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NASA is Monitoring an Asteroid That Could Destroy Earth in 2046 (ft. Tesh Rajan)

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0:00 I think if humans were to be extinct what is the next species that's going to dominate Earth Dolphins bugs bugs cockroaches so NASA is monitoring an asteroid that could collide with the Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046. good yay 2046 basically four years man 23 years 20 years asteroids throughout time have they monitored that might hit the earth like I feel like that happens though well that hit the dinosaurs and then after that there were another there was one there was one recently that almost hit us they shot it with a satellite or something is that what happened well that didn't stop it but they did they did hit it with the satellite to get it out of the way I could move yeah and it

0:50 did right so we're kind of good if we do that we can just kind of throw a couple not if it's like massive not if it's like as big as a ████ State the one that killed we were talking about this the other day we talked about this yesterday how how big an asteroid would have to be to destroy like destroy the Earth so the one that the one that killed the dinosaurs that one ████ like almost wiped out the Earth yeah so that was six miles across yeah it it caused a younger it only needs to be a mile for it to basically destroy Life as we know it wow really it basically uh made a Ice Age happen um The Cosmic Cloud yeah farming's ████ and then you know I watched a Tick-Tock on that on the sizes of the meteors and like I think the 400 kilometer one would just ████ up Earth what is that what is that in feet 5K is 3.2 miles so divided so that's about seven miles I think something like big

1:41 couldn't it also do something to the water where it makes it like it just burns everything once if it's big enough everything just gets boil all the water yeah damn you're we're ████ that's kind of scary to think it would block out the Sun and then we would die that's probably the most unless it's just insinterate just destroyed the Earth and split yeah you wouldn't even know that it happened to just it's like a solar flare yeah yeah like like um gamma ray or whatever the ████ that is I feel like a camera flash maybe don't be like never have existed yeah crazy I just want to be a Dragon Ball Z character because we can all yell solar flare you don't want to be grilling though but nobody wants to be Krillin but that's how we go out baby so they just found this one two weeks ago it's called 2023 DW it was discovered on February 26th it's now been added to the risk list risk list and um it's currently the scariest one

2:33 they said that it has a Torino scale ranking of one meaning it's currently predicted to pose no unusual level of danger researchers believe that it has about a 50 meter diameter about the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool oh ████ but the size uncertainty could be large so they're not exactly sure yeah wait so they're like it's a 50 meter asteroid but we actually don't know that's literally what that said he's like we're pretty sure it's about the size of an Olympic swimming pool but we actually ████ I've never seen the Olympics I'm amazed at that sentence yeah I know right it's one of those Wild Things current calculations show the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern but we're gonna write about but we're gonna yeah but check out this article because it still has a 1 in 607 chance

3:24 of hitting the Earth so that's kind of the like oh I don't know that seems pretty high in Cosmic terms right yeah I feel like that's high enough to worry oh it could happen that's all yeah it could happen the the chance that it happens is very small but it could absolutely happen and it's the newest ad so it is newsworthy for them right yeah um and let's send Ben Affleck they're adding it to the giant list that they have already oh that they're monitoring what's the closest one so far that none of them the which ones like out of that list I think one just passed us yeah yeah like Joe was saying there was one that just passed us that they were tracking for a while too dang nice that happened during cold like lockdown where would it hit do they know I also think no yeah it doesn't say the satellite that they shot at it the most recent one it's like it was really small and then they just because in speed or in space it just

4:15 keeps gaining speed so it's practically like a bullet and yeah alter the course a little bit and then what are they what are they shooting at it exactly I don't know like a laser expensive material it's just a satellite I guess I don't know what it's made of what if it's just shooting a gun it's just it's just old Tire Parts the bow and arrow that's the landfill they're like what do we do with this let's just use it as a bullet there was like a huge one like a like a size of an Olympic swimming pool like they could probably fire something out into space that could also alter that course the size of two swimming pools so what they're talking about what they're talking about is called Dart right it was this um a Chevy Dart job of it was was the launch of Chevy darts we're just gonna launch the s████████ card PT Cruisers up there they're like you know how you have bad credit you're

