"Don't Look Up" Could Actually Happen | Random Thursday

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Don't Look Up is a satire that imagines what modern society's reaction would be to an Earth-killing asteroid that generated a lot of acclaim - and backlash - since it came out last year. But what if that did happen? What are our actual plans to deal with a major asteroid strike?
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[@NewMateo]

"A chunk no bigger than a chihuahuas head" is definitely a simpsons reference from the episode when springfield was going to be hit by an asteroid. Thats pretty cool they snuck that in.

[@ryantwombly720]

I’d give you a No Prize, but it was a comet in The Simpsons. So close! 😆

[@NewMateo]

@@ryantwombly720 ah your right! So many good moments from that episode! "Let's go burn down the observatory, so this'll never happen again!"

[@Bullshitvol2]

Americans will do everything to avoid using the metric system. Even using TV references seem to be an acceptable option.

[@goodcorwin627]

The question you should be asking yourself is, did the scientists sneak in a The Simpsons reference or did The Simpsons once again predict the future?

[@merenzrot]

I read this comment right as he said it 😳😂

[@RWM0]

Shooting a laser towards an asteroid from earth is probably the closest thing we'll ever get to making our planet into a literal Deathstar

[@Ben-li9zb]

Oh come onnnnn, we can get closer

[@midbc1midbc199]

Nope no laser beam could be focused enough to actually make a bit of difference......the farther away the less photons hit the object

[@sojourndrummond1846]

Let’s do it deathstar sounds good to me

[@mshell1959]

Watching too many sci-fi movies you are!

[@RWM0]

@@midbc1midbc199 well I can dream, ok ? 😂

[@jimc3891]

Witnessed a meteor fly overhead when I was around twelve. Playing baseball with several friends must have been late Spring when we saw and heard it fly what seemed like right over us. We could actually hear the amazing sound it made as the fireball, loudly sizzled, popped and ferociously burned up like a giant blowtorch. It left a multi colored smoking trail in the sky. It was so close we all thought it would land in the fields and woods behind the park where we were playing. We all raced up the trail to search for it, but we soon realized it just kept on going. It was that close thinking it was landing right by us. Seeing it blazing and the sound, that’s what I remember almost the most. It landed a 100+ miles away. Not very much news about it back in those days. That was 60 years ago.

[@fern5082]

I have seen the same over Montreal 20 years ago, while waiting on a red traffic light. It looked like a firework but going down.

[@marcgottlieb9579]

My comment currently above is correct..

[@AwesomeBlackDude]

Not allow to post Checkout recent video of,.. Joe Maddox uploaded: NASA Knows An Astroid Is Going To Hit Earth 🌎 😬

[@marcgottlieb9579]

Go to Hush Puppy....

[@secretbassrigs]

the comet is a metaphor for the Communist Party of China.

[@jakeaurod]

"Don't Look Up" seemed more like horror than a satire. The changes in tone and behavior make more sense when you look at it that way.

[@Balon-Breakspear]

Like cabin in the woods. Everything ends at the end of the film and it’s sad knowing we could’ve done something to fix that impending doom

[@theadventurer2628]

look at the current political field now. Satire only becomes satire when it's based in reality to look worse. Like the Regan sketch in SNL back in the 80's

[@motionless_horizon]

@@theadventurer2628it’s even more like horror now than it was when it first came out to me honestly

[@chefscorner7063]

​@@Balon-BreakspearCabin in the Woods was a great movie. I loved the comedy aspect of the film. It wasn't over the top like some semi-satire films can be.

[@taylorgayhart9497]

I think trying to confine media to one genre is stifling to creativity and people should open their minds to one piece of media blending multiple genres together to create something new. To me that’s what I enjoyed most about Don’t Look Up.

[@xliquidflames]

I wrote a short story once about the future when Mars is a thriving, independent human settlement with millions of people living there. They discover a planet killing asteroid is about to hit Mars. They backtrack its orbit and discover that it's the same asteroid their Earthling ancestors redirected to keep it from impacting and killing everyone on Earth long before Mars was settled. I thought it was funny but no one else seemed to think so.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

You are now on Elon Musk's Watch List.

[@millec60]

I like that story idea

[@xliquidflames]

@@millec60 thanks

[@dennisbergendorfii5440]

That's what you call, "Cosmic irony." Literally.

[@xliquidflames]

@@dennisbergendorfii5440 Hehe. See? You get it. No one else likes it. Maybe I'll republish it.

[@johngreenbeck829]

"No bigger than a chihuahua's head" ...It would seem the scientists behind that study were Simpson's fans.

[@Spiff99]

Exactly! For reference: S06E14 - Bart's Comet

[@nicksalvatore5717]

@@Spiff99 thanks! Too many Simpsons episodes for me to pick up on the reference lol

[@krassos]

after a distaste for the metric system, the Simpsons is the most American thing ever created.

[@joescott]

Yeah, I didn't catch that reference. 😄

[@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT]

@@joescott You really hit a Homer this time!

[@fluid1614]

What happened in "Don't look up" is exactly what would happen in reality. We're just not built for threats we can't see with our own eyes.

