firefox on mobile, install uBlock Origin, no ads. For defence in depth install AdAway or a similar DNS-based blocker as well and the likelihood of one of those pernicious pests slipping through the cracks is even lower. There is no reason to be bothered by ads any more. If you insist on using a Chromium-based browser use Cromite which already contains two ad blockers. They are not as effective as uBlock Origin but they do block most ads.
  - spacecadet 2y ago
    Im using Firefox on mobile.

gcr 2y ago

It’s a visit from asteroid 99942 Apophis. This is notable because this asteroid may have a small but nonzero chance of striking the earth.

defrost 2y ago
Non zero eventually, for now: Further observations ruled out a collision in 2029, as well as in 2036 and 2068, though they will still be close encounters. “A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore," Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies said of the asteroid, "and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years."
raldi 2y ago
It’s really confusing that they open by mentioning a supernova.

spacecadet 2y ago

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dylan604 2y ago
No, it means your point is totally useless towards the discussion of this article. If you were really interested, a simple web search would bring up plenty of other sites about this event. For example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=99942+Apophis+2029&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=99942+Apophis+2029&t=h_&ia=web Your laziness towards contributing meaningful discussion is what's really gross
- spacecadet 2y ago
  More ads for products sir. What meaningful discussion was being had here before I posted? Post a clean original source next time.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    It's called the internet. People attempt to make money with ads. If you don't like ads, you can use any of the various ways of avoiding them. Complaining about it when you perfectly well know about them is just epitome of childish tantrums
hagbard_c 2y ago
Use Firefox on mobile, install uBlock Origin, no ads. For defence in depth install AdAway or a similar DNS-based blocker as well and the likelihood of one of those pernicious pests slipping through the cracks is even lower. There is no reason to be bothered by ads any more. If you insist on using a Chromium-based browser use Cromite which already contains two ad blockers. They are not as effective as uBlock Origin but they do block most ads.
- spacecadet 2y ago
  Im using Firefox on mobile.