A Replay of the Events from 65 Million Years Ago?

"Everyone!"

After Hong and Thor walked to the center of the conference hall and stood still, Hong looked around and said in a deep voice, "I have some bad news to tell you all: Earth's catastrophe, its end, is coming!"

Swish!

Everyone in the meeting room paled. 🍟♣ ♝☮

The person speaking before us is none other than Hong, the strongest of the human race! The First Speaker of the War God Palace! The undisputed number one in the world!

And this powerful being actually said that the end of the world is coming!

"First Speaker, what exactly happened?"

"Hall Master Hong, what exactly happened?"

The people closest to them all started asking questions, their expressions showing a mixture of anxiety and unease.

Hong shook his head without speaking, his gaze shifting to an elderly man with gray hair and wearing a white robe standing behind him. "Professor Flamenco, please explain the details."

Whoosh! Everyone's eyes turned to look at it.

The elderly man with gray hair remained expressionless. He quickly walked to the platform and bowed to the crowd below.

Swish!

At the same time, a huge screen appeared at the front of the conference hall, and a PowerPoint presentation began to play. The elderly man with gray hair pointed to the PowerPoint and said, "Now, please take a close look at the screen above."

On the screen, a celestial system structure appeared, with three magnified spheres labeled with the names of the Sun, Earth, and Mars, making it immediately clear that this was the Solar System system. 🎉ൠ 🐤👤

Professor Flamenco pointed to one of the orbs of light and explained, "This one represents our Earth."

Then, the professor pointed to another, slightly smaller sphere of light and said, "This one represents Mars."

"Earth and Mars are both planets that orbit the sun independently in their own orbits, with a distance between them ranging from approximately 55 million to 400 million kilometers. That is to say, when Mars is closest to Earth, the distance between the two is about 55 million kilometers, while the distance at its farthest exceeds 400 million kilometers. Close encounters between the two occur approximately every 15 years, and this year, the distance between them is about 97.65 million kilometers," Professor Flamenco spoke eloquently on stage.

Hong, sitting in the audience, interrupted, "Professor, get to the point. There's no time for your long explanation now."

Professor Flamenco nodded, seemingly still eager to continue, and said, "The current situation is this: our telescopes have observed a giant Asteroid, slightly smaller than the moon, with a radius of about 1,500 kilometers, currently Mars Orbit and heading towards Earth at a speed of millions of kilometers per hour!"

"According to our calculations, this Asteroid will impact the Earth's surface in at most three days! Given its size, a Asteroid -on collision with Earth would be extremely dangerous—"

The screen displayed a dynamic image of Earth being torn apart after being struck by Asteroid, and everyone in the conference hall watched with bated breath.

Everyone stared intently at the final image—a shattered Earth—and fell silent. ☜🍪 ♣💝

Hong asked coldly, "Professor, is there any way to resolve this crisis?"

The India president, who was standing nearby, also asked, "Could we use a nuclear bomb to blast this Asteroid into pieces? If the yield is sufficient, it should be possible, right?"

Everyone stared intently at Professor Flamenco, eager to hear his professional opinion, but also fearful of hearing a negative answer from him.

"From a scientific perspective, if the nuclear bomb has a sufficient yield, it is indeed possible to completely shatter this Asteroid into fragments. However—" Upon hearing the first half of the sentence, everyone breathed a sigh of relief; it was good that it could be done.

But the professor's single sentence immediately put everyone's hearts on edge again.

"However, to completely shatter this Asteroid into fragments would require at least trillions of tons of TNT equivalent, a feat that all the nuclear warheads on Earth combined could not achieve."

Everyone fell silent. A nuclear warhead with a yield of trillions of tons is completely beyond the reach of current human technology. The technological level involved would require humanity to take at least another giant leap forward.

"Moreover, and most importantly, most of the power of a nuclear bomb comes from the shock wave, while most areas of the universe are in a vacuum, lacking the mediums such as gas and dust that can form shock waves. Therefore, detonating a nuclear bomb in space would greatly reduce its power."

Some of the less resilient individuals already showed signs of despair on their faces.

Hong Yi frowned and asked, "Is there really no way we can do anything?"

"Actually, there's no need to be so pessimistic; there are still solutions."

Professor Flamenco chuckled, "Actually, with humanity's current level of technology, blasting it to pieces isn't difficult at all. All we need to do is gather all the Laser Cannon on Earth at one point and unleash a few salvos at maximum power; it won't take many rounds to shatter it into pieces."

"After all, the characteristic of lasers is 'penetration,' especially for Asteroid like this. Once the internal core is destroyed, it will cause a massive explosion, shattering the asteroid into pieces!"

Upon hearing this, some people breathed a sigh of relief, and smiles gradually appeared on their faces.

The HR Alliance's Speaker Isadora, went even further, stating, "All the Laser Cannon under the HR Alliance's command are available for the Professor to use!"

Other world leaders also expressed their agreement and willingness to provide all the Laser Cannon and corresponding energy to help overcome the crisis.

"But--"

Professor Flamenco hesitated slightly before slowly saying, "But we still need to confirm what material this Asteroid is made of. If it's all ordinary rock, then blasting it apart won't be difficult; we just need to set up Asteroid in space and calculate the rendezvous point."

"If the Asteroid's interior contains a large amount of metal, then..."

Luo Zhe frowned and asked, "So what? Professor, please feel free to ask any questions you have, and we can discuss them together."

Hong said directly, "Professor, please feel free to speak your mind. I'll take care of everything for you."

The professor quickly waved his hand and said, "I have no doubts. However, if there really is a large amount of metal inside this Asteroid, even if we can blast it to pieces..."

However, given its current speed and relative distance from Earth, some debris will still continue its trajectory due to inertia, eventually impacting the Earth's surface!

Luo Zhe frowned and asked again, "If some planetary debris really does directly collide with the Earth's surface, what negative impacts will it have on the planet?"

"If some planetary fragments are too large, with radii reaching several kilometers or even tens of kilometers, then when they collide with the Earth's surface, the energy released upon complete vaporization would be enough to trigger massive tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, and send large amounts of dust into the atmosphere, completely blocking sunlight, altering the global climate, and causing a nuclear winter."

"At that time, the end of the world will truly come!"

The professor shook his head and said, "You know, the Chicxulub impact event that happened 65 million years ago, oh, that's the meteorite impact event that has been widely circulated, the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago."

The meteorite that struck Earth's surface is estimated to be no more than ten kilometers in diameter. Yet, this very meteorite, upon impact, released an energy of 5.0 × 10^23 joules upon complete vaporization—equivalent to over ninety trillion tons of TNT!

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