2020 Disasters just keep on coming

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I just saw a joke on social media that 2020 actually proves that time travel exists and will be invented at some point because the only explanation for what's been happening this year is a time traveler repeatedly coming back to 2020 to "fix" things but just making the situation worse and worse, and...y'know...

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Kessler cascade to wipe low Earth orbit?

 

[Beebo Brink]

Some of the comments are golden! I highly recommend this entire thread:

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

None of these objects (or their debris) will be a threat to us on the ground because they are small enough to burn up; but yeah a scattering wreckage field could be very bad for the non-defunct objects in LEO...

 

[Casey Pelous]

None of these objects (or their debris) will be a threat to us on the ground because they are small enough to burn up; but yeah a scattering wreckage field could be very bad for the non-defunct objects in LEO...

Sounds like it could be the basis for a movie or something.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

So long as we get a Falcon Heavy launching through the eye of a hurricane.

 

[Free]

Sounds like it could be the basis for a movie or something.

A Michael Bay movie, maybe.

 

[Soen Eber]

A Michael Bay movie, maybe.

I don't there's enough cheese in all of space for a Michael Bay film.

 

[Free]

I don't there's enough cheese in all of space for a Michael Bay film.

Armageddon (1998) ⭐ 6.7 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

2h 31m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Soen Eber]

Why are they standing around? Zambonies have dangerous chemicals in them.

 

[Soen Eber]

Armageddon (1998) ⭐ 6.7 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

2h 31m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

See? He already used it all up! There's also no ham left in space ... not after Shatner.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

This was a good year for the administration to eliminate inspectors in pork processing plants:

Swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus replication in primary human cells reveals potential susceptibility to infection

The emergence of new human and animal coronaviruses demand novel strategies that characterize the threat potential of newly discovered zoonotic strains. We synthetically recovered recombinant wild-type and derivative swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronaviruses (SADS-CoVs) that express indicator...

www.pnas.org

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

FFS, that completes TWO LINES on my bingo card.

 

[Free]

Goddamn you, 2020!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Goddamn you, 2020!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Rose Karuna]

Good grief, if someone's going to make a mutant self-replicating cray fish they could have at least made it from one that was edible.