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Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

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Re: Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

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Post by GalenErso »

brink wrote: post #10

I remember those waves on interstellar being a scarier adversary than Pennywise from IT. It must have been quite a sight. I wonder if any of the creatures from the event felt fear before the water washed over them.

I have long said that if I was given the chance to go back in time just once, and come back, I would return 66 million years ago to witness the meteor impact from the safety of a space shuttle.

And now I have an idea for Elon Musk: interplanetary disaster tourism. Purposefully crash asteroids on remote areas of Mars and charge for front row seats. This would have the added benefit of bringing valuable metal ores to be harvested close to the demand source.

Re: Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

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Post by geuis »

Just to put the numbers in slightly easier to imagine numbers: imagine ocean waves about 13000 feet or 4 kilometers high.

No, I can't really imagine it either.

In San Francisco, the tallest building is the Salesforce Tower at 1070ft. The biggest wave would be about 13 times taller than that.

I totally have trouble visualizing it, other than just looking up and up and up.

Re: Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

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Post by jvm___ »

jmyeet wrote: post #5

There are a large number of events taht have happened many times in Earth's history and, given the cosmic timelines, will happen again, repeatedly. Some may be preventable with technology (eg asteroid impacts), others less so. A partial list is: tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, supervolcanoes, flood basalts, asteroid impacts, magnetic field reversals, climate change (eg ice once covered the equator, North America us…

The Carrington event where a solar flare turned telegraph wires into those electromagnetd you build in elementary school. The current from the storm electrified all the telegraph cables. This would be bad for anything we've built that has a long cable run...

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh...

Or how 536 was the worst year on record (and no one really knows why)

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh...

Re: Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

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Post by pr337h4m »

GalenErso wrote: post #11
brink wrote: post #10

I remember those waves on interstellar being a scarier adversary than Pennywise from IT. It must have been quite a sight. I wonder if any of the creatures from the event felt fear before the water washed over them.

I have long said that if I was given the chance to go back in time just once, and come back, I would return 66 million years ago to witness the meteor impact from the safety of a space shuttle. And now I have an idea for Elon Musk: interplanetary disaster tourism. Purposefully crash asteroids on remote areas of Mars and charge for front row seats. This would have the added benefit of bringing valuable metal ores to b…

These would make amazing VR experiences

Re: Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves

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Post by merek »

geuis wrote: post #12

Just to put the numbers in slightly easier to imagine numbers: imagine ocean waves about 13000 feet or 4 kilometers high. No, I can't really imagine it either. In San Francisco, the tallest building is the Salesforce Tower at 1070ft. The biggest wave would be about 13 times taller than that. I totally have trouble visualizing it, other than just looking up and up and up.

Mt. Fuji stands at 3.8km (12,467ft). They say the wave reached 4.5km, so maybe Mt. Fuji with the Burj Khalifa (~800m) on top? Still very difficult to picture as a wall of water.

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Post by tstrimple »

geuis wrote: post #12

Just to put the numbers in slightly easier to imagine numbers: imagine ocean waves about 13000 feet or 4 kilometers high. No, I can't really imagine it either. In San Francisco, the tallest building is the Salesforce Tower at 1070ft. The biggest wave would be about 13 times taller than that. I totally have trouble visualizing it, other than just looking up and up and up.

Those aren’t mountains.
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