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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Every single nuke in the world pointed at the same spot could not achieve anything even close to this.

This would require an asteroid/comet impact .. an order of magnitude, or two, or three, more destructive than the chicxulub impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The entire chicxulub impact crater is about the size of 'Mound Island'.

An impact this huge would probably shatter the crust of much of, if not the entire planet, and turn the entire atmosphere into fire.

[-] sus@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

this would actually be achieved by a team of 20 thousand oompa loompas with small shovels and 500 million tons of cocaine

[-] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I like how you think

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

One can hope

I don't think there's anything that could make a crater like that on Earth. Like, an impact big enough to leave a crater that big would render the entire crust splashy enough to fill it back in.

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[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hell's Gate, Heaven's Gate - Darker than Black

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Every single nuke in the world pointed at the same spot could not achieve anything even close to this.

No, but they could create a thin glass crust over the whole area that would accomplish much the same effect.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago
[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting that South Sudan decided to forfeit its independence.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

The haters will say an old map was used to edit this but realistically a lot can happen in 10 years.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

If we want to be realistic, then if there was a nuclear explosion that big on planet Earth all the nations around it would be nuclear wastelands from the shockwave and fallout and the rest of the planet would probably be covered in ice from the nuclear winter.

Most nation states on that side of the planet would be gone and the ones on the other side of the planet would at the very least be collapsing from the fall in agricultural production and subsequent wars of desperation.

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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

And they got crimea back!

[-] anas@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I love how the answer to the Middle East problem is a nuke, and not just, I don’t know, leaving us alone for a change.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, sorry, letting arabs live is antisemitic. And that's a bad thing to be. I don't make the rules; i just uncritically accept anc enforce them upon those who cannot defend themselves and nobody else.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody tell Israel that Arabs are semites too.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

What an antisemitic thing to say!

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I might be overly pedantic, but it drives me insane that there are many words, where you can't take the meaning from its parts, because it would mean something completely different, but I guess that's just how our languages work.

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago

The actual "Gulf of America"

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Whatever made that crater was an ELE. Bigger than Chicxulub.

We have plenty of great filters to navigate:

We end war, or we die.

We restore the atmosphere and rebuild global ecology, or we die.

We end stratified society and power disparity, or we die.

Where are all the aliens? Fermi asked. The first question is, how do we navigate our way to becoming a space-faring, world colonizing species, ourselves? It's turning out to be pretty difficult for the common hominid.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not to mention skynet. It always bothers me when people leave AI out of lists of x-risks. I guess it's because a popular sci-fi movie predicted it would happen, so nobody takes it seriously. Or perhaps it's just because AI is so unpopular now, nobody wants to devote any time to thinking about the ramifications of it becoming smarter.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

Courtesy of XKCD, long before we have to contend with unfriendly AI (we have committees of AI-techs working on this problem already) we'll have to contend with someone like Musk or Bezos determined to own everything and capable of creating an AI-controlled army of killer robots.

We're not sure how rogue AI is going to manifest. We are sure rogue power-seeking humans exist all the time, and positions of power are commonly filled by them. (That's the primary argument for election by sortition, or by lottery.)

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, so to be clear, you're saying that AI x-risk is already partially or even mostly bundled under "We end stratified society and power disparity, or we die."?

[-] foggianism@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Aaaaah destroying entire nations - every zionists wet dream

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[-] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Kazakhstan, after finally securing access to the oceans: Just according to keikaku.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Imagine how much potassium they could export with direct access to the GZ Ocean?

Edit: And Russia would have warm water ports! Ukraine War averted!

[-] juliebean@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

the idea that national borders would still exist, let alone be so unchanged, after such a world changing impact, is laughable.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, technically nobody can fight over their bullshit if neither they nor their bullshit exist.

[-] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Whoever drew this went to great lengths to keep Israel on the map

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Without it the value of the Suez Canal plummets. Please, think of the shareholders.

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[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone else glad that the USA has been kicked off the planet?

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck we missed Israel again, launch another one.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (~200km diameter 72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion, I measured the crater diameter to about 3500km!

It would take decades or centuries before the sky would clear after such an explosion, most likely resulting in a mass extinction event.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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" (Permian-Triassic extinction event) to take the crown.

Edit: The Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica, which may be associated with the Great Dying, was "only" a little over 2.5 times larger in diameter than Chicxulub and thus still way smaller than the crater depicted. That said, I guess a nuclear crater wouldn't be associated with a flood basalt "exit wound" at the antipode the way an impact crater might be, so maybe it wouldn't be comparable.

[-] Infinite@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Missilepotamia

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Israel would still find a way to fight over more land

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

ts looks like the kerbin map from KSP 🥀

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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wouldn't a nuke that big crack the crust?

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

That would be a surprisingly realistic bump in the middle where molten granite spiked upwards, but I don't think nukes have quite that much power. Don't get me wrong, they could end life on earth, but they won't have the same or more localized impact than the meteor did.

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