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Dalek Dave

Oh dear! 5!

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GenJerDan

HimanshuJoshi wrote:

Invent some names that sounds like science fiction, not mythology.

Better yet, have the UN hold a 50/50 lottery. $10 and you can put in your entry for the name. Then have the winning entry be something ridiculously inappropriate.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

Kali, with both syllables short is the demon, of Kali Yug infamy; Kali, phonetically Kaa-lee, is the name of the goddess. They are rendered differently in Devanagari, transliteration into English is a pain.

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Gregory Gadow

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

They are rendered differently in Devanagari, transliteration into English is a pain.

Which is why I used Ka:li: for the goddess; I didn't think that the macrons would render properly :)

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Roger Wright

As much as I enjoy Bruce's performances (the Die Hard series never gets old for me), if the movie version includes the lady with red hair from the 5th Element movie, I'll pay real money to see it. Of course, I'll pay a lot more for a private audience...

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Roger Wright

Have you considered looking in the General Indian Topics forum? Chris, et all, built that space in part, to assist our Indian members in developing their storytelling skills in the English language without the harsh criticism found in the open forums. You being a storyteller, that might be a good place to look for ideas and technical assistance. Just a thought... :)

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Dan Neely

Even at a very oblique angle a big rock is going to make it down intact http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=100&diam=10000&pdens=1500&pdens_select=0&vel=17&theta=1&tdens=1000&tdens_select=1000[^] Even with porus rock a 10km impactor is going to deliver 20,000,000 megatons. With something that big the only thing an extremely low inclination will do is to enlarge the scorch zone as it enters the atmosphere.

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Gregory Gadow

That will be very helpful in figuring things out, thanks! As I put in the OP, though, the asteroid breaks up when it hits the atmosphere and most of it ricochets back out into space; what actually impacts is a much smaller (but still sizeable) fragment. From what you and Dave (thank you too) have said, I need to decrease the size of that fragment and increase the amount of damage it does. To make future events track as planned, I need to frighten the planet half to death, not actually kill it. Writing plausable science fiction is a bit of a challenge. :laugh:

Dan Neely

Part of my point was that it's not likely to breakup the way you want. Most calculators will report breakups when they happen although I didn't explicitly test this one; but the ones that do so have only ever done it with much smaller rocks. Something this big is going to stay in one piece, and the friction from grazing the atmosphere is going to incinerate anything below it even it it doesn't make contact. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any calculators, but have read that an extinction level impactor would incinerate anyone close enough to the entry path to see anything (and IIRC well outside it to hundreds of miles as well).

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Gregory Gadow

The great thing about future history is that it is remarkably fluid ;P So a minor adjustment: the second attempt to deflect the asteroid did fracture it, just not enough to separate all the pieces. The three largest pieces were still heading towards Earth, and two of them bounced. Most of the damage cause by the impact would have been from the atmospheric collision and not the hit itself, although the piece that did land would have been made... er... quite an impact.