• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think there’s anything that could make a crater like that on Earth. Like, an impact big enough to leave a crater that big would render the entire crust splashy enough to fill it back in.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Yeah… from what I remember of dicking around in universe sandbox and space engine a while back… yeah, an impact this massive would … well, now it makes more sense to model earth as a multilayered, viscous liquid, basically.

      You could end up with a ring system or possibly some minor moons, made out of ejecta.

      After basically the entire Earth has turned into ‘the floor is lava’ for… decades? centuries?