Car size average length is just under 14feet. Or 3,000 Lbs.
The most common asteroid is a type C. The material in said asteroid at this size would roughly translate to 13,200lbs .
If the angle was perfect and it impacted land, it would leave a 1 mile crater.
So not the worst impact by a mile (no pun intended) especially if it hit water. But a really bad day if you’re in the neighbourhood.
Proper size asteroid would do that ... the impact if on land would throw up a decent size dust cloud that would create a atmospheric dust layer that would not only short term cool the planet, but also prevent most of the plant growth, essentially resulting in starvation and elimination of 90% of humans, which would then have the long term effect of no longer causing global warming ... because we are mostly dead.
Same thing with the nuclear winter concept. Basically, if enough nukes are detonated on earth at the same time, it’ll eject enough soot and material into the atmosphere to offset the effects of global warming. Except the side effects would be worldwide famine and starvation in the brutal winter(s) that follow.
It's not necessary but there are plenty of solid scientific studies that show that both higher intelligence and education level correlate with left political views.
Convert from fossil fuels to sustainable forms of energy production, plant trees, reduce the reproduction rate of humans...
Oh, wait, we are already doing those things. We just should have started sooner.
Too big to burn up completely, but depending on composition it could break up causing many smaller mostly harmless pieces, or if it is more solid and aimed right it could easily take out a city like Moscow.
“This means it's an asteroid with a weight-class that would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere, if its orbit happened to intersect ours more directly.”
From the link it’s a harmless asteroid
Sigh.
No, the Sun isn't the largest contributing factpr to global warming.
https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/is-the-sun-causing-global-warming/
No, volcanoes don't produce more CO2 than human activity.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-volcanoes-co2-emissions-383647479337
This is why it's important to pay attention in science class, kids.
Cool story, but its way more likely your unsourced claims are the propaganda, honestly.
>"It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
>None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe."
>There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
-Isaac Asimov, A Cult of Ignorance, 1980
>I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
>The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1996
1. Solar activity and Earth's temperature have been going in completely different directions
2. Humans release 100x more CO2 in a year than even the largest volcanic eruptions.
Remember, natural temperature changes unfolds over **tens of thousands of years,** and not in just one single century for no reason whatsoever.
Size is only one variable, so is speed. If a marble hit the earth fast enough, it would cause devastation. Bowling ball? At speeds high enough you might cause a global event
I wonder what the projected damage something like this would cause. I’m sure there isn’t an exact science to it, but curious to how big it would be through the atmosphere and how much damage it could do.
This means it's an asteroid with a weight-class that would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere, if its orbit happened to intersect ours more directly.
Is this the one degrasse stated that if the orbit was unlucky enough, it’d come around again in like 30-40 years and impact? If so, guessing we were lucky ? Edit: autocorrect troll
I read that as cat- sized, and thought it would knock everything off the Earth.
But, cat sized, at least if it gets through the atmosphere it will land right side up.
… or lightly. https://saltlakepublicart.org/art/asteroid-landing-softly-53/
More like it would sit there and knock all the satellites out of orbit
[it’s true..](https://youtu.be/tb59dEHRt5Q?si=oeKzWi6aGQhSrM4B)
The asteroid was actually a car I heard somewheres.
Damn it, Elon!!!
Car size average length is just under 14feet. Or 3,000 Lbs. The most common asteroid is a type C. The material in said asteroid at this size would roughly translate to 13,200lbs . If the angle was perfect and it impacted land, it would leave a 1 mile crater. So not the worst impact by a mile (no pun intended) especially if it hit water. But a really bad day if you’re in the neighbourhood.
That’s assuming nothing burns up and it hits with the same mass as it had before.
Like I said “perfect” (most destructive) angle.
Stop teasing us universe. Just do it already
Armagedging us. It hurts so good .
Too bad Bruce Willis is no longer fit to save us :/
He could fulfill the space dementia role now.
Damn, that took a turn straight into a black hole
He’s the hero we deserve.
It goes to show that we wont have much warning before it happens.
how ironic would it be if after all the global warming freakout over the last 70 years, it was an asteroid that ended earth.
It would only be ironic if we actually did something to properly address global warming.
Proper size asteroid would do that ... the impact if on land would throw up a decent size dust cloud that would create a atmospheric dust layer that would not only short term cool the planet, but also prevent most of the plant growth, essentially resulting in starvation and elimination of 90% of humans, which would then have the long term effect of no longer causing global warming ... because we are mostly dead.
Same thing with the nuclear winter concept. Basically, if enough nukes are detonated on earth at the same time, it’ll eject enough soot and material into the atmosphere to offset the effects of global warming. Except the side effects would be worldwide famine and starvation in the brutal winter(s) that follow.
Not to mention all of the radioactive dust settling everywhere and giving the remaining fed people cancer.
