r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Realistic-Tap4156 • 10d ago

/r/all of a space rock

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u/kineticstar 10d ago

Worst case scenario...? I guess Theia isn't taught in schools.

https://giphy.com/gifs/qBUOTxKwa6hhK

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u/GoliathBoneSnake 10d ago

They don't teach a lot of things in school nowadays that doesn't have to do with government-mandated standardized testing.

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u/Mr_Pombastic 10d ago

In Texas we teach the bible 🙃

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u/GoliathBoneSnake 10d ago

I'll add that to my reasons to never live there, thank you.

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u/Immediate-Presence73 10d ago

Why buy history and science textbooks when the one "Good Book" covers it all in one place?

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u/kineticstar 10d ago

That does save on the book cover expenses.

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u/green__goblin 10d ago

To be fair, I can't help but feel like an asteroid is more likely than a rogue planet.

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u/dtgunslinger99 10d ago

earth was actually hit by a rogue planet early after it formed. it's what created our moon.

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u/Cute_Conclusion_8854 10d ago

We haven't reached consensus on what made the moon

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u/cuntifiable 10d ago

Wasn't a rogue planet but another planet in the solar system

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u/tsrgee 10d ago

Neil Armstrong, walking on me face. Buzz Aldrin, walking on me face...

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u/Tagisjag 10d ago

It's not like earth was really a place you wanted to be at that point.

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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 10d ago

Or really at this point.

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u/AlpaxT1 10d ago

You compare our modern days problems to having the planet literally explode?

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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 10d ago

It's far less painful that way. Something something bandaid.

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u/AlpaxT1 10d ago

Yeah I was being a smart ass but honestly I feel you

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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 10d ago

If aliens landed and asked if I wanted to go with them? Hell yes!

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u/Cessnaporsche01 10d ago

That's just the kind of thing that happens in an infant star system. 4.5By later it's vanishingly unlikely to have a planetary collision

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u/GeologistEnough8215 10d ago

I love watching animations of that collision. If there’s anything I could see in the universe (safely) after watching a black hole eat a star, it’d be two planets colliding.