If an asteroid hits Earth, there's no time to tweet about it.
If the earth were hit by an asteroid or anything else, there would be no time to tweet something like, “Has anyone else felt the earth shake? "End Times": This is what NASA says about the possibility of a planetary disaster from space. "The biggest warning we would get if something fell to Earth would be a big zero, " says a scientist at the US space agency.
Unlike in movies and video games, the object capture system near planet Earth (called NEO) has very limited capabilities. According to a Forbes magazine report, most of the objects that the NEO currently captures remain unknown to the human race.
In other very remote cases, scientists can predict the objects that will pass near the planetary orbit. This is exactly what happened with the Apophis asteroid, which was predicted by scholars in 2004 and which presents an ephemeral possibility of colliding with Earth. What was discovered this year is that Apophis is considerably larger than imagined, containing around 20% more mass than previously anticipated.
Fiction that doesn't happen in reality
However, if one of these asteroids ever resolved to fall to our planet, there would not be enough geologists, astronauts, or demolition specialists to be sent into space orbit to contain the threat - as in the movie "Armageddon." Worse than that, when the meteor hit the earth, we would just see a gigantic glare and at most feel the ground beneath our feet in vast tremble.
On the other hand, if scientists could predict that the asteroid's route would actually coincide with Earth's orbit, there wouldn't be much that could be done. For a Apophis-sized meteor, according to NASA, nuclear bombs exploding over it would not be sufficient to deflect the trajectory of the visiting nuisance.
Therefore, it is confirmed that "Twitter would do no good in the midst of an apocalypse caused by a meteor."
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