What are the risks, by the numbers? How many asteroids hit Earth and how many can we expect to zip past us?

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    So just a 1 in 20 chance for an undetected asteroid with 1km diameter that could cause global civilization collapse.

    This is fine. /s

    On a serious note, it will probably take an actual asteroid hitting a city for governments to invest more into asteroid detection and defense

    • TheObserver@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately true. The only way to get humans to collectively want to deal with space is a threat from space. Once life’s are threatened all of a sudden it’s a fast track to build defenses and bases to protect humanity. Honestly if it means allowing some humans to die to allow humanity to live longer than so be it 🤷. After all the end goal is to not go extinct.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah. Unfortunately then it will be too late.

        It’s not like we don’t know from evidence that there have been multiple mass extinctions due to asteroids

      • artisanrox@kbin.social
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        Once life’s are threatened all of a sudden it’s a fast track to build defenses and bases to protect humanity.

        me: not so sure about this anymore 😒