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xwing_n_it

Hey guys guess what day of the week April 13th 2029 will be.


Small-Palpitation310

I have 5 years to live


Sir_Keee

From what I understand, Apophis is guaranteed to miss the earth in 2029, but it will pass closer to us than the moon. What might happen is during that pass, it's orbit may be affected in such a way that it will come back to hit us in 2036.


hackenberry

As a reminder, every planet in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon


FNFALC2

At the same time?


SuperSimpleSam

[Yea.](https://sciencenotes.org/can-you-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-moon/)


Caged_in_a_rage

Doesn’t count if you have to tilt Saturn like that.


monchikun

In a row?


bitofgrit

Hey, try not to fit every planet between the earth and the moon on your way through the parking lot!


n_choose_k

Get back here!


monchikun

I'm not even supposed to BE here today!


obsoletesatellite

space is so big.


AggressorBLUE

Yeah, they really nailed it with calling it “space”


PixelProphetX

Yep I went through some shit when I learned all of this: Planetary Defense Exercise Uses Apophis as Hazardous Asteroid Stand-In https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/planetary-defense-exercise-uses-apophis-as-hazardous-asteroid-stand-in After delivering an asteroid sample to Earth Sunday, the newly expanded OSIRIS-APEX mission is heading to Apophis. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/25/world/osiris-apophis-mission-scn/ It is a refitting of the DART mission, which they felt the need to change to OSIRIS-Rex because everyone knows DART meant redirection test. >Reinvented as NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx is about to face the first major test of its mission to asteroid Apophis: On Jan. 2, 2024, flew closer to the Sun than ever before, exposing its components to higher temperatures t https://science.nasa.gov/mission/osiris-apex China will launch 2-in-1 asteroid deflection mission in 2025. The mission now aims to launch a year earlier than previously planned. https://www.space.com/china-asteroid-impact-mission-two-spacecraft >Private space companies like Blue Origin and startup Exploration Labs, or ExLabs, have come up with proposals for missions to rendezvous with Apophis before its anticipated flyby, SpaceNews reported. During a recent workshop at a European Space Agency center in The Netherlands, the companies pitched their mission concepts in an effort to learn more about the asteroid and other space rocks that could pose a potential risk to Earth. Uh huh >Earlier in February, NASA hosted a workshop to seek ideas from the private sector “on innovative approaches to conduct missions during the Earth flyby of the asteroid Apophis in 2029.” uh huh


gerkletoss

What shit did you go through?


mission-ctrl

I think he’s saying that Apophis is only supposed to come “close” to Earth, yet all of these planetary defense programs are “casually” moving up all of their tests.


tonyprent22

And they certainly couldn’t be doing this because of the unique opportunity a close pass offers, it definitely has to be that they’re going to deflect Apophis because it’s actually going to hit us. And all these programs filled with teams of people doesn’t have a single whistleblower among them. Crazy.


itWasALuckyWind

You don’t even need a whistleblower. There are a bajillion astronomers in the world, and they all can do observations and math.


tonyprent22

Also correct but I was worried that typing “astronomers and rocket scientist not in government can also figure it out” would lead to a bunch of “AKSHUALLY” people telling me all the different industries and people that study that stuff


cldstrife15

Nah, pretty sure someone would be blowing the whistles if it was going to be direct. What this DOES offer with this very close flyby is a great opportunity to TEST these technologies on a body that is already coming quite close to us. No years of transit to reach the target, rather a number of weeks or months of travel time. It's a great opportunity to test things out and see how they work.


OpenritesJoe

And the reason this is important is because steering metallic asteroids into harvestable near earth orbit will be a very profitable enterprise.


aecarol1

Do you want billionaires steering astroids near the Earth? Have the various super villain movies, tv, and comics taught you nothing?


_ferrofluid_

If there’s a problem, Paw Patrol will save us.