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

No it isn't. Movies never get it right and if you look to our actual past, differences dissolve faster than a company that goes woke. You'd just like to think something you like is the most probable, but you're in fact way off base.

[@sheiladawg1664]

Speak for yourself. Some get new abstract ideas perfectly well.

[@tbrokeboy417]

I totally agree. People who make decisions at that level are very self-interested. They'll let everyone die for even a miniscule advantage for themselves. If you don't believe me look at all the wars that have been fought in recorded history. Look at the death toll and look at the reasoning for going to war. Its shocking anyone would kill so many people over ego, women, religious belief etc.

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

@@tbrokeboy417 do I have toooooooo

[@tbrokeboy417]

@@MikeJones-mf2fw No you don't. I think you get the jest of what I'm saying. Some people don't give a F what happens to other people as a result of their selfish decisions. Don't look up highlighted that fact. Its not about people not getting it. Its about people in power not giving a shit about the consequences of their actions.

[@cavelvlan25]

Imagine the repercussions of ignoring an event or series of events that could change the coarse of history until it was outside the publics control 🤔

[@livinb450]

My fave Berrenger crater quote, "Amazing how close that meteor came hitting that building and parking lot. Good thing it missed."

[@Globovoyeur]

When I visited, a park ranger told me a similar story: a couple had asked her how the meteor managed not to destroy the buildings.

[@FightingFrosty]

If it's a problem that can be solved via launching a giant weapon at it, then I think humanity would step up to solve the problem with enthusiasm.

[@joescott]

Hehe, good point!

[@werbnaright5012]

I'm sensing a very strong American/Texan vibe from this one.

[@ogrehaslayers605]

Exactly! If all it took was some gentle nudge and humanity working together we would be doomed 😆

[@FightingFrosty]

@@werbnaright5012 😁 I'm British, i just have faith In....... human aggression 😅

[@addajjalsonofallah6217]

@@ogrehaslayers605 We suck at unity

[@ApsaIus]

Asteroids are the universe's way of asking "How's that space program coming along?"

[@alanreynolds2287]

Pretty amazing how the meteor that caused Meteor Crater barely missed the ONLY building in the area!!

[@Adiscretefirm]

I, for one, am not in favor of the new canine skull equivalency scale. The classic fruit equivalency system served my father and his father before him just fine. If you are curious a Chihuahua head is about 1.4 peaches or .8 navel oranges.

[@ronjones-6977]

Are those California or Georgia peaches?

[@ogrehaslayers605]

Hahaha that got me rolling 😂

[@Adiscretefirm]

@@ronjones-6977 California standard only applies to almonds

[@1993httphil]

The only acceptable scale is Bananas.

[@dwc1964]

@@1993httphil Bananas for length (up to one Carlos), and Freedoms per Eagle for speed

[@herbalmelon8928]

I actually saw a meteor come down, break apart and then burn up while I was driving home last month. I don't think anything hit the ground as it was very small, but to see that happen a few hundred feet from my car was amazing.

[@thesilentone4024]

I see them daily. But I see brake up every couple weeks. If you live in a small town where its not lit up like daytime then you'll see it a lot more often.

[@FinneasJedidiah]

One time while driving through the thunder basin in Wyoming I saw a big, bright orange meteor that lasted for at least 10 seconds before burning up completely/disappearing

[@kyledoherty9678]

Yeah there's over 500k near earth objects flying around us at all times. And those are just the ones we have discovered. Most of the time we only learn about them after they've safely passed us. Its difficult to put into perspective because earth is so huge, but the odds are extremely low for anything major. Imagine how many tries it would take you to hit a spec of dust with another spec of dust. Thats how likely it is.

[@SofaKingShit]

Yeah shooting stars are freaky. I've seen a couple that look like they were drawn by an impressionist artist who regularly takes shrooms.

[@robertcortright]

Once I saw a blimp.

[@thefisherking78]

1:06 _"and nothing else interesting happened that night"_ I lost it 🤣😂😹

[@alexlubbers1589]

I would love to watch an asteroid get blown up by a nuke via cubesat. That would be the coolest thing ever. And the buckshot argument is valid, but shattering an asteroid into smaller fragments would also decrease the risk of sizeable pieces hitting the ground. Exploding, say, a 300m asteroid into hundreds of

[@ogrehaslayers605]

My wife (now ex) and I watched one graze the atmosphere about 10 years ago. At first we thought we were watching an airplane on fire and it’s wing breaking off, then it spun a little more and we realized we were watching a meteor burning through the atmosphere. The coolest part was it bounced off of the atmosphere and went back into space and we watched the entire thing. The weirdest part was it seemed like it was in slow motion the entire time. The angle was unique as well. The sun was almost setting, and the meteor was coming in at such an extreme angle that the sunlight was underneath it lighting it from the bottom. Just one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

[@jdc1957]

So ........ It was a shallow angle?

[@ogrehaslayers605]

@@jdc1957 not sure how to describe it… shallow angle seems good though

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

It 100 percent didn't bounce off the atmosphere. It just burned up or exploded and if you saw it change direction it was an exploded peice

[@ogrehaslayers605]

@@MikeJones-mf2fw Mike Jones: time traveler, psychic, read a science book. 👍

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

@@ogrehaslayers605 a CRT science 📖 book

[@DarrenBostock]

One of the more interesting aspects of the Chelyabinsk event was that one of the reasons that we didn’t see it coming was that most of the relevant optics or viewers were watching another NEO coming from the opposite direction. The Chelyabinsk object was an almost perfect melding of position in sky (coming from near the sun) and timing (we were all looking the other way).

