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Does the sun being blocked affect electricity?

6 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by ‭PinoBatch‭

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Are large meteor craters possible with the survival of most human society?

1 answer  ·  last activity 6 months ago by ‭Cascader‭

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Who is likely to die because of a prolonged power outage? How long does it take?

3 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭David‭

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How close must a supernova be to severely harm the Earth?

2 answers  ·  last activity 8 months ago by ‭bowlturner‭

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What Kind of Bolide Would Chicxulub Be to Create the Bigger Airburst--Asteroid or Comet?

1 answer  ·  last activity 9 months ago by ‭JohnWDailey‭

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What did the night sky look like 63 million years ago?

3 answers  ·  last activity 10 months ago by ‭fluffy‭

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Floor is lava, need answer

1 answer  ·  last activity 10 months ago by ‭user6760‭

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Is there any way for humanity to cope with perpetual acid rains?

3 answers  ·  last activity 10 months ago by ‭user6760‭

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What would we need to have 1km deep fissures spanning out across the planet?

2 answers  ·  last activity 10 months ago by ‭Sandorien‭

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What would be the effect(s) of this asteroid?

4 answers  ·  last activity 10 months ago by ‭Hunt Castle‭

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How long until land life can return after the impact?

2 answers  ·  last activity 11 months ago by ‭neutralParadox‭

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The moon will fall to earth in 100 years, how fast is the asteroid that knocked it down?

4 answers  ·  last activity 12 months ago by ‭Vogon Poet‭

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What would an asteroid impact feel like to someone standing on the moon?

2 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by ‭breathlessblizzard‭

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Can Shade Balls be used to stop hurricanes?

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by ‭joshua.thomas.bird‭

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What disaster could wipe out civilisation worldwide, but allow for immediate rebuilding? What would be the side effects?

8 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by ‭savo‭

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Can We Prevent an Impact Winter Extinction with Modern Technology?

5 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by ‭overlord - Reinstate Monica‭

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Life on planet regularly hit with meteorites

5 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by ‭Harshmellow‭

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What would it look like if a portal opened to a dimension with drastically less energy?

3 answers  ·  last activity about 1 year ago by ‭Jake‭

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A Dozen Cubic Miles of Volcanic Ash--How Big Would the Cloud Be?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by ‭JohnWDailey‭

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High-Altitude Asteroid Impact

2 answers  ·  last activity over 1 year ago by ‭JohnWDailey‭

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Human caused disasters creating a whole new continent

2 answers  ·  last activity almost 2 years ago by ‭Rose‭

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How would constant rhythmic tsunamis affect the coast lines of the Atlantic Ocean?

1 answer  ·  last activity almost 2 years ago by ‭Michael Faraday‭

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What natural event could strip all of Earth atmosphere?

5 answers  ·  last activity almost 2 years ago by ‭user6760‭

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Effects of asteroid passing very close to the planet

5 answers  ·  last activity about 2 years ago by ‭martinkunev‭

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How to wipe out ALL life on Earth, but leave it habitable?

5 answers  ·  last activity about 2 years ago by ‭SealBoi‭

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Extinction Equilibrium: 50%

8 answers  ·  last activity about 2 years ago by ‭JohnWDailey‭

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What could explain why trees only have 12 rings?

13 answers  ·  last activity about 2 years ago by ‭Reactgular‭

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An Inverse Great Dying

5 answers  ·  last activity about 2 years ago by ‭JohnWDailey‭

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To Conquer the Earth by Appearing Ship

8 answers  ·  last activity about 2 years ago by ‭BMS21‭

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Can I trigger supernova artificially?

4 answers  ·  last activity over 2 years ago by ‭trejder‭

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Would an asteroid of similar size to the one that hit 65 million years ago cause humans to go extinct?

8 answers  ·  last activity over 2 years ago by ‭Dibran Joe‭

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How many "years without a summer" can society survive?

4 answers  ·  last activity over 2 years ago by ‭EveryBitHelps‭

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Recipe For the 300-Mile Wide Crater

2 answers  ·  last activity over 2 years ago by ‭JohnWDailey‭

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Likely warning time for extinction event asteroid

3 answers  ·  last activity over 2 years ago by ‭JBiggs‭

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Do different angles of strike affect the destructive power of an asteroid?

1 answer  ·  last activity over 2 years ago by ‭System‭

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What would life be like on the remnants of a shattered planet?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 2 years ago by ‭ApproachingDarknessFish‭

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A few dozen Millennia after Yellowstone erupts, how close would a parking lot look to a natural Iron Vein?

3 answers  ·  last activity over 3 years ago by ‭Sidney‭

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How could a triggered earthquake be stopped?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 3 years ago by ‭user7737‭

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What would be the consequences for Earth if the moon disappeared?

5 answers  ·  last activity almost 4 years ago by ‭Explorer‭

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What would be the immediate climatic effects of having a continent appear out of nowhere?

2 answers  ·  last activity almost 4 years ago by ‭System‭

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Is it possible for coronal mass ejections or perhaps a gamma ray burst to cause firestorms on an earth-like planet?

3 answers  ·  last activity almost 4 years ago by ‭J. Crane‭

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How can I catch an asteroid?

5 answers  ·  last activity almost 4 years ago by ‭ckersch‭

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How to prepare for a huge asteroid strike?

11 answers  ·  last activity about 4 years ago by ‭Aracthor‭

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How can an entire kingdom be removed from the middle of a continent?

8 answers  ·  last activity about 4 years ago by ‭Owlitz‭

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Making doomsayers right - a moon(s), planet alignment that matters

4 answers  ·  last activity about 4 years ago by ‭James‭

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How to naturally maintain a Earth-sized Planetary Ring System and the possible periodic bombardment that can ensue?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 4 years ago by ‭EveryBitHelps‭

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What part of the coast gets hit by the tsunami?

3 answers  ·  last activity over 4 years ago by ‭Joe‭

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Results of Pangaea

3 answers  ·  last activity over 4 years ago by ‭Addy Daudrich‭

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How to explain perpetual earthquake magnitude at least 5 on Richter scale?

2 answers  ·  last activity over 4 years ago by ‭user6760‭

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How big a black hole is needed for this story?

3 answers  ·  last activity over 4 years ago by ‭Henry Taylor‭

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