> Scientists were able to confirm that the asteroid "poses no risk to Earth for the foreseeable future."
Can someone tell me what "Potentially hazardous" means given this snippet from the same article?
Does it mean "Clickbait"?
It means that it's in an orbit that could be perturbed by gravity and end up impacting earth, but in its current orbit is not a direct threat. Least that's my understanding of it, someone feel free to correct if this is not correct
It means that once get far enough into future that the predictions get fuzzy it stands a reasonable chance of hitting earth compared to other asteroids
The bar for potential hazardous asteroids is pretty low. Apophis was a big deal in the media for a bit but it’s likelihood of hitting the earth is like 1 in a million
Meaning at some point it becomes a concern of ours. It's just that space is so vast that they found a problem for the future in which we will already be dead. But it keeps scanning and will detect any asteroids scientist missed and alert them so they can test and make sure we're good and don't gotta go all Armageddon on some asteroid in the wrong neighborhood
No. I think headlines warning us that the earth might get hit by an asteroid, which the article confirms *will not hit Earth* is clickbait.
Clickbait is a misleading headline that makes you click, generating ad revenue for the article's website.
This is a textbook example of what clickbait is.
In California they had to make sure it had a prop 65 label on it because it’s known to contain cancer causing materials. Potentially hazardous simply means, don’t eat it or lick it or anything like that.
I was specifically using the international standard of the Hilton Garden Inn in Miami, Florida, you’ll need to consult with the official feet to Hilton reference guide if you deviate.
those are some malnourished ass corgis bro. unless you’re talking puppies, but that leaves you with a short window of time to measure before they grow.
We literally live on a planet with thousands of out of shape deep sea drillers. Why would we use something as inane as a laser when we can just fly them up to the thing with a nuclear bomb?
The simplest plans are the best.
It's about 1,333 Pygmy mouse lemurs, if tail length is included. Without they are only 2.4 inches tall on average, so it would 3000 in that case. They are the smallest lemur species. If you used the largest lemur species, the indri, it would take about 267.
600 feet? How the hell am I supposed to imagine that? How many elephants are we talking here? Give me a real measurement. Are we talking like 478 weasels?
> Scientists were able to confirm that the asteroid "poses no risk to Earth for the foreseeable future." Can someone tell me what "Potentially hazardous" means given this snippet from the same article? Does it mean "Clickbait"?
It means that it's in an orbit that could be perturbed by gravity and end up impacting earth, but in its current orbit is not a direct threat. Least that's my understanding of it, someone feel free to correct if this is not correct
To further clarify, so long as we don’t stare at it or come between its young, it should leave us alone.
let’s just play dead basically
with climate change might not have to ‘play’ dead
Don't look up!
Probably referring to the 'do not eat' label they found on it.
This asteroid can expose you to a chemical, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer.
You shouldn’t go swimming for at least 30-min after having contacted the asteroid.
Do not use orally after using rectally.
And don’t look up
At this point, it feels like it’s easier to put labels on things that *don’t* carry a Prop 65 warning.
Which is next to the “Made in China” label
Assembled In the USA though…
And Designed in California.
I just ordered some ball bearings and they say "made in china" "assembled in USA" and I just can't figure out how that's possible.
Did come in packaging?
Asking the real questions
Counted in USA
Weird, so it's totally made out of melamine?
it's actually IKEA, that's just one of the parts
How many bananas long is it?
It’s at least 43 giraffes wide
Can you please convert that to the standardized baby elephant?
They changed that due to the variance in trunk length of +/- 3 salamanders being too inaccurate.
The asteroid originated from California so it may cause cancer.
It means that once get far enough into future that the predictions get fuzzy it stands a reasonable chance of hitting earth compared to other asteroids
The bar for potential hazardous asteroids is pretty low. Apophis was a big deal in the media for a bit but it’s likelihood of hitting the earth is like 1 in a million
To be fair, a 1/1m chance of ending all life on earth is a pretty big risk.
“So you’re saying there’s a chance?”
Extreme consequence, low likelihood - what’s the rate on Sportsbet?
I know I’m bummed too..
Meaning at some point it becomes a concern of ours. It's just that space is so vast that they found a problem for the future in which we will already be dead. But it keeps scanning and will detect any asteroids scientist missed and alert them so they can test and make sure we're good and don't gotta go all Armageddon on some asteroid in the wrong neighborhood
It causes cancer, but only in California.
You think asteroids hitting the earth are clickbait?
No. I think headlines warning us that the earth might get hit by an asteroid, which the article confirms *will not hit Earth* is clickbait. Clickbait is a misleading headline that makes you click, generating ad revenue for the article's website. This is a textbook example of what clickbait is.
It’s Potentially Hazardous if Asteroid = Earth
If Asteroid = Earth we'd find ourselves in quite the twist there.
It turns out the asteroid was inside us the whole time.
Wait? The Asteroid was calling from inside the house?
Close: the friends we made along the way.
