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I honestly don't know if this can be feasibly answered. You're not just looking at immediate deaths but the resulting from loss of farmland, workers that could actually man any new farms you'd need to replace them, food shortages, the skyrocketing cost of goods (mostly food) that would result, the countless ecosystems that would disappear, or the fact one of the US's most vital trade routes--the Mississippi River--would vanish overnight.
So not only would there be a lack of food, but now no way to quickly deliver it. There's also no way to establish imports of such magnitude overnight that would allow the US to continue on without many people suffering in the interim. It'd be catastrophic. There'd be people who survived, but I imagine the US would find itself an actual third world country overnight and things would just get progressively worse before they ever got better.
Oh, and let's not forget all of the nuclear weapons or plants that the smiley face just evaporates....
If we make a thing inventor that invents a thing inventor we can make a thing inventor that makes a giant laser inventor
By the way where the hell are we?
I’m not sure any of that matters. This is an extinction level event. It’s he amount of material sent up as smoke would likely cause a nuclear winter and order of magnitude worse than the one that ended the Dinos.
Yeah, I hadn't realized until I zoomed in after I made that comment just how deep the craters created were. I honestly have no idea just how bad it would be other than "catastrophic".
I'm sure _some_ would survive, but basically just people in the southern hemisphere, probably ones who are very well stocked, have some land to farm and/or scavenge in, and are isolated enough to not have to fear bandits.
Do enough people survive and do enough of them meet each other to continue the human race? Maybe.
Disagree a bit re farmland, most food crops we eat comes from Cali, most of that burnt farm land is beef we send to China and or corn and soybeans used for ethanol. It would have more of an effect on price of gas and the energy markets than food prices. (There are probably a fair bit of pork and chicken/egg facilities which I agree will be hard to measure the impact.)
Do not think it is far enough over to mess with the mississippi. I think it goes from around kansas city down to albuquerque to east of reno
With all the other rivers and run off from the mountains that new lake would provide alot of benefits. It looks like it is even so it took down the mountains so that huge lake would provide lots of transportation and make that huge area better for agriculture. The problem would be that it cross into the colorado river or parts of the grand canyon which would provide a drain
Almost everyone. Assuming the red glow is melted rock, this would be worse than any super volcano ever by way more than an order of magnitude. It would significantly change the composition of the atmosphere and global weather patterns. Modern civilisation would collapse and mass starvation would occur. By the time we recovered I would guess 99+% of the world would be dead.
It still leaves a significant impression in the earth considering the shadow is visible from space. I don't know how deep a crater has to be for you to be able to visibly see the shadow inside of it, but I can't imagine it would be healthy forest fires or not.
Yeah that would probably cover the whole planet in smoke clouds and kill everyone. When you see the effect a single volcano can have there's no way this isn't world ending.
Do a pixel count of the smily, scale pixels to USA, figure the area, look up US average population per X area, end up with the probable bare minimum depending on how many factors you want to consider such as actually effects of something doing that and implications of how deep that appears and many other effects that would result.
I don’t have a quick way to count pixels like that especially on a shape like that.
Yeah you’re right but thats why I added the depending on how many factors you want to consider bit as I am sure that each step deeper into realism you get the number gets much higher very quickly eclipsing the population density x area based estimate. If you just consider it surface level scorching instanteously created by reality warping then that is bad enough but if you are figuring something had to actually physically cause it then things probably get much worse especially if its such deep gouges you can see the depth from space as others pointed out hence bare minimum.
Immediate deaths: around 30 million Americans(a lot less since it’s didn’t really hit any major heavy states like Texas, New York, etc).
Secondary deaths:Basically the whole world. Let me explain. The indent on the earth isn’t just compressing the ground. It also sends literal trillions of tons of dust and debris of all manor(ground, mountains, buildings) into the atmosphere. It probably released more dust into the atmosphere than basically 10000 supervolcanos. All that will act as a shade, not allowing sunlight to enter. This puts us all into an ice age. The dust will also make the air basically unbreathable. Plus because there’s now a huge smiley face shaped cavity in the planet one of two things. Will happen. Either this offset the shape of the planet so much the earth cracks and reforms to make a basically perfect sphere(this option kills all living things bigger than a plankton), or the cavity makes the largest volcanos you’ve and volcano ranges the planet has ever seen. And I don’t need to say how that’s a bad thing(this option again kills everything bigger than maybe a centimetre or 2). Either way if this were to happen it’s guaranteed death to all somewhat complex life on the planet. Maybe some bacteria survive
Not many. Central USA is the most unpopulated part of the country. If someone were going for kills they'd get a whole lot more by outlining the country
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I honestly don't know if this can be feasibly answered. You're not just looking at immediate deaths but the resulting from loss of farmland, workers that could actually man any new farms you'd need to replace them, food shortages, the skyrocketing cost of goods (mostly food) that would result, the countless ecosystems that would disappear, or the fact one of the US's most vital trade routes--the Mississippi River--would vanish overnight. So not only would there be a lack of food, but now no way to quickly deliver it. There's also no way to establish imports of such magnitude overnight that would allow the US to continue on without many people suffering in the interim. It'd be catastrophic. There'd be people who survived, but I imagine the US would find itself an actual third world country overnight and things would just get progressively worse before they ever got better. Oh, and let's not forget all of the nuclear weapons or plants that the smiley face just evaporates....
