• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Probably depends on the angle of entry. Consider its velocity though, and the time it’d take to descend through just a couple miles of atmosphere once it becomes brightly visible.

    Movie meteors are very, very slowed down. Cinematic effect and all.

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      7 months ago

      The Chicxulub impactor struck at about a 60° angle. As fast as it was moving (20km per second) they probably wouldn’t have seen anything prior to the actual impact. They would however see the giant ash and dust plume since Chicxulub made a crater 100km wide and 30km deep.

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          7 months ago

          More recent evidence suggests the crater is 300 km (190 mi) wide, and the 180 km (110 mi) ring is an inner wall of it.

          Further down on the wiki page

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          7 months ago

          Is there an Easter egg? Tried it on mobile didn’t get anything, will try to remember to try it on desktop.

          • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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            7 months ago

            Yeah a little meteor flies across the screen and a few seconds later it shakes.

            I kinda miss when Google was just the company with a useful search engine that did cute shit like that.

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              Yeah just tried it now, it’s cute, it’s indeed a shame I can never appreciate these the same way.