[@marktwain368]

Excellent point, Darren. Just like humans to make that fatal mistake, isn't it?

[@victormuckleston]

@@marktwain368 doesnt ALL the news get us to look the wrong way ?

[@thefisherking78]

Kind of how the Moskva was looking at a Bayraktar TB2 drone and didn't see the missiles until it was too late? 😎🇺🇦

[@billblack8071]

Hey Darren are you and Twain there nonhuman?😎🤙

[@billblack8071]

Try PBS news it's not fox, CNN or fox.

[@Hamsteak]

The interesting thing about the Sudbury crater is that Sudbury today is a major Nickel mining area. They're basically mining an asteroid from earth 🌎 🪨 😁

[@commoncents4145]

This Sudbury boy says "thanks for the shout out" Justin. Greatest place on earth. Three thumbs up 🤣

[@MrWiseguyNL]

I love the fact that Joe was just a little too satisfied with the term: 'kinetic impactor'

[@garysheppard4028]

Pretty convenient that the Arizona meteor landed right next to the visitor centre.

[@safebox36]

I find it insane that people keep forgetting that a huge meteor hit Russia just a few years ago and shattered windows and created a dust cloud for several hours.

[@Mariano.Bernacki]

That was almost a decade ago. To be fair to me 9/11 seems like it was yesterday as well.

[@ryantwombly720]

The most amazing thing to me is that the meteor didn’t even hit the ground, except in small fragments. The extensive damage was almost entirely from an air burst.

[@MrT------5743]

Did you even watch the video?

[@safebox36]

@@MrT------5743 i did, but in general the public conscience seems to have forgotten about it

[@MrT------5743]

@@safebox36 how do you know people forgot about it? Because it isn't in the news all the time?

[@stephenbarry1539]

The Tunguska impact event in 1908 happened at about the same latitude as Leningrad. So, had the object hit 3 hours later, the city would have been wiped out.

[@kathyhewett9851]

Love your channel! Enjoy your sense of humor and the "nerdy" stuff on your bookshelf makes me feel right at home 🤓. Thanks!

[@CybeargPlays]

Does that mean an asteroid is only called that when in space, but once it enters the atmosphere it becomes an aster and then on hitting the ground it becomes an asterite?

[@nmxsanchez]

Once it enters the atmosphere it's scientifically reffered to as a 'very big problem'

[@thegunzrock]

I think when one reaches the atmosphere it becomes a big hemorrhoid...

[@JT-si6bl]

For a few minutes, yeah. But then after, no words will exist.

[@bluebox2000]

And its crater is called an asterhole.

[@shaq74]

@@nmxsanchez The exact scientific term for this is “Uh oh”

[@MartinFluteCompany]

In 1959 when living in Santa Fe, NM I was playing marbles with some friends. We heard a roar sort of sound above us we looked up and saw a meteorite in the late afternoon. It was huge and seemed to be very close. You could see a giant red hot ball that was boiling; there was material spitting off it. We weren't in a location like the salt flats enabling us to see it go from horizon to horizon but we did see it enter from our right and head out of sight on our left. It went slow, seriously it didn't look like the one in Russia that blew up in terms of speed. If I had counted how long it was visible I'm thinking I could have used the one thousand, two thousand method and reached five one thousand. I don't recall any discussion about what we'd witnessed; we just went back to shooting marbles out of the circle we drew in the dirt. We had serious business to attend to considering it was a keepsie game. It seems like yesterday, I can still see it clear in my mind after 63 years.

[@taradaves3096]

Keepsies are most critical for sure

[@ntdscherer]

It only looked slow due to distance; there is no such thing as a slow meteor.

[@sheiladawg1664]

Saw a similar slow (4 seconds?), low, dim orange one cover 3/4 of the sky. We both swore we could hear it hiss as it went by. Another followed 5 seconds later. Coolest thing.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

The way you tell the story, I'd say you haven't yet lost all your marbles.

[@plhebel1]

@@ntdscherer They said they could hear it? So if it were so high up to cause the object look at if it were moving slow how could they have heard it,,, I watched the ISS travel from horizon to horizon and it was very fast mover,,, What gives?

[@djssquibbs3295]

Joe you're only getting better with time. Love it

[@zerg9523]

Hey Joe… i signed up to that curiosity stream and nebula thing through your link… its dope, thankyou!

[@spookmineer]

For me, the danger comes from these interstellar objects like Oumuamua that move so fast, by the time we discovered it, we couldn't even catch up with it with a probe if we wanted to. And we wanted to. Highly, highly unlikely... but so was the one from 65 million years ago (the impact, not the object).

[@danieldevito6380]

I went to Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon back in 2014 and, because of my obsession with space, I found Meteor Crater 1000x more AMAZING.

