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To: gleeaikin

You and your cyclones.

You may enjoy reading about hypercanes, which, if they have ever existed, might have a shot of ending human society in a large swath of the world. Of course, the only plausible heat source for such a thing would be an asteroid impact. Hypercanes were hypothesized as a side effect of the Chicxulub impact at the K-T boundary.

Storms, no matter how many deaths and how much damage they cause, don’t threaten mass extinction. Unlike impacts from space, people usually have sufficient warning — even in very remote areas — and can seek shelter.

Large impacts from space are so powerful there’s no way to reasonably take cover. We’d all still try, of course.

Impacts — Catastrophism.

Storms — not.


93 posted on 02/21/2016 10:28:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Would be spectacular if it hit the moon. We would get a light show for weeks after the main event.


103 posted on 02/21/2016 9:40:25 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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