Asteroid: 2nd Trumpet
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The first Trumpet scorched the land. The second sets its sights on the sea — and what falls from the sky this time is on a scale humanity has only seen once before, 66 million years ago. "Something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea." A mass roughly 10 kilometers wide, screaming in at 20 kilometers per second — more than 58 times the speed of sound — slams into the deep ocean and unleashes 100 teratons of explosive energy: 4.5 billion times the power of Hiroshima. In this episode, we run the forensic numbers against the closest thing science has to a precedent — the Chicxulub impact that ended the age of the dinosaurs — and trace the cascade this judgment triggers.
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