Hmmm... so the massive bunker underneath the White House was empty when the meteors started raining down... I would've thought that would've be one of the best 'basements' in the country.
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Hmmm... so the massive bunker underneath the White House was empty when the meteors started raining down... I would've thought that would've be one of the best 'basements' in the country.
A centralized impact large enough to kill everyone inside the beltway would hit right around the White House so there wouldn't any structure remaining, and likely nothing left of the basement as a crater several hundred feet deep and a mile or so wide would wipe everything in downtown DC off the face of the earth (depending on the speed, angle, and consistency of the asteroid).
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Dont say squished into the rock by the sonic boom/siesmic shockwave... Everyone but the guy in his basement lived.
According to Google Earth, I'm 2.59 miles from the White House. Whew, I just dodged the bullet.
For shits and giggles, let's pick a 100m iron asteroid entering at 17km/s. If it hit at the Washington Monument at 45 degrees the following would be annihilated.
The thermal shock would instantly ignite everything wood-based that's unprotected (outside) for 10 miles. Trees, grass, paper, wood buildings all up in flames. This would fry everything inside the beltway. Most people who don't get blown apart from being outside would suffer 3rd degree burns over most of their body.
So, there would be a few people living inside this circle. Of course the closer to the beltway you get the better your chances are. I'd be fucked at work (one story underground) since I'd be in the half mile deep crater...or if I was at home across the river in Arlington. If I wasn't severely cut by all my windows blowing out simultaneously and the resulting fireball cooking my skin and searing my lungs...I'm sure my building would be blown down from the resulting airblast of 1490 mph.
Then there will be the 55 meter size rocks, trees, cars, etc that will be raining upon me about 30 seconds after impact. So if I don't get vaporized, baked, blown apart, I'll get smashed.
And I live 2.9 miles from the White House. If I'm fucked...you're fucked.
The thermal shock would instantly ignite everything wood-based that's unprotected (outside) for 10 miles. Trees, grass, paper, wood buildings all up in flames. This would fry everything inside the beltway. Most people who don't get blown apart from being outside would suffer 3rd degree burns over most of their body.
So, there would be a few people living inside this circle. Of course the closer to the beltway you get the better your chances are. I'd be fucked at work (one story underground) since I'd be in the half mile deep crater...or if I was at home across the river in Arlington. If I wasn't severely cut by all my windows blowing out simultaneously and the resulting fireball cooking my skin and searing my lungs...I'm sure my building would be blown down from the resulting airblast of 1490 mph.
Then there will be the 55 meter size rocks, trees, cars, etc that will be raining upon me about 30 seconds after impact. So if I don't get vaporized, baked, blown apart, I'll get smashed.
And I live 2.9 miles from the White House. If I'm fucked...you're fucked.
Get in my Interceptor and drive west. Then fight off against the reverse vampires who hunt during the day.
I sit there for awhile and think that EVERYTHING else within miles is gone, including my house, yet I'm still alive from hiding in a basement.
Nerd.
Okay... one of the things I'm doing is coming to your place! Don't worry about the guns - I gotcha covered!
Damn skippy.
Plus, you know I was kidding, right?
Whatever man...it's on like Donkey Kong! Have at you!
Assuming Frogger can navigate across the road safely, we're all doomed.
Although I can imagine the Earth consumed by a giant Pac-Man.
Lay on, MacDuff!
Oh, right, topic. Um...if by some miracle I survived that, I'd look for any other survivors nearby and then try to work with them to find food and shelter. Screw that 'every man for himself' crap--I need someone to do all the work for me.
So you'd basically con a man to run to McDonalds for ya?
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