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Title: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: Angel Eyes on October 19, 2020, 02:18:29 PM: https://www.foxnews.com/us/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-asteroid-could-strike-earth-on-day-prior-to-election-day

SMOD, come put us out of our misery.
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: bedlamite on October 19, 2020, 02:23:23 PM: Quote
It currently has a 0.41% chance of entering our planet’s atmosphere

So still more than your chance of dying from the kung flu.
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: RocketMan on October 19, 2020, 02:35:45 PM: We should be so lucky.
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: RoadKingLarry on October 19, 2020, 02:41:59 PM: Meh, it's a little one.
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: WLJ on October 19, 2020, 02:55:59 PM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on October 19, 2020, 02:41:59 PM
Meh, it's a little one.

Shot placement, Shot placement, Shot placement
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: MechAg94 on October 19, 2020, 04:12:36 PM: Quote from: WLJ on October 19, 2020, 02:55:59 PM
Shot placement, Shot placement, Shot placement
Placed where?
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: bedlamite on October 19, 2020, 04:13:20 PM: Quote from: MechAg94 on October 19, 2020, 04:12:36 PM
Placed where?

I'm ok with Portland.
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: MillCreek on October 19, 2020, 04:24:14 PM: If the diameter does not start with a 4, we are not interested.
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: lee n. field on October 19, 2020, 09:49:34 PM: The Tube of You this morn recommended a volcano video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i77RemGvM7A) for me. The Youtube blurb is:

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In case 2020 hasn't provided you with enough evidence that all human civilization could definitely be wiped out by one calamitous event, then here's a profile on a known supervolcano in Sumatra that has already annihilated the Earth as we know it once in human history.

As if "the China flu", with a death rate that's a bare statistical blip, is to be compared in any way at all to a supervolcano eruption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory) that might have caused a human genetic bottleneck by dropping the human population at the time to a few thousands.

I guess a lot of people don't have enough drama in their lives, and have to gin it up.
Title: Re: We're all going to die! 2020 edition
Post by: K Frame on October 20, 2020, 10:45:42 AM: And of course there was the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Alaska Monday afternoon.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-earthquake-7-5-magnitude-tsunami-warning/

Apparently the Tsunami never happened, though.