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That kind of information as a kid would've left me sleepless for days lol

von Kármán's surname contains two shooting stars

Average impact angle is 45°. Travel time is thus √2, which makes little meaningful difference to impacting the surface. If you want to (pedantically) argue for EI at 122 km, fine; add a second to the travel time.

Also, the last time I posted a pic of a burning skeleton on Bluesky that came from popular media (Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru) it was hidden as mature content. I wonder how long this post will last.

>> I don't spend any time worrying about something smashing into us Agree that there are plenty of other things more likely to affect us sooner, but I do worry, to the extent that I think it is well worth funding orgs like these. cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/ www.esa.int/Space_Safety... iawn.net

This is terrifying. 0/10 do not recommend

the lithosphere being molten is one of those "won't be MY problem at that point" things.

Worse ways to go. Better ways, too, of course.

In this very specific regard, yes. Everything else in those movies is 100% accurate

Depends on the angle though, right? I remember the footage of the Chelyabinsk meteor, which you definitely could have seen coming if you happened to look in the right direction (not heard though obviously).

At the point of impact, yes, but further away the effects would be different. On the opposite side of the world, they would have some more time to figure out what's going on, depending on the size of the impactor.

Ever since Chelyabinsk I've always been terrified of seeing a streak like that across the sky and knowing I've only got about 2 seconds to hope it's small and going to airburst way up 😩 It's still kind of crazy that happened