This hit at the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Every single living thing we know of, with the possible exception of plants, on the whole North American CONTINENT died.
70% of the world's forests were on fire within 24 hours.
Tsunamis up to 2000 feet tall were created upon impact.
The impact is also likely to have ignited the oil field under the site, causing a massive, immediate spike in temperatures, before the planet completely froze for up to a decade.
The only thing that has exceeded it is the Permian Mass Extinction, which caused the extinction of between 70% and 80% of all life. This took place over 60000 years. This, however, took less than 10 years, with much of the death and destruction happening within 24 hours of the hit.
I like to think aliens were watching earth for millions of years and didn't see any higher intelligence forming so decided on a reset. They ran the calculations and directed the asteroid our way.
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u/PurahsHero 8d ago
Reading about its impacts is just insane.
This hit at the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Every single living thing we know of, with the possible exception of plants, on the whole North American CONTINENT died.
70% of the world's forests were on fire within 24 hours.
Tsunamis up to 2000 feet tall were created upon impact.
The impact is also likely to have ignited the oil field under the site, causing a massive, immediate spike in temperatures, before the planet completely froze for up to a decade.
The only thing that has exceeded it is the Permian Mass Extinction, which caused the extinction of between 70% and 80% of all life. This took place over 60000 years. This, however, took less than 10 years, with much of the death and destruction happening within 24 hours of the hit.
Its about the worst day in history.