Miracle Planet - Asteroid Impact Simulation

[RadicalMassacre]

you know what? if these kinds of impacts really did happen in the earths past, it just proves how incredibly difficult it is to kill off all life on earth. assuming no alien theorists jump in to say "aliens seeded the earth!! hur dur!!" >.> come on...i mean, its another theory, but...regardless, not even goddamn planet covering rock dust the temperature of the sun can sterilize the earth completely, otherwise we wouldnt be here

[Sm00gle]

Wheres the rest of the video?

[elleadnih]

I can never look the sky the same way I used to...

[Generalarceus32]

Krakatoa survives! :D

[Javis586]

Awesome simulation, but terrible information. An asteroid 300 miles across would completely destroy earth and leave nothing but fragments of rock. The asteroid thought to have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs was about 10 miles across.

[RadicalMassacre]

@Javis586 didnt you hear him say it was similar to an impact 4 billion years ago? BILLION not million

[Javis586]

@RadicalMassacre That's irrelevant how long ago it was, if an asteroid 300 miles across we're to hit Earth there would be nothing left.

[TWOCOWS1]

Thanks for loading this. But where is the rest of it?

[FlowersInHisHair]

It's pretty unlikely that the Acropolis would still be standing, considering how close it is to falling down now anyway...

[FirstPersonShitter]

funny how we all seem to like this, think about it.

[bluey12qi565]

WE'RE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE!!

[crazygeek777]

coulda skipped all the fear mongering and simply said "Basically if this shit happens we're fucked." and end it at that.

[4d616c65737469636b]

This is strange, I saw computer simulations and the ejecta isn't supposed to just stop and drop straight down like that.

[4d616c65737469636b]

oh no Japan

[kkksskkk]

scary shit

[kcj1993]

Fuck that. I'm going to mars.

[geert574]

I drop these in the toilet daily and nothing happens, this vid is hot air.

[NineTailsDemonFox]

Well damn Japan and Seattle were wiped away rather fast.

[Llynok]

Two words.

Water bears.



[NingyoAijin]

Whoops, it seems Goku has finally activated Super Saiyan 8.

[itzzaster]

Is there anyway if this were to happen, a human being able to stop this? like the film bruce willis was in.. but more realistic

[digitalZXLCA]

Bruce Willis- Sorry everyone just sorta....huu sorta dropped the ball on this one

Human race- Fuck You -.-

[TacticusPrime]

This is like one that impacted more than 4 billion years ago, before our ancestral bacteria developed. No way anything would survive this, so the one 65 million years ago was much smaller.

[dragon411320]

wonder how the Mariana's Trench would fare if that happened?

[Battleloser]

y do water turn red?

[Asterite100]

@Battleloser The water is red because of the sky. The sky reflects on the water and gives it color. Thats why the sky and ocean are both blue.

[Entropy3ko]

It's like pushing the reset button on the Earth ;)

[TGUlricksen]

sterilized, so how the f-ck does life start up again?

[Entropy3ko]

@TGUlricksen Just as it started the first time around...

[savgal1211]

Where is Jack Bauer??

[abigb]

Wow...amazing graphics and explanation.

[2LateIWon]

I wont be around when this happens. BTW

You better bow before Jesus when this happens if not then you will later.

[TechRonM]

The vid ended as if there was some more to it than what was clipped from the original.

Do you have a good copy of the original that you could also post the rest ?

[ShaiHuludisCool]

I pooped myself watching this.

[BrotherOrchid]

Poor Japan, not again!

[JamesTClement]

Ok, so firstly, is there anything we could possibly do to stop this, and if not, then why put this put here.

Secondly, no comfort should be taken from the Earth only taking 1000 years to start raining again. We would all be dead, so who cares at that point. Just saying, but had to love on the inspirational music they started playing during that part, as if to say, hey all will be well, just survive the un-survivable hit for 1000 years and you'll get rain again. Psst...

[useful76]

@JamesTClement I doubt it was suggesting humanity will survive. In fact, they made it pretty clear several times that NOTHING would survive. Not even microscopic organisms. This was merely to say that the Earth would move on in relatively short order and start the process of life again.

[bossmanham]

@useful76 Yeah, since life starting is like making chocolate milk or something. If life is obliterated, then it doesn't come back naturally. The odds are prohibitory.

