It's a slow death for me, but a fast death for mankind.
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Now I'm not some fancy science-man, but I do reckon that an impact of that magnitude would propel massive chunks of Earth debris in every direction at incredible speeds. Odds seem fairly well even that you'd get your own little impact death pretty well soon after.
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I think at that point you would just take of the helmet.
Is it bad that I would possibly give it a bit?
Like, I'm fucked either way. Who knows, maybe I'll make it for another sleep cycle, and the last thing I'll see will be those fragments further scattered. Something pretty, as the liquid in my eyes begins to rapidly boil.
Death by starvation isn't this person's fate, is it? I wouldn't think it would take more than a few days or maybe even hours for the debris to land. I'd just sit there in existential horror while trying enjoying the view, waiting to get taken out instantly by some giant chunk of the mantle landing on my head. Of course that's mostly because I'd be too afraid of the pain to take off my helmet.
Actually, can you even take one of those helmets off without equalized air pressure or is there a mechanical safety that locks it? If there's a separate nitrogen tank and you have control over the mixture, just turning off the oxygen would be the way to go.
So, uh, is it a bad sign that I put that much thought into hypothetical ways to kms on the moon?
In this scenario, it would probably be the rational path forward, as you're in a situation where you're guaranteed to die either way. So why not make your death as painless as possible?
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I'd be out there until I was floating in a most peculiar way.
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The amount of energy it would take to punch a hole through the Earth would probably be enough to kill you from the moon.
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"somebody is fucking with me"
The Earth is way too close, and I don't think a meteor strike on the earth, no matter how energetic, would look like a bullet going through an apple.
You assume this is a meteor strike and not some type of planet killing weapon
Or a moon late for work.
That's no moon.
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Well… shit.
I'm Polish, so the same thing I say in any situation: "Kurwa".
But what about the stock market?
To the moon
That triangular dust cloud doesn't look right.
Yeah, all parts of this image are in an uncanny valley where you can understand how someone thought the image would read a certain way, but then also it doesn't actually read that way to me at all
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Try to contact the ship that escaped. The one that was being built in silence under false pretenses by people who knew the planet was screwed, but convinced themselves it was better not to cause riots by informing everyone.
Small chance, but the billionaire investors might want to pick me up as a novelty story, or to make themselves feel like heroes
"This is the SCP foundation, to all survivors give us five minutes."
Radio static for four and a half minutes
"Okay we are about to do a temporal shift to six minutes ago in a localized portion of space time, 05 council and the Foundation wish you luck."
Eh, both permanent space habitation as well as generation ships are so comically far out of our reach that any effort to escape would be doomed. All the billionaires would have accomplished is that they'd die slower. Unless we had decades of advanced warning and even then it would be a stretch. Additionally, in the latter case there's no need to keep it secret. The world is going to end in 50 years just wouldn't cause as much panic.
Secondly, if you look at the picture, the projectile directly pierces the earth. So it would have to be going extremely fast to accomplish this. So chances are we wouldn't see it coming to begin with.
Thirdly, this sort of direct hit implies intelligence. So, chances are whatever wants us dead would then follow through to ensure they get any survivors. Or not, as I pointed out earlier, all survivors are screwed either way.
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That's not how planetary collisions work.
Earth's core is a solid ball of iron-nickel alloy as hot as the surface of the sun. Not even a huge asteroid could just go through it and come out the other side.
The ball on the bottom right, is the earth's core leaving.
BTW, the book Seveneves is worth a read/listen. It covers a scenario of something very very dense passing through the moon.
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silently take delight in knowing all my enemies are dead
I mean you've got to look for positives, right?
Do people have enemies? That seems exhausting.
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Oh no... My stuff!
The economy!
From the looks of it the astronaut was just out of the lunar grocery store starting to walk home for some dinner and down time.
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"Well I'm getting out of this uncomfortable suit!"
I think this is one situation where I'd be genuinely speechless.
One small uh-oh for a man, one giant extinction event for mankind.
Oh...
...
...
...fuck.
Finally.
Fuck.
"Tja..."
Houston, we have a problem
'Guess no brunch this weekend.'
or
'Haha, missed!'
Finally!
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