Armageddon
will be a living rain of fire
and terror from the sky.
On July 4, 2005, NASA's 370 kilogram Deep Impact spacecraft collided into 9P/Comet Tempel 1 and confirmed that comets are natural sources of antimatter. The initial explosion and 19 hour spectacular show produced a billion times more energy than scientists had estimated. The Deep Impact spacecraft was destroyed in the initial explosion that was equal to 67 trillion mega-joules or enough energy to supplied the entire World's energy needs for over one hundred years. The explosion caused thousand of tons of antimatter blasted off the comet and produced a nineteen hour spectacular show.
NASA was lucky that the explosion didn't blast the 350 billion metric ton antimatter comet into trillions pieces, which would have started Armageddon. The particles would have dispersed in an elliptical orbit around the Sun and start periodically colliding with Mars in January 2022.
Armageddon would have started at the end of this century with antimatter meteors colliding with the Earth, producing massive nuclear explosions, and destroying everything known to mankind. Society will be helpless. There is nothing that can be done to stop the raining terror or find any protection from it. The future of humanity will be very bleak:
- Explosions over the oceans will produce tsunamis, ocean waves over 100 meters high, that will destroy the coastal cities and billions of lives.
- Worldwide fires will rage out of control for months producing clouds of smoke and carbon dioxide that will block out the sunlight.
- Earthquakes will ripple around the world destroying the remaining man make structures.
- Volcanoes will erupt into the atmosphere &cover everything with trillions of tons of ash.
For the few that survive, it will be a living hell. After several months, the first faint hint of sunshine will come back. As the sky clears, they will be left with small quantities of food and in a cold, bitter environment. The good news is that they survived. The bad new is that there is more death and destruction to come.
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Since the 9P/Tempel 1 Comet was orbiting the Sun, what was not devastated the first time will be destroyed the following years by some of the remaining comet fragments. After years of the terror and destruction, only several thousand people will survive around the world; and mankind will be driven back to living as caveman. If Atlantis is used as an example, mankind will take over twelve thousand years to recover. |
This is an optimistic assessment.
A direct earth
impact
would be more devastating.
NASA should
inform the public about the dangers and opportunities
of antimatter. Astronomers and scientists should discuss
their plans to avoid collision with comets like
9P/Comet
Tempel 1; and how they plan to use antimatter to benefit humanity.