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Is it just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon ("a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often")
by lucb1e 4y ago
Is it just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon ("a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often") or do asteroid impact related things always go for Manhattan? I open this map and, bam, there's a map zoomed right onto Manhattan and a "select impact location" prompt.
- jimbokun 4y agoOr sometimes Tokyo.
- lucb1e 4y agoThey've already got earthquakes and tsunamis, can Manhattan not have the asteroids? (Says the European, dodging all natural disasters)
- midasuni 4y agoI do remember Paris being destroyed in one film - armageddon perhaps. O’Neill comments on it in an SG1 episode.
- midoridensha 4y agoWhy is that cities in the northern hemisphere are always the ones destroyed in fiction? There's cities in the southern hemisphere too: destroy some of them! Actually, I want to call out "The Expanse" for this (warning: spoilers): in the episode where one of Mars' interplanetary nuclear missiles gets through Earth's defenses, it strikes South America. But this is the only time I can think of this happening in disaster fiction; usually the entire existence of the southern hemisphere is ignored.
- dwringer 4y agoI think the name itself is a bit of a meme for blast radius calculations and the like.
- rossdavidh 4y agoWell, they go for Manhattan first, but then the second one is usually Berlin.
- defrost 4y agoTypically true for those from a Leonard Shower.