[Nfxutkpa]

On a pillow factory.

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

I would prefer it to hit at the intersection of avenue L and Martin Luther King street in ANY us city.....just ask if you dont know what is common about EVERY MLK street.

Well you're going to wait until someone with no imagination or more extended knowledge off the us culture comes along or what.....

[insightmike]

Well you're going to wait until someone with no imagination or more extended knowledge off the us culture comes along or what.....

It is always the main street in the american "ghetto's"

[11Woxsepmoomo]

How big an asteroid - thousands of them arrive every year?

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

It is always the main street in the american "ghetto's"

I'd rather have it hit Beverly Hills, well just because it's not a 'ghetto'

[pepBarihepe]

Kent, preferably.

yupyupyupyup

[vansVoish]

Kent, preferably.

yupyupyupyup

What have you guys got against Kent?

[NanoGordeno]

iraq hm

[bashansasasasa]

indian ocean (they already had one, so... [help]) or jesuleum (either god would prevent it or... either way it is good for me... [shocked])

don't take it serious cause i didn't say Texas... "Houston we HAVE A PROBLEM!!!" lol....
[stupid]

[gniewkoit]

Seems like there are a few English who don't like certain areas in our beautiful country!

[nilliraq]

Probably going to be the south pole.

[Caregrasy]

So much for a serious thread. I was thinking about an asteroid as large as the one that wiped the dinosaurs out or one really big that would cause massive destruction/climate change. Where would be the best for one of those to hit. If you said somewhere in the UK and you lived in the UK you would be wiped off the map, thats how big I'm talking.

[FoetAgerhot46]

Greenland probably... or maybe one of the poles?

I am unsure of what happens if it hits the ocean except a big ass wave. Will we still get the same "dustcloud" revolving the earth that killed the dinos? Maybe it's better if it hits the ocean if dustcloud is avioded - looking at the long term effect.

[Spalax]

So much for a serious thread. I was thinking about an asteroid as large as the one that wiped the dinosaurs out or one really big that would cause massive destruction/climate change. Where would be the best for one of those to hit. If you said somewhere in the UK and you lived in the UK you would be wiped off the map, thats how big I'm talking.

On a serious note,
The impact location of such a dino killer asteroid wouldn´t matter at all imo.
The impact itself would pretty much destroy everything on one side of earth and shockwaves (later Tsunami´s etc) would destroy the other side.
Earthquakes would rumble through the planet for a good while (upto a few years after) triggering Volcano´s etc the sky would pretty much be a dark clouded up dusty, toxic smog and were not even going to talk about all the radiation that would be set free by such an object.

Even if it wouldn´t kill us all, it would pretty much through 99% of humanity back into the stone age

A that sized Asteroid and we´d all be ****ed.

[Nicihntm]

On a serious note,
The impact location of such a dino killer asteroid wouldn´t matter at all imo.
The impact itself would pretty much destroy everything on one side of earth and shockwaves (later Tsunami´s etc) would destroy the other side.
Earthquakes would rumble through the planet for a good while (upto a few years after) triggering Volcano´s etc the sky would pretty much be a dark clouded up dusty, toxic smog and were not even going to talk about all the radiation that would be set free by such an object.

Even if it wouldn´t kill us all, it would pretty much through 99% of humanity back into the stone age

A that sized Asteroid and we´d all be ****ed.

I dont think asteriods are like atom bombs matey yes they would produce an explosive impact equivulent to many hundred atom bombs but without the massive radiation.

[Spalax]

I dont think asteriods are like atom bombs matey yes they would produce an explosive impact equivulent to many hundred atom bombs but without the massive radiation.

Sure they aren´t like A-bombs, but i´ve read that they do release a pretty fair ammount of radiation on impact.

[ditpiler]

At a bar, drinkin' heavily

[pharmablogger]

Sure they aren´t like A-bombs, but i´ve read that they do release a pretty fair ammount of radiation on impact.

You've perhaps misread the term "radiation" in the context is was used in - for example, radiation is often applied to electromagnetic waves. Although asteroids certainly contain radioactive elements, they don't carry anything near the quantity or type necessary to initiate a mass burst of nuclear radiation upon impact. The heat from the collision might cause some fusion to take place but, again, it wouldn't cause serious amounts of radiation.

[bashansasasasa]

So much for a serious thread. I was thinking about an asteroid as large as the one that wiped the dinosaurs out or one really big that would cause massive destruction/climate change. Where would be the best for one of those to hit. If you said somewhere in the UK and you lived in the UK you would be wiped off the map, thats how big I'm talking. actually a single impact might not have kill the dinosaur at all... newer studies shows the single impact kill scenario as being unlikely, it maybe that there were a few impact!

if the rock is very BIG, earth gravity may cause enough stress on the rock to break it apart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit). we won't be looking at 1 "killzone" but many... carpet bombing style...


so maybe you would ask for a list of impact site instead of believing in hollywood's single impact theory.
[beta]

[ChuttyAmult]

Where would be the best spot for it to hit in order for humans to be the least affected? In the ocean? At a polar cap? On land? etc.

Kentucky...