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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Science Fiction
- Subject: Drama
- Published: 09/16/2023
Asteroid
Born 1955, F, from Lovelock, Nevada, United Statesprelude
Voyager One sent this warning " You will not survive." Voyager Two repeated the warning. " You will not survive."
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be".( Matthew 24)
And from SETI the following message was received" We created you, it is time to return home."
Asteroids
Mount Lemmon observatory astronomers continue to monitor the night sky. They monitor the potential trouble spots every four hours.It is an ordinary night until they spotted something they hadn't expected from a region they never expected to find anything.
These scientists are on a quest to spot asteroids before they smash into Earth.
It is an asteroid that is 11.265 km.(seven miles wide) and on a collision course with Earth. This space rock has slipped past every early detection instrument the astronomers have in place. there is going to be an event.The impact will occur. There is nothing we can do to prevent it. It is estimated that ⅔ of Earth's population will perish.
Our fate, whatever our fate will be, is approaching 43,ooo mph. The normal protocol would be to destroy this asteroid with our nuclear weapons. We have been advised against that course of action. The risk is great that nuking the asteroid will result in hundreds of asteroid fragments hitting Earth in the next hour or hours. There isn't time There is no time for a deflection maneuver. We have the tractor beams and similarly advanced weapons, thanks to reverse engineering and extraterrestrial cooperation. There is limited time to solve this dilemma.
The impact site is anticipated to be centered on the Yucatán Peninsula in Chichen itza and Coba. Mexico.If the asteroid continues on its current trajectory it will follow the path of another killer asteroid that struck 66 million years ago.
Tourists will continue to explore the temples and ancient ruins. These temples were once ancient observatories. The Mayans were astronomers who observed and studied the skies. But,the ancient Mayan astronomers or the tourists have experienced anything like this before.
The tourist in Florida had The first indication of the approaching trouble. Earlier there was an explosive light streaking across their skies..The fireball looks like a second smaller sun. For the briefest seconds there was an opening to the cosmos, a black hole that opened as the asteroid punched its way through the atmosphere then closed as suddenly as it appeared.
A tsunami warning was issued that went unheard. South Beach is experiencing extraordinary waves, tsunamis 300 feet high. a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake was felt in Miami and several buildings in the city were evacuated as a precaution.in the city. There was a Miami Tsunami warning, although that threat quickly subsided prematurely.
The surfers are living it up on the waves.above sea level than the tallest building.The tsunami is 200 feet taller than most buildings. Can we survive?
The Miami Police Department was assisting firefighters with reports of vibrations in downtown areas. According to Twitter and Facebook.As of yet, there are no reports of injuries.
tsunami type waves extend to Tennessee. We are in serious trouble. This tsunami and the waves that will follow will be a mega tsunami. The tsunami is 94 meters ( 300 feet) and approaching with the speed of a jet aircraft and the destruction of a wrecking ball.
The tsunami waves uproot trees, flatten buildings, and exterminate biological life, including humans dragging everything back into the Gulf of Mexico. The waves burst through. The destructive waves churn up rivers of broken glass and metal pulverizing swimmers trying to swim to safety are bruised, battered, sliced and diced.The tsunami drags them with it back into the Gulf and to a watery grave.
Impact.
650 miles to the Southeast of Miami Florida,in Chichunexia Mexico on the Yucatán Peninsula.
The impact released the equivalent of 100 million megatons of TNT. It is also estimated to be the equivalent of 7 or 8 billion Heroshima bombs being released at once at the same place. The asteroid kept its trajectory. This is the termination site of the dinosaurs.
Those who looked directly into the impact flash were burned. They experienced instant blindness. As the tourists continue to take in the temples and marvel at the blinding light the light intensified.
Eleven seconds after impact.
The energy strike produces thermal radiation.waves of intense heat travel out in all directions across the Earth at 670 million miles per hour. As the radiation waves reach the cities the temperatures reach 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.life forms,people are fried by the fireball.Everyone within a 200 mile radius didn't have a chance. They died instantly.
The heat vaporizes some of the rocks,portions of the crater wall.which is injected into the atmosphere where it rains down on Earth as shards of glass, crystal, and heated rocks. This debris rains down on cities within a 600 mile radius. Anyone this close will be burned, cut, and bruised and crushed by searing hot glass and falling stones and buildings.
Cities even further away are not safe. 1500 miles from the impact New York City is hit with chunks of rock and intense heat.the upper atmosphere radiates down on the inhabitants like a sunlamp.
