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This is probably a little off topic, but it can all melt in a few hours with one decent sized asteroid. This happened before in Greenland. [1] Geologists have
by LinuxBender 6y ago
This is probably a little off topic, but it can all melt in a few hours with one decent sized asteroid. This happened before in Greenland. [1] Geologists have confirmed the impact that melted all the ice due to the existence of billions of microscopic diamonds in the crater. My question is, are we monitoring enough of space to know if a big rock is coming and what will people do?
[1] - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-crater-under-greenland-s-ice-points-climate-altering-impact-time-humans https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-crater-under...
- selftest 6y agoIf an asteroid of sufficient size were to strike Greenland, I think sea levels rising would be pretty far down the “this is definitely going to kill us all” list.
- LinuxBender 6y agoAbsolutely. I believe it was estimated that asteroid was equivalent to something like 3000+ nuclear bombs all detonating at the same time.