[@johnhodge5871]

Since I don't know you (but I do share your enthusiasm for Meteor Crater) I have no idea if you already know this, but the significance of Meteor Crater (aka Barringer Crater) goes way beyond the fact that it's a, well, meteor crater. Barringer Crater was the first location where it was demonstrated by Eugene Shoemaker that the impacts by extraterrestrial objects weren't just something that happened very early in Earth's history, that instead impacts have been continually occurring. Prior to Shoemaker's work, which was just in the 1950s!, the thinking in geologic circles was that Meteor Crater and other similar astroblems where volcanic in origin. This set the stage for acceptance of the Alvarez theory and, of course, the search for Near Earth Objects (as well as a couple bad Hollywood movies). Oh, and he also helped find that fragmented comet that hit Jupiter in 1994 called, appropriately enough, Shoemaker-Levy 9. Amazing guy, a bit of a hero of mine. Eugene Shoemaker's story is really cool, it sucks that he died in, of all things, a car wreck in the Australian outback. The biography of him, "Shoemaker by Levy" by David Levy, is well worth reading. Come to think of it, Gene Shoemaker would make a great topic for Joe Scott.

[@joescott]

Yeah, great idea. Thanks for sharing this. It is amazing that our understanding is so recent.

[@danieldevito6380]

@@johnhodge5871 I saw Meteor Crater during a cross country trip from Boston to California, and once it was decided that we would be stopping there, I studied as much as I could beforehand. The funny part about Shoemaker Levy 9 being named after Eugene Shoemaker, is the fact that the collision with Jupiter shined a light onto Jupiter's role in basically vacuuming up the Solar System. So, on one hand, you have the man, Eugene Shoemaker, who helped prove that Barringer Crater was the result of a meteor impact... While on the other hand, you have the comet, which was named after the man, help prove that Jupiter was almost like a safety net because of its impact of the planet. You have 2 different impacts, on 2 different planets, involving man or the name "Shoemaker", that taught us SO much. Talk about leaving your name on something.

[@skyemac8]

Water and large meteorites/bolides the great equalizers.

[@johnhodge5871]

@@danieldevito6380 That is a perceptive and an outstanding observation! If Joe Scott does a video about Eugene Shoemaker, he really should include this. That one person, Eugene Shoemaker, showed that, yes, we do get hit but he also showed why we don't get hit more often is somehow very appropriate. Gene Shoemaker dared question scientific orthodoxy and in doing so propelled the science vastly forward.

[@liveintehpast]

I love your view on these topics. no bs. love this channel !!!

[@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842]

Thanks for this video. I just thought of this Canadian film I once saw at a film festival; Last night (It's not the end of the world... there's still six hours left) from 1998. Shot in 16mm to look more like a private recording with brilliant screenplay - probably one of the best films I've seen.

[@ryanmarshall7240]

I always knew the vredefort dome/vredefort crater was something interesting, but this video made me look into it. I knew it was in my country, but never realised it was only an hours drive away... Thank you Joe, weekend plans sorted 😁

[@MrSimonw58]

500 rands petrol to go to a dusty section of veld

[@legenberry3217]

@@MrSimonw58 Well you must be fun at parties.

[@ryanmarshall7240]

Good chance to stick the 4x4 in low range and explore

[@AvangionQ]

3:45 There's a bunch of craters which are bigger than Chicxulub other than Sudbury and Vredfort that are most likely to be impact craters: Bangui (Africa), Ross (Antarctic Ocean), Mistassini-Otish (Canada), Shiva (Indian Ocean), Wilkes Land (Antarctica), Urals Ring (Russia), Nastapoka (Canada), Bedout (Australia), etc 14:35 I think that if a city-killer was heading our way, we'd find out where it was gonna land *exactly* and then determine fate from there.

[@alexandreprovost4507]

Yup in Quebec there is one of 600km probably the biggest 2.2 bilions year ago !!

[@mikebartling7920]

Excellent presentation Joe. Thanks for the vid

[@rngalston]

Dang Joe, your content is so good! Way to bring our collective conscientiousness together and make it so darn entertaining too! (rivaling the afore mentioned film)

[@dakotabruce7773]

"Most of them land in the drink" I like the way you worded that

[@BronzeDragon133]

It's like me on Friday nights.

[@stevesedio1656]

A big one would create one hell of a tsunami.

[@EricStott]

'Nothing else happened that night' Classic!

[@justscrolling9779]

....love your delivery on the subject...subscribed! 👍

[@kevinflick61]

Joe I appreciate your attempt at humor and you're very funny sometimes and even when you're not the effort is appreciated. 👍

[@anthonystownsend]

Every time I watch Answers with Joe, I get the feeling that we would be best friends. I can pictures us standing round the grill talking about all the stuff that's going to go wrong and kill us. Ah good times.

[@kasolo4831]

This was the first time I've watched Answers with Joe. I've never subscribed to a channel quicker than just now.

[@miinyoo]

Joe, send this fan a cardboard cut out of you. We know you have them.

[@offensivebias2218]

Shoot your shot king

[@billblack8071]

C'mon if you were standing around the grill you'd all be saying things like "oh hey, watch out that one needs flipping! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😎🤙JK

[@paulseidl4335]

Yeah, life is a chance if not aborted, inheriting inferior qualities of perfection in DNA/RNA IRREGULARITIES, born to die from tainted air, water, food we consume, and negative news about everything that could/would do us in...Like a transit accident, military injury, sports melee, or just plain torture by ones government! Seems there's no regard for human life except to survive it day one...a time to learn bushcraft & skills to see another day before the inevitable big bang occurs!

