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Originally posted by coven
What could we do to survive a planetary impact? lets use the standard scenario of Nibiru as a planet about (I believe the assumption is much MUCH larger than Earth) 4 times the size of earth.
Originally posted by coven
This is a
theoretical
situation X based off of a single 2012 CT possibility.
Classification
# Class 4 - Global impact, 1mil+ deaths, indefinite timeframe.
# Class 5 - End-Life-Event, Deaths measured in % of all life. Permanent.
What could we do to survive a planetary impact? lets use the standard scenario of Nibiru as a planet about (I believe the assumption is much MUCH larger than Earth) 4 times the size of earth.
Originally posted by Esoterica
Anything that is measured in a fraction of the planet, and you're screwed.
1/8 is 12.5% the siz2 of Earth. To compare, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (along with 70% of all species on Earth), at it's biggest, was 10 km across, or only 0.078% the size of the Earth. You will not survive an event like that.
[edit on 11-4-2007 by Esoterica]
Originally posted by coven
this makes me a bit leery to trust ATS survivalists....
Uhhhh.... we do know that Pre-Cambrian Sea Creatures still exist, Right? Also the Mammals weren't wiped out... they hid underground...
p.s. 1/8th of the planet means half of a hemisphere... while hard to fathom imagine that China was just turned into a GIANT crater...
Energy Released: 113059 billion MT (MegaTons of TNT)
(Impact that formed the Earth's Moon: 20 million billion MT)
QUAKE!! Magnitude 15.0 (largest recorded Earthquake: 9.5)
Crater Diameter: 6330.0 km
Crater Depth: 4.1 km
Collisions this energetic occurred only early in the Solar System's history.
Oh dear! It looks like all Earth's oceans are boiling! Earth will have a steam atmosphere for thousands of years!