[Dtsumo]

@JamesTClement The good news is, there are no objects of that size on the loose in our Solar System, most objects around that size, such as Ceres, are in fairly stable orbits.

[brian8793]

This is nonsense. We have devices that could land on an asteroid and redirect it. The 2012 prophesy is Mitt Romney.

[203207ab]

It's all the fault of a former prez. as someone commented below me. Well, yes, you could say so, if we put at least a few billion into finding ways to prevent this from happening, whether it be from large bombs or laser guided missiles instead of focusing so much on the war on terror, maybe we could at least save a few more lives in the future.

[bgestes]

does the year 2012 ring any bells?

[SchiffRadiodotcom]

anyone know where I can find the rest of this video?

[labrumbiz]

looks like the death star to me.

[jscottupton]

It's all Bush's fault.

[bigT3ddy]

I think that the issue of nuclear explosions has been forgotten in the simulation I think explode once the all nuclear power plants and atomic bombs were

translate with google

[ChillinCoffee]

chuck norris cant fart, his buns are rock solid

[TaZ101SAGA]

3:30 Chuck Norris farted

[jb200930]

@TaZ101SAGA uh no he didnt!

[jb200930]

@TaZ101SAGA since when did chuck norris fart anyway?

[ihatefurrys]

God: "Ok, its been 2000 years since I checked up on Earth. Let's see how humanity's doing."

*watches MTV*

God: ...

Fuck it.

*Hits reset button*

[naniyoussef]

poor japan

[guitarman069]

I think we all should start investing building spaceships....just incase this shit fucks us up big time. Gotta prepare before its too late.

[toepebble]

Thanks for posting. It looks like a good and much needed restart. Perhaps our planet would get it's first intelligent life from this occurrence.

[smashbrosmaniac]

Hmm i wonder if it's possible that this already happened before on earth, and the life we are in right now is the second time humans have been around. :O

Maybe the pacific ocean is the crater of it.

Lol this is just a random idea for fun. Seems possible though

[StevenBee2]

@smashbrosmaniac Interesting thought but no can be... besides the clear record we have of life going back 3.5 billion years, the object in this video is 500 km across. The asteroid that hit 60 odd million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and destroying most life on the planet was about 8 km across. This impact would be about 5,000,000 times stronger than all of the nuclear weapons on Earth! It would not be an extinction event - it'd be an obliteration event!

[TheCarbinJ]

I want to download this video so bad...

[racefanvideo]

@TheCarbinJ That should be fairly easy. Just get a plugin like downloadhelper. I think keepvid.com might still be around too, but I haven't used it in quite a while.

[bluesmovers]

@racefanvideo Just use Mozilla Firefox and get the video downloader add-on ... it becomes an option under the youtube video window, with all types of files, including just mp3 sound!

[Matrilwood]

why does it restart at 7:12?

[racefanvideo]

@Matrilwood That section of the video isn't actually restarting, but is being presented as it appears in the documentary. In other words, the segment where the asteroid hits the ocean was repeated by the producers of "Miracle Planet," not me. I thought about editing that out, however leaving it in resulted in a run-time of almost exactly 10 minutes. I agree that it is a bit confusing.

[LUXITANIE]

where the object the size of planet mars when impacted 4 billion years ago?

[StevenBee2]

@LUXITANIE The impact you're talking about is one of the leading hypotheses about how the moon was created. That object was about 3,000 times more massive than the 500 km object in this video! It would have blown away Earth's atmosphere into space and could have left the surface a world-wide ocean of liquid magma for millions of years. For more info, check out Wikipedia's entry on the "Giant Impact Hypothesis"

[CravenPL]

Those six times weren't that violent. They wiped out big animals, choked planet's atmosphere with dust, but they didn't vaporized whole oceans, thanks to that life didn't start from nothing, just from very primal forms.

[StevenBee2]

@CravenPL I suspect that the 6 impacts they're talking about all happened early in Earth's history - before much, if any life had come about. You're right in that objects that caused mass extinctions were nothing compared to these. The impact that did in the dinosaurs was from an object only 0.0001% the mass of the object depicted in this video... but they are frequent, smacking Earth upside the head every 10 - 50 million years or so. We've been hit by hundreds or thousands of these.

