thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 05:54
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haha, that’s why I’ve put almost 10 hours into it.
i suspect most mini games start to show their problems and biases when you spend 10 hours playing then lol. like, gwent was sick, but it really was just about stacking the most strong cards intoa single deck as you could.
caravan though… that was a great damn mini game. the interactive and believable element of needing to go around and collect old world playing cards to build out your deck did a lot to extend the game into the broader world. more than that though, it’s a genuinely playable and relatively balanced game. i happened to have a lot of incomplete card decks lying around when i grew up. eventually i repurposed those into one big deck that would get split in half to play with people irl and a randomized deck. only fantasy card game I’ve ever been able to recreate and play at home without buying anything. and it even played pretty well.
Am I being wooshed? It’s impossible to get a flush with the two spades. Or the Aces.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
on 20 Feb 21:41
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Nah, you have it right. 4-5 needs runner runner 2-3 or 6-7
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 07:26
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That aren’t both hearts (aces can still make a flush)
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Feb 16:16
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Heh, yeah. It’s early for me but my monkey brain thinks aces has a better chance of the flush than that double double gutshot draw does.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 00:36
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Just needs a world card
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world
on 21 Feb 03:53
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Hearts but not for the 3% guy. Still low odds for a flush, yeah?
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 20:23
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Oh my god all night I couldn’t get what yall were seeing and the ACE IS A FCKING CLUB
My bad, yes you’re right. I’ve been playing Balatro w high-contrast cards…
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
on 20 Feb 21:14
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So what level of calamity are we talking about here? 3% doesn’t sound that low to me.
Morgoon@startrek.website
on 20 Feb 21:15
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Well we wouldn’t have to worry about global warming anymore
Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml
on 20 Feb 21:53
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Yes we would? This isnt a planet killer. Its a city killer. Plus theyll know where itll hit and can evacuate the area before hand. There is no reason a single person should die from this rock unless someone does something stupid.
If it is on a collision course we probably have time to do something about it. If we don’t do anything about it it’ll probably hit the ocean and it’s not big enough to cause any kind of crazy mega tsunami or anything like that. If it does hit land it’ll probably hit in the middle of nowhere and kill, like, 12 people, and if it does manage to beat all the odds and hit a major city it will be a major disaster, but it’s not going to be the apocalypse or anything.
Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml
on 20 Feb 21:56
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They arent 100% sure on the size but itll be a regional disaster. Few hundred square miles of destruction. And theyll be able to evacuate the area before hand. Itll land somewhere between south america and india theres a line map you can find of the area that could be hit and thatll get narrowed down as time goes on. We will know where its gonna hit far in advance if it does hit.
We’ll get a better idea of whether it’ll hit or not in 2028 the next time it passes close to earth, which will give us plenty of time to respond before it might hit in 2032.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 01:41
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4 years to develop an effective anti-asteroid response?
Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that’s scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn’t take much force and the DART mission proved that it’s achievable. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 04:17
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I think the DART mission picked a target of some convenience. This is no arbitrary target - it picked us. The stakes are a lot higher if failure is not an option. And of course, the world is currently tearing itself apart, so that won’t help when the moment for unity and collaboration approaches.
You’re not wrong, but something like this is well within the capabilities of private companies like ArianeSpace or SpaceX. Also, the stakes are just a city-killer asteroid, failure is entirely an option when there’s plenty of time to evacuate the impact zone.
apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca
on 21 Feb 04:55
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Except that 2028 would also be our window to do something about it before it disappears back into space. There needs to be a plan now, even if that plan is to wait and see where it’s going to hit.
In short, we already have a plan. DART proved that we can do it, and off-the-shelf rockets like the Falcon 9 have plenty of performance. All that remains is to wait until early 2028 when we get a proper fix on the asteroid, then we’ve got 7 or 8 months to prep and launch a mission before the window of opportunity closes.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 21 Feb 01:25
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This is correct. Current estimates place a possible impact event at an energy release of ~7.8 Megatons of TNT. Approximately 500 times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Comparable to the Tunguska Event. This is accounting for current size estimates under 100m in diameter.
It is a very serious asteroid. The Tunguska Event could have killed millions of people. The primary reason it didn’t was because it happened in the middle of Siberia. The primary witnesses to the devastation were local native groups who still lived that for out, of which there were few. It wasn’t properly investigated for over a decade because of the remoteness of where it happened and the low priority as it didn’t affect very many people. If that happened over a major city the consequences would be utterly devastating.
