CGI Simulation of an extinction class asteroid hitting the earth - god's reset button

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LcarsSystem

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Ok first off awesome video, however I didn't like the sound mixing and the music used, I thought they could have gone for a more dramatic approach by using "Adiago for Strings" by Samuel Barber, that would have been perfect here.

Second, who gives a damn whether it hit the U.S. first or not, if something like that hit Earth everything would be dead, no one would be safe, besides its not like the United States is protected by God and would let the entire rest of the world go to hell in a hand basket, you people making a deal out of this need to lay off.

Third and foremost, wouldn't we have some form of advanced warning, we have hundreds of observatories, and Hubble, and hundreds more sattelites couldn't we spot something like this coming and finally show the world how truly large the United States nuclear arsenal really is?

But all in all great video, although I am going to look for a .wmv version of this so I can save and re-edit it using "Adiago for Strings" should make for a better atmosphere.:thumbsup::D

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Can't seem to find a windows media format for this video, did anyone have better luck?
 
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NanoStuff

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Technically that is referred to as "overkill class". "Extinction class" is somewhere in the 1% of that.
 
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Originally posted by: LcarsSystem
Third and foremost, wouldn't we have some form of advanced warning, we have hundreds of observatories, and Hubble, and hundreds more sattelites couldn't we spot something like this coming and finally show the world how truly large the United States nuclear arsenal really is?
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All of out observatories combined only cover a tiny fraction of the sky, there's only a very small chance that we would see something like this coming.
 
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A5

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Originally posted by: SZLiao214
That video was pretty sweet. I wonder how it would feel on the other side of the earth when the meteor first hit.
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At the exact moment? Nothing...but a few seconds later when the shockwave makes it around the globe, it'd probably be a worldwide 9+ on the Richter Scale (not to mention the massive amounts of atmospheric heating this thing would cause upon entry).
 
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How long would you suppose the atmosphere would stay alight like that?
I'm guessing with all the debris in what was left of the atmosphere would obscure all the light which would result in an ice age pretty quickly.

Even if you have a nuclear bunker 1Km from the surface, I think you'd still be a gonner just as soon as your food ran out. Would be interesting to know how the aquatic life would cope. Sure there'd be very little light for weeks, but could it survive and pull through or would it be back to bacteria again?


Talking of A-bombs, apparantly before they detonated the first one, there was a very real fear that it would ignight the whole atmosphere which would start a chain reaction going and spread all around the planet. Looks like they took the gamble...
 
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Originally posted by: TheAdvocate
Originally posted by: Jassi
Thats not a meteorite, thats a god damn moon or planet.
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[Obi Wan]No, it's a battle station.[/Obi Wan]

Death Star alpha test.
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Someone was driving the deathstar drunk and crashed into the planet.
 
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dguy6789

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That is a large metorite, but definately no moon. If a moon sized object hit the Earth, it would probably break the Earth into pieces. I would like to see a "real time" video though. Also, about the moon forming; I think that it is probable that something hitting the Earth caused the moon to form. However, once again, I would think that something the size of Mars would completely shatter the Earth into many pieces. Could it be possible that the meteorite that supposedly hit the Earth killing off the Dinosaurs was the same one that made the moon, or is that too short of a time period for the moon to have formed?
 
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NanoStuff

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Originally posted by: dguy6789
Could it be possible that the meteorite that supposedly hit the Earth killing off the Dinosaurs was the same one that made the moon, or is that too short of a time period for the moon to have formed?
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Heh, you can't be serious :)

If the same rock that killed the dinosaurs created the moon, the earth would still be a steaming bowl of lava.

A moon or mars sized object would not shatter the earth into little pieces because while the impact is obviously very powerful, so is the pull of gravity. It would mix the earth inside out, but it would remain relatively intact.
 
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dguy6789

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I see. Thanks for your information. I was not sure exactly how long it would take for the Moon to form once all the random pieces of rock were in space.
 
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Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Could it be possible that the meteorite that supposedly hit the Earth killing off the Dinosaurs was the same one that made the moon, or is that too short of a time period for the moon to have formed?
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Heh, you can't be serious :)

If the same rock that killed the dinosaurs created the moon, the earth would still be a steaming bowl of lava.

A moon or mars sized object would not shatter the earth into little pieces because while the impact is obviously very powerful, so is the pull of gravity. It would mix the earth inside out, but it would remain relatively intact.
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With the side benefit of having the extra land area causing property prices to fall. :)
 
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MrWizzard

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Of course it hit's right on JAPAN........ and all this time I thought anime was fiction.
 
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Am I the only person who noticed the half-naked person in one frame at about 1:38?
(I probably only noticed because it's taken 40 minutes to load that far... friggin dial-up...)
 
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Originally posted by: A5
Originally posted by: SZLiao214
That video was pretty sweet. I wonder how it would feel on the other side of the earth when the meteor first hit.
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At the exact moment? Nothing...but a few seconds later when the shockwave makes it around the globe, it'd probably be a worldwide 9+ on the Richter Scale (not to mention the massive amounts of atmospheric heating this thing would cause upon entry).
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The massive amounts of atmospheric heating caused by the entry into the atmosphere of this object are completely negligible when compared to the amount of thermal energy released from the collision itself (KE=1/2 mv^2)
 
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