From Central park to the mountains of Maine the entire Eastern Seaboard has become a blazing inferno. We helplessly watched as the plant life first began. To steam then pop, turn brown and burn.
Millions of people have been killed.The destruction continues spreading across the Earth.
The Earth trembles and. Continues trembling.Los Angeles is blanketed With ash. The first 10.5 Earthquake which was once doubtful but the Earthquakes, the shaking continued for in excess of 30 minutes.The Earthquakes radiated out from the impact site in all directions. A massive Earthquake 10.8 shakes Southern California to its core.
4 minutes after impact
The Earthquakes cascade from Mexico to Alaska. People attempt to find cover as they become covered by falling buildings, by rocks and showers of falling glass. Many are buried alive.
Within five minutes of the impact A hole the size of Metropolitan New York was opened in the floor of the gulf of Mexico.The asteroid threw huge amounts of debris into the air and caused massive tidal waves to wash over parts of the American continents. There was also evidence of substantial fires from the thermal shock heat generated by the asteroid. exceeding 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.
100 miles south of Mexico city the group of farmers who sought refuge in the caves have survived.They dig their way out of the cave to discover an apocalyptic wasteland Everything has died or is dying, is on fire or has collapsed. They walk out into a modern Hellscape. The landscape looks like the moon. The farmers have survived but they remain in serious danger. From rotting decaying corpses and contaminated vegetation they must scour the land for food.
A shockwave travels out from the impact zone in all directions the blastwave,the compressed air that cannot move out of the way fast enough. The shockwave hits places like New Orleans and Mexico city with wind speeds in excess of 720 miles per hour. For those of us caught in these strong winds there is no place to run. There is no place to hide. The supersonic winds will knock people off their feet. They are being bombarded with daggers of glass and steel. The blast takes havoc on the human body.
Our lungs will rupture. Our internal organs will rupture. Many will die immediately.
The atmosphere will be shock heated. In South Beach, Miami Florida will be ignored for as long as humanly possible.However, the extreme heat is impossible. The asteroid will cause the worst sunburn humanity has experienced. The fireball will cause permanent blindness.This is not the last Miami will see of this asteroid.for a short time those not severely affected will continue life as usual until they become asteroid victims. Or casualties.
The Mole People.
Many will turn to the caves, the bunkers and fall out shelters.they will turn to living in the sewers and spaces beneath the rapidly disappearing cities. They will become the Mole People. In many cities there are miles of tunnels. Within moments of the thermal temperatures hundreds sought underground refuge. To escape the heat they hunted for food at night. The.food source was rats,bats,lizards,reptiles, and insects.
Rock on the walls of the crater will be liquified. Vast amounts of debris will be hurled into the atmosphere. The Asteroid will send soot traveling all around the world. Some of the soot and debris will be toxic to most life, especially humans. It will completely block out the Sun, it will reduce the amount of light that reaches the Earth's surface. So it will impact plant growth.'
The falling rock and glass added to the mole people's population. The longer the mole people stay in their dark subterranean environment the whiter their skin becomes. The greater their vitamin D deficiency becomes. The more of their eyesight they lose.
Into the mole society comes every known chemical dependency. With them these mole people bring the illnesses they had before the asteroid. With them came their former vices. Cannibalism will become unavoidable at some point. This existence is one where death comes and brings death.
Without the warmth and light of the sun the temperature across the Earth will plummet a minimum of 50 degrees. As the darkness continues and intensifies many areas of Earth will experience nuclear or asteroid winter.
Like dominos, this fate will trail up the food chain, causing the ecosystem to collapse. The reduction in plant life had a huge impact on herbivores and humanity's ability to survive, which in turn meant that carnivores would also have suffered from having less food available.
Breeding seasons for man and beast will be shorter and conditions harsher. The stress and harsh conditions cause prepubescent males and females to mature extremely fast.it became possible for five year old girls to deliver babies.
A chain of Earthquakes from Mexico to Alaska and elsewhere measuring 10.8. Continue to erupt in a chain sequence.Volcanic glass continues to rain down on everyone. Burning and killing all those it touches
One year after the asteroid impact the dust clouds begin to subside. Streaks of sunlight peak through the atmosphere. The acid rains slightly subside. Earth's ozone layer is gone. Humanity emerges into a brave new world, a hyper greenhouse existence. Our mission is Adapt and Survive or die. As the Phoenix, with everyone's cooperation, Earth will rise again.
Asteroid(Martha Hume)
prelude
Voyager One sent this warning " You will not survive." Voyager Two repeated the warning. " You will not survive."
