Giant meteor comes in and kills both major candidates is not something I expected. Posaidists making the way for the revolution✊
The movie Independence day but the aliens help start a communist revolution
Goddamnit, I was just about to go to sleep, now I have to jack-off first.
Chelyabinsk would have done more damage but the angle of entry was very flat so the atmosphere took the brunt of the energy
But if the angle is too steep didn't they get destroyed faster by the atmosphere? (I am thinking about re-entry angle thing)
I'd imagine it'd be a parabolic relationship between angle and ablation, so 0 degrees and 90 degrees would generate roughly equivalent amounts of ablation while 45 would be the optimal angle for eroding the asteroid.
Nate Silver had the most accurate odds for the last presidential elections. Things with a 30% chance of happening happen all the time.
Yeah, 30% just means you have to roll a 15 or better on a d20. I think the real error was underestimating his chances in the primary, because he expected the RNC to stop him.
I think it's around 0.4% chance of impact. Not too small, considering the number of near earth objects we encounter.
