silently take delight in knowing all my enemies are dead
I mean you've got to look for positives, right?
Do people have enemies? That seems exhausting.
Arch nemesis... only Arch users have those.
I’ll tip my Fedora to that.
Oh...
...
...
...fuck.
One small uh-oh for a man, one giant extinction event for mankind.
Seveneves
From the looks of it the astronaut was just out of the lunar grocery store starting to walk home for some dinner and down time.
Honestly... It looks like he will have a lot of downtime now.
"Tja..."
The amount of energy it would take to punch a hole through the Earth would probably be enough to kill you from the moon.
Like just in terms of "bullets" ejected?
Finally!
But what about the stock market?
To the moon
I'm Polish, so the same thing I say in any situation: "Kurwa".
Such a beautiful language.
It means whore.
Literally yes, But it's more of an f- bomb
Oh, didn't know that meaning 😁.
That's not how planetary collisions work.
Earth's core is a solid ball of iron-nickel alloy as hot as the surface of the sun. Not even a huge asteroid could just go through it and come out the other side.
The ball on the bottom right, is the earth's core leaving.
BTW, the book Seveneves is worth a read/listen. It covers a scenario of something very very dense passing through the moon.
I like the idea that it hit the core and knocked it out the other side while remaining in place like that one executive desk toy thing. Newton's cradle? is that what that thing is called.
Someone get Randall Monroe on this image, he'd do the math.
The thing that strikes me...the object hit the earth dead on, on the sunlit side, so the object would have come right out of the Sun or slightly behind. Like it looks like it was about 2 PM where the object hit. So the object would have barely missed the Sun...yesterday or so at the speed it would have to be moving to splat the Earth like a bullet through a melon.
I think to hit that hard it would need to be moving at a large fraction of the speed of light, in which case there would be a tremendous amount of nuclear fusion. Like, probably an exaton blast.
The thing is Randall already kind of did something like this in his "What-if?" which talked about a diamond meteor hitting the earth...
And basically it boils down to: Either Galileo/Newton/whoever was the smart fuck that discovered it was right and the meteor would only create a crater roughly as deep as it was itself. (This if it could touch the core it would be at least the same size as the earth and the picture would look different)
Or it would be going fast enough to ignore most of all that classical physics stuff, phase through most solid material and blow apart every piece of the earth because it would have enough energy to completely overcome the gravitational force holding everything to everything else here on earth.
(Now granted, those were the two extremes and there might just be a perfect balance in between, but I'm sure as hell not going to look for it! At the very least because getting funding for the experiments is seriously difficult for some reason...)
I started that book, because I was super interested in the concept, and I couldn’t continue after a few chapters. The way he writes women seemed very poor to me.
"Well I'm getting out of this uncomfortable suit!"
I think this is one situation where I'd be genuinely speechless.
"somebody is fucking with me"
The Earth is way too close, and I don't think a meteor strike on the earth, no matter how energetic, would look like a bullet going through an apple.
You assume this is a meteor strike and not some type of planet killing weapon
Or a moon late for work.
That's no moon.
It's a slow death for me, but a fast death for mankind.
Now I'm not some fancy science-man, but I do reckon that an impact of that magnitude would propel massive chunks of Earth debris in every direction at incredible speeds. Odds seem fairly well even that you'd get your own little impact death pretty well soon after.
eh...given the distance and the weird orbits it's gonna take for the debris to actually hit...a few days probably?
couple of days for the bombardment to hit the surface, and then it's a game of statistics how long it takes for a direct hit or secondary ejecta to hit your landing site/base.
probably a better idea to take all the fun pills all at once than to wait for that...
actually, you can probably simulate this rather well in universe sandbox! ;)
Yeah no that thing impacted with a lot of speed. Like >1% of the speed of light to go through the entire earth like this. Consequently, the debris is moving very fast as well.
shit, I didn't bring enough food
And beer.
Oh no... My stuff!
The economy!
Try to contact the ship that escaped. The one that was being built in silence under false pretenses by people who knew the planet was screwed, but convinced themselves it was better not to cause riots by informing everyone.
Small chance, but the billionaire investors might want to pick me up as a novelty story, or to make themselves feel like heroes
"This is the SCP foundation, to all survivors give us five minutes."
Radio static for four and a half minutes
"Okay we are about to do a temporal shift to six minutes ago in a localized portion of space time, 05 council and the Foundation wish you luck."
Well… shit.
Lets go!
Hey!
Your cryin'
How sweet the sound
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