(My actual question) Hypothetically speaking, if the comet/asteroid Elenin were to strike earth would the impact be sufficient enough to force earths rotation in the opposite direction, potentially causing extensive irreversible damage and possibly threatening the Human species?
Posted in 2012
Tagged Asteroid, comet, damage, direction, Earth, ELENIN, Human, human species, Hypothetically, irreversible damage, question, rotation
If we discovered an asteroid was going to impact earth BUT it would only likely cause regional damage (ie not a global killer) who gets to decide to take action against it?
Ramifications: Get it wrong and it strikes somewhere else on earth – becomes someone elses problem!
I was going to make three character builds (Good, Neutral, Evil) and I thought to myself, “Why not an assassin for the evil character?” This was gonna be the profile I had the most immediate fun with, not worrying about the long run. Now, since I could never find any good assassin weapons that don’t break down when you fire twenty shots (please don’t suggest weapons, I just want to know if my idea is fine or not), I decided to go with unarmed, figuring the sneak attack criticals from the stealth mode would balance out with the base damage loss. During the good old G.O.A.T I picked Unarmed, Sneak, and Lockpick for my tag skills, and I maxed my intelligence for the most possible skill points. If I got perks like Silent Running, Iron Fist, Ninja, basically everything for stealth and unarmed damage, as well as survival perks like Mister Sandman, Night Person and Cannibal, and finally some critical perks like Finesse, would this setup work if I got the highest possible Sneak and Unarmed skills? (For the record, I picked Lockpick for my third tag skill so that I could break into peoples’ houses at night and kill them with Mister Sandman >:) ) Some advice from more experienced players would help, too. I normally get the hang of RPG’s quite fast, but this one’s a little different…
Tagged assassin, cannibal, character, damage, fallout 3, G.O.A.T I, idea, intelligence, iron fist, lockpick, mister sandman, neutral evil, night person, ninja, skill, skill points, Sneak, sneak attack, stealth, stealth mode, survival, tag, Unarmed, weapons
Insurance against death and property damage in 2012.
Rates:
Asteroid impact: $100.
Black hole consumption: $100.
Rogue planets (such as Nibiru or Mars) slamming into Earth: $100.
Shifts in Earth’s magnetic poles: $100.
Tides resulting from a Planetary Line-Up: $100.
An attack by extraterrestrial aliens: $200.
The supernova of the sun: $100.
Any other star going supernova: $500.
The Big Rip: $100.
The End of Time: $100.
We all understand that the reason that most astroids that enter the atmosphere do not do a large amount of damage is that they burn up due to atmosperic friction. We all also understand that the reason some astroids do reach the ground is because they are larger to start with or are composed of denser material. We have also all been told that if a very large astroid is going to impact the earth it would do no good to blow it up even if we had the ability because we would still have all the fragments impacting the earth. I say this is wrong! It would do some good due to the fact that if you can break it up before it enters the atmosphere you expose more surface area to atmospheric heating thus more burns up before impacting the ground thus less hits the earth. QUESTION why am I wrong? why would it not help the situation by breaking up the astroid so that more burns up in the atmosphere and less mass reaches the earth surface?