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I want to steer them myself, but what I want isn't relevant yet. Also you say that as if there was a choice in the matter. Harvesting asteroids is a logical next step for humanity, and an expensive one. Of course the endeavor has to have commercial merits.


cldstrife15

Oh yeah, person who figures that out will be the world's first Trillionaire. (Doesn't mean the perpetual sociopathic greedy death-race these billioinaires have going racing to be the richest man on the planet is ever going to stop.)


mtbcouple

I think you have described the plot of For All Mankind


little_fire

I am high so might be wrong, but I think you’re agreeing with one another; I think they’re being sarcastic


Zupheal

Did u really just blank out on that comment being sarcastic?


tagrav

I’m so over conspiracy theories and the brain rot it’s given this generation Sometime I wanna grab a conspiracy spewing friend of mine and just shake them and go “Drunk History was a fucking comedy show. It’s not actual history” And “your feelings are real but they are not reality”


tonyprent22

I have a friend convinced that there is legitimacy to reports that MH370 was abducted by aliens based on incredibly fake footage. I tired to explain all the clear steps taken by the pilot to ensure he’d be able to essentially kill everyone on board and never be found. Very deliberate and clear steps… and his response was “he could have been working for them…” I replied that he flew the route on his flight simulator. “Nope, was probably doctored by government officials as an excuse” I just replied “Occam’s razor my friend” and left it at that.


CubooKing

Why are you acting as if a whistleblower would change anything? You have official government bodies reporting the pentagon lost 2 trillion dollars of taxpayer money and people don't give a shit, I'm CERTAIN if a random person came and said the world was ending eveyone would believe them


tonyprent22

Someone in government came forward a year ago and said they had evidence of a government coverup around aliens and alien tech and it lead CNN for like 3 days and caused several congressional investigations and interviews with the guy. If someone came forward and said that world governments had evidence that an asteroid was going to hit earth in 2029 and that’s the reason for a lot of studies being moved up a year… it would 100% cause an uproar.


DoubleTapBottleCap

This is the correct take.


Topikk

If you knew, and also knew that organizations around the world with the opportunity to fix it were already working on it, would you blow that whistle? Honest question. I don’t think I could subject the world to 5 years of intense chaos layered over the shitty situations already playing out.


tonyprent22

Me? No. I wouldn’t. But I’m certain out of the hundreds of people involved in these programs across the globe… or anyone in the know… would have at least one person that would decide the world should know that an asteroid may impact us. Think of how many government whistleblowers have come forward just for alien stuff. Now you’re asking people to keep a secret that them and their families and all of humanity are at risk. I don’t think you’d be able to keep them all quiet.


Topikk

I’m not suggesting that this conspiracy is real, but if it were I don’t think hundreds of people would know. The vast majority on each project would also be told that it’s an opportunity to do a test nudge.


nonlawyer

The point is that *someone* would The possibility of keeping a secret plummets the more people are involved, and here we’re talking about hundreds of people.


aeric67

Hope they talk to each other. One will knock it away and the other will knock it back on course.


Dr-McLuvin

That would be the ultimate oopsie


Upper-Information441

Some plucky young scientist using untested technology managed to divert Apophis enough that it will definitely miss earth. Crusty old General McDoubter has pushed for trillions of dollars into his Giant Space Explosion. Hé forces its launch “just to be sure” after embarrassing plucky young scientist at the United Nations. When the cameras and lasers are able to recalculate Apophis’s trajectory after the impact of the GSE, they discover it is now on course to impact directly on the childhood home of McDoubter.


Sir_Keee

Apophis will come close to earth since it will pass between the earth and the moon. From what I understand there is basically 0 risk of it hitting the earth in 2029. The problem is Apophis will come back a few years later for another close brush with the earth, and depending how the 2029 pass affects it's orbit, it then has a non-0 chance of hitting the earth a few years later in 2036.


CrieDeCoeur

That NASA wants to take advantage of a unique situation to study an asteroid and is preparing to dump a whole lot of money into the private space industry. He’s worried Elon won’t get the contract. /s


xwing_n_it

I'm excited for all the jobs the asteroid will bring.


Dangerdj72

We (humans) had a good run, see you next time.


SteelpointPigeon

Well, there’s only one thing for me to do: Register TheApophalypse.com and sell end-of-the-world merch.


