Time For Some Perspective

First of all, I want to thank everyone who participated in the back to back monkey-poop flinging spectacles here at Casa Onassis.


I haven't hosted one of those in a while and I was afraid I was losing my chops.

Nice to know I still got skillz.

But now it's time for a little perspective. In the "things could always be worse" category, here is a fanfuckingtastic animation of what would happen if an asteroid about 500 miles across hit the earth.

Although this clip did not originate there, I first saw it over at Phil Plait's "Bad Astronomy" site. Phil is a an astronomer and he has new book coming out later this year called "Death From The Skies". It's about all of the different ways we could be wiped out by astronomical events.

Phil called this video "...the most terrifying thing I have ever seen. Ever."

He goes on to say that

"...an impact like this would wipe out everything. Everything. As far as I can tell, the depiction there is pretty accurate. Notice how the impact appears to be in slow motion– in reality, the speed is something like 10-20 miles per second. It’s just that the rock is so big, a [five] hundred miles across, things appear to move slowly. The expanding ring of death is moving at the speed of sound, 700 miles an hour. You can see continents lifting up as the shock wave moves through them, vaporizing water, rock, metal. The oceans boil, the crust melts, and, well. There you go.

The only real error I saw, I think, is when the shock wave encircling the Earth finally closes up when it reaches the opposite side of the planet from the impact point. The shock would eject a plume from the other side, like squeezing a watermelon seed between two fingers. We see evidence of this on other bodies; ringed features opposite giant impact craters, where the shock wave from the impact converged on the other side of the world."

So, without further adieu, I give you the total destruction of the earth and the death of every living thing.

Which is way worse than electing a white woman, a black man or a geezery old republican. Hell, it's probably even worse than waterboarding. It sure looks pretty bad.

I'm goin' downstairs to grill a ribeye and watch a zombie movie.

Enjoy, my peeps! Fo' Schizzle.