• @[email protected]
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      Which is illogical if it is supposed to be an epicentre of explosions. However, if it was Israel nuking everyone around… I mean, one ongoing genocide may not be enough for them.

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          Deeply. They were only defending themselves by murdering these toddlers… I mean, potential terrorists.

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            pptential

            You fucking bigot! Those terrorists were slandering the entire protocols of the elders of zion larp group by making it look like their terrorist defensive wing was murdering toddlers!

            How is that not terrorism!?

            They had to die for that!

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    I love how the answer to the Middle East problem is a nuke, and not just, I don’t know, leaving us alone for a change.

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      No, sorry, letting arabs live is antisemitic. And that’s a bad thing to be. I don’t make the rules; i just uncritically accept anc enforce them upon those who cannot defend themselves and nobody else.

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          I might be overly pedantic, but it drives me insane that there are many words, where you can’t take the meaning from its parts, because it would mean something completely different, but I guess that’s just how our languages work.

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      Nowhere does it say who nuked them. Maybe it was themselves.

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          Again, nowhere in the image is it saying they were helped to nuke themselves.

            • atro_city
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              And the image isn’t in our reality 🤷‍♂ You really think someone is going to nuke the middle east and humanity is going to survive a blast bigger than one that killed the dinosaurs?

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                No, I think there is a perpetual war going on there, and US is getting involved in it with depressing frequency with depressingly negative results, and although I don’t believe it will be inevitability, randomly bombing random countries surely is a good recipe for a bad outcome.

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        The haters will say an old map was used to edit this but realistically a lot can happen in 10 years.

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          If we want to be realistic, then if there was a nuclear explosion that big on planet Earth all the nations around it would be nuclear wastelands from the shockwave and fallout and the rest of the planet would probably be covered in ice from the nuclear winter.

          Most nation states on that side of the planet would be gone and the ones on the other side of the planet would at the very least be collapsing from the fall in agricultural production and subsequent wars of desperation.

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        Well they didn’t get any Western students protesting the genocide there, so it doesn’t surprise me.

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    It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (~200km diameter 72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion, I measured the crater diameter to about 3500km!

    It would take decades or centuries before the sky would clear after such an explosion, most likely resulting in a mass extinction event.

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        That’s actually a brilliant idea. Once you eradicate most of the humanity, the rest will sort itself out.

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      Considering that we’re in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I’d say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I’m guessing it would exceed the “Great Dying” (Permian-Triassic extinction event) to take the crown.

      Edit: The Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica, which may be associated with the Great Dying, was “only” a little over 2.5 times larger in diameter than Chicxulub and thus still way smaller than the crater depicted. That said, I guess a nuclear crater wouldn’t be associated with a flood basalt “exit wound” at the antipode the way an impact crater might be, so maybe it wouldn’t be comparable.

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      it would also shatter tectonic plates, create rifts and reverse the directions some plates were moving, the asteroid impact you mention resulted in the Indian subcontinent (I’m simplifying a lot of things right now)

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        Well, now you’ve piqued my curiosity. Got a link?

        The Wikipedia article I’m reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that’s not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn’t actually as settled as I’m making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn’t change the “result” of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.

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    Every single nuke in the world pointed at the same spot could not achieve anything even close to this.

    This would require an asteroid/comet impact … an order of magnitude, or two, or three, more destructive than the chicxulub impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

    The entire chicxulub impact crater is about the size of ‘Mound Island’.

    An impact this huge would probably shatter the crust of much of, if not the entire planet, and turn the entire atmosphere into fire.

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      this would actually be achieved by a team of 20 thousand oompa loompas with small shovels and 500 million tons of cocaine

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      I don’t think there’s anything that could make a crater like that on Earth. Like, an impact big enough to leave a crater that big would render the entire crust splashy enough to fill it back in.

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        Yeah… from what I remember of dicking around in universe sandbox and space engine a while back… yeah, an impact this massive would … well, now it makes more sense to model earth as a multilayered, viscous liquid, basically.

        You could end up with a ring system or possibly some minor moons, made out of ejecta.

        After basically the entire Earth has turned into ‘the floor is lava’ for… decades? centuries?

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      That circle is roughly about 2000 miles across (according to rough measurements in Google maps), which is only about 2x the size of the Gulf of Mexico.

      But yeah, this would be a cataclysmic event.

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      Every single nuke in the world pointed at the same spot could not achieve anything even close to this.

      No, but they could create a thin glass crust over the whole area that would accomplish much the same effect.