"For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be".( Matthew 24)
And from SETI the following message was received" We created you, it is time to return home."
Asteroids
Mount Lemmon observatory astronomers continue to monitor the night sky. They monitor the potential trouble spots every four hours.It is an ordinary night until they spotted something they hadn't expected from a region they never expected to find anything.
These scientists are on a quest to spot asteroids before they smash into Earth.
It is an asteroid that is 11.265 km.(seven miles wide) and on a collision course with Earth. This space rock has slipped past every early detection instrument the astronomers have in place. there is going to be an event.The impact will occur. There is nothing we can do to prevent it. It is estimated that ⅔ of Earth's population will perish.
Our fate, whatever our fate will be, is approaching 43,ooo mph. The normal protocol would be to destroy this asteroid with our nuclear weapons. We have been advised against that course of action. The risk is great that nuking the asteroid will result in hundreds of asteroid fragments hitting Earth in the next hour or hours. There isn't time There is no time for a deflection maneuver. We have the tractor beams and similarly advanced weapons, thanks to reverse engineering and extraterrestrial cooperation. There is limited time to solve this dilemma.
The impact site is anticipated to be centered on the Yucatán Peninsula in Chichen itza and Coba. Mexico.If the asteroid continues on its current trajectory it will follow the path of another killer asteroid that struck 66 million years ago.
Tourists will continue to explore the temples and ancient ruins. These temples were once ancient observatories. The Mayans were astronomers who observed and studied the skies. But,the ancient Mayan astronomers or the tourists have experienced anything like this before.
The tourist in Florida had The first indication of the approaching trouble. Earlier there was an explosive light streaking across their skies..The fireball looks like a second smaller sun. For the briefest seconds there was an opening to the cosmos, a black hole that opened as the asteroid punched its way through the atmosphere then closed as suddenly as it appeared.
A tsunami warning was issued that went unheard. South Beach is experiencing extraordinary waves, tsunamis 300 feet high. a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake was felt in Miami and several buildings in the city were evacuated as a precaution.in the city. There was a Miami Tsunami warning, although that threat quickly subsided prematurely.
The surfers are living it up on the waves.above sea level than the tallest building.The tsunami is 200 feet taller than most buildings. Can we survive?
The Miami Police Department was assisting firefighters with reports of vibrations in downtown areas. According to Twitter and Facebook.As of yet, there are no reports of injuries.
tsunami type waves extend to Tennessee. We are in serious trouble. This tsunami and the waves that will follow will be a mega tsunami. The tsunami is 94 meters ( 300 feet) and approaching with the speed of a jet aircraft and the destruction of a wrecking ball.
The tsunami waves uproot trees, flatten buildings, and exterminate biological life, including humans dragging everything back into the Gulf of Mexico. The waves burst through. The destructive waves churn up rivers of broken glass and metal pulverizing swimmers trying to swim to safety are bruised, battered, sliced and diced.The tsunami drags them with it back into the Gulf and to a watery grave.
Impact.
650 miles to the Southeast of Miami Florida,in Chichunexia Mexico on the Yucatán Peninsula.
The impact released the equivalent of 100 million megatons of TNT. It is also estimated to be the equivalent of 7 or 8 billion Heroshima bombs being released at once at the same place. The asteroid kept its trajectory. This is the termination site of the dinosaurs.
Those who looked directly into the impact flash were burned. They experienced instant blindness. As the tourists continue to take in the temples and marvel at the blinding light the light intensified.
Eleven seconds after impact.
The energy strike produces thermal radiation.waves of intense heat travel out in all directions across the Earth at 670 million miles per hour. As the radiation waves reach the cities the temperatures reach 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.life forms,people are fried by the fireball.Everyone within a 200 mile radius didn't have a chance. They died instantly.
The heat vaporizes some of the rocks,portions of the crater wall.which is injected into the atmosphere where it rains down on Earth as shards of glass, crystal, and heated rocks. This debris rains down on cities within a 600 mile radius. Anyone this close will be burned, cut, and bruised and crushed by searing hot glass and falling stones and buildings.
Cities even further away are not safe. 1500 miles from the impact New York City is hit with chunks of rock and intense heat.the upper atmosphere radiates down on the inhabitants like a sunlamp.
From Central park to the mountains of Maine the entire Eastern Seaboard has become a blazing inferno. We helplessly watched as the plant life first began. To steam then pop, turn brown and burn.
Millions of people have been killed.The destruction continues spreading across the Earth.
