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Originally Posted by Canmoore
I think humans would survive a meteor strike. Hell, we were bent on surviving nuclear war for 40 years. Whats the difference between that and surviving a meteor strike?
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BIG difference. A meteor the size of a city block coming in at 17,000 miles per hour would cause more death and destruction than all of our stockpiled nuclear weapons put together.
So far we have been very fortunate that only some small meteors have hit inhabited areas (one going through the trunk of a parked car). The fair sized one in Siberia was in a totally desolate and uninhabited region.
The one that created Meteor Crater in Arizona is estimated to have killed all above ground life for several miles around. And that crater is "only" a mile in diameter with the estimated size of the meteor being that of Nash Ambassador.