[@cpob2013]

A Ulysses scenario would leave us screwed though. An enormous object collides with one of Jupiter's moons and the debris trajectory set for earth as a cloud of continent sized rocks impacting in 5 years. The response was to build a bunch of massive rail gun turrets to blast them around lunar orbit.

[@Osean_Kitty]

Was wondering when someone would bring up the Stonehenge Turret network in a asteroid impact scenario.

[@filonin2]

Is this like a video game or something? Sounds dumb.

[@anngo4140]

@@filonin2 But you get nice anti-aircraft weaponry out of it tho

[@cpob2013]

@@filonin2 ace combat 4. That's all just the prologue

[@coreym162]

Even something that big can miss us. Depending on the size of the moon obliterated will drastically spread the stream of debris meaning less debris per AU. The gaps between space bodies are so massive an object the size of continent will likely miss us the further away from concentrated debris.

[@hollieBlu303]

Dude.... you're amazing. Keep up the good work! Love ya!!!

[@jonathanstewart351]

This is very good! Thank you, Joe.

[@frederf3227]

What's sadder is the idea of a projectEd impact that wasn't species ending but would be catastrophic for a locality. "WHT should my taxes prevent Argentina from being a crater?" type thing.

[@boycefenn]

I happen to know a few people that would respond that way

[@MrTuteeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Don't worry if an asteroid gets too close to Argentina, we'll probably just send two dudes on a scooter to steal it before it hits...

[@anonymousrex5207]

I'm not going to stand around and let those damn bugs wipe Buenos Aires off the map!

[@Incandescentiron]

Or, if they prayed harder to the "right" God that wouldn't be happening.

[@robtierney5653]

I saw a UFO once. Turned out to people playing glow in the dark frisbee golf. I got smacked in the head. And thought I was being abducted.

[@lauraanderson8785]

😂😂

[@chilebike6556]

You WERE abducted - They changed your mind, you only thought it was a frisbee. I know this because Donald Trump told me. And he is an alien.

[@glennt69lol]

That's what they want you to believe 😉

[@neatomerlin396]

Thanks for the laugh 😆

[@alexia3552]

Absolutely none of that is what I expected when I started reading your comment

[@jmac888]

The younger dryas impact was around 12-14000 years ago. I believe after research and videos that this impact sent us back to the stone age. Not quite a planet killer but it killed off a lot of the worlds population.

[@jim-stacy]

where was that impact crater?

[@colleennewholy9026]

@@jim-stacy I don't seriously believe in this, but I do remember people who do. Theorize it impacted in ice fields, seeing that it was (possibly) during the ice age. And wound up flash heating a lot of the ice But it's just a whacky theory as far as I know

[@IamMorpheaus]

Thanks Joe.. great stuff!!

[@kaylielopez6460]

Another Random Thursday?! These are always the best 😌

[@charleslivingston2256]

But it isn't random how many are doom and gloom topics

[@juliejanesmith57]

Agreed!

[@juliejanesmith57]

@@charleslivingston2256 he has said before they get the absolute most views by far. Its not always his preference, but he has people on staff that need to get paid- and this is what most of his viewers seem yo respond to. I love them. People really don’t seem to get how fragile and rare the odds of intelligent life are- because of all the things that can wipe us out at any point now or before we reached this stage. In times of great upheaval and especially times of existential crisis, people get more morbidly curious. There were waves of interesting apocalypse fiction after each WW and throughout the cold war, and most recently much of it has been fueled by climate change in the last 20 years.

[@joearnold6881]

I love it when thursdays come after Monday’s or halfway through a Saturday afternoon.

[@kaylielopez6460]

@@charleslivingston2256 what’s truly random is that my last name is actually Livingston too :D that crazy but I agree, Joe has some sorta niche for apocalyptic scenarios. Lol

[@renedekker9806]

10:30 Hitting an astroid a SECOND time with an atom bomb seems very unlikely to have any impact. Atomic bombs on the Earth get most of their impact from the pressure wave. As there is no air in space, you loose that impact, and are only left with the highly energetic, but low mass, debris of the bomb itself. The first bomb would probably be most effective if you manage to plant it inside the astroid somehow. That might blow up the astroid. But the second bomb would just be a little bit more bomb debris inside a large mess of astroid debris.

[@DiBy-0]

Joe, I love your channel but isn't Ceres technically classified as a Dwarf Planet due to its ability to pull itself into a spherical shape?

[@gastonpossel]

That makes me into that classification.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@gastonpossel bruh

[@eacalvert]

I have the nebula curiosity bundle and I love it. Now I must find your videos on there too

[@eacalvert]

@@user-wr5zc9td5b oh dear someone hijacked your account or made a troll account 😞

[@stephaniewilson258]

Just used your link and got curiosity stream and just put it up on my TV and I can’t wait to start watching because I love documentaries !Thanks !

