• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
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    5 days ago

    This is a city killer, not a continent killer. Wishing for few hundred thousand innocent people to die is just pure evil - it has no effect on overpopulation.

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        4 days ago

        Owls and rabbits aren’t the ones burning fossil fuels. Since I was born, 74% of the animals have gone.

        Yeah, overpopulation is long past, we’re at apocalyptic now.

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          4 days ago

          Sounds like a capitalism overconsumption problem more than population

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            4 days ago

            JFC you’re a child. Who do you think is doing all the consuming? Hint: It ain’t rabbits.

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              4 days ago

              I’m so grown up that I don’t have to resort to slinging insults. Obviously it’s humans doing the consumption. I’m saying that 1, overpopulation has been a eugenicist talking point forever; and 2, that cold blooded, infinite growth, profits-over-planet consumerism is what makes our society unsustainable, not necessarily the population.

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        4 days ago

        Well, it’s a problem that will solve itself. Most estimates say that the world’s popularion will peak around 2080 and start to decline after that.

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            4 days ago

            More a result of countries managing to get over the industrial revolution population spike, and getting into the modern age. Once you have access to modern medicine, and the birth mortality and child mortality rates plummet, people stop having so many kids.

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        4 days ago

        It’s currently moving at about 12,000 kph and will be slightly sped up to 17,000 kph if it actually hits us. That is not a significant enough portion of C to be anything but a city killer. This thing isn’t even a Tsar Bomba in terms of energy output. More like a Mark 17.

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          4 days ago

          https://lemmy.world/comment/15180729

          Regrub just said can we make it go faster, so i guess it would need to be increased much much more than 17,000 kph, which seems slow for galactic/cosmic speeds.

          Wonder how much more energy it would need.

          Someone get Randal Monroe on this stat!

          Lol

          • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            4 days ago

            I think you’d need to nearly double the velocity for it to be remotely close. I think I saw something like 30-40k km/h before it’s at that level