"The End of the World" -A Short Film

I just watched the scariest movie I've ever seen. I've linked to it below. It's a Japanese short film -The End of the World- about the results of an asteroid the size of the one that slammed into the Earth 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period, suspected to be responsible for the mass extinction of many floral and faunal species, including the large dinosaurs. The film is in Japanese, which makes the film even more terrifying because you realize immedidately that absolutely no translation is needed. It makes the recent Hollywood flicks about asteroids look like Sesame Street productions.

What makes the movie so terrifying is that I believe we all know deep in that atavistic reptilian area of our brain that in the future course of human and planetary evolution, that such an event will happen again; as it has millions of times before in our 4.5 billion-year history. I think this knowledge is imprinted into our DNA coding. But can we prevent such a catastrophic event from occuring? The people staffing NASA's NEO (Near Earth Object) Program are planning to see that we do.

Until recently, the remains of the 110- to 180-mile Yucatan-Chicxulub impact crater, which is buried by 1,000 to 3,000 feet of limestone, have escaped detection. The geohydrological feature (Cenote Ring) of Northwestern Yucatan, was discovered through NASA Ames Remote Sensing technology. Posted by Casey Kazan along with earlier headliners.

End of the World Video

"Great Extinction" & the Rise of Modern Species

Largest Impact Crater on Planet Earth

Past As Prelude -Asteroids & the Origin of Life

Comments

[Michael Phillips]

Um the asteroid in this video is rather larger than the KT asteroid. Assuming a single impact, the KT Event was caused by an object approximately 10km in diameter.
This video has the asteroid being "wider than Honshu" which gives it a diameter in excess of 230 km. It is a world killer.

[bobqq]

Nasa has no plan, the only group which has a plan is the Global Asteroid Protection Society

[Peter]

This is a fragment of "The Violent Past", an episode of Canadian/Japanese documentary series which tells the 4 billion year old story of how life has evolved from its humble beginnings to the diversity of living creatures today.

It's a simulation of a collision with an asteroid 500km wide, similar to those that formed the protoplanets.
Definitely larger than K/T asteroid. What is more the role of K/T asteroid(s?) as the major cause of extinction is heavily discussed.

In addition it should be noticed that such cataclysmic event which was presented in the simulation is extremely rare. Probably it happened several times during the very beginning of our solar system. It never occure since The Late Heavy Bombardment.

[Cyber Rainbow]

the end of A world I guess. and the birth of a new one

[kazank]

you are a big lier i swer no body will know when its the end of the world you just wana say anythiung swer i bilive i god and nobody exept him