It’s not K-T Extinction event level, but it is nonetheless quite serious.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
on 20 Feb 22:44
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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…
artificialfish@programming.dev
on 20 Feb 23:48
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… that’s exactly what would happen, it would land on all the people who don’t believe in science.
If this happens frequently enough the Republican Party will just vanish.
Also the impact risk corridor passes through states that are poorly equipped for large civil defence operations: Ethiopia and the CAR are in civil wars, Yemen is in a civil war with the majority of the country under the control of an unrecognized government, and the South Sudanese government is quite week—being at peace only for the last 5 years
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Feb 01:26
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Look, it’s really simple. Just don’t look up. If we collectively ignore the problem, it won’t be a problem.
Everyone saying “they can evacuate” clearly doesn’t remember how bad the covid response was.
or not paying attention to political winds welcoming the evacuees.
It would make sense to have a more cooperative world, even if cooperation involves “victims” compensating those able to protect them. Hope the US can continue to contribute tracking resources, at least.
charonn0@startrek.website
on 21 Feb 21:42
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At least “crushed by asteroid” is not contagious.
trolololol@lemmy.world
on 20 Feb 23:44
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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.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Feb 04:40
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ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
on 22 Feb 00:36
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Only if it brings down housing prices.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Feb 00:57
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An interesting thought is that if it actually hits, this might provide the impetus for some countries to get their shit together and get into space for good. Potentially changing the course of history.
OneTwoThree@mander.xyz
on 21 Feb 01:39
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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
SciencesPoulet@piaille.fr
on 21 Feb 01:43
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@OneTwoThree@fossilesque actually we want this asteroid to hit Earth. Remove one threat from the sky. Divert to hit in a safe place. This one is safe if it hit in a remote location.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
on 21 Feb 02:47
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Backup is that we have a team of deep sea oil drillers go up there
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 04:18
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Why are we trying our best idea second?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Feb 04:39
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yeah, we really don’t have to worry.
With the DART mission tech, we can get our hit chances into the 90 percents
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
on 21 Feb 04:49
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Gotta pump those numbers up
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 02:58
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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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev
on 22 Feb 01:53
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I don’t think it’s unfair, it’s just that being one square away with 99% accuracy missing always feels like bullshit, regardless of whatever explanation you give.
PostingPenguin@feddit.org
on 22 Feb 14:50
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Jup! I think in the highest difficulty they actually have the correct percentages implemented.
Is it wrong to hope it hits the specific city I live in? 😅
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Feb 22:54
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Sometimes hope is all we’ve got.
HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 17:24
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Yeah, because at best it just splashes in the ocean, worst it hits a city and causes mass suffering as thousands die from the impact and fallout. It’s not going to end any suffering
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 22 Feb 18:15
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Well it would still have an impact energy less than that of tsar bomba, and probably just hit an ocean.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 19:13
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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.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Feb 20:03
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Unmanned? Nah, lets just assemble a team of oil drillers and send them up there like space cowboys.
Nah, you see this mission needs someone real smart. And when someone talks about smart people in smart professions, do you think about astronauts? No of course not. (Unless they are really really old astronauts, like geriatric, then yes.) instead you think about rough necks. That’s right, you think of guys who drill holes in the ground.
TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Feb 23:35
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Don’t even need a warhead. The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) just threw the probe itself at an asteroid hard enough to affect its orbit.
JackbyDev@programming.dev
on 22 Feb 01:51
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Wtf, no, the way to deflect an asteroid is to send something near it while it’s far away. Blowing it up just risks another smaller asteroid hitting us. Small changes in direction while incredibly fast away will change its path enough to be safe.
Make a probe with a giant fuel tank and engine land on the asteroid then just fire away to push it slightly off target so it misses the planet. Don’t need to destroy just alter the trajectory a tiny bit.
threaded - newest
Revised down to 0.27%
Just when it was getting good too! One of these days...
“I’m gonna go all in.”
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this is my favorite poker sim
Ngl mine too. I ended up never finishing it and using it as a great poker sim. 😅
it’s definitely balanced towards giving you better hands.
I’ve pulled like 8 royal flushes out of it with less than 10 hours spent playing poker in there. I’ve never even seen a royal flush in other contexts.
