spicy one
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So would this lower sea levels?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Maybe we'll finally find Atlantis! Get that Stargate working.
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It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (~200km diameter 72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion, I measured the crater diameter to about 3500km!
It would take decades or centuries before the sky would clear after such an explosion, most likely resulting in a mass extinction event.
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So would this lower sea levels?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]No, because (a) that's way, way bigger than any single bomb would make (the largest nuclear crater ever made was "only" about 390m across), and (b) actual nuclear weapon attacks would be detonated as air-bursts and therefore wouldn't make craters at all to begin with.
The afore-mentioned crater was the result of an underground test, BTW. Also, it was designed to make a big crater, being part of Project Plowshare. The largest bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, left no crater because it was an air-burst at 4,000m altitude.
Also, a crater that big would be an extinction-level event. For comparison, Chicxulub crater, from the impact that ended the dinosaurs, is "only" about as wide as "Mossad Island" in this image.
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and we still wouldn’t transition off oil.
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Kinda upset about the thought of all the great food being lost.
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Doing this creates world peace change my mind lol
wrote on last edited by [email protected]See my last paragraph here. TL;DR: it might indeed do that, but only in the vacuous truth sense that no human societies would be left to make war.
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Maybe we'll finally find Atlantis! Get that Stargate working.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]SG-1 was so optimistic... im only now getting into Stargate
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It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (~200km diameter 72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion, I measured the crater diameter to about 3500km!
It would take decades or centuries before the sky would clear after such an explosion, most likely resulting in a mass extinction event.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Considering that we're in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I'd say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I'm guessing it would exceed the "Great Dying" (Permian-Triassic extinction event) to take the crown.
Edit: The Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica, which may be associated with the Great Dying, was "only" a little over 2.5 times larger in diameter than Chicxulub and thus still way smaller than the crater depicted. That said, I guess a nuclear crater wouldn't be associated with a flood basalt "exit wound" at the antipode the way an impact crater might be, so maybe it wouldn't be comparable.
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Deoccupied Ukraine. Very good.
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and we still wouldn’t transition off oil.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Why would an asteroid Impact convince OPEC to transition?
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Nice to see Ukraine won
And they got crimea back!
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Nice to see Ukraine won
Interesting that South Sudan decided to forfeit its independence.
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It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (~200km diameter 72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion, I measured the crater diameter to about 3500km!
It would take decades or centuries before the sky would clear after such an explosion, most likely resulting in a mass extinction event.
it would also shatter tectonic plates, create rifts and reverse the directions some plates were moving, the asteroid impact you mention resulted in the Indian subcontinent (I'm simplifying a lot of things right now)
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Couldn't they just tow them out of the environment instead?
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it would also shatter tectonic plates, create rifts and reverse the directions some plates were moving, the asteroid impact you mention resulted in the Indian subcontinent (I'm simplifying a lot of things right now)
Well, now you've piqued my curiosity. Got a link?
The Wikipedia article I'm reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that's not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn't actually as settled as I'm making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn't change the "result" of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.
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It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (~200km diameter 72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion, I measured the crater diameter to about 3500km!
It would take decades or centuries before the sky would clear after such an explosion, most likely resulting in a mass extinction event.
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
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Why would an asteroid Impact convince OPEC to transition?
A lot of the oil production is in the crater
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Interesting that South Sudan decided to forfeit its independence.
The haters will say an old map was used to edit this but realistically a lot can happen in 10 years.
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Kazakhstan, after finally securing access to the oceans: Just according to keikaku.
(keikaku means plan)
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Interesting that South Sudan decided to forfeit its independence.
Well they didn't get any Western students protesting the genocide there, so it doesn't surprise me.
