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Originally posted by Svarog
That's what happened to the dinosaurs |
I saw new(?) research about a month ago that suggested the dinosaurs were already almost extinct due to climate change, BEFORE the comet/asteroid impacted - and that simply finished a well under way process.
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| Perhaps if it hit just north of Antartica so it doesn't melt the ice caps but is far-away enough from any populated land masses. |
The tidal wave would be 100% as bad as it can get. I reckon you could say goodbye to southern South America, southern Africa etc. probably even Australasia...
But, the thought you inspired: what about hitting full-on Antartica itself... several miles of ice to melt through before hitting solid land: that would have to take a lot of the impact out of the bang, and reduce the dust "winter"???