Yo qué sé, solo sé que es de un mal gusto flipante.

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Also, the last time I posted a pic of a burning skeleton on Bluesky that came from popular media (Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru) it was hidden as mature content. I wonder how long this post will last.

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To be clear, I don't spend any time worrying about something smashing into us. (There's lots of other things to be worried about.) I just don't want you to think that we'd have any time to watch the thing enter the atmosphere, because we wouldn't.

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That's the *average* speed. Some impactors will be slower, others faster. Comets are probably going to be faster than asteroids. For a sufficiently high speed, the lithosphere will become molten.

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Reminder: The *average* bolide impact velocity at Earth is 20 km/s. That's five seconds from the Kármán line to the ground. There's no slow movement of an asteroid through the sky, giving you enough time to say goodbye to your loved ones. One moment you're alive, the next you're on fire.

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