greenmark wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 12:23 pm
Derek27 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 2:40 am
greenmark wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 6:25 pm
I'll take your word fot that. But who cares? Is it going to have any impact on us?
My issue is that it's sensationalist, tabloid and just winds people (me) up for no good reason.
How about "an asteroid will pass by the earth at 515000 kms"? But that doesn't get the clicks does it?
They're talking about it on BBC News channel and got a scientist into the studio. It's quite a serious matter greenmark, it's coming back in 2026. Meteorites have been hitting the Earth for billions of years. The dinosaurs didn't complain, stone-age men didn't know what hit them, but with 7 billion people on the planet now we're sitting ducks.
Just gets better doesn't it? Global poverty, credit crunch, climate change, covid, Ukraine, threat of a nuclear WW3 and now the planet being decimated (well I imagine worse than decimated) by an asteroid collision.
Hang on though just checked that story and they've ruled it out as a threat now or in 2026.
Phew. And relaaaaxxxxx!
Some interesting facts about the Solar System. If Jupiter didn't exist and possess the gravity to deflect asteroids away from us life on Earth would never have started. If Saturn developed to be the same mass as Jupiter, their combined gravitational tugs when together would distort our orbit and eject the inner planets out of the Solar System. If the Moon wasn't created by a coincidental collision between Earth and Theia, many astrophysicists believe the Earth's axis would be erratic without the Moon stabilizing it and uninhabitable. And if we weren't hit by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, dinosaurs may still rule the world and we mammals could still be crawling around on four little legs hiding from bigger animals that want to eat us.
So we're quite lucky really, living in one of the few corners of the universe where life is possible. And some people think it was all created in seven days.