They tried again in 2022 with two telescopes and came up empty, which is good news, sort of. The empty sky ruled out the giants. It couldn't rule out the small stuff. By the search team's own math, the swarm could still hold up to 1,000 rocks the size of the one that exploded over Chelyabink's Russia. That was in 2013, and put 1,500 people in the hospital. They get two more chances to look before the swarm arrives. 2029, and a little bit sooner, in 2026. Yes, this year, in a few months. Which brings us back to where we started. In December 2024, a building-sized rock passed between the Earth and the satellites. We never saw it coming. We only saw it leaving. It came out of the daytime sky, past us, and a telescope in Chile caught it two days later, already headed away. Its return date was December 2032. Different rock, different family, same year the swarm comes back. Now, for a while, the math said it might hit the moon instead of us, and astronomers were honestly a little excited. a chance to watch an impact land somewhere else, on a surface where we can study it for centuries. Then this past March, the Webb Telescope hunted the rock down one more time and called it a clean miss, 15,000 miles. The math saved us this time. The people who watched the sky come apart 5,000 years ago didn't have this math. They didn't even have words for this. They had what they saw, a wet piece of clay, in the hope that somebody someday would pick it up and understand and right now that's us we're the ones holding the tablet so let's stop translating for a second and just listen to the thing not the theory not the date just what the object is telling us it's telling just one thing as clear as the morning it was recorded. The sky is a dangerous place. You better do something about it. if you could like, subscribe, comment, share. Sorry for the homework, but that stuff really helps us out. Like most topics we cover on the channel, today's topic was recommended by you. So if there's a story you wanna see or learn more about, go to theyfiles.com slash tips, catch us on Discord, send an email, a chat during one of the videos. There's a lot of ways to get ahold of us, and we're always looking for good topics. Now, if you enjoy the stories I tell on The Y Files, check out my other show on the channel, it's called The Basement. It's a conversation show where I chat some interesting people