The amazing AsteroidLauncher simulator lets you hurl a space rock at Earth to see the amount of devastation it would cause.
A new asteroid impact simulator from creative coder Neal Agarwal is as entertaining as it is terrifying.
What makes Asteroid Launcher particularly fascinating is that it lets you make various selections such as the asteroid’s size and composition, its speed and impact angle, and the precise point where it strikes Earth. It then lists the effects of the impact in remarkable detail — possibly a bit too much detail for some folks.
So then what would happen if, for example, a mile-wide iron asteroid traveling at 38,000 mph struck Hollywood, a place more used to depicting disasters than experiencing one? Asteroid Launcher’s data doesn’t stop there, either, as it also helpfully informs us that around 9 million people would perish in the resulting fireball, while some 5 million would die from the shock wave. Wind speeds would peak at more than 10,000 mph and homes within 250 miles would collapse. Oh, and anyone within 110 miles would suffer ruptured eardrums. And although the simulator doesn’t say, expect Hollywood’s movie output to be adversely affected, too.
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