Asteroids, panic and profit: the media fear machine
A 40-90 meter asteroid threatens 2032 with a 2% probability. Behind the headline lies the business of media panic and an increasingly skeptical audience.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
The asteroid that scares no one except Negocios TV
A new video from Negocios TV (a Spanish business news channel) warns that an asteroid between 40 and 90 meters could hit Earth in December 2032. NASA is not panicking; the probability of impact is 2%, according to the outlet itself. But the headline does generate panic: the antiestéticar business works.
The numbers don't add up to an Apocalypse
The asteroid's size, based on circulating data, would produce an explosion equivalent to 800-900 kilotons, 40 times the Nagasaki bomb. But the Tsar Artefacto explosivo, at 50 megatons, was 2,500 times more powerful. An extinction-level event would require a diameter of 10-16 kilometers. In other words, a local impact, not a global one. The 98% probability that it will miss makes it cosmic noise.
The end-of-the-world business
Behind these headlines lies a well-oiled advertising machine. Every year and a half, an asteroid, a UFO or a pandemic appears to keep audiences hooked and sell panic. The irony is that economic antiestéticar – mortgages, inflation, wars – generates more profit than any space rock. Asteroid panic is the second livelihood of some channels; economic panic is the first.
The audience knows it. The comments sum it up: "98% chance it misses", "they already scammed me with 3iAtlas", "hugging my nevergonnahappenism". Skepticism is the rational response to an industry that sells apocalypses with an expiration date.
Between the meme and reality
What should worry us is not a 90-meter asteroid in six years, but the management of real risks: climate, economic, health. But those don't sell as well. Meanwhile, the antiestéticar industry keeps cashing in. And the asteroid, if it comes, can get in line.
Related discussions in the forum
A new video from Negocios TV (a Spanish business news channel) warns that an asteroid between 40 and 90 meters could hit Earth in December 2032. NASA is not panicking; the probability of impact is 2%, according to the outlet itself. But the headline does generate panic: the antiestéticar business works.
The numbers don't add up to an Apocalypse
The asteroid's size, based on circulating data, would produce an explosion equivalent to 800-900 kilotons, 40 times the Nagasaki bomb. But the Tsar Artefacto explosivo, at 50 megatons, was 2,500 times more powerful. An extinction-level event would require a diameter of 10-16 kilometers. In other words, a local impact, not a global one. The 98% probability that it will miss makes it cosmic noise.
The end-of-the-world business
Behind these headlines lies a well-oiled advertising machine. Every year and a half, an asteroid, a UFO or a pandemic appears to keep audiences hooked and sell panic. The irony is that economic antiestéticar – mortgages, inflation, wars – generates more profit than any space rock. Asteroid panic is the second livelihood of some channels; economic panic is the first.
The audience knows it. The comments sum it up: "98% chance it misses", "they already scammed me with 3iAtlas", "hugging my nevergonnahappenism". Skepticism is the rational response to an industry that sells apocalypses with an expiration date.
Between the meme and reality
What should worry us is not a 90-meter asteroid in six years, but the management of real risks: climate, economic, health. But those don't sell as well. Meanwhile, the antiestéticar industry keeps cashing in. And the asteroid, if it comes, can get in line.
Related discussions in the forum
- Things are getting ugly in Tehran · 81106 replies
- Latin discovers, horrified, another repulsive Spanish scourge: LITTLE SPANIARDS EAT TOO MUCH BREAD AND VERY LITTLE RICE, ONLY ARABS EAT WELL · 127 replies
- Police officer shoves a woman for no reason at all... · 234 replies
- Police union CEP DEFENDS assaulting a woman from behind and censors comments on X. What a MAFIA · 24 replies
Also available in: Deutsch
Summary of a discussion on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., translated from Spanish and reviewed before publication. Read the full discussion (61 replies).
More summaries
-
Verifactu: the nuclear bomb shaking up Chinese-run businesses in Spain
Verifactu is triggering mass closures of Chinese-owned businesses in Spain. Witnesses describe tax panic over real-time invoicing. The end of the scam, or just…
-
Why France and Germany Are Quietly Panicking Over Spain's New Energy Grid
Is Spain becoming Europe's new energy powerhouse? We look at the impact of renewables and hydrogen against France's and Germany's doubts. Read on.
-
Spain's minimum income benefit to rise 14% in 2027, tied to non-contributory pensions
Spain's IMV minimum income will rise almost 14% in 2027 due to its legal link to non-contributory pensions: from 733.60 to 836 euros per month for a single person.
-
Spain's government delegate in Ceuta charged over ignored intelligence warnings
Court number 6 in Ceuta has charged the government delegate with dereliction of duty after CNI intelligence warnings about the mass crossing were ignored.
-
Video claims Spain has already agreed to hand over Ceuta and Melilla
An eleven-minute video claims that Ceuta and Melilla have already been secretly agreed with Morocco. With no evidence, the noise keeps growing.
-
Spain's state never resigns: the list of failures keeps growing
The Spanish state fails in a chain: the pandemic, the Valencia floods, the blackout and Ceuta. Public anger grows, but voting patterns don't shift. Why does nobody resign?