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To: Red Badger

Ever notice how nobody ever scales pictures of the impactor/event even remotely correctly?

If the Kt impactor was 6 miles that gives a viewable surface area of about 55 square miles moving into a viewable surface area of about 100,000,000 square miles.

Napkin math scaling results in a general grasp of this as imagining having a 2-1/2 acre surface being impacted by a .20 cal bullet.

Now imagine the .20 round going in fast enough to your 2-1/2 acre target to create a uniform coating of dust over the whole thing, and a several foot diameter crater at the impact site.

If “artist impression” sized asteroids hit the earth at 15+ miles per second we’d pretty much just be a cloud of ionized gasses...


12 posted on 08/21/2024 12:51:59 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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To: Axenolith

The Earth would shatter................


13 posted on 08/21/2024 12:53:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Axenolith

Why do you hate science so much?


16 posted on 08/21/2024 1:23:54 PM PDT by samiam5
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