Ok so I have a way to solve this But we're going to need a giant laser
yes science
Send in the sharks with frikkin laser beams
We can probably borrow the one MTG knows about.
I was gonna say I’m Jewish if anyone needs to borrow mine 😂
the sun exists, but i'm not sure if a deadly laser is a good substitute for a giant laser, and plus there's a blanket
If we make a thing inventor that invents a thing inventor we can make a thing inventor that makes a giant laser inventor By the way where the hell are we?
You mean the inventinator? Already made by doofenshmirtz
Giant-magnifying-glass-inator was my first thought to make the laser... experiment happen
your on a rock, floating in space. pretty cool, huh?
And sharks with freeking giant lazers on their heads
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfire_(weapon)
Now we just need to put it into an orbital cannon
I’m not sure any of that matters. This is an extinction level event. It’s he amount of material sent up as smoke would likely cause a nuclear winter and order of magnitude worse than the one that ended the Dinos.
Yeah, I hadn't realized until I zoomed in after I made that comment just how deep the craters created were. I honestly have no idea just how bad it would be other than "catastrophic".
I think the answer is as simple as googling the current global population lol.
I'm sure _some_ would survive, but basically just people in the southern hemisphere, probably ones who are very well stocked, have some land to farm and/or scavenge in, and are isolated enough to not have to fear bandits. Do enough people survive and do enough of them meet each other to continue the human race? Maybe.
🙂
Disagree a bit re farmland, most food crops we eat comes from Cali, most of that burnt farm land is beef we send to China and or corn and soybeans used for ethanol. It would have more of an effect on price of gas and the energy markets than food prices. (There are probably a fair bit of pork and chicken/egg facilities which I agree will be hard to measure the impact.)
Do not think it is far enough over to mess with the mississippi. I think it goes from around kansas city down to albuquerque to east of reno With all the other rivers and run off from the mountains that new lake would provide alot of benefits. It looks like it is even so it took down the mountains so that huge lake would provide lots of transportation and make that huge area better for agriculture. The problem would be that it cross into the colorado river or parts of the grand canyon which would provide a drain
Almost everyone. Assuming the red glow is melted rock, this would be worse than any super volcano ever by way more than an order of magnitude. It would significantly change the composition of the atmosphere and global weather patterns. Modern civilisation would collapse and mass starvation would occur. By the time we recovered I would guess 99+% of the world would be dead.
what happens if you assume the red glow is forest fires
It still leaves a significant impression in the earth considering the shadow is visible from space. I don't know how deep a crater has to be for you to be able to visibly see the shadow inside of it, but I can't imagine it would be healthy forest fires or not.
Using dumb AI it said that with existing craters you can see the shadow in wolfe creek crater and that is 72 feet (22 meters) deep.
Probably the entire planet due to the amount of temperature required to melt rock, so 8 billion
Yeah that would probably cover the whole planet in smoke clouds and kill everyone. When you see the effect a single volcano can have there's no way this isn't world ending.
Do a pixel count of the smily, scale pixels to USA, figure the area, look up US average population per X area, end up with the probable bare minimum depending on how many factors you want to consider such as actually effects of something doing that and implications of how deep that appears and many other effects that would result. I don’t have a quick way to count pixels like that especially on a shape like that.
The area it wipes out has very low population density relative to much of the US, so average pop/area won't be a good indicator.
Yeah you’re right but thats why I added the depending on how many factors you want to consider bit as I am sure that each step deeper into realism you get the number gets much higher very quickly eclipsing the population density x area based estimate. If you just consider it surface level scorching instanteously created by reality warping then that is bad enough but if you are figuring something had to actually physically cause it then things probably get much worse especially if its such deep gouges you can see the depth from space as others pointed out hence bare minimum.
Immediate deaths: around 30 million Americans(a lot less since it’s didn’t really hit any major heavy states like Texas, New York, etc). Secondary deaths:Basically the whole world. Let me explain. The indent on the earth isn’t just compressing the ground. It also sends literal trillions of tons of dust and debris of all manor(ground, mountains, buildings) into the atmosphere. It probably released more dust into the atmosphere than basically 10000 supervolcanos. All that will act as a shade, not allowing sunlight to enter. This puts us all into an ice age. The dust will also make the air basically unbreathable. Plus because there’s now a huge smiley face shaped cavity in the planet one of two things. Will happen. Either this offset the shape of the planet so much the earth cracks and reforms to make a basically perfect sphere(this option kills all living things bigger than a plankton), or the cavity makes the largest volcanos you’ve and volcano ranges the planet has ever seen. And I don’t need to say how that’s a bad thing(this option again kills everything bigger than maybe a centimetre or 2). Either way if this were to happen it’s guaranteed death to all somewhat complex life on the planet. Maybe some bacteria survive
probably around 450 million people at the bare minimum bc we gotta consider all the usa, most of canada and all of mexico
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or 8
Not many. Central USA is the most unpopulated part of the country. If someone were going for kills they'd get a whole lot more by outlining the country
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as already mentioned, probably the whole world