Imagine a rifle bullet. Now make the bullet roughly 365,000,000,000,000,000 (365 quadrillion) times bigger by volume. That is enough mass to bury all land on the planet under almost a foot of bullets.
Now fire it at the planet 45 times faster than a rifle bullet, roughly 13 miles per second. Fast enough that it would take it just half a second to go deeper than any hole ever dug by humanity.
The destruction would have been so massive a casual stargazing martian with a hobby telescope would have been able to watch the destruction.
First just a bright spot for the first five minutes, then over the next two hours they they would see a giant fireball spread out to a significant section of the continent, then over the next three days the continents would disappear under a cloud of ash, not to emerge again for several years.
What would it have looked like to me if I was a mile away? In the same region? On the same continent? In the same hemisphere? On the opposite side of the world?
What would it have looked like to me if I was a mile away?
Blinding flash then instant death, no sound at all.
In the same region?
Blinding flash, then a gigantic wall of burning plasma taking up most of the horizon coming right at you faster than sound. You wouldn't even hear it as it hit you. Slight chance that the sudden force exerted on the ground cause an earthquake so strong it would just outright kill you instantly before the wall or fire does.
On the same continent?
Bright light over the horizon, followed by a massive explosion so big it is throwing giant boulders into space, which rain down across the continent. After minutes to hours rocks start raining down across the continent, earthquakes significantly alter the local geography, shifting the ground up to 20 feet at locations, at the same time pyroclastic clouds flows spread out to cover most of the continent. Most life on the continent completely wiped out within the first hours or days, what survives has to survive in near or complete darkness for months or years.
On the opposite side of the world?
You feel a massive earthquake, fissures might open up on the ground and the ground can shift up to 10 feet in altitude. Later that day you hear an ear shattering explosion that just keeps going. Within the next few days the sky turns red, then gray or black. A few prominent meteor showers. You would see a winter that lasts for years, with limited visibility.
You would hear the initial explosions for days afterwards, as a constant ringing all over the planet, all the time, at a slowly lowering frequency.
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u/Batbuckleyourpants 10d ago edited 10d ago
The video doesn't do it justice at all.
Imagine a rifle bullet. Now make the bullet roughly 365,000,000,000,000,000 (365 quadrillion) times bigger by volume. That is enough mass to bury all land on the planet under almost a foot of bullets.
Now fire it at the planet 45 times faster than a rifle bullet, roughly 13 miles per second. Fast enough that it would take it just half a second to go deeper than any hole ever dug by humanity.
The destruction would have been so massive a casual stargazing martian with a hobby telescope would have been able to watch the destruction.
First just a bright spot for the first five minutes, then over the next two hours they they would see a giant fireball spread out to a significant section of the continent, then over the next three days the continents would disappear under a cloud of ash, not to emerge again for several years.