alt Hacker NewsSuppose an asteroid strikes the Earth and all human life becomes extinct. What power, specifically, has been transferred, and to where?
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wredcoll • today at 2:10 AM
If a tree falls and no human hears it did it make a noise?
Suppose an asteroid strikes the Earth and all human life becomes extinct. What power, specifically, has been transferred, and to where?
If a tree falls and no human hears it did it make a noise?
When an asteroid strikes Earth, its kinetic power is rapidly transferred primarily to the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface in the forms of thermal energy (heating and vaporization), mechanical energy (crater formation and ejecta), and seismic energy (earthquakes and waves).