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Well, hopefully by the time a giant meteor is ready to wipe out earth we'll have militarized space, then we can just vaporize it with a giant super lazer!
surely it depends on several factors... the speed of the asteroid and the density of it composition. As for "if one will hit earth" its more of "when it will happen".
A meteor the size of texas could easily knock the earth out of its orbit and into the sun. So yeah, it could destroy the earth.
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Lol yes of course it would.
I can't believe anyone thinks we'd survive if a meteor the size of Texas hit the earth. The only thing that would survive such an impact would be waterbears and some bacteria.
As for the bunker argument... no, you still wouldn't survive. You might survive (and I'm saying might for argument's sake) the impact, but then what? The biosphere won't bounce back in time enough for us to successfully re-establish a foothold. You guys have to realize exactly HOW MUCH we depend on the animals, plants, etc. IIRC a meteor that size would essentially destroy our atmosphere. That means no oxygen and definitely nothing to shield us from the shit the sun constantly chucks us.
Taking the size of Texas roughly 770 miles by 790 miles ... add a depth of 780 miles so that we have a three-dimensional meteor....
Lets see, the space shuttle flies at an altitude of about 210 miles (unless going to the ISS)
The ISS at an altitude of about 264 miles
So a meteor about 780 miles across is ... gonna end everyone's day.
Was anybody else expecting Deathwing to pop out all pissy with his chin from the magma in that video?
OT: Even if humans miraculously survived the impact, it would surely knock the earth into a different orbit, changing the climate immensely. Humans are very adaptable, but only to a certain degree. When placed in an oven with temps well over thousands of degrees a body would burn regardless.
No it wouldn´t. A meteor of that size would vaporize the oceans waters and kill every living organism on the planet, there won´t be anything left to restart the cycle of life..
Hell the last time a super volvano erupted (Under Tonga roughly 76.000 years ago) an estimated 50.000 people were all that was left on the planet.
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to give you some perspective of how long things have been going on before humans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event
yea its been said already, it doesn't matter how far down you dig, if something that size hit earth you'd best be living on mars if you hope to live through it. i doubt that even that video posted earlier, though epic in its own right, is probably still in-accurate. the meteor that size would easily punch through the earth's crust and enter the inner layers of the planet's core. I'm sure it would melt there but the ripples in the magma would send cracks across the surface. so just setting everything on fire the way that video showed is still being nice about it.
so Who votes we jump start the space program now?
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If it was the size of texas, then you are talking about essentially a dwarf-planet sized body hitting the earth. Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, is considered a dwarf-planet, and it has a diameter of just under 1000km, which is actually smaller than texas. That means that if it collided with the earth at its current orbital speed (17.882 km/s (17882m/s)), then it would release about 1.5x10^29 J. To put this in perspective, you would need to drop 3603480716205 Hydrogen bombs at the same location in order to release the same amount of energy.
So yeah, smashing a dwarf-planet into Earth would cause a cataclysm that this planet hasn't seen for about 3.5 billion years, and yeah, chances are it would completely wipe life off the planet. Destroy it? No, you need to have a collision with a body that is many times larger before you start getting impacts that would cause planetary fractures.
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It's happened before, see craters found all over the world, they may not be the size of Texas, but it'll still have the same effect afterwards. After the fire dies down and the world can "breathe" again. Life will be reborn. Life is a beautiful death, with death, brings new life. That is how life began for Earth.
Start at 2:50 and go on wards. (Epic video btw).