See what a major asteroid impact would do to your city, from earthquakes to fireballs to blast winds.
.” It’s based on math and physics from planetary-science research papers, which inform on-ground effects like “ruptured eardrums” and “clothes would catch on fire,” and owes its existence to Argawal’s fascination with apocalyptic cinema.
“I’m a huge fan of disaster movies and love playing out different world-ending scenarios in my head,” he says. “One of my favorite disaster movies is, of course, ‘Deep Impact,’ so I’ve always wanted to make a website that simulated an asteroid impact, and this is the result.”“Launcher” offers a range of ways to meet your doom – you get to pick the size, speed and type of flying object from comet to iron asteroid to carbon asteroid.
But wait, that’s not all: It would also generate a 62-mile-wide fireball that’d incinerate clothing more than 300 miles away and make trees catch fire 400 miles away. A 248-decibel shock wave would collapse buildings up to 400 miles away and cause “severe lung damage” at half that distance, while a wind blast faster than storms on Jupiter would make people in Los Angeles feel as if they were “inside an EF-5 tornado.
“I like flinging asteroids at badly parked cars on the satellite map,” says Argawal. “It’s actually quite relaxing.”
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