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I can only imagine how disastrous this was for the local trout season.
TWISTEDRABBIT87 (1 month ago)
"a little off the top" what my barber does:
dfs-comedy (1 year ago)
"I wish I was there to see it" but "I'm glad I wasn't there to see it" are the two thoughts living in my head at the same time.
Gamelot7 (5 months ago)
A timescale would be cool.
jaydonbooth4042 (3 years ago (edited))
Wow, those fluid dynamics are amazing. Crazy to imagine the real impact.
DderwenWyllt (3 years ago)
What I find amazing about collisions of these sizes is the fact they're so massive that the tidal forces alone are enough to liquify entire planets before they've even collided, watching incoming objects being stretched out as they reach their periapsis mesmerizes me every single time.
ParallelPenguins (3 years ago)
Gotta say the way the earth just went full liquid and you could see the ripples go back and forth was amazing and terrifying and fascinating. I’m gonna watch this a few times more.
duckilythelovely3040 (3 years ago)
What's really crazy and wild, is when you try to imagine just how horrific and violent the scenario actually would have looked to the human eye.
El_Migz (3 years ago)
To have a "fly-on-the-wall" view of the actual collision would be equal parts amazing and terrifying.
avnix4326 (2 weeks ago)
>punches earth
Nautilus-st6dl (11 months ago)
1:30 If those little blobs didn't get into the roche limit, we could have had another moon :(
Thoran666 (3 years ago)
Fascinating animation. So some parts of Moonearth are probably still flying through space as asteroids?
Earth2058 (2 years ago)
1:32 wholesome moment