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This was an amazing example of what could happen. The largest fragment was 6,000,000 megatons. If left a mark the size of Earth on Jupiter. Jupiter saves us a lot I think. -
Another funzie to occupy your mind as you try to sleep tonight - an errant gamma ray burst would flash fry the planet as well....probably wouldn't know it ahead of time either, and I'm not a dentist or whatever, but I think the survivability of something like that isn't terribly high.
I've also heard of this as yet hypothetical type of matter known as "strange matter" or something like that. If an asteroid made of that stuff hit us, we'd be ultrafucked. It's pretty much Ice 9 from Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle", but with everything that is made of molecules. -
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You couldn't ever predict a gamma ray burst, because, well, it travels at the speed of light. No way of knowing where it comes from until it has already hit you.
apparently the chance of getting hit by an asteroid that nukes some large hole in the land or causes tsunamis everywhere is a lot more common than humans have seen lately
and asteroids come in chunks because they keep breaking up into smaller and smaller pieces until they finally disintegrate
and earth has had an awful lot of near misses the last 20 years so that means there's a bunch of chunks flying repeatedly though this solar system's gravity wells and we're playing Russian roulette every time, none the wiser
and it's not the asteroid itself that's really the problem though millions will die if one hits. it's that every time those things hit there's actual climate change
so then you'll have to survive sun block out, famines, and floods for like 2-5 years after
but the SPACEFORCE fired the guy responsible for planning for this due to DEI
how to win the game of geopolitics. know this information and hide it from the countries you want to die, wait for an asteroid, and they're unprepared and die. whoops wasn't us!
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