Trump solves global warming with nuclear weapons. Get his Nobel prize ready.
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BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Combination sea level rice abd lots of much smaller nuclear explosions.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So they’re really trying to fix global warming!
grue@lemmy.world 2 months 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.