Douglas wrote: > Yes, I did. And thanks for the spelling help. I am dyslexic and really > suck at spelling. Mostly the Spelling checker helps out but in this > case I was sleepy and could not find right spelling for the word.
Spellcheckers can't catch right words in the wrong place, and a 'big commit' could have been slang for something like people getting together to do something, which made no sense in context. > Does > not help living in Germany and never seeing much English ether. Where? I live in Berlin. > I did mean big, But, I do acknowledge that for it do be big enough, I > think it would kill the whole planet. If say some bit of planet that > got smashed up at the beginning of the solar system found its way to > Earth. Or maybe a huge flock of them: would that keep it from totally > destroying the Earth? Deliberate comet strikes figure in some Mars terraforming scenarios, but Mars starts out uninhabitable and making it even more so for a short time seems acceptable. On the other hand, the atmosphere of Earth might burn small comets before they hit the ground. 'Waterworldforming' Earth would have to be a deliberate act, and it is hard to see a reason why. As acts of war go, it is silly. Chris replied to me: > > Ah. Still I don't see introducing enough water for that. > > What if it hit directly on a polar ice cap, causing all the ice to melt? The antarctic covers roughly 3% of earth, so even if all of it melts, we're talking about less than 100 meters globally. That would be a global disaster, and it could kill civilization as we know it (perhaps even humanity), but it would leave plenty of dry land. Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
