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I know it’s incredibly, vanishingly unlikely but what would happen if an object with these characteristics smacked into Earth?


With this much mass and velocity - it would smash the planet, rupturing the entire crust at the very least.

No matter how infinitesimally small the probability - the universe is infinite, and so it probably will happen.

i3 is much bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period (and extinct all non-avian dinosaurs).


The end, unless you're a small proto-mammal ;).

An object (depending on consistency) of about 100m is enough to wipe out a city and do enough damage to the environment. Something of 8-20km is in the same category as what wiped out the dinosaurs (10-15km).


It’s going at 68km/s so I think even microbial life could be in trouble.


You could very well be right!


Seems like it arrives with a bit more energy than a 10 on richter scale: https://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/richter_s...

No, I can’t really imagine what that means, either.


8-22km at interstellar speeds? Probably total extinction level.


So the first solution seems like an obvious brute-force approach that definitely does not require any fancy graph theory. I have thought of this but never used it because it seems so tedious and like it defeats the point of the game.


Thank you. They act as if the “best minds” need not read or reason beyond logic and math. Having a “best mind” requires a lifelong dedication to understanding other people, ideas, and history above all else.


God that is great


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