Everyone saying "they can evacuate" clearly doesn't remember how bad the covid response was.

There will be anti-space conspiracy theorists. The ownership class would demand people continue working until the last possible minute (and beyond). It would be politicized, because some people are unbelievably stupid, cruel, and selfish, and enough people are so stupid they'll buy in.

Now, if we could make the meteor fall on a location occupied solely by the people who don't believe in science...

Thankfully I live in the USA where we're totally safe because we reject science! But don't you try coming here for safety, we hate everybody else. You'll probably just be sent to gitmo.

With more data collected over time, the chance has already been reduced to 0.28% https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/02/20/additional-observations-continue-to-reduce-chance-of-asteroid-impact-in-2032/

Outside of extremely extenuating circumstances, this isn't a worry. We already have proof-of-concept tech like DART to divert asteroids, aerospace engineers can use this to get governments to fund them even better, asteroid goes behind the sun for 3 years, asteroid diverting technology advances even further, in 2028 when the path of travel becomes more precise the chance of hitting us gets revised down to zero, and we've advanced our technology should anything more serious come our way in the future

Gimme that flush COME ON

The sad thing is that according to Scott Manley video the areas it can hit are equatorial Africa or South of India, so lot of countries will try to ignore it

Until those countries start planning a meteor re route, which if done improperly could push the impact zone anywhere.

So what level of calamity are we talking about here? 3% doesn’t sound that low to me.

Revised down to 0.27%

I won't believe it's gonna miss us until it gets to 95% likely it will hit

I’m going all in on the potential straight.

I begin to worry when I see this asteroid still in the sky and how it becomes gradually bigger

Risk is probability times consequence. Focusing on the odds without considering the second half of the equation is stupid.

Odds are low, but not zero. Still a bit of a nothingburger now that we've been able to successfully land probes on asteroids to sample their contents (and even send back video similar to images taken by Mars rovers). Strap a small thermonuclear warhead to an unmanned probe and redirect its trajectory - not a simple matter but entirely feasible.