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The Chicxulub impactor (an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), had impact energy roughly equivalent to 100 million TSAR Bombas (50MT nuke) and the largest nucl
by dumbfoundded 7y ago
The Chicxulub impactor (an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), had impact energy roughly equivalent to 100 million TSAR Bombas (50MT nuke) and the largest nuclear weapon ever denotated.
The currently nuclear stockpile is about 1000x short, with some very friendly assumptions about our capabilities.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
- guerrilla 7y agoNuclear bombs aren't simply bombs releasing their energy, they would also fill the atmosphere with radioactive material. It would contaminate the entire planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout
- dumbfoundded 7y agoThe radioactivity still wouldn't kill all multicellular life (or even complex life). Some predict that an all-out nuclear war wouldn't even make humans go extinct. A few sources: - https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/medical/20-life-forms-that-would-survive-a-nuclear-war/ss-AAlrclJ https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/medical/20-life-forms-that-... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust - https://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p912.htm https://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p912.htm