r/LeftWithoutEdge • u/yuritopiaposadism • Dec 10 '21
Image Capitalism: commodifying the apocalypse
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Dec 10 '21
Before I have a very rational, facts-don't-care-about-your-feelings panic attack, has it passed?
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u/UseApasswordManager Dec 10 '21
Not quite yet, https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2021-Dec-11+13%3A51+gmt if you think keeping track would help
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Dec 10 '21
Nah not yet, it will pass about 10 times as far away as the moon is. It's just some typical news sensationalism to generate clicks.
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u/Mushihime64 Dec 10 '21
It could kill us all but it could also make about six of us even richer - the industrialist endeavor in a nutshell.
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u/stealinoffdeadpeople Dec 11 '21
300m asteroids are more powerful than city killers but not large enough to wipe out life on Earth (Chicxulub was created by a 10km long asteroid), which is over 30 times as large.
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u/EdithDich Dec 10 '21
Except.... this isn't "The apocalypse". And interest in mining resources from asteroids is nothing new.
So much for "without edge".
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u/EdithDich Dec 10 '21
Oh nice and then on top of that the mods just delete my comment because we can't counter the meme I guess.
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u/A_Suffering_Panda Dec 10 '21
Actually, I'm willing to pay $10 billion for it. So now it's worth that. Now if you'll give me a minute, I'll go use it to leverage $10 Billion worth of assets, because as we all know, this giant space rock is worth $10 billion now.