This nifty asteroid simulator works right in your browser. Go ahead, drop a space rock on your favorite city and see what happens.
How are you today? Pretty relaxed? Mostly comfortable? Not thinking about the fact that there are a few million asteroids whizzing around our solar system that would, were they to collide with planet Earth, cause a global catastrophe and potentially wipe out nearly all life, and a fewmore nearby space rocks that would at the very least cause massive localized destruction and death?, why not completely horrify yourself by finding out just how destructive and deadly one would be if it landed in...
For instance, I dropped an 2,500 foot diameter asteroid composed of carbon on the small city I live closest to, which created a 5.7 mile-wide crater and vaporized 84,951 people. The site tells me an impact of this size happens to earth roughly every 200,000 years . My home is well outside the impact zone, but then I scroll down to the first side-effect of a giant hunk of carbon hitting the planet at 38,000 miles per hour: the immense fireball, which would flash-fry another 1.3 million people.
For those not immediately turned to ash, another half-million people would suffer third degree burns and a million more would receive second degree burns. The shockwave, meanwhile, would kill nearly a million more, buildings within 70 miles would be flattened, plus anyone within 40 miles would have their lungs damaged and their eardrums ruptured.
This is just from a single 2,500 foot asteroid, but you can use Asteroid Launcher to make your own asteroid much bigger , have it be composed of stone, gold, or iron, and drop it anywhere on the map you want. You can even change the speed and angle of impact. Have… fun?is the work of coder Neal Agarwal.
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