It’s really chill though haha. :)
haha, that’s why I’ve put almost 10 hours into it.
i suspect most mini games start to show their problems and biases when you spend 10 hours playing then lol. like, gwent was sick, but it really was just about stacking the most strong cards intoa single deck as you could.
caravan though… that was a great damn mini game. the interactive and believable element of needing to go around and collect old world playing cards to build out your deck did a lot to extend the game into the broader world. more than that though, it’s a genuinely playable and relatively balanced game. i happened to have a lot of incomplete card decks lying around when i grew up. eventually i repurposed those into one big deck that would get split in half to play with people irl and a randomized deck. only fantasy card game I’ve ever been able to recreate and play at home without buying anything. and it even played pretty well.
Eh, I liked Far Cry 3’s poker minigame better. Or, from memory, RDR1.
Yes, the atmosphere is great. But the stacks are just so low, players give little action, and the overall game flow is glacial in RDR2.
Gimme that flush COME ON
Am I being wooshed? It’s impossible to get a flush with the two spades. Or the Aces.
Nah, you have it right. 4-5 needs runner runner 2-3 or 6-7
That aren’t both hearts (aces can still make a flush)
Heh, yeah. It’s early for me but my monkey brain thinks aces has a better chance of the flush than that double double gutshot draw does.
Just needs a world card
Hearts but not for the 3% guy. Still low odds for a flush, yeah?
Oh my god all night I couldn’t get what yall were seeing and the ACE IS A FCKING CLUB
My bad, yes you’re right. I’ve been playing Balatro w high-contrast cards…
So what level of calamity are we talking about here? 3% doesn’t sound that low to me.
Well we wouldn’t have to worry about global warming anymore
Yes we would? This isnt a planet killer. Its a city killer. Plus theyll know where itll hit and can evacuate the area before hand. There is no reason a single person should die from this rock unless someone does something stupid.
This size meteor would destroy a city but not have lasting planet-scale effects. Think Tonguska event.
If it is on a collision course we probably have time to do something about it. If we don’t do anything about it it’ll probably hit the ocean and it’s not big enough to cause any kind of crazy mega tsunami or anything like that. If it does hit land it’ll probably hit in the middle of nowhere and kill, like, 12 people, and if it does manage to beat all the odds and hit a major city it will be a major disaster, but it’s not going to be the apocalypse or anything.
They arent 100% sure on the size but itll be a regional disaster. Few hundred square miles of destruction. And theyll be able to evacuate the area before hand. Itll land somewhere between south america and india theres a line map you can find of the area that could be hit and thatll get narrowed down as time goes on. We will know where its gonna hit far in advance if it does hit.
I recall hearing it was medium-ish nuclear weapon sized, but not wipe out civilisation size. Wherever it’s heading would need to be evacuated.
That was a week ago, though, and I’m sure the size projections will be updated as we get more data.
We’ll get a better idea of whether it’ll hit or not in 2028 the next time it passes close to earth, which will give us plenty of time to respond before it might hit in 2032.
4 years to develop an effective anti-asteroid response?
Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that’s scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn’t take much force and the DART mission proved that it’s achievable. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.
I think the DART mission picked a target of some convenience. This is no arbitrary target - it picked us. The stakes are a lot higher if failure is not an option. And of course, the world is currently tearing itself apart, so that won’t help when the moment for unity and collaboration approaches.
You’re not wrong, but something like this is well within the capabilities of private companies like ArianeSpace or SpaceX. Also, the stakes are just a city-killer asteroid, failure is entirely an option when there’s plenty of time to evacuate the impact zone.
Except that 2028 would also be our window to do something about it before it disappears back into space. There needs to be a plan now, even if that plan is to wait and see where it’s going to hit.
In short, we already have a plan. DART proved that we can do it, and off-the-shelf rockets like the Falcon 9 have plenty of performance. All that remains is to wait until early 2028 when we get a proper fix on the asteroid, then we’ve got 7 or 8 months to prep and launch a mission before the window of opportunity closes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5IXX4p2d0
This is correct. Current estimates place a possible impact event at an energy release of ~7.8 Megatons of TNT. Approximately 500 times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Comparable to the Tunguska Event. This is accounting for current size estimates under 100m in diameter.
It is a very serious asteroid. The Tunguska Event could have killed millions of people. The primary reason it didn’t was because it happened in the middle of Siberia. The primary witnesses to the devastation were local native groups who still lived that for out, of which there were few. It wasn’t properly investigated for over a decade because of the remoteness of where it happened and the low priority as it didn’t affect very many people. If that happened over a major city the consequences would be utterly devastating.
It’s not K-T Extinction event level, but it is nonetheless quite serious.
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…
… that’s exactly what would happen, it would land on all the people who don’t believe in science.
If this happens frequently enough the Republican Party will just vanish.
