I've never won the lottery but twice my detour to the convenience store avoided a fatal accident I would have had if I'd have taken the direct route home!
I found a photograph that shows the 1910 Halley’s comet in the night sky and gives a good perspective. View from Port Townsend WA 1910, from Reddit:
Nice! Just like Grandma described it.
Interesting, was that a time lapse photo? What kind of camera did you use?
Fair enough. But I'm curious, who is this "they" you think are down-playing the odds of it hitting Earth?
No sense in me saying more and getting MOD EDITS or timeouts in the penalty box.
Having literally built some of the equipment that detected this, I'm not worried. I'm not disputing their findings, just saying I'm confident that improved observations will reduce the risk, and if not, we might endure a mini-iceage as has happened a few times in the historical period, usually from major volcanic eruptions. We'll survive. And there is not much you can do individually to improve your lifestyle in an "asteroid winter." If the worst happens, it will be long enough that stocking up won't help. Animals will be similarly hurt so that fishing and hunting plans will help only slightly.
Well, yeah, if we're straying into illuminati territory, I want no part of that, either. I was just thinking out loud, trying to figure out who could gain by down-playing the risk. I still can't think of anyone, without going down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. So yes, we'll leave it there.
Short sellers. Downplay the risk and then when Coca Cola, P&G et al lose 20%-40% of their customers...$$$$! Actually, I'd guess that something like this would have a catastrophic effect on markets worldwide, so a huge buying opportunity.
So that's the fix for global warming!
See! The universe has a certain equilibrium that eventually gets everything back to center.
And things get even worse in the off chance you win! That rarely ends well.
In a sense, cyanobacteria were the first major polluters and caused a mass extinction of other organisms.
Considering how fast they transformed the atmosphere, I’m not surprised. And then came along a huge number of oxygen breathing organisms.
Yes, and there is a good chance that we will be the cause of our own demise.
I think that’s the most likely. Kind of like bacteria using up all their resources in their Petri dish.
I think simply that downplaying the risk by politicians is likely (I would) because if you told everyone it's a high chance of the end of the world. It would be chaos.
