Author Topic: Here’s how an asteroid impact would kill you (Read 877 times)

rangerrebew · « **on:** May 04, 2017, 12:21:30 pm »

Here’s how an asteroid impact would kill you
Winds and shock waves are most deadly, computer simulations of 1.2 million hits suggest
By
Thomas Sumner
7:00am, May 2, 2017

It won’t be a tsunami. Nor an earthquake. Not even the crushing impact of the space rock. No, if an asteroid kills you, gusting winds and shock waves from falling and exploding space rocks will most likely be to blame. That’s one of the conclusions of a recent computer simulation effort that investigated the fatality risks of more than a million possible asteroid impacts.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/heres-how-asteroid-impact-would-kill-you

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2017, 12:36:37 pm »

Ejecta, shock waves, fires, global cooling (Oh yeah, that), food chain collapse, I'm too far inland for a tsunami unless its a real whopper, changes in axial tilt and growing seasons, and if you're lucky you are either far away and ready for anything or get a direct hit.

60 psi of overpressure=99% fatalities, so shock waves can be killers, but above 15 psi, most of the buildings will be flying debris and that will be even more dangerous.