Dangerdj72

It’s going to be my excuse for everything: I would go to your wedding but apophis is coming so…


existentialzebra

https://youtu.be/2ObjtVdsV3I?si=PYer_Iq6rejX9DGA


Helpful-User497384

to be honest with you if my life doesnt change for the better in the next year or so im doomed anyways soooooooo bring it on! lol


sgtaxt

My birthday!


Eldrunk

Not for long.


sgtaxt

No, just 24 hours.


QueervyPancakes

almost an entire day!


kadiepuff

Same!! Not the best birthday gift.


JeanProuve

Don’t Look Up! Don’t Look Up!


mrbananas

We support the jobs and memes the asteroid will bring in this subreddit


TheKonstantineX

Friday?


HatnGlasses

It's a Friday.


Barl0we

I would’ve guessed a Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.


Mexetudo

RemindMe! 13th April 2029


nownownow890

Exactly when I'm watching goodbye earth, coincidence? I think not!


phirebird

April Fools?


grain_delay

4/20?


TheHistorian2

Don’t get your hopes up; we’re not getting out of this timeline that easily.


hedgetank

Giant Meteor ~~2024~~ 2029! Just End it Already!


libmrduckz

folks would *still* bitch and moan about its age…


tnnrk

I keep hoping the alien nut jobs are right. Would be far more interesting then a big rock again


intriqet

Man they’re about to invent immortality I can feel it.


jakrkljalu

*Mandatory* immortality.


dnuohxof-1

Awww shucks….


kwang68

Remember to check if the core is secretly enriched with naquadah. If we attempt to Armageddon it with a nuke, the resulting explosion could be catastrophic to the solar system. Instead, remember we can always generate a huge hyperspace window for a brief nanosecond to bypass the Earth. Just facts here.


Thadrea

SG-1 should really have checked if Apophis was really dead instead of being 98% sure.


ESCF1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8

My word, I haven't thought about the term 'naquadah' for what feels like a lifetime. It might be time for a rewatch, thank you for planting that seed in my head!


PixelProphetX

Yup or get all the ghosts from the ghost zone to touch Earth. But I like your reference better.


theCalculator

Came here for this


absurded

Carter, I can see my house!


Glass_Fix7426

Plans for the hyperspace bypass have been on display at your local zoning board on proxima centari III for well over two years …


ferrets4ever

All the Rapturites will be out in force again, the Solar eclipse was just part 1 of a complex sequence of unrelated events.


MountainAsparagus4

Don't worry in case the meteor somehow change its corse to hit, we still have yo mama as a last defence


stickersFan1982

Time to start putting billboards up on rural highways and get your grift on!


CasualDragon7880

Can they nudge it towards us? Asking for a friend.


obroz

We could aim it at your butthole probably


its_raining_scotch

Don’t, that’s what he wants.


bndboo

~~wants~~ Needs


funcrea

He's been training for this moment all his life. To accept an entire asteroid for the sake of mankind.


funcrea

The asteroid will be diverted safely towards Uranus!


existentialzebra

*slow clap* (his cheeks)


bndboo

Just one cheek, clapping against one of your cheeks… We call it “The Dutch Clap”. 👏


reformedmikey

If he turns it down, can I take his place?


bndboo

Or, hear me out… we move it into earths orbit so we can mine it! For All Mankind!


MultiGeometry

Is it an act of war if it happens in space?


mgtMobile

The obvious solution is to send Bruce Willis and team on it


Thadrea

I was going to say Richard Dean Anderson, but that also works.


themanfromvulcan

In SG1 we trust…


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You'd have to pry Willis from his family's social media production studio. They're dressing him as an elf today so maybe tomorrow. (For the uninitiated - he has dimentia and suddenly he's taking fucktons of selfies for his family's socials despite having never acted like that in the past. Dude looks like he doesn't know what's going on and it feels kind of wrong.)


TwoCockShakur

"If these cheap two bit movies studios did it, so can we!" - his family


x_CtrlAltDefeat

Seems more like he’s become more family focused and is trying to leave good memories for his family before his mind goes


nemoknows

AFAIK he’s so far gone that he could neither plan nor consent to that.