Also the impact risk corridor passes through states that are poorly equipped for large civil defence operations: Ethiopia and the CAR are in civil wars, Yemen is in a civil war with the majority of the country under the control of an unrecognized government, and the South Sudanese government is quite week—being at peace only for the last 5 years
Look, it’s really simple. Just don’t look up. If we collectively ignore the problem, it won’t be a problem.
They could make a movie about that!
or not paying attention to political winds welcoming the evacuees.
It would make sense to have a more cooperative world, even if cooperation involves “victims” compensating those able to protect them. Hope the US can continue to contribute tracking resources, at least.
At least “crushed by asteroid” is not contagious.
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.
india: nudges the asteroid a bit
china: “yo, wtf”
asteroid path now 100% chance of impact on Yellowstone
Triggering an eruption of the supervolcano, whose ash will kill most people in the US and blot out the sun for years
The millennial dream
Only if it brings down housing prices.
An interesting thought is that if it actually hits, this might provide the impetus for some countries to get their shit together and get into space for good. Potentially changing the course of history.
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
@OneTwoThree @fossilesque actually we want this asteroid to hit Earth. Remove one threat from the sky. Divert to hit in a safe place. This one is safe if it hit in a remote location.
Backup is that we have a team of deep sea oil drillers go up there
Why are we trying our best idea second?
yeah, we really don’t have to worry.
With the DART mission tech, we can get our hit chances into the 90 percents
Gotta pump those numbers up
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.
Just don’t look up, duh
I won’t believe it’s gonna miss us until it gets to 95% likely it will hit
I see another one branded by XCOM.
I find the XCOM comparisons funny because the game actually tilts the RNG in the player’s favor and people still think it’s unfair
www.giantbomb.com/…/xcom-2-is-un-fair-1792143/
I don’t think it’s unfair, it’s just that being one square away with 99% accuracy missing always feels like bullshit, regardless of whatever explanation you give.
Jup! I think in the highest difficulty they actually have the correct percentages implemented.
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I begin to worry when I see this asteroid still in the sky and how it becomes gradually bigger
With more data collected over time, the chance has already been reduced to 0.28% …nasa.gov/…/additional-observations-continue-to-r…
Is it wrong to hope it hits us?
Yes, because it’s not going to be nearly as catastrophic as it sounds. What we need is a real world ender.
Is it wrong to hope it hits the specific city I live in? 😅
Sometimes hope is all we’ve got.
Yeah, because at best it just splashes in the ocean, worst it hits a city and causes mass suffering as thousands die from the impact and fallout. It’s not going to end any suffering
yeah, yeah it is
Why is that? The planet will be fine without us. It will probably be better off without us.
Its not nearly big enough to wipe out the planet. Not even close.
It would just cause suffering for thousands/hundreds of thousands of people. Are you OK with that?
Alabamans are still marrying their cousins.
I can’t blame them, their cousins are hot.
What are you talking about Shelbyville, why would we want to marry our cousins?
Yes! Eat all of our shorts!
It was nice knowing yall
Well it would still have an impact energy less than that of tsar bomba, and probably just hit an ocean.
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.
Unmanned? Nah, lets just assemble a team of oil drillers and send them up there like space cowboys.
It’ll be easier to teach drillers to fly shuttles than it would be to teach astronauts how to dig a hole.
Wouldn’t it be easier to train astronauts to drill?
Nah, you see this mission needs someone real smart. And when someone talks about smart people in smart professions, do you think about astronauts? No of course not. (Unless they are really really old astronauts, like geriatric, then yes.) instead you think about rough necks. That’s right, you think of guys who drill holes in the ground.
Don’t even need a warhead. The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) just threw the probe itself at an asteroid hard enough to affect its orbit.
Wtf, no, the way to deflect an asteroid is to send something near it while it’s far away. Blowing it up just risks another smaller asteroid hitting us. Small changes in direction while incredibly fast away will change its path enough to be safe.
Make a probe with a giant fuel tank and engine land on the asteroid then just fire away to push it slightly off target so it misses the planet. Don’t need to destroy just alter the trajectory a tiny bit.
Some examples of very enjoyable related media that are not Don’t Look Up include The Last Policeman book trilogy and the Netflix animated series Carol & the End of the World.
(There’s nothing wrong with Don’t Look Up, but it’s the only recommendation I ever see.)
Don’t give me hope
Risk is probability times consequence. Focusing on the odds without considering the second half of the equation is stupid.
I’m going all in on the potential straight.
Yes, but the audience score is at 80%.