If civilization was to end, I want it to be just like this.

[SSSnail]

http://www.wimp.com/lifescare/

 

[Crono]

Video is incredible, but I would use this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZZsMYNs4M

That simulation was eerily beautiful to me, not scary.

 

[Jeff7]

The aftermath of gay marriage, graphically portrayed.



Oh well, format and reinstall.
There'll still be lots of bacteria somewhere in the ocean.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Crono
Video is incredible, but I would use this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZZsMYNs4M

That simulation was eerily beautiful to me, not scary.

because you're watching it from space, it's not actually happening to you.

does that simulation have any basis in fact? i don't know anything about that but i find it hard to believe it would engulf the entire earth like that.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Crono
Video is incredible, but I would use this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZZsMYNs4M

That simulation was eerily beautiful to me, not scary.

because you're watching it from space, it's not actually happening to you.

does that simulation have any basis in fact? i don't know anything about that but i find it hard to believe it would engulf the entire earth like that.

What, the debris impacts or the fire? I'm assuming the debris is brought back down by gravity after entering a fast, decaying orbit, and the fire is from massive ignition of the atmosphere.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: Crono
Video is incredible, but I would use this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZZsMYNs4M

That simulation was eerily beautiful to me, not scary.

Komm, süßer Tod. Love that song.

 

[MotF Bane]

Six times? That blast zone showed in the final panout was bigger than any crater I've heard of before.

 

[Tweak155]

This is the song I'd use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...m-IAGY&feature=related

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Crono
Video is incredible, but I would use this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZZsMYNs4M

That simulation was eerily beautiful to me, not scary.

because you're watching it from space, it's not actually happening to you.

does that simulation have any basis in fact? i don't know anything about that but i find it hard to believe it would engulf the entire earth like that.

Even an asteroid with a diameter of only like 10km would be enough to decimate life on this planet. 500km is an enormous asteroid (unrealistically large, do asteroids that big even exist?), so I'm sure the aftermath would be pretty bad.

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Crono
Video is incredible, but I would use this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZZsMYNs4M

That simulation was eerily beautiful to me, not scary.

because you're watching it from space, it's not actually happening to you.

does that simulation have any basis in fact? i don't know anything about that but i find it hard to believe it would engulf the entire earth like that.

Even an asteroid with a diameter of only like 10km would be enough to decimate life on this planet. 500km is an enormous asteroid (unrealistically large, do asteroids that big even exist?), so I'm sure the aftermath would be pretty bad.

Pluto exists. An asteroid that large is just rare.

 

[Clair de Lune]

Amazingly made, except I personally don't agree with few things that I think are inaccurate or stupid:

'Debris is blasted into low Earth orbit and returns to destroy the surface of Earth'- I think we're fucked beyond comprehension even if these stupid debris were completely absent.

&

The video portrays cities burning- with trees and buildings on fire. Come on, if a 500km asteroid hits the earth, the shockwave would utterly vaporize everything in its path. There wouldn't even be a mere second for the 'tree and the buildings' to be burning on fire.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Even an asteroid with a diameter of only like 10km would be enough to decimate life on this planet. 500km is an enormous asteroid (unrealistically large, do asteroids that big even exist?), so I'm sure the aftermath would be pretty bad.

I think Ceres is larger than that.

Googling.....
Yup, 950km wide.


One theory of the formation of the Moon is that something the size of Mars collided with Earth a few billion years ago.
There was some pretty nasty stuff flying around. Jupiter helped clean up a lot of the junk, but there's still some big chunks out there. And then there are comets far out that can visit every few hundred or hundred thousand years. Some of it can be extremely dark, such as half of the surface of Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons. Its dark portions are said to be as black as a fresh road surface, absorbing somewhere around 95% of the light that hits it.

Put something with that albedo out past Neptune, and you wouldn't have much chance of spotting it from Earth.

Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
The video portrays cities burning- with trees and buildings on fire. Come on, if a 500km asteroid hits the earth, the shockwave would utterly vaporize everything in its path. There wouldn't even be a mere second for the 'tree and the buildings' to be burning on fire.

If the wave front has sufficient temperature, stuff ahead of the wave could catch fire by radiation heat transfer.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
Amazingly made, except I personally don't agree with few things that I think are inaccurate or stupid:

'Debris is blasted into low Earth orbit and returns to destroy the surface of Earth'- I think we're fucked beyond comprehension even if these stupid debris were completely absent.

&

The video portrays cities burning- with trees and buildings on fire. Come on, if a 500km asteroid hits the earth, the shockwave would utterly vaporize everything in its path. There wouldn't even be a mere second for the 'tree and the buildings' to be burning on fire.

Not only that but I think all the water on earth will vaporize pretty quickly. I think the mentioning of 6 times is that similar circumstances have ended life on earth, but perhaps not the magnitude portrayed.

I'm pretty sure if an asteroid that big that's on a collision course with Earth, we have nukes large enough to nudge it out of its path, with the help of Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, of course.

 

[frostedflakes]

Yeah you guys are right, asteroids that large (or larger!) do exist. Crazy stuff.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Crono
Video is incredible, but I would use this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZZsMYNs4M

That simulation was eerily beautiful to me, not scary.

because you're watching it from space, it's not actually happening to you.

does that simulation have any basis in fact? i don't know anything about that but i find it hard to believe it would engulf the entire earth like that.

Even an asteroid with a diameter of only like 10km would be enough to decimate life on this planet. 500km is an enormous asteroid (unrealistically large, do asteroids that big even exist?), so I'm sure the aftermath would be pretty bad.

As I recall that's a simulation of an Orpheus-sized body hitting the earth. Collisions like that occurred a lot shortly after the sun's birth when possibly 100 or more planets jostled for space in the inner portion of the solar system, and our moon is likely the result of one of the collisions. Yes, it would be that bad. But portions of the earth would be untouched by the chaos 2 miles beneath the surface (according to the physics sim) and bacteria are known to live that deep, so it's doubtful even that would annihilate all life. Just set it back 4.5 billion years :laugh:

My song of choice would be NIN - Burn.