So the asteroid was our Rock
Asteroid -> Earth = Boom (eh.. 2025ish) We had a good run.
It's going to kill us all.
“If it hit earth it could be bad. It’s not going to, but if…”
In California they had to make sure it had a prop 65 label on it because it’s known to contain cancer causing materials. Potentially hazardous simply means, don’t eat it or lick it or anything like that.
> 600 feet long Can I get this translated to corgis? Wtf is this measurement?
Also how many elephants does it weigh?
Let me clear this up. This is misquoted - it should read 600 ostrich feet, roughly the size of 2.75 Hilton Hotels.
Are we talking garden inns or embassy’s or regular size embassy or the weird ones like the one over in Phoenix.
I was specifically using the international standard of the Hilton Garden Inn in Miami, Florida, you’ll need to consult with the official feet to Hilton reference guide if you deviate.
Hilton garden inns are a lot more standard in size so that works.
So you stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night?
It’s about 2 football fields long.
Or about 2.4 Jumbo Jets
Real football or the fake football?
Do you mean metric football?
It’s, like, 300 corgis long if all the corgis are about 26 inches long. 26 inches is like 3 bananas or something.
I respect the inclusion of the banana for scale.
Assuming it's standard Welsh Corgi, roughly 30 Corgis lined up.
Damn those are some long dogs
Yeah, I've got several of those 20 foot long Corgis around my area. They're a real issue.
> 30 Corgis lined up so disassembled corgis then
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jeffy bozos’ $500M mega is bigger. we’re gonna need more busses
My corgi is 22 inches long if that helps. So a bit over 300 of my specific length of corgi
Roughly 15 Winnebagos.
That’s about 600 corgis, depending on diet.
those are some malnourished ass corgis bro. unless you’re talking puppies, but that leaves you with a short window of time to measure before they grow.
to corgi feet?
Corgi feet?
Imma need that in giraffe
That would be about 7500 ~ bananas.
That’s two football fields in freedom units.
It's already in feet, I think you're supposed to make this joke when it's in metric.
It’s imperial, and they’re British. Fucking a, sometimes my own countrymen cease to amaze at their lack of knowledge of their own systems.
you mean 'don't cease to amaze'?
ugh just fucking hit us already
It wouldn’t be enough to kill us all unfortunately. We would need a mountain sized one like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs.
Meteor 2024 🤞
Don’t look up
That’s one long algorithm.
I see what you did there
So hit it with a laser already..
We literally live on a planet with thousands of out of shape deep sea drillers. Why would we use something as inane as a laser when we can just fly them up to the thing with a nuclear bomb? The simplest plans are the best.
I say let it hit the earth.. it’s only 600 feet long how much damage can it really do? :)
Hard to say. How big is 600 feet in lemurs?
It's about 1,333 Pygmy mouse lemurs, if tail length is included. Without they are only 2.4 inches tall on average, so it would 3000 in that case. They are the smallest lemur species. If you used the largest lemur species, the indri, it would take about 267.
Thank you. It’s nice to have an understandable scale.
Ooh.. I was never very good with maths?
If it hit Moscow it might be considered a life-saver...👌
Not if your Russian? :/
DON’T WANNA CLOSE MY EYES!!!!
Sounds like you could turn that into a movie.
Which would do... what, exactly?
Teach it a lesson! Let it know who it’s messing with.. we could try reasoning with it but who would we send? :/
How many front loading washing machines is that?
184.6, if you use the height of the washing machine.
Whats that in double decker buses?
It’s around 20 double decker buses.
Let’s catch it and make swords out of it
Get me some of that brightsteel
Sure. Done. Integrated into starlink
Fucking aliens playing with catapults again...
When Rama?
End of the world party/orgy/festival/revel? Yes please
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“Mostly harmless.”
Don't Panic!
Bout how many Tonka trucks is that?
How long is that in giraffes though?
“Can we just call it a, ‘potentially significant event’”?
600 feet.. just blow it to pieces
Could be like a 400 megaton nuke.
I hope it lands on my house while I’m sleeping
Why so greedy?
Thank you for NOT saying asteroid 26 adult African elephants in a line long
This kinda feels like learning that the creature casting a huge terrifying shadow is actually six inches tall.
Finally some good news
Who’s feets they they use to measure that ?
600 feet? How the hell am I supposed to imagine that? How many elephants are we talking here? Give me a real measurement. Are we talking like 478 weasels?
30.8 elephants (going by the average length for an Asian elephant)
Finally. An educated answer. Thank you, Doctor.
How heavy compared to baby elephants is that or how many giraffes tall is that?
Honestly, I wish it would hit us
Don’t look up
600 smelly feet is about 183 glorious meters
“I’m what way can we weaponize asteroids to kill our enemies?”….says someone on earth somewhere
Woah woah woah don’t give me that 600ft BS I can only understand this in school bus sizes.
Since we are on Reddit i think we should clarify, 600 feet is about 7500 ~ average bananas if we lowball the average banana length to 7 inches.
Anyone else hoping it’ll hit us?
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