You're most likely right about the scale of nuke impact, John. My concern was about the post-blast radiation, but was kinda shooting argument from the hip. Good think I said "possible exception" :-)
Btw, did you read about the discovery of a *huge* impact crater under the ice in Antarctica, that looks like good explanation for the Perm/Trias extinction that paved the way for the dinosaurs: http://geology.com/news/2006/06/meteor-impact-crater-discovered-under.html Jostein On 12/23/06, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 09:06:33PM +0100, Jostein ?ksne wrote: > > I share your worries, Tim, but not the reasoning. :-) > > Mother earth will do well even with all the crap we can throw at her. > > With possible exception of a massive nuclear war, she has taken worse > > blows before and just brought new life forms into existence. > > I think you underestimate mother nature. The entire earth stockpile > of nuclear weapons looks insignificant when compared to the energy > in the storms of a major hurricane season. And the secondary effects > (dust in the atmosphere, etc.) pale besides the contributions of a > massive volcanic eruption. > > Then, of course, there's a massive meteor strike like the one that > is currently believed to have hastened the end of the dinosaurs; > that's thousands of times more devastating than anything we can do. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