The Earth trembles and. Continues trembling.Los Angeles is blanketed With ash. The first 10.5 Earthquake which was once doubtful but the Earthquakes, the shaking continued for in excess of 30 minutes.The Earthquakes radiated out from the impact site in all directions. A massive Earthquake 10.8 shakes Southern California to its core.
4 minutes after impact
The Earthquakes cascade from Mexico to Alaska. People attempt to find cover as they become covered by falling buildings, by rocks and showers of falling glass. Many are buried alive.
Within five minutes of the impact A hole the size of Metropolitan New York was opened in the floor of the gulf of Mexico.The asteroid threw huge amounts of debris into the air and caused massive tidal waves to wash over parts of the American continents. There was also evidence of substantial fires from the thermal shock heat generated by the asteroid. exceeding 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.
100 miles south of Mexico city the group of farmers who sought refuge in the caves have survived.They dig their way out of the cave to discover an apocalyptic wasteland Everything has died or is dying, is on fire or has collapsed. They walk out into a modern Hellscape. The landscape looks like the moon. The farmers have survived but they remain in serious danger. From rotting decaying corpses and contaminated vegetation they must scour the land for food.
A shockwave travels out from the impact zone in all directions the blastwave,the compressed air that cannot move out of the way fast enough. The shockwave hits places like New Orleans and Mexico city with wind speeds in excess of 720 miles per hour. For those of us caught in these strong winds there is no place to run. There is no place to hide. The supersonic winds will knock people off their feet. They are being bombarded with daggers of glass and steel. The blast takes havoc on the human body.
Our lungs will rupture. Our internal organs will rupture. Many will die immediately.
The atmosphere will be shock heated. In South Beach, Miami Florida will be ignored for as long as humanly possible.However, the extreme heat is impossible. The asteroid will cause the worst sunburn humanity has experienced. The fireball will cause permanent blindness.This is not the last Miami will see of this asteroid.for a short time those not severely affected will continue life as usual until they become asteroid victims. Or casualties.
The Mole People.
Many will turn to the caves, the bunkers and fall out shelters.they will turn to living in the sewers and spaces beneath the rapidly disappearing cities. They will become the Mole People. In many cities there are miles of tunnels. Within moments of the thermal temperatures hundreds sought underground refuge. To escape the heat they hunted for food at night. The.food source was rats,bats,lizards,reptiles, and insects.
Rock on the walls of the crater will be liquified. Vast amounts of debris will be hurled into the atmosphere. The Asteroid will send soot traveling all around the world. Some of the soot and debris will be toxic to most life, especially humans. It will completely block out the Sun, it will reduce the amount of light that reaches the Earth's surface. So it will impact plant growth.'
The falling rock and glass added to the mole people's population. The longer the mole people stay in their dark subterranean environment the whiter their skin becomes. The greater their vitamin D deficiency becomes. The more of their eyesight they lose.
Into the mole society comes every known chemical dependency. With them these mole people bring the illnesses they had before the asteroid. With them came their former vices. Cannibalism will become unavoidable at some point. This existence is one where death comes and brings death.
Without the warmth and light of the sun the temperature across the Earth will plummet a minimum of 50 degrees. As the darkness continues and intensifies many areas of Earth will experience nuclear or asteroid winter.
Like dominos, this fate will trail up the food chain, causing the ecosystem to collapse. The reduction in plant life had a huge impact on herbivores and humanity's ability to survive, which in turn meant that carnivores would also have suffered from having less food available.
Breeding seasons for man and beast will be shorter and conditions harsher. The stress and harsh conditions cause prepubescent males and females to mature extremely fast.it became possible for five year old girls to deliver babies.
A chain of Earthquakes from Mexico to Alaska and elsewhere measuring 10.8. Continue to erupt in a chain sequence.Volcanic glass continues to rain down on everyone. Burning and killing all those it touches
One year after the asteroid impact the dust clouds begin to subside. Streaks of sunlight peak through the atmosphere. The acid rains slightly subside. Earth's ozone layer is gone. Humanity emerges into a brave new world, a hyper greenhouse existence. Our mission is Adapt and Survive or die. As the Phoenix, with everyone's cooperation, Earth will rise again.
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Tallisman
09/17/2023Wow! I think the lucky ones were the sightseers in Mexico. I'm guessing some research went into this! Well written and scary!
ReplyHelp Us Understand What's Happening
Martha Hume
09/17/2023Yes, I researched what the chain of events might be. Thank you for your compliments.
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