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of back in 2013
the world was exposed to too near
catastrophes the Harlem shake memes and
a meteor that hit Russia the meteor was
a big 20 meter wide rock that weighed
the same as the Eiffel Tower and it just
so happened to blow up in the air above
the Russian city of Chelyabinsk home to
over 1 million people and most of whom
had dash cams that caused some pretty
awesome footage the asteroid blew up
with the force of roughly 26 Hiroshima
scale atomic bombs damaged over 7,000
buildings and sent roughly 1500 people
to seek medical attention for their
injuries it's believed that an asteroid
of this size and power randomly hits the
earth somewhere about once every 60 or
so years and while they usually hit
places where nobody lives like the
oceans they inevitably will sometimes
hit a city with over a million people
like this one did in Chelyabinsk
while that does sound kind of bad Earth
has been absolutely slammed by some much
bigger rocks in the past one of them was
so bad that it nearly killed every
single living thing on the planet and
like a weird sort of balance patch it
reduced the dinosaurs down to chickens
and it set up the world for mammals like
us to take over and now we are the ones
who need the chickens
this was the asteroid that hit the earth
roughly 66 million years ago so long ago
now that it's difficult to even find
traces of its effects so just for fun
what would happen if that same asteroid
hit the earth in the exact same location
today what would happen and would we all
basically just die for starters the Dino
killing asteroid was an absolute unit
believed to be somewhere between 11 and
15 kilometers wide that is a lot bigger
than Mount Everest and it weighed a lot
more to imagine just for a moment Mount
Everest flying directly at your city at
40,000 miles per hour you
no the damage it'll cause is gonna be
pretty spectacular and you also know
that you're gonna die but what you might
not realize is just how absurd the
damage and the overkill is actually
going to be as its flying through the
sky and burning up the asteroid appears
to you helplessly watching below as
being brighter than the Sun before it
finally smashes into the ground and
unleashes an amount of energy that's
roughly equivalent to 100 trillion tons
of TNT that is over 1 billion times more
powerful than the atomic bomb that was
dropped on Hiroshima if you were located
anywhere near enough to see that
fireball in the sky before it hit the
ground you would now be dead within just
a matter of seconds any living thing
located within a 1000 kilometer radius
of the impact area would be vaporized
almost immediately within seconds if the
asteroid hit Manhattan then everything
stretching out to Halifax Indianapolis
and Charleston would be instantly
annihilated and for a European
perspective if the asteroid hit the
center of London it would instantly
annihilate every living thing inside of
the UK Ireland France Belgium the
Netherlands Switzerland Germany and
Denmark plants trees and grass would
spontaneously burst into flames
thousands of kilometres away from the
crash site due to the absurd levels of
heat wildfires would almost immediately
rage across the entire continent of the
impact sites at the epicentre of the
impact itself the asteroid would have
punched a massive and feet hole into the
surface of the planet
150 kilometres wide and an unbelievable
20 kilometers deep that hole would be
bigger than the Big Island of Hawaii and
a deep enough to contain Mount Everest
with another Mount Everest act on top
and with 3 Burj Khalifa's stacked on top
of that no bunker anywhere on earth
would be capable of protecting you from
that kind of overkill on the lower end
of the guesstimation 's from scientists
that I've read the impact would have
generated a 10.1 on the Richter scale
which is more powerful than every single
earthquake that's taking place on the
end
higher planets in the past 160 years
roughly eight minutes after the impact
the massive amount of vaporized Rock
would be in rainy back down onto the
planet in the form of hot ash and soot
that would bury the surface and ignite
even more wildfires roughly 45 minutes
post impact a sudden roar of wind would
blast through the region around the
impact area at over 600 miles per hour
which would scatter debris around and
absolutely flatten any structure or tree
that was still standing if the asteroid
hit North America again like it did 66
million years ago then the entire
continent would basically be destroyed
and on fire and all within just the
first day the chain of events set into
motion from the impact however would
probably come close to wiping out life
everywhere else to the shockwave from
the impact would most likely generate a
civilization ending tsunami at least 300
metres tall that would sweep across the
land that was already burning on fire
and choking on Ash and where there's
probably a big hole in the ground
it's basically an apocalypse buffet at
this point but there's still a lot more
left to be served up the enormous amount
of ash and ejecta pumped into the
atmosphere from the crash wood shroud
the continent of impact in total
darkness for some time and plunged the
entire world into a permanent haze that
would resemble a Twilight for around 3
years photosynthesis in plants and
plankton across the world would be
severely restricted and most plants
would likely die out over the course of
those 3 years
animals that rely on eating plants would
then in turn die out and animals that
rely on eating those animals would
ultimately to eventually die out just
like what happened last time a complete
and total ecological collapse around the
world would take place and if it was
just as bad as the last time around it
would mean that roughly 70% of all life
on the planet would be eliminated acid
rain would fall across the globe the
oceans acidity levels would rapidly
increase but the big thing that most
life would struggle with would be the
unbelievable climate change because of
all the
and ejecta that was pumped into the
atmosphere from the crash the earth
would enter into a deep years long
nuclear winter where temperatures around
the world would be freezing without any
other seasons earth would enter into a
centrally along a game of Thrones style
winter for years but after that the
planet would flip and rapidly heat up in
a surprise global warming event just
waiting around the corner because of all
the huge forest fires raging on a
continent or even global scale
unbelievable amounts of gases would be
pumped into the atmosphere according to
one estimation as much as 10,000 billion
tons of co2 100 billion tons of carbon
monoxide and 100 billion more tons of
methane would be unleashed into the
atmosphere as a result of the
catastrophe a double whammy of a several
years long winter followed by an
extremely hot years long summer would
probably prove to be too much for most
life on the planet to endure and adapt
to just like it was last time but if
there's anything to learn from the last
time this happened
it's that earth is much more resilient
than we are a disaster of this magnitude
sounds like it would be the end of the
world but it really wouldn't be it would
be the end of our experience on the
world but it would it be the end of the
world itself for that it would have to
take something a lot bigger and a lot
scarier thankfully a giant earth eating
asteroid like this one hasn't been
detected yet so there's no real big
reason to be scared but one thing that
definitely does scare me and keeps me up
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