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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is not going to hit Earth<\/a>.\u00a0 Yay?\u00a0 It\u2019s also not going to hit the Moon either.\u00a0 Yay?\u00a0 Apparently, this celestial rock which is 200 ft in length and weighs about 310,000 tons will be sliding by our orbit in a few years and will miss the moon by a couple of thousand miles.\u00a0 Apparently, there are now safeguards in place to check if any known asteroids have the potential to hit Earth and also evaluate what potential damage they could do.<\/p>\n

A2024 YR4 is considered a city killer.\u00a0 It has been estimated that its impact would be the equivalent of 7.7 megatons of trinitrotoluene (TNT) detonating, which is a pretty big explosion.\u00a0 Once they refined their calculations, they became convinced that it would miss Earth by a good large margin.\u00a0 When a lunar impact looked more likely they began fussing because they speculated that an explosion on the Moon would throw up a lot of debris and it might destroy many satellites around Earth.\u00a0 But when they used the James Webb telescope and measured the orbit more carefully even this scenario was ruled out.\u00a0 It\u2019s not going to hit anything.<\/p>\n

The YouTube video author concluded that the investigation and analysis of the asteroid\u2019s trajectory was a major victory for science and global cooperation.\u00a0 Well, maybe.\u00a0 But up until someone started checking the paths of asteroids, haven\u2019t we been at this risk basically forever?\u00a0 I guess the last sizable asteroid (or maybe comet) that collided with Earth was the Tunguska blast in 1908.\u00a0 That was more than a hundred years ago.\u00a0 And it took forever for anyone to even figure out what the hell happened.\u00a0 Based on this track record something like this will happen less frequently than once a century.\u00a0 And no one will be killed but a lot of trees will be flattened.\u00a0 But something like once in 66 million years an asteroid 8 miles long will hit Earth causing a mass extinction event.\u00a0 That rock was 200 times bigger than A2024 YR4.\u00a0 How about if we stop worrying about anything less than 1% of the extinction rock.\u00a0 So that would be twice as big as the recent rock.\u00a0 So, if a 400 ft asteroid is crowding Earth, then maybe I\u2019ll start getting nervous.\u00a0 Or maybe I won\u2019t.\u00a0 We already have nuclear war, earthquakes, tsunamis, super-volcanoes, \u201cglobal warming,\u201d plagues (like COVID) and transgender mass murderers to worry about.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I have the bandwidth to start worrying about rogue asteroids rolling into Earth or now into the Moon and destroying my wi-fi reception.<\/p>\n

You know, maybe I\u2019d be happy if an asteroid hit the Moon and sent a million meteors raining into the various satellites we have clogging up the sky over our heads.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s exactly what we need.\u00a0 If cell phones stopped working and once we walk away from our desks we couldn\u2019t be reached by every idiot on the planet maybe we\u2019d actually be happier.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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