3mo ago

Technically The Truth

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It's a slow death for me, but a fast death for mankind.
- Now I'm not some fancy science-man, but I do reckon that an impact of that magnitude would propel massive chunks of Earth debris in every direction at incredible speeds. Odds seem fairly well even that you'd get your own little impact death pretty well soon after.
  
  If you're lucky.
  
  eh...given the distance and the weird orbits it's gonna take for the debris to actually hit...a few days probably?
  couple of days for the bombardment to hit the surface, and then it's a game of statistics how long it takes for a direct hit or secondary ejecta to hit your landing site/base.
  probably a better idea to take all the fun pills all at once than to wait for that...
  actually, you can probably simulate this rather well in universe sandbox! ;)
- I think at that point you would just take of the helmet.
  
  Is it bad that I would possibly give it a bit?
  Like, I'm fucked either way. Who knows, maybe I'll make it for another sleep cycle, and the last thing I'll see will be those fragments further scattered. Something pretty, as the liquid in my eyes begins to rapidly boil.
  
  My thought exactly

The amount of energy it would take to punch a hole through the Earth would probably be enough to kill you from the moon.
- Like just in terms of "bullets" ejected?
  
  probably radiation:
  that kind of impact is gonna tear apart a lot of atoms and the energies involved would create high temperature plasma; basically a very big fusion bomb...

"somebody is fucking with me"
The Earth is way too close, and I don't think a meteor strike on the earth, no matter how energetic, would look like a bullet going through an apple.
- You assume this is a meteor strike and not some type of planet killing weapon
  
  Or a moon late for work.
  
  Kinetic kill vehicle.
- Maybe a piece of very dense matter (neutronium ?), at very high speed (relativistic) could do that ?
  
  I think any matter going fast enough would do that. In the fast going thing's perspective the earth would basically be just a thin membrane.

Well… shit.

I'm Polish, so the same thing I say in any situation: "Kurwa".
- Such a beautiful language.
  
  It means removed.

But what about the stock market?
- To the moon

That triangular dust cloud doesn't look right.
- Yeah, all parts of this image are in an uncanny valley where you can understand how someone thought the image would read a certain way, but then also it doesn't actually read that way to me at all
- The massive mushroom cloud does?
- Likely whoever made it didn't know how this scene would look like.

Try to contact the ship that escaped. The one that was being built in silence under false pretenses by people who knew the planet was screwed, but convinced themselves it was better not to cause riots by informing everyone.
Small chance, but the billionaire investors might want to pick me up as a novelty story, or to make themselves feel like heroes
- "This is the SCP foundation, to all survivors give us five minutes."
  Radio static for four and a half minutes
  "Okay we are about to do a temporal shift to six minutes ago in a localized portion of space time, 05 council and the Foundation wish you luck."
- Eh, both permanent space habitation as well as generation ships are so comically far out of our reach that any effort to escape would be doomed. All the billionaires would have accomplished is that they'd die slower. Unless we had decades of advanced warning and even then it would be a stretch. Additionally, in the latter case there's no need to keep it secret. The world is going to end in 50 years just wouldn't cause as much panic.
  Secondly, if you look at the picture, the projectile directly pierces the earth. So it would have to be going extremely fast to accomplish this. So chances are we wouldn't see it coming to begin with.
  Thirdly, this sort of direct hit implies intelligence. So, chances are whatever wants us dead would then follow through to ensure they get any survivors. Or not, as I pointed out earlier, all survivors are screwed either way.
  
  *the general and president walk down the underground corridor
  Sir, it's time to reveal to you where all the real NASA money has been going for the past 60 years.
  Wait is that-
  Yes, alien tech recovered from Roswell.

That's not how planetary collisions work.
Earth's core is a solid ball of iron-nickel alloy as hot as the surface of the sun. Not even a huge asteroid could just go through it and come out the other side.
- The ball on the bottom right, is the earth's core leaving.
  BTW, the book Seveneves is worth a read/listen. It covers a scenario of something very very dense passing through the moon.
  
  I like the idea that it hit the core and knocked it out the other side while remaining in place like that one executive desk toy thing. Newton's cradle? is that what that thing is called.
  Someone get Randall Monroe on this image, he'd do the math.
  The thing that strikes me...the object hit the earth dead on, on the sunlit side, so the object would have come right out of the Sun or slightly behind. Like it looks like it was about 2 PM where the object hit. So the object would have barely missed the Sun...yesterday or so at the speed it would have to be moving to splat the Earth like a bullet through a melon.
  I think to hit that hard it would need to be moving at a large fraction of the speed of light, in which case there would be a tremendous amount of nuclear fusion. Like, probably an exaton blast.
  
  I started that book, because I was super interested in the concept, and I couldn’t continue after a few chapters. The way he writes women seemed very poor to me.

silently take delight in knowing all my enemies are dead
I mean you've got to look for positives, right?
- Do people have enemies? That seems exhausting.
  
  Arch nemesis... only Arch users have those.
  
  I’m your enemy now
  
  I'm your enemy now. I will exhaust you.

Oh no... My stuff!
- The economy!

From the looks of it the astronaut was just out of the lunar grocery store starting to walk home for some dinner and down time.
- Honestly... It looks like he will have a lot of downtime now.