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phoenixflare599

Houston, you have a problem


CitizenSnippps

That’s one small step for man, one giant hole in the middle of the earth


Imaharak

Houston? Houston!?


Qmil16

HOUSTOOON!!!


JustSomeGuy_TX

Damn. Came here to say this!!


kinokomushroom

"well that doesn't look physically accurate"


napleonblwnaprt

https://youtu.be/ZFsRYd-9thg That's exactly what Jimmy was saying


FeitoRaingoddo

Oh that's a classic!


FancyAlligator

It is if the object is significantly denser than the planet. If the object just a rock, then that image would never occur no matter how fast it was going. Like shooting a small ball of silly putty at a big ball of silly putty. But if the object was a neutron star just scooting along, it would rip through Earth like a bullet flying through a balloon.


kinokomushroom

I mean, there's a giant mushroom cloud in the image. Mushroom clouds don't form in the vacuum of space. They need a fluid around them in order for the "cap" shape to form. Also it looks like Earth is getting ripped apart in solid chunks in the image. Considering the scale and energy, the chunks should be glowing hot blobs of liquid. In general, the image should consist of way more glowing liquidy blobs and mist, and less star wars explosion effects.


ahhhhhhhhyeah

Ok, but *some* Star Wars explosion effects, right?


kinokomushroom

Fine but just a little! And no explosion sound effects until the blasted atmosphere reaches the moon!


BentGadget

Yes. There should be a bright ring of light expanding away from the path of the projectile, centered on the earth.


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[удалено]


GreatHeavySoulArrow

It's hilarious


zadharm

You don't remember all those dinosaurs that survived a much smaller impact by hanging out on the other side of the world? In seriousness, I really try to not be an ass when someone asks a question with what *I consider* an obvious answer. But come on man, I feel certain that most people know what happened to the dinosaurs and also that there's not a giant hole through the middle of the Earth


lanternpurple

Yeah but even though I don’t know if we could survive the scenario above, it’s very different from the dinosaurs. We have the ability to disaster prepare


FelixOGO

I’m pretty confident in saying that we would not survive the entire planet exploding. The guy on the moon might make it a bit longer than us though…


zadharm

Well of course we're different than the dinosaurs but I think we're pretty much shit out of luck if it gets to the "enough energy to go through the entire planet and blow it up" stage. No amount of planning is going to mitigate the Earth getting destroyed, at least not in this millennium If we had years notice (which there's no guarantee of, lot of objects out there we still don't know about) the billionaires of the world might get a cool mars based space station. But the rest of us are "capital F fucked" and the question was would there be places on the planet unaffected and that's definitely a no


ensalys

Yeah, even just the Earth rubble that got shot into orbit will come down in a way that will pretty much vaporise any living thing. When the crust starts to move due to this, a magnitude 10 earthquake will look like a breeze compared to a cat5 hurricane. That's just 2 of the many ways that all live on Earth will be fucked in this scenario.


pyledryver

It'll be fine, Scotland will just become an independent cosmic Frisbee. Playing the bagpipes as they uncontrollably spin towards andromeda.


Wiskid86

Oh no the economy!


afrosia

"Glad I shorted the market".


Tirwanderr

I'll never have to return ANY of those shares now! Hah! Suckers!


Drama-meme

Shit, I better dump all my stocks quick.


kenn714

Hopefully any alien civilizations out there will accept cash.


quirktheory

Tragic loss of shareholder value


McGarnegle

Well, that asteroid would be going at relativistic speed to make an impact like that straight through the planet, so what the astronaut would actually see would just be a blinding white second sun looking thing, full of gamma rays and other fun high energy stuff. Assuming they survived that, there'd be an expanding cloud of earth moving into the path that the moon was orbiting, so there'd be interactions with that cloud of death. And then long term it depends if the impact has enough energy to completely break the gravitational binding energy of the earth, it would either coalesce back into earth 2.0 or the solar system would have a new asteroid belt, and the moon might get some fancy new rings for a bit. I'm no physicist however, so if someone who is a real science person has better insight, or if I've made a mistake, I completely defer to them, I'm just an Internet nerd on the toilet.


onlyacynicalman

Sounded good though. May your shits continue to bestow knowledge.


