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Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by LinuxBender on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:54AM (#26503314)
This is probably a little off topic, but it can all melt in a few hours with one decent sized asteroid. This happened before in Greenland. [1] Geologists have confirmed the impact that melted all the ice due to the existence of billions of microscopic diamonds in the crater. My question is, are we monitoring enough of space to know if a big rock is coming and what will people do?

[1] - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-crater-under...

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Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by selftest on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:13PM (#26509605)
If an asteroid of sufficient size were to strike Greenland, I think sea levels rising would be pretty far down the “this is definitely going to kill us all” list.
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Re:Scientists discover fossil plants beneath mile-deep Green... by LinuxBender on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:34PM (#26516088)
Absolutely. I believe it was estimated that asteroid was equivalent to something like 3000+ nuclear bombs all detonating at the same time.
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