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Isn’t mars more like 1million miles away?

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Screw the humans, we gotta save the cats!

I think this is The Stranger. I vaguely recall it, but the wikipedia entry doesn't exactly line up.

That's basically what I was thinking like that's so far away

Conversation on Earth:

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"You see that soccer pitch over there?"

"Where??"

"The one right next to Mars. You can't see that?"

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In the 70s, one of the more popular TV shows was the TV movie of the week. You never knew what you'd get and they weren't big budget special effects masterpieces. It was a pretty bad story in retrospect, but as a little kid, I was fascinated by the thought that there could be stuff on the other side of the sun that we've never seen.

On alt earth, there is someone who looks just like you, lives your identical life, but slightly backwards. When our hero astronaut got stranded on akt earth, his twin from alt-earth was stranded here. The drama was the astronaut coming to the realization that he was not home and that wasn't his wife

That's actually just insane

Maybe now we can finally find Russell's teapot.

I need context for this bit

We just look at night when the sun is asleep

It's both. JWST produces imaging data without any intervention by a human. Generally, that data is modeled by a human, but there's also a huge amount of these findings that are discovered by an algorithm, and have little to no human interaction to find.

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The telescope doesn't find asteroids. People do.

There's observatories that specifically monitor for small bodies. JWST takes science observations that have been designed long before.

Yeah but it's not zero and not insignificant.

It was all explained in a 70s documentary about the first time we sent astronauts to the far side of the sun. There resides an alt earth where our doppelgangers read English from right to left. Everything is backwards there. So I guess any rogue asteroids over there will be absorbed by alt earth and we'll be safe here. It's sciency stuff. Might be too sophisticated for you to understand.

don't worry about it. dinosaurs only went extinct a million years after their rock hit.

we don't even have 10% of that left

i hate these they're using an artist's rendering to represent a speck of light in these stories

Why don’t we set up a relay system behind the sun then? /s

Compared to the current 80% / 3000 terawatts we get from burning oil, gas, & coal it is. ESPECIALLY if we start utilizing the vast energy resources stored in “spent” reactor fuel

I for one welcome our new asteroid overlords.

Yeah, this one is, the other 20000 we missed are bigger.