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In terms of these things, its a hair's breadth, but in human terms it's incredibly distant. We don't have a great intuition about just how enormous and empty sp
by EA-3167 2y ago
In terms of these things, its a hair's breadth, but in human terms it's incredibly distant. We don't have a great intuition about just how enormous and empty space is, how much of the universe (including our little patch) is just a seething void.
- rich_sasha 2y agoIt's not about intuition, it's about probability of impact. All these articles talking about asteroids flying within a lunar orbit distance make it sound like we got away lucky. But that's still far, far away, and the chances of impact are quite remote, in absolute terms.