Lol, okay as long as we agree that the impact released as much energy as 5 or 6 billion Hiroshima bombs, roughly one Hiroshima-sized bomb for every person on Earth (and not enough for only 10,000 people). Ten thousand Hiroshimas is nothing in comparison. Cheers! :-)
"Lol, okay as long as we agree that the impact released as much energy as 5 or 6 billion Hiroshima bombs, roughly one Hiroshima-sized bomb for every person on Earth (and not enough for only 10,000 people). Ten thousand Hiroshimas is nothing in comparison. Cheers! :-)"
Oh, no ... you and I are in complete agreement. It's the article that states it incorrectly.
"The first this to understand about the KT event is that is was absolutely enormous: an asteroid (or comet) six to 10 miles in diameter streaked through the Earth's atmosphere at 25,000 miles an hour and struck the Yucatan region of Mexico
with the force of 100 megatons -the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb for every person alive on Earth today. Not a pretty scenario!"
It should say, "100 million megatons."