Wanna destroy the world?

Purdue University has teamed up with Imperial College London to create an impact simulator to calculate what would happen if an asteroid or a comet were to crash into the earth. Enter your various parameters and see what you would experience at a distance from the impact of your choosing.

Here’s the flashy version

There’s also a text-based version if your computer doesn’t like the other (mine only ran it once, then refused to again).

My only regret is that it speaks very little about the long-term effects of such an impact. But they can’t do everything.

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