Running interference [Safely Endangered]

[chillinit@lemmynsfw.com]

Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately three thousand seven hundred and twenty to one!

Never tell me the odds.

A very human response.

[leftzero@lemmynsfw.com]

The Deccan Traps probably didn't help either.

Oh, by the way, didn't the Phlegraean Fields start acting up recently..?

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

Ok, I'm old. Asteroid is slang for what?

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

... and that's how life on mars got extinct

[krashmo@lemmy.world]

I don't think it's common slang but in this particular case asteroid is the penis

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

So much for my post-election prayers...

[rockerface@lemm.ee]

Just as his namesake god, sometimes benevolent, sometimes an asshole. Though slightly less of an asshole, it seems

[chillinit@lemmynsfw.com]

I see what you mean. But, take out the word "slightly" and it's also how most of us perceive ourselves and how we should be treated by an authority. It seems exemplified in our anthropomorphized perceptions of most gods.

[rockerface@lemm.ee]

Yeah, polytheistic gods are basically people, with all consequences thereof. Powerful, but not omnipotent, nor omniscient.

We've been telling stories of those people to make sense of the universe, but the story is ultimately about us.

[frezik@midwest.social]

It's way more complicated than that:

The way the complicated orbital mechanics work, there is a "gate" which is the only place where asteroids/comets/whatever can cross Jupiter's orbit. This doesn't usually result in them hitting Jupiter, but it does limit their options for hitting Earth.

Been a while since I watched the video, so I don't remember all the details, but that should be the basic gist.