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> You can expect one of the really big (Chicxulub-size) impact every 100 million years or so Still, the Chicxulub asteroid is estimated to have caused a global
by someplaceguy 3y ago
> You can expect one of the really big (Chicxulub-size) impact every 100 million years or so
Still, the Chicxulub asteroid is estimated to have caused a global cooling of the surface by around a decade, not 1,400,000 years.
- jacquesm 3y agoSure, ask the dinosaurs how that went. The point is: that was only a decade and only a relatively small asteroid and the effect was that the dominant species of the time was wiped out. Size is inversely correlated with frequency, so those smaller ones happen far more frequent. Anything larger than that and it is definitely game over.