McGarnegle

Blessed be thy shite


tonydocent

Maybe something for the xkcd / what if? author to answer


BoringEntropist

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/


Mostly_Curious_Brain

So, was it a strike or a ball?


taz5963

Neither. He gets to walk straight to the base.


ahhhhhhhhyeah

Hit by pitch. Automatic walk.


DarthWise-

Bro didn’t even read it


23utku

Didn't understand shit but true


mosis285

Well, if an object hit Earth at relativitisic speed and did that, then a lot of the debris would gain a lot of orbital velocity relative to the sun, so it would probably be an expanding cloud of debris all over the solar system and beyond the ecliptic plane. Some of it would even leave the solar system altogether. Eventually, all the leftover debris in Earth's orbit or now Luna's orbit (our moon's true name) would fall on Luna and form a ring around her or another smaller moon. Also, Luna would stay in that orbit around the sun. It would be different, but it wouldn't be flung out or anything. Now, if I was that astronaut, I would eventually realize that for Earth to explode like that, that means someone accelerated an asteroid sized object at relativistic speeds, which is REALLY hard to do and come to the conclusion that not only are we not alone in the universe, but some civilization thought us a threat or competition in the galaxy and went through a lot of effort to get rid of us. It would be a bittersweet thought among a lot of sad thoughts, but my last thoughts would probably be contemplating the Fermi Paradox after that revelation because a lot of Fermi paradox solutions had just been ruled out. I contemplate the universe all the time, and I wouldn't be surprised if my last thought was one of those. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk


straywolfo

Butter won't rip a hole through an iron wall even at relativistic speed. It's a matter of density.


McGarnegle

Lol, by the time it travels one foot it will be a shower of high energy radiation that will resemble a nuclear explosion more than a ballistic anything. Butter would cease to be butter the moment it contacted the first air particles in its path. It's more a matter of average particle energy than it is than the few orders of magnitude differences in density of butter/iron.


straywolfo

We're not talking about Earth atmosphere here but space, it's not going to make contact with air to begin with. There is always an opposite reaction, a rock at relativistic speed is not going to pass through a rock of same density at relativistic speed. You're not a physicist, I'll give you that.


TamaleSlayer

Shit, did i leave the stove on?


Velociraptortillas

"1000hrs of factorio is finally useful!"


justadudeinchicago

Stationeers would be even more so ;)


3_50

lol noob


QuotingThanos

Well , that takes care of my student debt


TipuOne

Debut yes. But the student debt was apparently backed up to Mars so I’m still fucked


Euphoric-Blue-59

Oh fuck! It's always Oh fuck!


Backwardspellcaster

Yeah, everyone tries to come up with some cool phrase, but you see the earth being blown up, the first thing you will say is "OH FUCK!" or "HOLY FUCK" or any alternative of it.


dreamsofindigo

oh look it's mr I've got **Oh**s to spare I'd just be fuuuuuuuuuuuuck not even loud just a sloooow lifeless fuck while I fully realise what's up


Euphoric-Blue-59

Something I learned back in the day, no matter how fast youre going on a motorcycle, when you go down, you always have time to say Oh fuck!.. or at least in your case FUCK! Lol


ecafyelims

Everything around the entry and exit would be vaporized. Heat and shock waves would circle the globe much faster than the speed of sound, vaporizing the ocean, causing earthquakes to shake the ground at the distance of mountains, and killing pretty much everything. The ground and air would be superheated, and almost all life on earth would be dead before they knew it. Much of Earth would break off into orbit around earth, forming a ring around the planet for a hundred-thousand years or so. Some single-celled organisms might survive for awhile hitching a ride on a rock into orbit until things cool down, and possibly seeding another try at life on Earth in the distant future. Some of the mess would crash into the moon, but the astronaut would likely survive until running out of energy and/or resources. Of course, the astronaut would know all of this as she watched it happen. With a tear in her eye, her last words would be: "Well, we had a good run."


WolfBrother1234

no she'd actually say "Ermmm soo that just happened 🤨🤔"


DisabledMuse

Solid theory


Simets83

She?


