You're not thinking Big enough. Put on your best 1950s B-scifi movie hat. Imagine that the force of the explosion knocks the earth off of its axis, its orbit begins to decay, and we slowly begin to move closer to the Sun.
That's Big!
-PJ
68 posted on 01/07/2016 6:42:49 AM PST by Political Junkie Too
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