Let's talk about Valentine's Day 2046 and asteroids....
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
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Let's talk about Valentine's Day 2046 and asteroids....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bow again. |
| 0:04.0 | So today we are going to talk a little bit about space. |
| 0:09.0 | And Valentine's Day in 2046 because it's getting a bunch of headlines. |
| 0:16.0 | So we're going to kind of run through it. |
| 0:18.0 | There is an asteroid that is going to be near earth. It is 162 feet or so which is big enough to be |
| 0:31.3 | concerning that that's That's pretty large. And there are a lot of |
| 0:36.4 | headlines saying that it runs a chance of impacting Earth. On the Torino scale, which is what measures how dangerous it is, it is a 1 out of 10. |
| 0:51.0 | There is a chance. That chance as currently rated is about one quarter of 1%. It is a very small |
| 1:00.9 | chance that it impacts Earth in 23 years. |
| 1:07.0 | Now, the odds of it actually impacting are very, very low. |
| 1:15.0 | This is something that according to NASA's analysts, |
| 1:20.0 | this isn't really anything that you get public attention or the public should be concerned about it's just |
| 1:26.7 | It is incredibly unlikely |
| 1:28.9 | But given the fact that there are a bunch of headlines about it and people will definitely |
| 1:36.0 | lean into it because this is the first time in recent memory where NASA was like, yeah, this |
| 1:40.9 | one actually kind of does have a chance of hitting us. We'll go ahead |
| 1:46.1 | and remind everybody that in September of 2022 there was the Dark Test, double asteroid |
| 1:55.4 | Redirection Test, where NASA engaged in a proof of concept |
| 2:01.0 | to use a space battering ram to knock an asteroid off of its path in the event that something |
| 2:10.4 | like this came to be and given the fact that they've got 20 years |
| 2:18.1 | warning they probably stand a pretty good chance of putting something together if it does increase |
| 2:29.8 | in odds as far as hitting the earth. The other thing to take away from this is that |
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