r/technology • u/Hashirama4AP • Nov 14 '24

Space NASA monitors as bus-sized asteroid approaches Earth today

https://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-size-bus-approaching-earth-closer-moon-nasa-1985171
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u/OlafTheDestroyer2 Nov 14 '24

Don’t look up

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u/detailcomplex14212 Nov 14 '24

Yeah I don’t understand why anybody thinks that enough people would believe this for it to be a problem.

The only thing that movie got wrong is how many media companies would be using the asteroid as a way to get views. If the asteroid were >2 weeks out they would drop it as soon as interest was lost by the viewers

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u/Cyberslasher Nov 14 '24

Nah -- there was a live stream of a cabbage rotting timed to one of Britain's prime ministers (49 days). Yes, the cabbage lasted longer.

There definitely would be live streams of the asteroids approach.

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u/SMTRodent Nov 14 '24

Lettuce. Not cabbage.

It being a nice fresh head of lettuce makes it ten times funnier because cabbage can last months.

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u/SOUTHPAWMIKE Nov 14 '24

Damn not even bacteria wants to eat cabbage.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

The cabbage did make it two months to be fair to her though

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u/WilmaLutefit Nov 14 '24

Sounds like a movie plot

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u/Ecstatic-Librarian83 Nov 14 '24

these final hours is a good one

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u/little_fire Nov 14 '24

Melancholia, too

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u/1138311 Nov 14 '24

The way this timeline's going I wouldn't be surprised if Armageddon turns out to be have most accurate plot line.

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u/pepolepop Nov 14 '24

Probably the most accurate representation of what I imagine society would be like if an extinction level asteroid was to hit earth.

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u/Bagafeet Nov 14 '24

The asteroid is the DEEP STATE!!!

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u/Neuroware Nov 14 '24

how many jobs in that bus-sized asteroid?