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‘City killer’ Asteroid Might Hit Earth

February 19, 2025
The ‘City killer’ asteroid YR4 2024 has a 3.1% chance of hitting earth in 2032.
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Go, we have 8 years left on this planet.
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We have 8 years left on this planet.
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We gotta make it count.
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I never tried ecstasy.
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Oh, what's going on,
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dude you're scaring me.
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The killer. What do you mean?
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is there on the asteroid,
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dude, it's coming right for us,
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roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty.
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You know that bitch is big.
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Oh, it might take us out.
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It might take us out.
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It might just end it all.
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I'm kind of ready for that,
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but. Wait, so what's happening?
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Tell me. It originally had a 1.2% chance of crashing into
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our ass back in what,
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2022? But now it's got a 1 in 43 chance of
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rocking our shit. OK,
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so that's like 2%.
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So it's gone up 1% in probability.
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While the asteroid isn't expected to cause an extinction level event,
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its impact would be.
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100 times more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
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The only bomb we realistically have to be worried about here is
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our boy Gene, dropping a heat rack in the talent bathroom
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Now that's where we see extinction level effects.
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OK, you're right,
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but scientists will get a better look at the asteroid size and
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trajectory in March. That's next month.
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Yep, coming up.
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Hopefully that'll calm my nerves because A bit of stress.
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I know it's just a lot.
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I'm still gonna try Molly though.
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Oh. OK.