An “Earth’s Crust Tidal Wave” Just Doesn’t Sound Good
This video shows what could happen if a giant meteor hit the Earth. Anyone with a bit of common sense could tell you that giant meteors hitting the Earth is not good. But seeing it actually happen (or a simulation of it anyway) just shows how not good it would really be.
Unfortunately the narration is in Japanese, but on the YouTube page there’s a pretty long description of what’s going on. Here’s some of the good parts:
The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000 km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower… The earth’s crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off. This is called, “Earth’s crust tidal wave”. There is 1km width of the rock, and it flies to the sky it by the impact. The impact surges to the Japanese Islands and, as a result, the Japanese Islands are crushed. The splinter of the crushed rock easily exceeds the height of 1000Km. After exceeding the atmosphere it reaches space. Afterwards, the splinter of the rock falls again in surface of the earth. The edge of Crater completed by the collision of the meteorite is 7000m in height. It looks like a huge mountain range. The diameter of Crater has 4000Km. Crater is big to swallow a part from Guam to a Chinese continent. But, it was only an introductory chapter of the tragedy that would start in the future…..
Fascinating… she sounds way too cheery about it.