Googled & Asteroid

Dangerous Dave talks about the most Googled who, what, where and why of January. Plus, an asteroid that could hit earth in 2032, what would happen?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This stuber in the din with dangerous Dame. Well, Google
did another one of their who What, When, Where? Why
roundups for the month of January. So what were the
questions we were asking? And I'll give you the answers
to who owns the Golf of Mexico? Did you mean
the Gulf of America? Well, no one country owns it.
The US, Mexico, and Cuba all have territorial waters, depending

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upon how about the bays and inlets and how they're measured,
but Mexico generally considered to have slightly more coastline in
the golf seventeen hundred and forty three miles versus sixteen
thirty one for the US. The what people googled is
what time is the inauguration? Swearing in was at nine
a m. Eastern on the twentieth. It was moved indoors,
of course, because of the cold. The when is when
will TikTok be back at the ops store? Well, with

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the legal issues and the ban, Apple isn't taking any chances.
You can still use it if you already have it,
but you can't download it now. Where was where to
watch Notre Dame and Ohio State the National championship was
on ESPN last Monday. Of course, Ohio State won thirty
four to twenty three, and why the why question and
his wise TikTok back while Trump signed an executive order
that paused the ban for seventy five days, it's supposed

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to give China based app more time to sell it
to somebody in the US, and it sounds like Microsoft
is looking at possibly doing that in the two Well
to all the people who said they'd rather vote for
an asteroid than Biden or Trump, Astronomers and Chili spotted
a massive asteroid. It's got a one point three percent
chance of hitting Earth in twenty thirty two. That might
not sound high, but a ninety eight point seven percent

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chance that won't hit us fairly scary when you consider
the stakes. They say. It's about one hundred meters about
three hundred feet wide, not big enough to be a
planet killer, but it wouldn't be good. According to space
dot Com, it would create a massive crater, destroy buildings
up to nine miles away, and shatter windows more than
sixty miles away, trigger a massive earthquake that would destroy
stuff over a much larger area. It'd also kick up

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a ton of dust and debris that would linger in
the atmosphere. If it hit the ocean, would create a
massive tsunami. Just to give you an idea, an asteroid
half this size hit eastern Russia in nineteen oh eight
flattened eighty million trees over an area of eight hundred
square miles. Again, we're talking one point three percent chance.
So hopefully none of this ever happens. What one expert said,

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they expect it to pass by harmlessly. It just deserves
a little more attention with the telescopes until we can
confirm that because of its orbit, we might not know
for sure until twenty twenty eight, so we have four
years to potentially try to do something about it. Well,
I think you're going to have to get a hold
of Bruce Willis and maybe Ben Affleck. Maybe they can
fly up and do something about it. To me, they can.

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