Great News: A Football Field Sized Asteroid's Probability Of Hitting Earth In 2032 Keeps Going Up By The Day

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Let's head into the weekend with some fun stuff. Beautiful women? Nah. Luka highlights? This isn't Greenie. Puppies? Love them, but not this time. How about an impending asteroid collision with Earth that could wipe out cities? 

Now potential asteroid collisions aren't rare for Earth, but typically the chances are the lowest of lows and not worth your time. Like the NY Post will tweet something like "Asteroid the size of India could impact Earth next Friday" and you immediately liquidate your 401k without factchecking so you can ball out during your final days, only to later find out it's going to miss earth by 4 MILLION miles. 

Well, we've got an asteroid set to pay a visit to Earth in 2032 and it's something worth paying attention to. In the span of a week this thing's probability has shot up from 1.35% to 2.278%. 

1 in 43 chance of impact still gives Earth a good chance of dodging it, but let me tell ya I've definitely lost a bet when I had a 42 in 43 chance of winning according to the live line. Here's some more in depth info on this motherfucker. 

So if the percentages keep increasing and a few years from now we know this is legit happening, what's the damage? Dinosaur type asteroid that blocks out the sun and wipes out all life as we know it? Unfortunately we're not that lucky. 

The potential impact corridor for 2024 YR4 stretches across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, Northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea, and Southern Asia. This path puts countries like Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia at risk. While 2024 YR4 is too small to cause a global catastrophe, it could devastate a city, similar to the Tunguska event of 1908, where a 30 to 50-meter (98 to 164 feet) asteroid flattened over 2,150 square kilometers (830 square miles) of Siberian forest, destroying 80 million trees.

Not enough for a Roland Emmerich film, but definitely something to get you out of your chair. We really need some dramatic shit thought to get the pot stirring. Let's turn to ol' reliable NY Post for that. 

According to scientists, the impact could trigger an explosion that is 100 times greater than an atomic bomb. 

“If you put it over Paris or London or New York, you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs,” Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, told Agence France-Presse last week.

You wanna have some more fun? Let's watch this clip from the Gerard Butler movie 'Greenland' where a football sized asteroid hits Florida. 

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Kinda exactly what this asteroid could potentially do in a few years. 

I do often wonder how the news would break if it became a certainty an asteroid was going to strike Earth like this in the modern era. All the big ones were pre-social media, pre-TV. Could you imagine the hysteria? Makes me think they'd just lie to us to make sure there was no chaos leading up to the moment. Would be a wild moment to live through in the event it was a smaller asteroid and just threatening a single city and not the world. More of a believe it when I see it kinda thing, but we're definitely due for some kind of significant impact. I laugh about it now, but the day that shit arrives I'd be bugging the fuck out. 

Just let me see the Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning in May and we're good to go.