It wouldn't necessarily have to be a Chicxulub-type monster eight kilometers in diameter, it would be enough with a 50-meter rock like the one that produced Barringer Crater 50,000 years ago that would have fallen in Yellowstone or in the Campi Flegrei of Naples or in the Deccan Traps of India.
It would be sufficient if the explosion over Tunguska on June 30, 1908, had occurred over Kapustin Yar or over Moscow during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Even a smaller meteorite the size of a car that had fallen on Ramat David during the Gulf War or on Tiananmen during an annual meeting of the Chinese Communist Party could have done it.
It is not enough to control the orbital anomalies of Chicxulub-type asteroids, we must also think about the smaller ones. Maybe it would be a good idea to start thinking about something like Iron Dome on a global level.
In 1913 Adolf Hitler, Iósif Stalin, Josip Broz “Tito“, Leon Trotsky and Sigmund Freud lived in Vienna within a radius of only three kilometers. Vienna was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and there the decision was made to start the First World War, if the 1908 Tunguska meteorite had fallen in Vienna in 1913 it would have changed history.
It would be sufficient if the explosion over Tunguska on June 30, 1908, had occurred over Kapustin Yar or over Moscow during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Even a smaller meteorite the size of a car that had fallen on Ramat David during the Gulf War or on Tiananmen during an annual meeting of the Chinese Communist Party could have done it.
It is not enough to control the orbital anomalies of Chicxulub-type asteroids, we must also think about the smaller ones. Maybe it would be a good idea to start thinking about something like Iron Dome on a global level.
In 1913 Adolf Hitler, Iósif Stalin, Josip Broz “Tito“, Leon Trotsky and Sigmund Freud lived in Vienna within a radius of only three kilometers. Vienna was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and there the decision was made to start the First World War, if the 1908 Tunguska meteorite had fallen in Vienna in 1913 it would have changed history.