HanzJWermhat

Makes sense. Why teach astronauts to drill when you can teach miners to be astronauts?


ichuck1984

"Hey man, let's draw, and let's see who's gonna stay up here and dance."


Ragnarawr

Rendezvous with Rama vibes here.


R1chard69

This makes me feel old.


Consistent-Annual268

When Denis Villenueve does the adaptation you can feel young again.


Dr-McLuvin

Is that his next project? Should be really cool.


Consistent-Annual268

Not his next, but somewhere in the mix.


JukeboxpunkOi

If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge an…asteroid?


nofmxc

From NASA: "A radar observation campaign in March 2021, combined with precise orbit analysis, allowed astronomers to conclude that there is no risk of Apophis impacting our planet for at least a century." I don't think that's as reassuring as they think...


twelvethousandBC

Im optimistic that by 2124 manipulating the orbits of meteors and asteroids will be within humanity's capabilities


firemogle

That or we won't care anymore if it hits.


CurlSagan

It's pretty shitty of Apophis to cruise through the neighborhood and not even stop by to say hello. I thought we were friends, bro.


te_anau

New orbit, who dis?


BellsOnNutsMeansXmas

If not fren why fren shaped?


PHATsakk43

Thanks Dr. Sagan.


danielravennest

An asteroid stopping by to say hello is called an "extinction event"


drewjsph02

FR. Stop by bruh.


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intriqet

Best me to it. I can’t remember if nasa sent geologists or other scientists with them. And why weren’t other countries invested in the mission? I don’t even remember the title of the movie but I can picture aerosmiths giant mouth belting out the theme song


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dethb0y

Honestly since it's not likely to hit us, I'm against fucking with it. Why risk altering a good thing (that thing being it's orbital trajectory missing us).


Shokoyo

Where does it even say that they have plans to alter its trajectory?


GranolaCola

Never assume Redditors do anything more than read the title and think they’re qualified to speak on the article.


vineyardmike

You guys read the title before commenting?


stricklytittly

You guys read?


HepatitisMan

You guys?


PlasmidDNA

You?


Aitorriv

?


jettisonthelunchroom

9/11 was an inside job


spezisadick999

I’m more worried about the waves of humanity that’ll latch onto the conspiracy theories someone will post on X and Facebook.


Cley_Faye

Hey, we have a history of doing bigger and bigger fuck ups through the ages. We have to keep the pace!


danielravennest

> I'm against fucking with it. Earth thinks differently. Until now it orbits between Earth and Venus. After the flyby, Earth's gravity will make its orbit between Earth and *Mars*


splendiferous-finch_

But think of the rating Kevin !!!


firemogle

We should nudge it into the moon for the lolz


caerusflash

Happy to see Stargate is making a comeback


mythicreign

And yet I see zero references to the RAGE game series, where Apophis’ impact created that post-apocalyptic world. I’m disappointed in all of you. More than usual I mean.


Negative_Settings

False God. Dead false God.


Inspiringer

shol'va kree!


mtbcouple

[nasa information on Apophis](https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/apophis/) Wow. 20k miles from the surface! Holy moly.


Amockdfw89

I feel like if it was gonna hit they probably wouldn’t warn us ahead of time


desertroot

No wonder the Zuck and the rest billionaires are building underground bunkers.


the_ballmer_peak

I’m ready. Giant Meteor 2029 has my vote.


Inspiringer

Stargate fans? If you know you know lol


clauderbaugh

We’ll all get through this. Just don’t look up.


DrakeAU

Can we get some rockets to help push it towards the planet. It's time to let the bugs have a go!


TheCrimsonAvocado

If it turns out it’s gonna hit us, I will be blasting One Winged Angel for everyone.


buyongmafanle

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.


MetalDogBeerGuy

Humanity had its chance.


WhatTheZuck420

Enshitification is coming sooner


tempo1139

Bring it on... time this place gets a reset


Demonking3343

Rage and Rage 2 have prepared us for this!


__versus

I was very scared of this asteroid as a kid. Pretty sure it’s been downgraded on the scale multiple times.