[shelgeyr]

The asteroid would likely fragment while still far from the planet, due to electric stress (fragmentation creates a larger surface area upon which to carry the charge differential). On impact, the debris distribution would be non-uniform and far different than shown here, because things such as "rock vapor the temperature of the sun" are "Plasma", electrically charged by definition, and would be affected by Earth's electromagnetic field far more than by gravity or normal gas/pressure laws.

[racefanvideo]

@shelgeyr Very interesting theory. Thanks for an excellent comment.

[philritter21]

@shelgeyr no

[atomicmonkeysquad]

@philritter21 No?

[philritter21]

@atomicmonkeysquad That guy has no idea what he is talking about.

[Expectation247]

if that meteorite was in the solar system yes it would fragment before it hit earth, but because of jupiter, etc, gravity. assume it came from another solar system, say 1 in a google chances... it wouldnt break up much before it hit earth. it would just pound earth like a bastard!. the video is pretty ok, but the earth would react like a bubble of maple syrup, perhaps even water, the back end of the earth would blow out by 100 km, there would be blobs 100 km high blown into space.

[equinoxmoscow]

Everyone like how Earth will die! =) thumb up!

[misiupzw]

ale pierdolneloooo o kurwa

[skitomwoage]

It's like a "planet reset button"

[vladdimor]

@skitomwoage more like a "planet destroy button"

[skitomwoage]

@vladdimor: why? The planet is still there. Everything will cool down the way it was and eventually live will form again. Everything available before impact is still there after impact. The asteroid even brought some additional resources :)

[SpaceRitual]

Hurry up and get here!! We need to hit the reset button ASAP.

[killrobots]

@racefanvideo

I'm pretty certain the poster was jesting. Relax, Frankie.

[racefanvideo]

@killrobots You're probably right, but that kind of thing still gets under my skin. Frankie?

[Roadball]

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience

[AyDavey21]

oh well i wont bother with insurance in that case lol

[joanrider]

fake and gay!

[ompenarnie]

@alexintokyo There is a theory that the building blocks necessary to life (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, hydrogen, iron, calcium, etc) exist in plentiful enough amounts on this planet, and others in the 'sweet spot' of a star's influence. Those building blocks (specific molecules built from those atoms) are assembled by natural processes, and could theoretically reassemble and life evolves once again.

[thuejk]

Why is asteroid glowing red hot? Asteroid, which have been in space for billions of years, are ice cold. "Made with the consultations of scientists" my arse.

[racefanvideo]

@thuejk That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that, but you are correct.

[warpedme]

@thuejk The asteroid wasn't glowing red hot until it hit the atmosphere, where it is heated by friction. Then, the kinetic energy released by the impact would be converted to heat energy as well.

[thuejk]

@warpedme You can see it glowing at 0:30, where it is obviously nowhere near Earth's atmosphere.

[sikkbreaker]

@thuejk ur a fucking idiot. Asteroids travel at a certain speed and im sure w/e it is, the kinetic energy must cause friction of some sort at which it heats up the surface and so are meteroids made of partial iron in which it must have some internal energy heating the iron. hence the red glow

[thuejk]

@sikkbreaker friction against what? The asteroid is travelling in a vacuum.

[cascocat]

@thuejk no your right. sikkbreaker is a fuckheaded moron. There is no friction in outer space

[ashitakel]

@thuejk

yeah, must have been the best geophysical experts and scientific advisors after the others got vaporized in the last impact.

[alive914]

@thuejk well an asteroid this big has most certainly a mass sufficient big to create a a high bolling core. and since the asteroid is an unstable astronomical object, some of that high bolling matter inside the asteroid may leak into the surface, so it has probably the aspect as shown in the simulation.

[RRaymonDD]

Awesome. When can we expect this?

[vinipoars]

@RRaymonDD next week, 3 am. good luck buddy!

[lowtaxas]

@RRaymonDD as soon as i finish my sandwich

[hullo2stranger]

@lowtaxas Ha. Take your time.

[stankado10]

@RRaymonDD in about 2029 or 2036...

[phishthefish]

I don't wanna close my eyes.

[ompenarnie]

@phishthefish Cause I don't wanna miss a thaaaannng!

[Udonitron]

Amazing and scary

[gyokusai4ever]

Oh, boy. Where is Bruce Willis when you need him.