Great simulation of an extinction-level-event meteor impact. Enjoy.

LiveLeak.com - Impact Simulation

 

Gee.... Thanks Steve!!

At least we would go quickly..... how comforting.

 

Actually, the narration got it wrong in at least one place.

They quoted six different similar impacts in Earth's geologic history.....But that kind of impact is estimated to occur once in 4 billion years (we're talking a 300-mile wide meteor, people!). A similar impact likely occurred early in the Earth's creation, and likely started the loooooooong process which had us end up with continents and oceans.

Now there WERE six E.L.E.s that are known. But they involved much smaller asteroids (5-20-miles diameter) or comets---and did NOT extinguish all live down to the bacterial level like the one in the simulation. They extinguished MOST life (the one that hit yucatan wiped out 95% of the dinosaurs---hey---we've still got crocs, komodas, birds, etc.), but some mammals, etc. survived.

A 300-mile wide one? Kiss your butt-cheeks goodbye. Ain't NOTHING can be done.

 

how about a 6mile one like the one in chicxulub???? that one most likely ended everything on earth,nevermind this 300m one that there talking about


The Chicxulub Crater (IPA: [tʃikʃuˈlub]) is an ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is located near the town of Chicxulub, after which the crater is named—as well as the rough translation of the Mayan name, "the tail of the devil."[1] The crater is more than 180 kilometers (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures in the world; the impacting bolide that formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter.

The crater was discovered by Glen Penfield, a geophysicist who had been working in the Yucatán while looking for oil during the late 1970s. Evidence for the impact origin of the crater includes shocked quartz, a gravity anomaly, and tektites in surrounding areas. The age of the rocks and isotope analysis show that this impact structure dates from the end of the Cretaceous Period, roughly 65 million years ago. The impact associated with the crater is implicated in causing the extinction of the dinosaurs as suggested by the K–T boundary, although some critics argue that the impact was not the sole reason[2] and others debate whether there was a single impact or whether the Chicxulub impactor was one of several that may have struck the Earth at around the same time. Recent evidence suggests that the impactor may have been a piece of a much larger asteroid that broke up in a collision in distant space more than 160 million years ago.[3]
Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

BTW.

I wish FTE would turn off the edit function in the 'thread title' section.

Happens ALL the time. 'E.L.E.' should be allcaps.....That stupid edit function capitalized the first letter and left the others lower-case---looks idiotic. Did the same thing with the following words (which I wanted to allcaps for dramatic effect).

What looks better?

'E.L.E. METEOR IS COMING! DUCK!!!' ?

or

'E.l.e. Meteor Is Coming! Duck!!!' ?



p.s. When I tried to edit, it wouldn't let me into the title section to do anything.

 

Beat your post by six minutes, Freirefishing.......Mentioned Yucatan....Although your description was much better......

 

just the words alone "meteor coming" has me ducking and praying

 

The sky is falling, great, now where do I park my truck?

 

I'll just roll up the windows on my truck and wait it out inside while all the Chevy drivers are vaporized...then I can get better parking spots.

Honestly, it's happened to Earth before, it'll eventually happen again. The metorites that slammed into Jupiter a few years back would have been more than enough to send humanity back to the history books...that maybe in a few millions years the roaches would evolve enough to read.

We will get hit again at some point, unless there's some system we (humanity) comes up with. Of course, eventually the sun will collapse anyway and the whole planet with either crumble apart or bake.

 

jupiter is a "vacuum" in regards to saving our planet of things like that. and thank god for jupiter

 

yep thank god

 

And I would be drinking plenty of IPA (Indian Pale Ale) if a 6 mile wide chunk of space debris came hurtling towards me.

I wonder if Aflac covers meteor damage?

Aaaflaaaaaaaaaaaaaaac!

 

We're more apt to be smacked by a 'civilization-destroying' meteor (or comet, or whatever), than we are by a 'species-destroying' one.

And a LOT of that depends on how accurate the current 'global-cooling' models are. THAT'S what the deadliness of the smaller strikes would depend on---if there IS a months-long period of smoky darkness worldwide which causes plantlife to die and the temperature of the planet to plummet.

What WOULD probably cause THAT would be if one of them super-volcanos (like Yosemite) torched off......They estimate that if THAT sucker blows, what we'd end up with when all is said and done is hundreds of independent, 'cooperative' communities scattered throughout the world, and made up of lifestyles similar to 18th century farming communities.

Who knows. And I don't know WHY in the hell I'm so fascinated by E.L.E.s anyway....

 

There's also Yellowstone N.P. to worry about, being it's an active hot zone for
that type of volcanic activity.

 

yellowstones volcanoes left a 30 mile wide caldera,talk about blowing your top