5:05 driving a PT Cruiser send them out so what's cool you can actually see the debris that was ejected from the asteroid when the dart hit right when the Chevy Dart hit stupid so dumb um the debris blasted from the surface of dimorphous 285 hours after the asteroid was intentionally impacted and then the course was changed crazy Betty's sick wow what else do you would you say about it again ████ I only know my arm getting references yeah well I said just send Ben Affleck up there space is crazy space is wild you know there you go what's the coolest thing that could happen if an asteroid hit the earth I mean a lot of people afterwards we just kick our feet up I think if humans were to be extinct what is the next species that's gonna dominate Earth Dolphins bugs bugs

5:56 cockroaches no there's there was there was a show on ████ the History Channel or Discovery Channel where they talk about like you know 100 years from now like what would happen so they do Europe and they talk about oh the Eiffel Tower just collapse but one of the things is all of the royal dogs would be okay because they'd be in Buckingham Palace like the humans would die and then like all of the food they just they just assume humans disappear they don't assume like something catastrophic happens they just say humans just disappear yeah and so like all the food so like these dogs would be the only dogs that would have resources after a certain while but there's no one to say good boy good girl yeah so they were talking about like the super corgis like super corgis because all the dogs in the Royal then that food would eventually run out and then they have to eat each other yeah and then you get you get like an alpha

6:47 small to turn the knob they can't open the boy or the worst boy the baddest boy that's it we should make it I don't think it'll do very well if you guys I mean you know that the way we monitor the sky right now is extremely inefficient right like they just got kind of good at it really but you can still find out like is this the old guy yeah just I can see because of the way that we look at the sky it's almost like looking at a ████ pin prick like when you're looking at a swimming oh right right yeah so we could like there is a chance right that we hear right now it's like oh there's an asteroid head right now what do you do right because you can't see everything no taking Joe's backpack and I'm running now that we know about Joe's backpack yeah it's good we all vote each other for it would you rather be like let's say that was happening would you rather

7:37 be the guy on Earth or the guy in like a space station watching it happen oh ████ I'd rather be on earth dude so you'd rather just die what are we supposed to do we can't go anywhere the dude on Space Station's got to take a ████ in space for the rest of his life and just watch he's like watch everyone die dying in space would probably be the one dude's lonely as hell think about like the traffic like in LA for example trying to go anywhere you give me ████ yeah you have to just stay where you're at you need a helicopter I would say just like spend the last moments with your loved ones well you can't half the traffic that's why we're gonna be here we'll do our last Jake this is I'm talking about episode live just it will just upload it the Internet won't be there yes we could just go live yeah yeah everyone go live all right here it comes we'll really see what all the YouTubers are made of in that moment see

8:29 like where everyone's alliances lie that would be one time where like it's not on a clickbait headline end of the world question mark it's like yeah you see like Logan Paul like just be like what do we do like by Prime so yeah dude gotta make that money anyone want to buy anyone want to buy the Charizard card I think I'd go to 7-Eleven what would you do buy some cookies and just eat whatever guilt-free there you go but you choose 7-Eleven because it's down the street stop one that's the normal stuff yeah dude take a bet take a bath in there in their bra that means the Shabu waiters like I would ████ serve

9:26 they're just cotton super thin like look at it you can I can see I could see the asteroid there's always a guy like that in those movies too they're like why are you still here and he's like this is all I know they're just spinning Bill Gogi on Chopsticks like come that's kind of cool though that guy's a deep mother he's dedicated yeah that's a good way to dude honor to your craft yeah that's the only way to go out we just start dancing yeah dude whoa no how what is the world Guinness book of world record for longest head spin do you know yeah have you like looked it up the dude who who has records in my crew oh really oh so easy so we'll just get him and just be like you're beating it you've got whatever clock sticking you better you better do it do you think he'd get pissed if you

10:16 beat him there's no way okay the most I've ever done personally he's probably like in the 20s you've done 20 minute head spin no 20 rotations oh he's in the 200 somethings oh ████ how long is that that's a pretty long time he can he can spin for hours what and is it just is you just from the whipping is it like a pirouette does how does that work he just has if you look at his body it just looks perfect for Speed do you have to do like open clothes like uh figure skaters to get the the the yeah he could just go forever he has this like amazing like centrifugal like yeah like sense yeah and he doesn't get dizzy yeah really does he wear a beanie he did a he did like a there's a National Geographic special on just him that they did to figure out why he he's a superhero was it the superhero you know the inner ear fluid that yeah of course yeah it doesn't go off balance so he just doesn't get dizzy so even if he

11:06 like gets drunk he's not stumbling or anything that's it [Music] foreign

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