Hail and Fire Mixed With Blood

I thought I would share with you an article written in the NewScientist regarding the effects of an asteroid(s) hit upon the earth:

China and the US are the countries most vulnerable to damage from future asteroid impacts, according to preliminary new research. Sweden also ranks surprisingly high in this first attempt at quantifying the risks of impact effects, such as tsunamis, on individual nations.

Scientists have been able to simulate the propagation of tsunamis, earthquakes, and debris from virtual asteroid impacts for years. But previously, there has been no software to quantify the human toll on particular countries.

Now, researchers have combined impact effects with data on population density and infrastructure location in a computer model to produce the first global ranking of countries based on their vulnerability to impact damage.

Indeed as man continues to explore the Solar System the more we realize our space is not that empty. Many objects lurk beyond our vision silently plodding in the darkness. Earth has been the subject of violent stellar strikes in the past and the Bible itself has recorded their return sometime in the future with its concomitant destructive results.

Using images of the Earth from space showing the distribution of light from artificial sources, they assumed the brighter places were more built up. Then they simulated the propagation of tsunamis, earthquakes and debris from a wide variety of impact locations to rank countries on the vulnerability of their infrastructure.

The US faced the worst potential losses, perhaps not surprisingly, since it has a lot of infrastructure on coastlines facing two different oceans. China was second, followed by Sweden, Canada, and Japan.

Behold the future!