Survival Tips For Five End-Of-The-World Scenarios
In your final moments—are you not entertained?
The worst could always get worse — until it doesn’t
As Elon Musk continues to burn Twitter to the ground, there’s always a chance a planet-killing asteroid could hurl our way and take everything else.
By everything else, I don’t just mean Facebook. Though yeah, the Metaverse would go too. A publicly available asteroid risk list from the European Space Agency — an intergovernmental organization established by Convention in Paris, 1975 — shows over 1,400 near-earth objects with the potential to hit Earth in the next 1,000 years.
If one ever hits us, here’s what to expect
Writing for Forbes, contributor David Bresson described a computer simulation mapping the first moments of impact from a planet-killing asteroid:
…the energy released by the collision will cause a 300 degrees hot blast wave, igniting large areas of the Earth’s surface. The soot of the mega-fires burning on entire continents, together with dust and water vapor, will form a thick blanket of clouds in Earth’s upper atmosphere, significantly reducing the sunlight reaching the surface. Temperatures would drop for decades, reducing the…
