top | item 44453936 (no title) tvickery | 8 months ago I know it’s incredibly, vanishingly unlikely but what would happen if an object with these characteristics smacked into Earth? discuss order hn newest ra|8 months ago With this much mass and velocity - it would smash the planet, rupturing the entire crust at the very least.No matter how infinitesimally small the probability - the universe is infinite, and so it probably will happen.i3 is much bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period (and extinct all non-avian dinosaurs). _joel|8 months ago The end, unless you're a small proto-mammal ;).An object (depending on consistency) of about 100m is enough to wipe out a city and do enough damage to the environment. Something of 8-20km is in the same category as what wiped out the dinosaurs (10-15km). padjo|8 months ago It’s going at 68km/s so I think even microbial life could be in trouble. load replies (1) AlexGizis|8 months ago Seems like it arrives with a bit more energy than a 10 on richter scale: https://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/richter_s...No, I can’t really imagine what that means, either. MaxikCZ|8 months ago 8-22km at interstellar speeds? Probably total extinction level.
ra|8 months ago With this much mass and velocity - it would smash the planet, rupturing the entire crust at the very least.No matter how infinitesimally small the probability - the universe is infinite, and so it probably will happen.i3 is much bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period (and extinct all non-avian dinosaurs).
_joel|8 months ago The end, unless you're a small proto-mammal ;).An object (depending on consistency) of about 100m is enough to wipe out a city and do enough damage to the environment. Something of 8-20km is in the same category as what wiped out the dinosaurs (10-15km). padjo|8 months ago It’s going at 68km/s so I think even microbial life could be in trouble. load replies (1) AlexGizis|8 months ago Seems like it arrives with a bit more energy than a 10 on richter scale: https://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/richter_s...No, I can’t really imagine what that means, either.
padjo|8 months ago It’s going at 68km/s so I think even microbial life could be in trouble. load replies (1)
AlexGizis|8 months ago Seems like it arrives with a bit more energy than a 10 on richter scale: https://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/richter_s...No, I can’t really imagine what that means, either.
ra|8 months ago
No matter how infinitesimally small the probability - the universe is infinite, and so it probably will happen.
i3 is much bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period (and extinct all non-avian dinosaurs).
_joel|8 months ago
An object (depending on consistency) of about 100m is enough to wipe out a city and do enough damage to the environment. Something of 8-20km is in the same category as what wiped out the dinosaurs (10-15km).
padjo|8 months ago
AlexGizis|8 months ago
No, I can’t really imagine what that means, either.
MaxikCZ|8 months ago