[@joescott]

Awesome! You'll like it. :)

[@5353Jumper]

It has accounted for about 100 hours of my life so far.

[@jeffkadlec8264]

A spacerock, in the middle of endless space, that is roughly the size of a football field found 18months out from impact is extremely impressive. I can't imagine the difficulty these scientists have in finding these things

[@Nihilistice]

Imagine there is a white sperm whale somewhere in our oceans. Let’s just call it Moby. How much time do you think will it take us to find Moby?

[@robumf]

No problem at night, but try to see one in the day time. That's the trick.

[@johnmadden2814]

It is even more impressive when these things find us..

[@kasolo4831]

First time viewing this channel. Laughed as much as I was informed. Got you a new follower.

[@ttrestle]

The main reason we don’t have a dinosaur killer event more frequently on earth is a combination of most of them happening during the early bombardment phase of earths creation and more importantly Jupiter. You can think of Jupiter and even Saturn has giant vacuum machines that are sucking up a lot of the large objects. Particularly ones coming from trans Neptunian areas or even from the Oort cloud.

[@lukew1383]

Nobody says it enough, so I will here. Thank you, Jupiter.

[@lukew1383]

@@waynemyers2469 It is indeed a team effort! The complete uniqueness of our planetary system and how every odd quirk protects us REALLY well may be the answer to the Fermi Paradox. The universe is so big so this probably is false, but definitely something to think about.

[@ttrestle]

@@lukew1383 in terms of life existing out there besides on planet Earth, I think it’s obvious that it does. Whether it is sent in or not I can’t say but the odds are also in favor of that. The biggest reason why I think life is out there is because all life on earth is made up of the same elements that exist everywhere in the universe. We are basically the product of exploding stars and because of that it seems obvious that life exists across our galaxy and multiple other galaxies. Also space is immensely large. Just our radio frequencies leaving earth is similar to the size of a BB dropped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One phenomena that could be eradicating intelligent life, particularly before it becomes so advanced that it can travel long distances in the universe would be supernovas, Hypernova, gamma rays, asteroid hit and other similar issues. Particularly if a civilization developed within an area that was full of stars as the odds would go up that a nova would destroy them. We might be in a good position because we live in the rural part of our galaxy.

[@GntlTch]

@@lukew1383 The universe is not only big but very, very old! The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. The universe is over 14 billion years old. Humanity has been around for only a few thousand years and the technology to view the stars for only a few hundred. The Fermi Paradox totally ignores the time aspect. From just the time aspect alone, the chances of another (alien) civilization existing anywhere near our level of technology is less than a million million to one! That is also why SETI is so stupid. We've known about electromagnetic (radio) waves for only ~200 years and are on the verge of developing quantum entanglement networks. SETI's looking for radio signal is like the Aborigines looking for smoke signals for intercontinental signs of civilization!

[@lukew1383]

@@ttrestle Space is indeed huge. My personal belief is that there is other intelligent life out there for that reason alone. Even if the odds are staggeringly low, there is just too much space for it to not happen more than once. I like to play devil's advocate with myself though and see things from the other side. Until reading your original post, I had never really though about just how lucky we are to have the protections we take for granted.

[@dikkebmw5528]

4:03 "I mean.........." I was honestly concerned for a brief moment during that pause lmfao, felt like the perfect movie scenario for it to actually happen right here right now.

[@woodsyturtle7080]

Only 17 meteorites?!? That makes me truly appreciate the one a saw. I didn't see the impact, but I heard it

[@mathewleonardMPL]

Thanks Joe, amazing breakdown

[@davidhenningson4782]

You'd have to have the nuke buried deep into the asteroid for the blast to be effective (unless trying to change the asteroids course. ) The other issue... is alot of the energy from a nuclear blast, is in the form of 'heat'... this massive blast of heat propels the shockwave through the medium the bomb explodes in. Though deep penetration into a loosely consolidated rubble pile style asteroid might disperse it... it may also fuse chunks of it together forming a more solid object, still headed towards us. In the case of a nickel/Iron asteroid... I doubt it'll blow apart even if deeply penetrated (if the asteroid is several km across. ) Might be able to redirect it that way though.

[@klarenee1123]

Hearing Joe say “Ahn-cuht Jahms” is definitely my favorite thing of today 🤣👌💎

[@alvarieroberts720]

You are so on par with the dad jokes and it's amazing!

[@leonardgibney2997]

When you hear of the amount of material hitting the Earth every day, it makes you wonder about satellite safety and Moon missions. No atmosphere to stop them!

[@tinystegosaurus587]

They ARE just a tad smaller than the Earth though. It is a concern, just astronomically (heh) unlikely

[@AuntyProton]

One of my most beloved possessions is a little meteorite that I used to wear as a necklace.

[@davidmacphee8348]

I am impressed Joe has one!

[@blakeallen8224]

I have a feeling if something was coming our way, it would be dismissed and denied until the very end.

[@StrongerThanBigfoot]

Absolutely!!!!

[@chimpinabowtie6913]

A micronova is more likely to wipe out modern civilisation; and by the 12,000yr disaster cycle, it's overdue.

[@dlynchious1157]

That's the plan. Avoid mass riots and panic so the elites have a clear path to their bunkers.

