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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 months ago

Would humans survive a dinosaur extinction level impact?

Chicxulub meteorite landed on the ocean, an area the size of the USA would become a no-mans zone as fire would rain from the falling debris shot up from the impact. A tsunami would sweep the world several times, its size and destruction would be hard for us to quantify or imagine. 

 

Then impact would kick dust up, the tectonic shock of the impact would cause massive earthquakes and a global volcanic eruptions, all this would make the atmosphere toxic. 

Then the bad part begins. Volcanic eruptions and impact debris would spread globally causing a 18 month-10 year long ''nuclear winter'', which means for that time the world would be in an endless night thanks to the atmospheric debris blocking out the sun, global temperatures would plummet and photosynthesis would cease. All plant life and phytoplankton would collapse, animal life would follow. The only warm blooded animals to survive would be tiny generalist [small rats, small pigeons]. 

 

Today there are 7.8 billion humans, we are big warm blooded animals that need a lot of food, with global agriculture collapsing and then vegetation collapsing could we survive? 

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  • 8 months ago
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    Or say the Biblical view that they were lost in the great flood of Noah and only 8 people survived on a boat built by God's instructions.  The Bible does say there were giants in the land and men of renown.  Mythology has a lot of truth to it.  I believe all of mythology was based on some portion of truth.

  • 8 months ago

    They say the only species to survive anything would be the cock roach, make what you will with that. 

  • Anonymous
    8 months ago

    Lovely story Ray, why bother asking the question?

  • Ludwig
    Lv 7
    8 months ago

    Probably not.  Nothing over about two feet long survived.

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