Armageddon? Fail Safe in the 17 year works - HIT or MISS

[shazstar]

lol....and I am willing to bet that the chances of that are very small.

 

[Svarog]

Not if we get our offworld allies the Guld to drag an asteroid using their ships...

 

[PTeppic]

Originally posted by Svarog
That's what happened to the dinosaurs

I saw new(?) research about a month ago that suggested the dinosaurs were already almost extinct due to climate change, BEFORE the comet/asteroid impacted - and that simply finished a well under way process.

Perhaps if it hit just north of Antartica so it doesn't melt the ice caps but is far-away enough from any populated land masses.

The tidal wave would be 100% as bad as it can get. I reckon you could say goodbye to southern South America, southern Africa etc. probably even Australasia...

But, the thought you inspired: what about hitting full-on Antartica itself... several miles of ice to melt through before hitting solid land: that would have to take a lot of the impact out of the bang, and reduce the dust "winter"???

 

[Svarog]

whats the fun of an asteroid hitting a planet if you can't see a big bang? j/k

But that's a good point, but no different than going through several kilometers of sea then hitting land, either way we're dead. Plus we get a lot more beaches

 

[shazstar]

Hmmm - 2 birds with one stone perhaps (forgive the pun)
maybe it would kill the Australian drought!
Bring on the asteroids!