Chicxulub strikes back ! Mass extinction in real time
The last day of mankind and Cenozoic is coming. The red comet discovered last summer is the twin of the impactor who wiped out dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Same mass, same size, same impact location. Chicxulub impactor was probably an asteroid, but a comet is more beautiful. The comet has simply to be bigger than an asteroid to release the same impact energy.
Here the impact parameters :
diameter : 17 km
density : 2630 kg per cubic meter
velocity : 25 km/s
impact angle : 60°
Source :
you’re right, this is the updated version of my first impact simulation released one year ago. Better rendering, enhanced maps quality, and new features, such as the firestorm induced by the atmospheric reentry of the impact debris.
Maps have been produced using Rstudio, and the pre-impact visuals come from Space Engine.
------ TIMECODE ------
0:00 Introduction
8:30 Skip #1
11:41 Skip #2
13:49 Impact !
23:09 Los Angeles hit by the Earthquake
27:38 Ejecta heat wave begins
31:08 Destruction of New York
35:08 Amazon rainforest burns
36:27 First nuclear power plant destroyed by the blast
43:39 The earthquake reaches the antipodes of ground zero
57:38 Mexico City destroyed by the blast
58:38 London and Paris are burning
1:00:19 All America is burning
1:03:08 Miami destroyed by the blast
1:06:20 One billion dead
1:07:09 End of thermal radiation
1:11:38 Orlando an Austrin blasted
1:21:39 End of the impact earthquake
1:24:23 2 billion dead
1:54:39 Ejecta cover all Earth
1:56:27 5 billion dead
2:02:59 end of the firestorm
2:12:07 New York flooded by the tsunami
3:20:08 Western Europe flooded by the tsunami
4:32:08 The tsunami is going out of Atlantic ocean
5:15:37 The heated air generated by the thermal radiation is mostly dissipated
6:00:07 Conclusion
------ SOUNDTRACK -------
Denis Villeneuve Dune - Dream of Arrakis
Mass Effect - Sovereign theme
Cryo Chamber - Dark dungeon music
Cryo Chamber - Songs from Abandoned Space Stations and Alien Temples
Cryo Chamber - Winter Dungeon Music
Arctica & DeepDark - Mystical Path (Ambient, Dark Ambient, Space, Drone)
Space Ambient Mix 33 - Frozen Dreams by The Intangible
Mass Effect 3 - Leaving Earth
------ MOVIE SCENES ------
Terminator 2
Knowing
Indiana Jones 4
the Day after tomorrow
War of Worlds
------ SOURCES ------
crater simulation :
Nuclear war alert :
Comet Telos Impact :
Earthquake makeup :
Miracle Planet :
Russian radio chatter :
- Impact simulator :
- Tsunami wave height and velocity:
- Earthquake wave propagation velocity:
- Post impact climate change :
- Atmospheric reentry heat load:
------ PALEO-MAPPING PLAYLIST ------
------ INSTA ------
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