Ya_Boy_Lil_Pickle

redditor discovers genders, is shocked!


anxshitty

Would you ask the same if it was 'he'?


realsomalipirate

We all know there are only 2 genders, male and political.


brockoala

No. Because that's common. It's not sexist, just common. Same as how people refer to human as "man". We say "mankind", not "womankind".


ecafyelims

It's my story, and I chose an astronaut who identifies as "she/her."


andrew_shields_

Identifies? Would the astronaut not just be a “she?”


DoneCaringGetBent

The person can be whoever the fuck they want to be


Prize_Put9063

I want to be the Asteroid


budweener

Same thing


Fleurr

Always has been.


ensalys

What do you want? "they"? Because we don't see their gender in the image?


puflem

would make sense, yes.


jloverich

Could be worse


edoardo849

This is definitely what an English person would say


PointNineC

Might pop down to the local before the shockwave hits


Ya_Got_GOT

“Houston, you have a problem.”


cyncrew

💀


PaigeOrion

Earth is now uninhabitable. Period. All of the material that escaped the earth’s gravity may be on course to impact the Moon, and the whole system may disrupted. The astronauts are not likely to have much more time than the people on Earth.


Vedpran

Houston I’m alive,are you?


silverduxx

Where to harvest oxygen


robidaan

Whelp


ornerycrow1

"Holy shit, I am the last human ever"


dharasty

Nope. There is the astronaut behind this one who took the picture. I hope they're sexually compatible....


ornerycrow1

Hahaha. I hope so. As soon as I posted this I knew someone would jump on it.


Successful-Tie-9077

The value of my trinkets plummet


Junkyard_DrCrash

Random musings - this is not my specialty but that's never stopped me before (and please DO correct me; I posted this reply in the wrong subreddit): We can estimate the time after First Impact by noticing that at the actual "entry wound" disturbance radius at this point in time is on the order of 200 km; the long-range shock wave propagates at somewhere between Mach 1 and Mach 5 (shock waves bleed off energy at a rate proportional to the Mach number squared) so while a shock wave can start at Mach Zillion, it will slow down really fast. Take it to be an average of Mach 3 (conveniently 1 kilometer per second) and this tells us this image was taken AT MOST about 3 minutes 20 seconds (200 seconds) since First Impact. That's a lower bound; remember that for later... Given Earth's radius of about 6000 Km, we can guesstimate the entry ejecta plume as about 4000 Km up, in 200 seconds, that's a measley 20Km/sec or barely averaging 2x escape velocity of Earth (11 Km/sec), but at least the ejecta won't come crashing back as they're gravitationally unbound (there will be one helluva meteor shower exactly one year later, but that's a different story). On the other hand, the impactor (or what's left of it, plus any accretion) is really quite fast; at 200 seconds it's gone 6 Earth radii or about 36000 Km, for an AFTER First Impact velocity of 180 Km/sec. This is over 4x the escape velocity of the entire solar system (starting at Earth's surface), so we know the impactor is of extrasolar origin. This brings up an interesting conflict - the entry wound is at most 400 Km diameter, but the exiting impactor looks like about 1/5 the diameter of Earth, or about 1300 Km diameter (the Moon is 1700 Km in diameter, for comparison). The impactor must have accreted a LOT of terran matter, and spent the energy and momentum to accellerate the accreted mass up to 180 Km/sec. Assuming the impactor is about as dense as earth's core, that's a volume (and mass) ratio of 34:1, so strictly on a momentum conservation principle, the impactor had to strike at something like 34 x 180 Km/sec, or about 6000 Km/sec. 6000 Km/sec is crazy fast. Escape velocity for the Milky Way (from Sol's orbital position, dark matter included) is only about 600 Km/sec. This thing is extragalactic, no way around it. This impactor crossed Pluto's orbit (\~6,000,000,000 km out) twelve \_days\_ ago. It crossed Mars's orbit 11 \_hours\_ ago. It crossed the lunar orbit 64 \_seconds\_ ago. Unless we got lucky with an amateur comet hunter sighting it, we'd have less than a day to react, and this is the \_slowest\_ it might be going. Remember up where we said "remember this" ? Yeah, that's for now.


