threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 day agoDon’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down15
arrow-up1187arrow-down1external-linkDon’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032arstechnica.comthreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square84fedilink
minus-squareDarkFuture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down4·20 hours agoPanic? I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.
minus-squarefloquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·19 hours agoWorry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.
minus-squareZetta@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-215 hours agoForever, humanity could only ever conceivably expand so far due to the expansion of the universe, so as far as we know a still insignificant portion of the universe we could colonize.
minus-squareZacryon@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoUntil we make some scientific breakthrough which might solve that problem. If there is any possible of course. There is so much we still don’t know.
Panic?
I’m crossing my fingers for the wellbeing of the universe. We’re awful.
Worry not, for we are insignificant to the universe.
Right now.
Forever, humanity could only ever conceivably expand so far due to the expansion of the universe, so as far as we know a still insignificant portion of the universe we could colonize.
Until we make some scientific breakthrough which might solve that problem. If there is any possible of course. There is so much we still don’t know.