Wendell said:
There were other shelters as well. The government put out information on how to use the limited sunlight in the aftermath of the big hit to grow crops, how to survive the lower temps, etc.
Deep Impact 1998
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There were other shelters as well. The government put out information on how to use the limited sunlight in the aftermath of the big hit to grow crops, how to survive the lower temps, etc.
That's So Wrong...
The scary thing is that I would pay good money to see that happen!! As for other leaders, what would happen to other leaders (e.g. Canada, Mexico, UK, France, et al.)? Also consider that with the near-nuclear winter, wouldn't food riots and/or civil war break out in the countries that are dependent for foreign imports of surplus food (e.g. the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, et al.)?
Wendell said:
The scary thing is that I would pay good money to see that happen!! As for other leaders, what would happen to other leaders (e.g. Canada, Mexico, UK, France, et al.)? Also consider that with the near-nuclear winter, wouldn't food riots and/or civil war break out in the countries that are dependent for foreign imports of surplus food (e.g. the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, et al.)?
Umbral said:
The comet was a dinosaur-killer.
It was bombarded with nuclear ICBMs, but that didn't work. A space mission blew a piece off it, which landed in the Atlantic and caused a tidal wave that wipes out much of the East Coast.
The larger piece would have hit the Earth and caused a comet winter, but the space crew deliberately caused the atomic core in their spaceship to go critical, destroying it.
MerryPrankster said:
False. The messiah got the arming codes for the remaining nuke(that together with the fusionreactor would create a big explosion) and had a close talk with everones relatives, except fish whos sons were in the airforce and couldnt get there in time. And just as they were to do their kamikazeeattack on the big piece the woman who had a baby while her man were up in space and got blinded ran in and showed the baby to him. The last thing ever heard from the messiah was "I am hugging you both" then the copilot said "Nice to be working with you" to fish who answered "The pleasure was all mine andy" and then "Mary i am coming home" and then they nuked the big comet just as Frodo and his girl were runing up the mountain holding her babysister/brother escaping the wave
Hmm, have i seen the movie to much? nahh
Here Is Something....
-Something that would most certainly happen in the aftermath of such a disaster, especially since Hollywood, CA was relatively unharmed, would be the formation of a major telethon/concert benefit with every major super model/actor/actress calling for the support for the United Nations relief programs!
-Also consider the price of petroleum/gasoline to go down dramatically as leaders try to encourage the artificial promotion of the "greenhouse effect". Watch as industrial leaders call their acts of pollution an effort to save the environment by spreading massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the air...
-Something that would most certainly happen in the aftermath of such a disaster, especially since Hollywood, CA was relatively unharmed, would be the formation of a major telethon/concert benefit with every major super model/actor/actress calling for the support for the United Nations relief programs!
-Also consider the price of petroleum/gasoline to go down dramatically as leaders try to encourage the artificial promotion of the "greenhouse effect". Watch as industrial leaders call their acts of pollution an effort to save the environment by spreading massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the air...
So...assuming a dinosaur-killer sized impact in the atlantic, no secondary strikes, no angled impact.
The world rings like a bell.
As the shockwaves travel around the world, every volcano in the ring of fire lets rip. Built-up geological stresses are released. The christmas day tsunami lets go a few years early. California gets the big one.
A number of stress zones and volcanic pressures we don't know about today goes off.
The canary islands and north sea submarine avalanche zones go, causing more tsunamis.
Quite possibly, the yellowstone supervolcano bursts.
In the meantime, the comet fragment may have punctured throught to the magma at the impact center. The sea rolls back in to cover it. Fire and water clashes, and gigatons of steam are released into the atmosphere in a second wave. Salt steam.
Over the next few days the steam and smoke shrouds the earth.
Then the rains start to salt the earth. Like the romans salted Carthage, the acid and salt in the rain will poison the ground where it falls.
Earths albedo changes. Sunlight is reflected off, and the temperature falls. As the steam precipitates out of the atmosphere, the next ice age gets a flying start.
At this point, the ocean currents falls into a chaotic state.
The unusually stable climate we have enjoyed for the last ten thousand years is over.
The world rings like a bell.
As the shockwaves travel around the world, every volcano in the ring of fire lets rip. Built-up geological stresses are released. The christmas day tsunami lets go a few years early. California gets the big one.
A number of stress zones and volcanic pressures we don't know about today goes off.
The canary islands and north sea submarine avalanche zones go, causing more tsunamis.
Quite possibly, the yellowstone supervolcano bursts.
In the meantime, the comet fragment may have punctured throught to the magma at the impact center. The sea rolls back in to cover it. Fire and water clashes, and gigatons of steam are released into the atmosphere in a second wave. Salt steam.
Over the next few days the steam and smoke shrouds the earth.
Then the rains start to salt the earth. Like the romans salted Carthage, the acid and salt in the rain will poison the ground where it falls.
Earths albedo changes. Sunlight is reflected off, and the temperature falls. As the steam precipitates out of the atmosphere, the next ice age gets a flying start.
At this point, the ocean currents falls into a chaotic state.
The unusually stable climate we have enjoyed for the last ten thousand years is over.
well, if we're going by the movie, then it wasn't a 'dinosaur killer' that hit the Earth... the original asteroid was, but it got blowed up, and it was just a large chunk of it that hit in the Atlantic... big enough to cause some big frickin' waves that washed over coasts all over the north Atlantic, not big enough to end life as we know it....
The Sandman
Banned
I'd have to side with Umbral, at least in that the effects would be a lot nastier than what we saw in the movie. My reasoning is as follows:
The Indian Ocean tsunami last year was caused by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake, the third most powerful quake on record. That wave, at its highest, was about 80 to 100 feet, and that in Aceh, less than 200 miles away from the quake's epicenter.
While we don't have exact figures for the impactor in the movie, we know that it hit somewhere off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Let's call it 500 miles from New York, for a nice round figure. The wave hitting New York was overtopping the skyscrapers, putting it at about 1000-1200 feet high at least. In other words, over ten times the height of the Indian Ocean wave at 2.5 times the distance.
Considering that the shockwaves from the Indian Ocean quake, a much smaller seismic event, were enough to cause a detectable (albeit temporary) shift in the Earth's rotation while vertically shifting the entire surface of the Earth at least 1cm, the comet fragment from Deep Impact would presumably cause similar effects on a far greater scale.
If anyone actually has the background in physics come up with some figures, though, that would definitely help; I personally don't know enough physics to do more than speculate.
The Indian Ocean tsunami last year was caused by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake, the third most powerful quake on record. That wave, at its highest, was about 80 to 100 feet, and that in Aceh, less than 200 miles away from the quake's epicenter.
While we don't have exact figures for the impactor in the movie, we know that it hit somewhere off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Let's call it 500 miles from New York, for a nice round figure. The wave hitting New York was overtopping the skyscrapers, putting it at about 1000-1200 feet high at least. In other words, over ten times the height of the Indian Ocean wave at 2.5 times the distance.
Considering that the shockwaves from the Indian Ocean quake, a much smaller seismic event, were enough to cause a detectable (albeit temporary) shift in the Earth's rotation while vertically shifting the entire surface of the Earth at least 1cm, the comet fragment from Deep Impact would presumably cause similar effects on a far greater scale.
If anyone actually has the background in physics come up with some figures, though, that would definitely help; I personally don't know enough physics to do more than speculate.