A fun little webpage that provides a live estimate of chances that 2024 YR asteroid makes contact with Earth. Today the chance is 1 in 279 (I’ve seen it go as high as 1 in 47).
I think Matt Webb summarizes this perfectly:
It’s true, it is somehow comforting to contemplate the potential of the end of the world that at least isn’t my fault. It doesn’t make me feel like I’m complicit by not recycling a plastic bottle that one time or whatever. Like phew, I get to wallow in a guilt-free imminently immanentised eschaton.