Cool stuff, thanks! #10 kinda says it all for me though, what would happen to the human race if even a small asteroid hit today? Makes me realize that all the humans on this planet don't really mean anything to it in the big picture. Asteroid hits, mankind vanishes, planet goes on..... Humans have only been around for a few thousand years anyway, just a blink in time.
Makes me wonder what all really was here before us, and what will come after us.
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The same thing that is here now is what use to be here before the flood but maybe more advanced.
The bible says...In my words: What's been Invented has been Invented before or what man has built or made has been done here before. Something like that...A.H
Where do them Asteroids go when they hit ? Are they in the ground ?
All them crators dimples look to be pretty go0d size. I sure would hate be'in near by when one hit.
Some ofvem look to be pretty good fish'in holes...A.H
Asteroids don't enter atmosphere very often, most of what you see are meteoroids which most often burn up in the atmosphere before they ever reach ground. As far as where they go when they do strike is yes, they bury themselves in the ground. You'd be surprised how relatively small the bodies that caused those craters are compared to the size of the hole.
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Cool stuff, thanks! #10 kinda says it all for me though, what would happen to the human race if even a small asteroid hit today? Makes me realize that all the humans on this planet don't really mean anything to it in the big picture. Asteroid hits, mankind vanishes, planet goes on..... Humans have only been around for a few thousand years anyway, just a blink in time.
Makes me wonder what all really was here before us, and what will come after us.
in a college geology class many years ago. I was surprised and fascinated that this happened. Although I do not remember the person's name, a scientist did have the courage to say, "You all agree as to the cause of America's Meteor Crater but I am telling you that what you think are natural depressions in the earth's surface are in many instances the exact same thing as America's Meteor Crater.".
Much later satellite photography really did bring this to a higher level of awareness.
It's just a matter of time before it happens again.
Everything's a matter of time. Large strikes like that are rare, considering how many identified impact craters you see measured against the age of our planet. It's just that it takes a lot for a body like that to pass through our planet's path of travel at precisely the right time and speed to actually intersect with the Earth. I'm sure there's quite a bit of larger astronomical debris that comes close that we don't even see given that we have a large chunk of sky to watch for stuff like that. Point is why worry. Most of it is stuff that's not going to do horrendous damage if it does impact and if it was a "planet killer", I doubt we'd be able to do anything to stop it. Expect more "Deep Impact" and less "Armageddon".
Isn't the largest asteroid crater under the gulf of Mexico? As far as what happens when they hit alot of times they just blow apart. There are two types of asteroid. There is a dense one that is almost like a metal alloy and at very porous one that is like lava rocks.
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Things moving through space are traveling at what, 25,000 miles per hour or so? A giant rock entering our atmosphere at that speed would probably kill off most of us with just the shock wave and heat it would generate, plus the disruption of Earth's weather and gravity. And I'm sure a large impact would cause all kinds of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions all over the planet. We'd be flash fried into ashes, and most traces of our existence would be buried under ash and dust. And the planet would just belch and carry on.
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Things moving through space are traveling at what, 25,000 miles per hour or so? A giant rock entering our atmosphere at that speed would probably kill off most of us with just the shock wave and heat it would generate, plus the disruption of Earth's weather and gravity. And I'm sure a large impact would cause all kinds of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions all over the planet. We'd be flash fried into ashes, and most traces of our existence would be buried under ash and dust. And the planet would just belch and carry on.
Although, a meteor with over a certain mass would knock our planet out of it's rotation. So, the planet may not just carry on. It could be knocked into another planet, out into space, or into the sun.
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Seriously though, all the numerous similarities in the things that make up the universe are connected. When a person(or in this case entity) has the perfect way to make something, why change it? God made everything in a neat and orderly way, resulting in all the similarities around us.
If you really want to get freaked out about large meteor craters, take a close look at the Gulf of Mexico and Hudson Bay sometime. Both show the characteristics of an impact crater with a roughly circular shape and an elevated center. That would have been one heckuva rock.
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This is precisely why I take a last look out the window toward the sky before going to bed. I make sure the coast is clear. (Like Bert & Ernie do)
Good nite Bert.
Good nite Ernie.