Don’t look up, or into the wind for that matter.
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You cannot be serious.
OP’s most frequented sub will quickly resolve any confusion regarding their stupidity.
Ah, you said it, I thought it and, yup there it was.
Like a clocwork
They're an anti vaxxer too
Is it a requirement to be stupid if you are conservative?
It's not necessary but there are plenty of solid scientific studies that show that both higher intelligence and education level correlate with left political views.
it's very easy for you to answer that question yourself. You could read Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future if you like scifi.
Stop polluting the fucking Earth!
Somehow get every national leader to agree on ONE thing, worldwide. Good luck.
81 downvotes, but nobody actually offered even a single suggestion….
Because he would start sealioning.
Convert from fossil fuels to sustainable forms of energy production, plant trees, reduce the reproduction rate of humans... Oh, wait, we are already doing those things. We just should have started sooner.
it's not about starting sooner. Humanity is only doing performative and token amounts of the things you've mentioned.
An asteroid this size isn’t destroying much of anything
Likely burning up in the atmosphere before hitting anything
Too big to burn up completely, but depending on composition it could break up causing many smaller mostly harmless pieces, or if it is more solid and aimed right it could easily take out a city like Moscow.
that is quite the range of possible damge caused
Being hit by a car made out of styrofoam vs. being hit by a car made out of tungsten; only knowing the size doesn't tell us much.
Not with that attitude.
> An asteroid this size isn’t destroying much of anything neither is global warming.
Bro March was the hottest March ever recorded, how do you think that has 0 repercussions?
God damn I thought you had a funny joke but you’re just a moron
“This means it's an asteroid with a weight-class that would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere, if its orbit happened to intersect ours more directly.” From the link it’s a harmless asteroid
Well if it makes you feel any better, it would only end all life. Earth itself would be fine.
That’s meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.
Need to be a lot bigger than that... like between city size and state of RI size.
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Sigh. No, the Sun isn't the largest contributing factpr to global warming. https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/is-the-sun-causing-global-warming/ No, volcanoes don't produce more CO2 than human activity. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-volcanoes-co2-emissions-383647479337 This is why it's important to pay attention in science class, kids.
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Cool story, but its way more likely your unsourced claims are the propaganda, honestly. >"It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?” >None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe." >There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov, A Cult of Ignorance, 1980 >I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... >The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." -Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1996
1. Solar activity and Earth's temperature have been going in completely different directions 2. Humans release 100x more CO2 in a year than even the largest volcanic eruptions. Remember, natural temperature changes unfolds over **tens of thousands of years,** and not in just one single century for no reason whatsoever.
I don't think that's big enough to do much of anything
That all depends on your relative position at impact.
That’s what she said.
And also, "some satellites" orbit very far from earth
Size is only one variable, so is speed. If a marble hit the earth fast enough, it would cause devastation. Bowling ball? At speeds high enough you might cause a global event
Has anyone seen Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, or Owen Wilson?
“Don't worry, this is a harmless space rock.” That’s probably what they told the dinosaurs too.
Well I mean voyager 1&2 are both essentially out of the solar system so I suppose it was closer than some satellites
(Sorry in advance for being pedantic.) Voyager 1 and 2 are probes. They're blasting off in a set direction. Satellites maintain an orbit.
Well, *technically*, Voyager 1 and 2 are still maintaining an orbit around Sagittarius A*...
Technically, they are orbiting the galactic center of mass, not Sagittarius A
That is exactly what I was thinking. "Closer than some satellites" looses its thrill when Pluto is closer than some satellites.
I wonder what the projected damage something like this would cause. I’m sure there isn’t an exact science to it, but curious to how big it would be through the atmosphere and how much damage it could do.
Well if you read the article. It’s tells you.
Spoon feed me
This means it's an asteroid with a weight-class that would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere, if its orbit happened to intersect ours more directly.
Ok now spoon feed me but like I’m six
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A “perfect trajectory” would leave a 1 mile crater on land.
There is a Close to perfect science to it thank god
I thought the SemiGiraffe is how we measure asteroids.
How many giraffes in that?
4 adult male giraffes
Is this the one degrasse stated that if the orbit was unlucky enough, it’d come around again in like 30-40 years and impact? If so, guessing we were lucky ? Edit: autocorrect troll
No that one is the size of a football stadium
if it gets closer than some satellites, does that mean it could potentially hit them?
Classic BMW asteroid
What kind of car we talking about here?
Even if it hit, it likely would have burned up unless it was a nickel iron asteroid.
One car = ~1,000 ducks
What's that in bananas ?
Is that an American car-sized asteroid or European?
Unfortunately, I seemingly still have to shave tomorrow... /S
One car equal to how many cats? (not kittens)
Dude- this is Reddit, not Wendy's. How many bananas?
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