Scott Manley did a great video explaining how easily we could redirect it if we found out it was going to hit the earth. We have multiple launch vehicles that can launch a mass at sufficient velocity to nudge it the small amount we need.
Fly safe.
Wait…
We don’t even need to land, drill into the center, drop a nuke and leave behind an American oil driller to detonate it?
I’ll be AJ! Liv Tyler was the main thing from that movie that stuck in my 13 year old brain.
I was disappointed about that, too
I say we still do it, for good luck
I’ve seen Don’t Look Up. Having the technology to carry out a mission like that is the easy part.
In the world of astronomy a billion kilometers is like a missile hitting the neighborhood next to yours. So while there’s a good amount of hyperbole there, it’s still relatively close. You’re still shaken up by it hitting your town. And eventually we will win the lottery and have an astronomical event outside our control devestate the earth. It’s happened before.
The aliens are a nice touch.
They came to tell us Betelgeuse is going to go super nova any day now
Yeah. YR4 will get as close as 106,000km if it misses.
It’s pretty much speculation based on a probability that includes the chance to hit a narrow ring of places along earth’s surface, but we don’t know how dense it is, although we’re relatively sure it’s solid, and whether other debris will change its path before it remerges in 2028. It has no risk factor to us until 2032, just in case people are wondering why reputatable science journalists aren’t completely poopooing the narratives of other outlets. We’ll know what it eats for breakfast by 2029.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Are we even training the oil drillers yet?
