Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk

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Well great, that ruins my retirement plan.
- https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs?t=1m9s
  
  Don't gotta click that link to know which scene from End of ze World that time stamp is for.
  
  I didn't know there were sumo wrestlers and Japanese flags in China.
Can we still alter its course or is it too late?
BOOOO
You were supposed to kill me
It might hit the moon though!
- Whoa, imagine seeing the moon glow again from all the melted rock.
  ... I mean for the first time ever, since I am human & partake in such regular human activities as not existing when the moon formed.
- reminds me of the miniseries 'impact'
Won't stop all the click bait posts I'm sure.
good now we can get back to destroying ourselves.
Shame
Well on the plus side, we can still die in the Climate Wars an avoid all this crap.
No longer poses "significant impact risk"?? It never did!!
- Risk in this sense is a statistical term for the probability of something undesirable happening. So the risk decreased even though the steroid didn't actually change its track. What changed is our measure of the odds of the impact.
  
  Yeah, I know. But the risk was never "significant".

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