Aliens attack! Nasty locust skull suckers with super tech built by slave worlds...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Tell that to your dinosaur friends!

Didn't that meteor come down in the sea? I wonder if the effects would have been much more severe if it had hit land?

That is one of the hypotheses. The current thought isn't the asteroid destroyed the dinosaurs singlehandedly, it merely hastened their exit as they had been in decline. There were other catastrophic events, like a huge tectonic volcano eruption in what is Siberia today. Plus, that asteroid was huge. Much, much bigger than any single nuclear warhead in stockpile. Even so, most other lifeforms survived.

I read somewhere recently that the combined energy of the nuclear stockpile is less than that of a hurricane.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
So according to you, life, after a multiple millenium extinction, decided to reevolve itself??

Its obvious you passed that AP Physics, NOT Biology, test.

I actually got a 5 on AP Bio but uninhabitable doesn't mean lifeless. It means big animals can't live there.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
That is one of the hypotheses. The current thought isn't the asteroid destroyed the dinosaurs singlehandedly, it merely hastened their exit as they had been in decline. There were other catastrophic events, like a huge tectonic volcano eruption in what is Siberia today. Plus, that asteroid was huge. Much, much bigger than any single nuclear warhead in stockpile. Even so, most other lifeforms survived.

I read somewhere recently that the combined energy of the nuclear stockpile is less than that of a hurricane.

That's a somewhat meaningless comparison though, given that almost all of the energy of a hurricane doesn't really do anything.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
It means big animals can't live there.

Great, Roseanne Barr on the Endangered List.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger

I read somewhere recently that the combined energy of the nuclear stockpile is less than that of a hurricane.

According to this site, No.

http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/ENERGY/ENERGY_POLICY/tables.html

According to it, one 100 MT bomb has 10^17 Joules of energy, while your average Hurricane has 10^15 Joules.

That said, a large Earthquake magnitude 8 has 10^18 and a large volcanic erruption like Krakatoa has 10^19.

Though, supposedly, the asteroid that hit the earth 65 Million years ago was 10^23 Joules.

So, that asteroid that hit earth was like 1 Million 100 MT nukes going off at the same time. Far beyond the realms of the nuclear arsenals we have ever had.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


I actually got a 5 on AP Bio but uninhabitable doesn't mean lifeless. It means big animals can't live there.

No, uninhabitable means not being able to be habitated.

I guess 5 on the English one was not forthcoming, now was it?

[Kuciwalker]

You yourself said that many small explosions were better than one big explosion.

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[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
No, uninhabitable means not being able to be habitated.

I guess 5 on the English one was not forthcoming, now was it?

Habitation generally refers to people... no one really CARES if after the nukes, worms and stuff are crawling around.

[Zkribbler]

I heard something similar to Urban Ranger -- and I believe I heard it on the Discovery Channel -- that the energy in a single hurricane is greater than the energy combined nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and Russia.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
You yourself said that many small explosions were better than one big explosion.

At creating the greatest possible surface damage. The issue now is dust into the stratosphere in order to blot out the sun.

IN that respect, you wants blasts so huge they can chuck dirt 20 miles up.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Habitation generally refers to people... no one really CARES if after the nukes, worms and stuff are crawling around.

Generally does not actually mean that is what the word means. Popular opinion is rather meaningless in this discussion.

[Kuciwalker]

Why don't we ask what Lancer meant when he was talking about making the earth uninhabitable?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Why don't we ask what Lancer meant when he was talking about making the earth uninhabitable?

Lancer said "a lifeless desert" on top, with people living in caves.

Don't blame Lancer for your issues.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Lancer
"Well, it's his thread, he is supposed to defend it "

Not only that, but it's my world, my nukes, my survivors (who are doing very well, thank you), my icecream, and when it comes right down to it, my locust skull sucking aliens.

you scare me

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by GePap


At creating the greatest possible surface damage. The issue now is dust into the stratosphere in order to blot out the sun.

IN that respect, you wants blasts so huge they can chuck dirt 20 miles up.

Or global fires...