Say it was the size of Corsica and traveling at the speed of a reversing truck and bumped into a land mass. Would it still be an extinction level event?

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    It wouldn’t

    Earth’s gravity would make it accelerate from a far away distance and when it would hit, it hit with speeds greater than a bullet.

    An entire large island hitting earth at those speeds usually means game over for humanity and maybe even all life in this universe

    Not that we’d need any help in doing that, were perfectly capable of doing that ourselves