And across land. Lucifer's Hammer gives quit a vivid picture. Salt Rain on all continents, tidal waves washing out coastal cities, and a severe drop in temperature from all of the clouds formed by the moisture.
' Wrote:And across land. Lucifer's Hammer gives quit a vivid picture. Salt Rain on all continents, tidal waves washing out coastal cities, and a severe drop in temperature from all of the clouds formed by the moisture.
There's a huge amount of variables here.
I get the feeling ships in Lucifer's Hammer are rather larger than they are in Freelancer.
Remember, this isn't rain just in one area, this is rain over your WHOLE planet.
Slight example from personal experience - we had 4 solid and continuous days of rain over northern Indiana a few years ago. Flood stage on the main river through here is 12 feet. It crested at 26 feet. EVERY single crop that had been planted was wiped out and had to be replanted. Places up on hills that weren't in flood plains - flooded. We were seeing mudslides in areas where there wasn't much undergrowth - which is something we don't see here.
That's from 4 days of rain over a small area, and the water did have someplace to go because it wasn't raining further downstream.
Now - rain on your whole planet - continuously - for 4 weeks or so, which is what you'd have after a nice ocean strike. And of course, that also presumes that you have ANY earthquake faults left that haven't released as well, simply from the shaking the planet received. There's a reason why large rocks are VERY bad things.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
I simply look at it like this: If you fly a ship into a planet anywhere away from the docking ring & mooring, you blow up no matter what it is you fly, so, I think of it as a magnetic shield around the planet that pushes the ships own weight into itself & crushes it while also repelling most of the debris away from the atmosphere, any chunks that have enough inertia to push past the magnetic field would be small enough to burn up before hitting the ground.
' Wrote:There's a huge amount of variables here.
I get the feeling ships in Lucifer's Hammer are rather larger than they are in Freelancer.
I'm going to make a SWAG here and guess you've never read the book.
No ships involved here, just rocks. Think Bruce Willis and Armageddon, or how Deep Impact with Tea Leoni and Morgan Freeman SHOULD have happened.
Either way, you take something the size of, say, the U.S.S. Nimitz, accelerate it to high orbital speeds, and bring it down, it's going to make a mess of things. Make it bigger - a Zoner Juggernaut should be about 2 - 3 miles long - and you're going to have a VERY nice mess underneath it.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
Velocity is a lot more dangerous than thee mass itself... a juggernaut isn't going to be hitting a planet at the speed of a rogue asteroid - which, by its very nature, is going to be moving quickly.
Drop a penny from the top of the empire state building, you'll kill a man. Drop a bowling ball, you'll leave a small crater in the sidewalk. AT THE VERY LEAST, dropping a Jinkusu from high orbit, with all of that distance to garner up velocity, you'll do about as much damage as the Hiroshima. What's more likely is that, depending on which way it's pointed, you'll get a clusterfrack of a catastrophe. A crater in place of everything within a huge area of New York, or wherever it lands.
And that is, of course, assuming that it's merely falling with no previous velocity.
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