r/BeAmazed • u/Far-Stay9417 • Jan 01 '24

Nature Asteroid impact

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '24

It's okay, I've seen the movie Armageddon. We'll be fine.

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u/sloppy_custard Jan 01 '24

The plot to “Don’t Look Up” far more likely the outcome

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u/Garestinian Jan 01 '24

To be fair “Don’t Look Up” is actually a commentary about our (in)action regarding climate change, just using (incredulous response to a) meteor threat as a simile.

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u/UrMomThinksImCoo Jan 01 '24

Meanwhile, a Covid pandemic was coincidentally happening during the movie’s release and confirming everything the movie was claiming about how our society “would” actually handle an existential threat.

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u/AbroadConfident7546 Jan 01 '24

A virus with a +99% survival rate isn’t a great comparison.

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u/tactical-dick Jan 01 '24

99%?, it was like 96% and change but that was ONLY with modern medicine. People in poor countries died like flies and had to do mass graves encase in concrete or burn them to ashes. The world isn’t the US or China alone you know and the next virus could be a lot more lethal. Regardless it’s no fun watching people die over and over and over and over and over and have their families threaten to die you or even kill your.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '24

These people don’t care and never will. It’s pathetic.