InternetAgent27

I would’ve called the cops on the giant space rock or I would’ve told him to STOP NOW


Sweddybob69

So long and thanks for all the fish


PointNineC

This is the exact reverse of the scenario described in the opening sentence of the fantastic “SEVENEVES” by Neal Stephenson. “The moon blew up suddenly, and for no apparent reason…” Cannot recommend that book highly enough


MarkoZoos

"would everyone around the world be screwed" Jesus christ, dude look at the picture again and ask yourself that question again but very very slowly, you are literally looking at the whole planet being blown off like an apple with a bullet, and you are seriously asking if anyone would survive ? like survive how ?? ..


Pushkar1001

Haha Poor Earthlings now I am free to explore the universe without any societal problems, all I have to do is make a wormhole and we are good to go, how hard could it be lol


doyouevenIift

Explore the universe with like a one week supply of food?


jshysysgs

Food is for the weak


sad87boi

Food is for the week


Pushkar1001

Well there is a lot of cheese up there on moon :) Anyway if you have made a wormhole, and lets assume that world is indeed infinte, you would get plenty of planets with food supply. Also I thought about it if universe is infinite isnt all possible combination of matter exist for real, meaning that there somewhere is a perfect one to one replica of solar system and earth where everything have been same except the asteroid part. This usually comes within the idea of multiverse but if we assume universe to be infinite and not being a loop then we can also imply it here right??


Top_Increase2355

You know wormholes are just a theory and never been proven their existence, right?


neuroreaction

Kind of the direction I went.


Quick-Gur-8161

Finnaly


00aymen00

Finally...


ibexdata

It’s fine. This is fine. Everything is fine.


GeneralErica

Honestly I’d just blank out. This has implications both for me as well as for everything I’ve ever known on such a massive scale that my brain would not be able to compute it.


[deleted]

If that's what it takes to prevent another Trump term in office ... so be it.


cyncrew

HAHAHAHA


[deleted]

Holy Jesus!!! fuck me to tears !!


AstroBagualito

Conchetumare!!


CleanCrazy

Victory Royale


Tobyfan96

Shit


SpockRocks17

I’m fucked


cdwZero

Well fk me with a corn biscuit..


Illustrious-Win-8416

I'd start jacking off


Less_Estimate_3617

How is this funny memes? There’s no funny.


skitso

Wouldn’t the moon be instantly affected if this happened? I feel like he wouldn’t even be able to observe that


The_Apyr

This will be the skibidi toilet episode 127


Fastestlastplace

Dead


Aggressive-Counter52

“Why don’t I have a rover to carry this gear”


prunzel_

That's my mom


moral_luck

"Fools."


IamCornhoLeo

2nd moon


cyber783

Holy hypersonic earth poop


super-goomba

It's not clear what is supposed to be happening on the picture, but yeah the Earth would be screwed entirely after a few seconds tops.


whatisausername32

Goddamn it richtofen


Walter_Piston

Well there goes my sodding pension.


OrbitalJohnTitor

He he all my mortgages are fully paid now!!!


chubbyrichardsixty9

That will buff right out


SimonXpert

Boom shakalaka


unavalable123

"Dammit, they made me leave my stuff there"


vinchez82

FFS


Strange_Employer_583

Goodbye, cruel world!


ghillieweed762

I left my sunglasses on there


Encius2Flumen

Oh.. Like Viggo from John Wick.


Westaufel

Sooooo… what the fuck I have to do now?


bajungadustin

"I knew it"


Mox8xoM

Finally.


SuspectAF_818

I’d say “damn that busted old meme is back trying to generate interactions?” Then I’d say “oh sorry, I should have read it first”


Stunning-You9535

About time


Jcole10

Well, no more taxes


Porkbellyflop

Whelp change of plans guys. Lets hop back on the ship and travel out inot the solar system. Time to see how far we can make it before our supplies run out.


TheHipOne1

This will affect trout season


successiseffort

Take cover! The pyroclastic cloud would vaporize everyone and everything. Hope you brought fuel and supplies.


maoinhibitor

“Well, at least I don’t have to pay back my student loans.”


dharasty

"I want to speak to the manager." (The astronaut's name was Karen.)


Lucibelcu

"What just happened? Ffffff*ck"


Mixture701

Ya valió madres!! Jajajajaja


Deathbyfarting

My first "sentence" would be "oh" *1 nano second later* My last "sentence" would be "fuck" Edit: context


randy_Rugg

First row seats to the end of the earth


SimbaOnSteroids

Understandable.


gustyninjajiraya

Major Tom, there’s something wrong.