[@fischX]

The question would be what else could you do? The technology to "just nuke it away" is for a real astroid just not available. So you see it, you are screwed. So probably don't look up and live your life like it's your last day - because it is.

[@sprucemaroose]

@@dlynchious1157 must be terrifying living believing the elites have an evil plan for every eventuality

[@tremainryan9825]

Best content on youtube - just wanted to add this... Prior to impact, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its larger parent asteroid Didymos. Astronomers used ground-based telescopes to measure how Dimorphos’ orbit changed after impact. Astronomers using the NSF's NOIRLab's SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft when it impacted on 26 September 2022. In this image, the more than 10,000 kilometer long dust trail - the ejecta that has been pushed away by the Sun's radiation pressure, not unlike the tail of a comet - can be seen stretching from the center to the right-hand edge of the field of view. Comet-like debris trail spotted after spacecraft crashes into asteroid Now, it takes Dimorphos 11 hours and 23 minutes to circle Didymos. The DART spacecraft changed the moonlet asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes.

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

For far too long, I thought your tee said 'LAUGH SHARTER'. That reminded me of something that happened to a friend many years ago.

[@ben-andyhein7497]

The "s" is silent in Fresnel. It's a French name. Freh-nell. He's the guys to designed the lens, used in lighthouses to this day.

[@g07denslicer]

8:51 but wouldn't those buckshot pieces be small enough now to burn up in the atmosphere?

[@stevesedio1656]

They would, super heating most of the atmosphere.

[@rossbusher4412]

Think of all the meteorites people could hunt and gather for fun and profit. Yeah.

[@riaancoetzee100]

thanks for the existential crisis Joe, that's why I've been following your channel for years

[@doclewis8927]

Did Joe just threaten to pelt me with rocks if I don't check out Curiosity Stream? Glad, I'm already subbed.

[@MrBensella]

Hey joe, about the exposition part, we currently don’t possess a strong enough explanation to destroy an astroid , resent experiment shows that even if we “Armageddon” the astroid with our biggest bomb we possess, it wont be enough the simulation shows that the astroid will “pull itself together” and will add to it with a cloud of debris surrounding it… loved that episode (as usual!)

[@theminer2526]

What if we use two bombs

[@MrBensella]

@@theminer2526 please watch this for better explanation then I suggested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZjQpYaKpb-piLs

[@morganseppy5180]

don't we have thousands of bombs, tho? i though the USA was known for his MAD stockpile. or do you mean we only have a few "big ones"?

[@nmxsanchez]

@@theminer2526 or get this.. and I may be going a little too far here but hear me out... what if we use THREE?

[@theminer2526]

@@nmxsanchez I think that would be a little unethical... I honestly can't believe you just suggested that. 🤔

Bro I dont miss any of your videos, but this one was really funny and interesting. Thank you!

[@Kaiserland111]

I was there for the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite impact. Glazers had a good couple months replacing thousands of windows.

[@1953bassman]

My daughter and I visited the Meteor Crater in Arizona this past September. It was amazing! There is a visitors center there with loads of information about it and the subject of objects colliding with the Earth.

[@aleksapjanic7925]

If our entire species makes it to the next one it would be incredible 😂

[@lunarminx]

I've said that, not sure why we're so sure that we are it for human evolution, I pray we're not.

[@ParagonWave]

You never fail to make my day that bit more interesting💙

[@filonin2]

Thanks for the explanation, I had never heard of this movie before your video. Not everyone has or logs onto their Netflix anymore.

[@sambale9527]

Good vids mate

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Flying west into Vegas, sometimes I'm lucky to fly over the Arizona Crater. Super cool to see at low altitude.

[@mattkissmyasstyrants8676]

Stood on its rim as a kid, truly an amazing sight to see.

[@brendancurtin679]

I’d imagine those “6 months not enough” and “5 years at least” timeframes are based on not just existing tech, but existing institutions. I’d think if we really did have an earth killer on track to hit us in 6 months, we’d mobilize the very best of the human race, not just in terms of scientists and engineers to design new tech, but manufacturing to produce it incredibly quickly. And we could be doing all manner of testing in parallel rather than sequentially. Nothing else would matter if the world were destroyed. It would be a fairly singular focus. Could we get it done? Idk, but if NASA thinks 5 years, I’d have to guess we could compress that timeframe a lot under those circumstances. Humans are really good at dealing with a clear short term threat. We just suck with the long slow ones. Edit: ok, you kinda touch on this shortly afterward. I think COVID was a bit of a different situation than an asteroid would be (especially since we already have a few movies showing the world coming together to save itself from an asteroid or other space threat, which, perhaps ironically, I think would actually help if the situation ever arose-not in terms of the solutions but the message of this is a major threat and we all need to come together to save the world. Messaging is powerful. I don’t think COVID or masks would’ve been the political issue they are if not for certain people pushing certain messages early on that spiraled out of control). I know it’s not a science issue, but I think the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bit indicative. Many of the same people who pushed anti-science COVID misinformation also pushed misinformation about Russia (pro Putin) and Ukraine (anti Zelensky and Biden corruption allegations) for years that were mostly bought. But the war clarified things a lot, and many of those message pushers had to reverse. The war is just too clear and understandable (and the underdog story of Ukraine I think plays a big part in how people feel about it, too, at least in the US, where we love an underdog story). I think an asteroid headed for earth would be similar. It would be a lot harder to deceive millions about something we could more easily understand, because we already have a Bruce Willis movie about it. Also, there’s a lot less reason to try to deceive people if the world is going to end. Covid was bad, but (and I’m not one who ever makes this point), it only killed 2-3% at its peak. I only say that to compare it to the potential 100% kill rate of a huge asteroid.