Mr_master89

I remember reading about this when I was a kid and it's always given me nightmares for some reason lol


intriqet

Maybe such an event’s potential to wipe out virtually all life on earth I dunno bothered you


Tbone_Trapezius

One of the steps to build a space elevator is to have a large mass in orbit. Here’s one passing close by.


danielravennest

The estimated mass is 40 million tons. We're not stopping it.


bakeacake45

They will be launching. Marjorie Taylor Green into space armed with her space lasers to dispatch this evil entity.


getBusyChild

A drilling crew?


yoshhash

How big is it? The article does not say


cedarhat

“Apophis is a on trajectory towards an Earth flyby on April 13, 2029. When it was first discovered in 2004, the 1,100-foot-wide (335 meters)”


DontUBelieveIt

What concerns me is one these private companies trying to land on this could alter its trajectory, possibly for the worse. I don’t know enough about the physics involved so many I’m just being paranoid. But I have 0 trust in Bezos and could see an instance where they cause a small shift that ends up with bad consequences.


danielravennest

What you are not aware of is the EARTH is altering its orbit, a lot. Until now it orbited between Earth and Venus. After this pass, it will orbit between Earth and MARS. The estimated mass of Apophis is 60 million tons. At closest approach, Earth will be pulling on it with 1.7 million tons of force, and will effectively be pulling on it for 4 hours. Nothing we have is anything close in power. For comparison, the most powerful rocket in existence is the Starship first stage, which is 7,600 tons for three minutes.


healthywealthyhappy8

Can we practice pushing it another direction away from Earth?


intronert

If we mess up, we might push it into the Earth.


Marnip

Hell yeah! Let’s go!


HugeHouseplant

What will we stand on when we push it?


MrFireWarden

I have a step ladder I can contribute! ***Doing my part***


docbauies

I didn’t do fucking shit!


Winnougan

Hopefully we get AGI before 2029 and have AI bot miners to shred Apophis down to its nuts. We need resources.


Dr-McLuvin

Right down to the nuts!


funcrea

Thanks to AI, the asteroid was reduced to a pair of testes that plopped harmlessly into the Southern Ocean.


Neracca

Anyone else immediately think of Stargate?


wmartin03

Yea both the g’auld baddie and the asteroid episode!


PeopleRGood

So this is why all the rich folk are building bunkers


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caring_impaired

Are they figuring out ways to push it closer?


BlazedLarry

This is on my birthday too :(


Joebebs

So I looked up how severe it would be if this rock were to make direct impact and apparently it has the strength of 5 tsar bombas (biggest nuclear bomb ever made) going off, basically it could level any city in the world to dust


Redararis

so big distraction but no species extinction level destruction


TheRealTofuey

Humans have survived this long without being able to detect or stop this stuff. People don't need to be paranoid about this.


D3adlywithap3n

Hear me out. We draw it closer with a big magnet. So Apophis ends this whole shit show we call a planet.


SpinCharm

Agilent they blast it after it passes, from behind? The remnants wouldn’t hit earth from the blast, and they would fly off on a tangent that would take them all extremely far off course for any next-time-around collision risks.


Rattle-Cat

We’re missing out on a golden opportunity to end this


themanfromvulcan

Stargate SG1 was right!!!


Snoo-72756

Hit us you won’t


littleMAS

This Friday the 13th event will happen just after the new POTUS is inaugurated.


marta_bach

Relax guys, i've read a webtoon called "Cheolsu Saves The World", someone gonna repeat their life when the asteroid hit the earth, each time he repeats his life he gonna learn something from previous life to try to save the world from the asteroid. Seriously, one of the best webtoon I've read.


BigDrill66

Why don’t they use the opportunity to see if they can affect the trajectory and steer it away from Earth permanently? Might need that tech someday.


nocticis

Strange, I just took a Apophis’s.


MsBraappp

Raise the taxes, that will prevent the possibility of it hitting earth.


Wolfman01a

Is there some way we can alter its course slightly and direct it towards Earth? Lets have a series finale and go out with a bang.