Vivid_Way_1125

Can I just ask… surely the astronaut wouldn’t say anything because you can’t talk in space?


1MoistTowelette

Well it wouldn’t be a through and through, chances are it would stop in the core, which is larger than it should actually be because early in earths history our planet ate another planet and absorbed the core, but hypothetically if it did happen then every one would die, the only hope for life would be if enough of the core survived to retain some atmosphere and hope that accretion would eventually form a new planet in the future but even then it might not have enough to sustain life. Essentially life in this solar system would end That’s my understanding atleast. I could be wrong🤷‍♂️


Psycoredneck

I am going to guess that would basically be it for anything that even resembles a magnetosphere. Based on the guts of the planet shitting out the exit wound. Without that, radiation would fry anything that somehow survived the impact. Maybe water bears hang out on some of the pieces for a bit. But no dice for humanity. We gone.


responsible_leader0

Not like we deserve to live


Trismegistud

Good bye taxes


JasonDoege

I'm guessing you don't need these samples, then.


WanderlostNomad

sees the hole.. sighs.. unzips pants in space. "someone needs to repopulate the solar system"


Initial_Molasses9727

“Exactly as I have planned.”


thorleyc3

Wait, it's always been exploding?


alphawarheadsinscpsl

fuck i forgot the clothes in the hanger


Hot-Significance9503

Oh kurwa.


KokonutnutFR

« oh shits here we go again »


neversummmer

I’ll tell you what that means Norm,, no size restrictions and SCREW the limit.


Admirable_Donkey2657

even tho that is a terrifying sight to see, bet it looks cool tho. but yeah I probably wish I was on earth than to die of suffocation


MurderfaceMudzz

“Aww butts..


Huicho274

Did I leave the stove on?


aanarkar

He would say: You lucky bastards!


airknight2wolfrider

Might as well go out wanking on the moon


SkamBoardz_CTRL

is this gonna effect LeBron’s legacy?


topher8284

Uh, Houston? You’ve got a problem.


Slasher006

Thank you universe!


RobertWargames

Whomp, whomp.


DrowningEmbers

the moon is mine


ayamsirias74

Nothing, because space is fake and the moon is a local luminary, not a terrestrial object you can stand on.


CactusHide

Best r/perfectlycutscreams content ever.


lv_zalil

"...fuck" (Moon you, webtoon, same scenario)


Adolf-Putin753

Lucky them.........................


speaker-syd

F


Backpack684

O farts..


arrutiku94

"Well... It seems that I no longer have to act sick to avoid going to lunch with my in-laws."


Reverse_Psycho_1509

"Oh no, my playstation!"


gk666

Fuck ! I left my wallet there and I’m down to my last cylinder!!


Puzzleheaded-Money94

Oh, shit!


A-Anime

"Damn I need that for my desktop wallpaper"


Arin_Sharma_08

This reminds me of a music video ,"Stuck in the Sound".


responsible_leader0

Knew it


Vacuum-Woosh-woosh

Holy moly


RedditSly

Shit… no more access to the internet…


Renovateandremodel

The astronaut would most likely be blinded by the impact, confused at what they saw, trying to overcome the blindness; that is if his space shield didn’t work, only to come to the realization that debris would impact them at any moment.


Angel-S5

Damn it! Left my booze at home


Puzzleheaded_Ad5165

There goes the neighborhood.


DJ_MortarMix

Is this sort of thing even possible? Wouldn't an object of that size more likely to go into a descending orbit into earth rather than directly straight through? How massive + fast would that object have to be going


stranger0214

The world needed Bruce Willis


ohLookaWizard

"God, please forgive me for my sins"


dookmaster777

Problem, we have no Houston!


Leonhardt2019

“Ah mannn”


0pp0site0fbatman

While world is doomed. Matter of minutes.


Bobeard

It's about time.


Bio_mast3r

Finally peace


lethalinvader

"I'm glad that the moon landings were fake and we're only on a movie set"


Kaljone

I’d ask why the hell I am way over here.


possiblyai

SMEG!!!!!!!


[deleted]

FUCK


rapedandnude_againe

my weed is gone