Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Noodles]

Sometimes I wonder how many preventable/treatable conditions we could better handle if we just did a fully genome on everyone.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Sometimes I wonder how many preventable/treatable conditions we could better handle if we just did a fully genome on everyone.

That's a big "yes, but" from me. Yes, science is fast approaching a time when that would be very useful. But, I would much prefer der Trumpenfuhrer's troops not to have my genetic information. The same goes for United Healthcare, et al.

 

[Free]

Tick...tick...tick...

Don't Freak Out, But the Chances of That City Killer Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Ticked Up Again

NASA scientists have once again upgraded the odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 striking our planet in 2032 to over double the initial estimate.

futurism.com

The potential city-killer asteroid that could strike our planet in 2032 is looking more foreboding by the week.

Spotted just after Christmas, the initial odds of the skyscraper-sized space rock, dubbed 2024 YR4, smashing into Earth was put at roughly 1.2 percent, or a 1 in 83 chance. Then it was upgraded to 2.1 percent, or 1-in-48, last week.

And now, the latest analysis from NASA has raised the odds yet again. The likelihood of a collision is currently estimated to be 3.1 percent, or about a 1-in-32 chance, according to figures from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies — nearly three times the initial prediction.

These are still slim odds, but they don't feel slim enough. With estimates putting it between 130 and 330 feet in length — a pretty broad range, underscoring how little we know about the asteroid at the moment — YR 2024's impact could potentially unleash an explosion 500 times as powerful as the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, per Wired, at the upper end of the size range.

 

[Free]

They've lowered the risk to about 0.001%. Which doesn't negate it COMPLETELY.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a threat to Earth, scientists say

Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday that after two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat.

apnews.com

 

[Noodles]

Tick...tick...tick...

Don't Freak Out, But the Chances of That City Killer Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Ticked Up Again

NASA scientists have once again upgraded the odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 striking our planet in 2032 to over double the initial estimate.

futurism.com

I keep seeing these odds going up and up.

Science better stop teasing me here...

 

[Free]

Um...

 

[Noodles]

Um...

Look, I am rooting for the asteroid here.

 

[Free]

Look, I am rooting for the asteroid here.

I'm a fan of the underdog, as well.

 

[Free]

I'm effectively agreeing with you, and you hiss me?! Space science has no friends...

 

[Soen Eber]

If it does strike Earth, where would you like to see it ... well, no, can't say that, but as Samuel Clemens once remarked, what location would you imagine it hitting, for which you would read the news of which with great interest? Where should God smite?

It can't be Mar-a-Lago. Too obvious, too easy.

 

[Free]

If it does strike Earth, where would you like to see it ... well, no, can't say that, but as Samuel Clemens once remarked, what location would you imagine it hitting, for which you would read the news of which with great interest? Where should God smite?

Where ever Trump, Musk and Vance are sitting. Hopefully there's a lot of empty seats around them at the time.

 

[Free]

A heartwarming medical story (although it is an obituary).

 

[Khamon]

They're still out there representing!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Planet Definitions

xkcd.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Me: expansionist + "The moon is a planet, its orbit is concave to the sun at all points so the Earth-moon system is a double planet."

 

[Free]

Another in a long line of "Elon Musk says" headlines, where what he's saying doesn't really line up with what's currently going on.

Elon Musk says first SpaceX mission to Mars will launch next year

The billionaire says an unmanned mission by his SpaceX "Starship" vehicle will be followed by human landings as early as 2029.

www.bbc.com

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year, as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Did someone already do this?

 

[Caete]

Did someone already do this?

Sadly this is misinformation. Rockets launching from Florida go east and the debris field from all the decades of incidents are in the Atlantic and Caribbean waters.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

SpaceX Starship launches are from Boca Chica near Brownsville at the very southern tip of Texas.

 

[Noodles]

I'm effectively agreeing with you, and you hiss me?! Space science has no friends...

It was a collective hiss.

Hissing together, at the world.