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Jamesy
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22 Aug 2011, 1:10 pm

I live in the south off england. say one day i was sitting in my garden and an asteroid (like the one that killed the dinosaurs) all off a sudden hit earth in the atlantic ocean or mexico what would happen too the sky and what would i see happen around me after the impact? How long would it be before i die?



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22 Aug 2011, 1:49 pm

There are educational tv shows that show what happened to the earth at the moment of that impact in gulf of Mexico that killed dinosaurs. Google and find, it is fascinating to watch modern TV depict it....Discovery Channel, History Channel, etc not sure which

Having seen it, and to try to answer ur question, at your location it would take some time (speed of sound) to hear something. You may feel earthquake like feeling. You would feel immense heat n see sky go dark. If u survived it, heat n starvation may be cause of death.



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22 Aug 2011, 2:05 pm

Would the sky go dark straight away?



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22 Aug 2011, 2:18 pm

No. It would take a few minutes to a few days, depending on the location.


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22 Aug 2011, 2:21 pm

Religious leaders would get on TV and blame the gays and Jews for it.



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22 Aug 2011, 3:02 pm

Right so i could just sit back in my house and watch tv for 2 days before everything goes dark?



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22 Aug 2011, 3:07 pm

Jory wrote:
Religious leaders would get on TV and blame the gays and Jews for it.
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Why blame the jews, it's the atheists fault :tongue:

(warning, do not take that comment super-seriously, I am not trying to start a fight, just a joke).


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22 Aug 2011, 4:03 pm

if something the size of the chicxulub asteroid hit the earth while you were 4,700 miles away, you would not see it in daytime. if it happened at night, it would be like a bright red light shone up into the sky from way over the horizon.

moments afterward, you would certainly realize something very bad has happened.

here is a site which crudely (and incompletely) calculates a few variables, and i have input the simple data that i deign to correspond to the kt event asteroid.

you can input anything you like and get a reasonable appraisal of what is to be expected given the input.

http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crat ... elect=3000

the impacting object that destroyed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was the size of mount everest.


this is interesting....it is a world shattering event



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