[@tarsxenomorph8845]

Get Elon on the job.

[@dupre7416]

20 years ago I would have agreed with you but recent history leads me to imagine half of society would not believe the science and complain that it is a waste of time and money.

[@TheLumberjack1987]

recent events make me believe that there'd be pro astroid convoys traveling through countries and they'd convince half the population that this is just a nazi/communist/whatever tactic to take away your freedoms and savings. There'd be calculations about which side of the earth will be hit and those countries on the other side would waste time and energy on preparing for the apocalypse instad of actually avoiding it because "we're not the ones who get pulverized right...right?". I know it's a bit exaggerated but as a whole, we're not capable of acting as one force.

[@scottcarter6623]

@@tarsxenomorph8845 because you want unfounded promises to make you fell better before it destroys us?

[@andrasbiro3007]

​@@scottcarter6623 What unfounded promises? Making electric cars? Selling 500K of them in 2020? Making rockets? Landing rockets? Reusing rockets? Reusing them over 10 times? Flying astronauts to the ISS? Flying civilian crews? Starship? And I could go on and on. Elon is often optimistic with his timelines, but always delivers. And even when he's late, he's still way much faster than anyone else. For example compare Crew Dragon to Boeing Starliner. Or Starship to SLS.

[@archlittle6067]

You omitted the scenario of a comet coming from the general direction of the Sun. Comets are quite large and that trajectory would make them difficult to detect.

[@jonbradley4789]

Now I am going to watch "Don't Look Up" And I am probably going to like it. Love your content as always!

[@autumn.redhawke]

Thanks for the explanation on what a meteorite is. I always get confused (seriously).

[@bigblue1287]

Love the channel Joe 🖤

[@nenmaster5218]

Then you will love Atheist-Channel cause many dont even realize it but Science- and Atheist-KZbinrs are related in Spirit.

[@fernandobernardo6324]

Don't forget extrasolar objects like oumuamua, they can also constitute an unexpected threat

[@ronstiles2681]

Good video you covered a lot of info,

[@alexcrouse]

The two richest men on earth would be expected to step up and handle it with their rocket programs and infinite money. Otherwise, we eat them at our final feast.

[@marccolten9801]

And yet the two richest are already practicing to say "So long suckers"

[@radonato]

"Danger Boys"....was that off Duran Duran's second album? Thanks for the great (read: terrifying) content as always, Joe.

[@nenmaster5218]

Know Professor Dave and his videos about James Tour and the Discovery Institute?

[@zdme4864]

Giving new focused significance on the song “who let the dogs (heads) out”!

[@IslandlifeIoW]

A KZbin content creator who explores a highly interesting topic and reveals adjectives instead of misusing “insane”! Joe, my friend, you have earned a like.

[@Kalepsis]

You know what always bugged me? When some celebrity achieves greatness quickly and people call it a "meteoric rise". Isn't that confusing? If I was that celebrity I'd wonder if you're subtly insulting me.

[@MelissaNicoleYT]

I love how happy and passionate talking about this stuff makes u. And yes... you could've been a comedy as well😜

[@noelgonzalez9549]

"and nothing else interesting happened that night..."🤣😂🤣😂🤣. Love these videos.

[@RickJW-OSM]

(9:15) Wow so the same procedure to correct my A-FIB could also overt a planet killing meteor? Awesome!

[@InvasionAnimation]

I think don't look up is accurate. We will act exactly like that.

[@kgurl]

Yassssss!! Life got busy and I stopped watching you & I'm so happy that I came across your channel again! Yep I'm one of those people who have subscribed to way more KZbin channels than I could ever conceivably watch in 24 hr period 🙄 so super happy to catch a fresh video 👍

[@sinisterminister6478]

Don't feel bad I've subbed to do many channels that I've lost count. Some of them don't even post anymore.😂😂😂😂

[@Noora_Spruce]

First meteorite crates discovered in Europe was the Kaali crater on the Island Saaremaa. It incinerated forests within a six km (3.7 mi) radius. The impact energy of about 80 TJ (20 kilotons of TNT) it is possible that Saaremaa was the legendary Thule island, first mentioned by ancient Greek geographer Pytheas, whereas the name "Thule" could have been connected to the Finnic word tule ("(of) fire") and the folklore of Estonia, which depicts the birth of the crater lake in Kaali. Kaali was considered the place where "The sun went to rest."

[@bocckoka]

That film was like a joke that I got instantly but it still got explained for 2 more hours.

[@tigershirew7409]

Danger boys or buoys? GRIN. Good video Joe. I really enjoy your sense of humour.

[@nenmaster5218]

Know Professor Dave and his videos about James Tour and the Discovery Institute?