Trump solves global warming with nuclear weapons. Get his Nobel prize ready.
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BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
FelixCress@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That’s actually a brilliant idea. Once you eradicate most of the humanity, the rest will sort itself out.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Combination sea level rice abd lots of much smaller nuclear explosions.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
So they’re really trying to fix global warming!
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 15 hours ago
it would also shatter tectonic plates, create rifts and reverse the directions some plates were moving, the asteroid impact you mention resulted in the Indian subcontinent (I’m simplifying a lot of things right now)
grue@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Well, now you’ve piqued my curiosity. Got a link?
The Wikipedia article I’m reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that’s not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn’t actually as settled as I’m making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn’t change the “result” of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 hours ago
Here: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S1674987125000325
Everything I said previously was what I could remember, give this a read yourself, it’s not long and it is really interesting
grue@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Considering that we’re in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I’d say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I’m guessing it would exceed the “Great Dying” to take the crown.