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Amayai t1_iz48kga wrote

Oh man, as a designer with chronic illness (cystic fibrosis) this makes me want to make one for myself! It would certainly be of great use to the doctors that assess me to know my history of bacteria infections and lung capacity and meds I've taken and stuff..... This is really neat!!

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Kitchner t1_iz47caf wrote

To be fair in the novels its emphasised a LOT that the initial deaths caused by the asteroid strikes aren't the issue. Earth has a population of 13bn at that time and killing twenty, thirty, even fifty million people with asteroid strikes makes practically no difference to the planet (while being obviously a tragedy).

What kills billions is the fact food and logistics are completely disrupted and in many places there's no ability for the government to enforce law and order. Its people starving, dying of disease etc that ends up killing billions of people.

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Oderis t1_iz46rxd wrote

I wonder at which point more advertisement is pointless because most of the audience already knows about your brand. It might be different in other countries, but in mine pretty much every person knows about Coca-Cola, yet they keep paying for advertisement in Cinemas and TV. I haven't met a single person who would not know what Coca-Cola is.

I guess that means the ads are working.

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Wahots t1_iz46mg6 wrote

I'm kinda curious what would happen if a gold asteroid that was a mile wide hit the remote south pacific at 250,000 mph at nearly 90 degrees. The explosion would be enormous. It would throw ocean water high into the atmosphere like the Tonga eruption. But would it be an end of days style strike if it hit water vs land? I'm curious how much energy the water absorbs vs land, which I assume just kinda becomes a liquid with that much force.

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