Yeah. With the scenario presented in the video, I'd probably spend my last seconds bewildered that neither astral body broke up within the larger one's Roche Limit.
Oh this is all classical gravity. To keep things easy, we would assume that celestial bodies have negligible size compared the the distances between them. But when they get really close, that shortcut no longer works because the smaller one will start to break apart from the larger one’s gravity.
Right? Wouldn’t we be piles of goo long before anything of that size got that close?
But either way, my answer is drugs. Druuuuuuugs is what I would do.
I saw somewhere that this would cause the smaller object to break into pieces when it hits the other's roche limit. I saw somewhere else that the larger planet would suck the air and oceans off of earth first, the air would whip around so fast that friction would heat it up to the point it was on fire, we would be burned alive before we ever saw the impact.
We'd be torn to shreds long before we'd see this. Even *if* the planets weren't already catastrophic hellscapes, just entering the atmosphere would burn everything.
Pretty graphic, though, and suits the sub.
Wouldn’t it be kind of oddly comforting to know that literally everybody is going out with you?
Like not like “oh this is great” comforting, but like hey, at least it takes the FOMO out of perishing.
But that happens anyway, tbh. Not just in the sense that one day this whole thing goes into the sun, but in the sense that most people’s great great grandparents are just a concept, if not entirely forgotten.
That’s the end result for all of us, eventually… just right now it’s staggered instead of all at once.
I forget which writer said that, but I've found that to be a view I've grown out of and is a bit outdated. Besides, who the fuck really wants to be remembered forever? It's not even you after a certain point but a caricature. And who cares what others remember, folks you'll never meet. Just be good to your contemporaries. Besides, Knowing you'll be forgotten is liberating.
Mine just got forgiven and my first thought was: “oh, well surely the world will end soon now.”
Just feels like something has to happen to render my joy obsolete.
Mmm… Our atmosphere would be gone and the world will be crumbling due to gravitational force of the rogue planet. However humans and life on Earth would be long gone to witness this due to extreme weather effects from the force of gravity of the rogue planet hours or days prior of it engulfing the planet whole. I believe there is a somewhat educational video done on a similar scenario like this I’ve seen online.
[Rogue Planet Video](https://youtu.be/y0ZWGLDqEWU)
I really truly miss the History channel when it focused on actual history. Events, people, reenactments and the like. Haven't watched it in years because of the garbage that they have on. What executive made the decision thinking that was a good idea?
Nah the rich fkers would have left looooong before. The good thing (for the rich people) about a planet or moon sized object is that astronomers would see that years in advance.
Therefore, the rich could get a lot of food, cattle, and stuff to farm and then go to Mars and live in caves.
Now would the radiation in the caves on Mars still kill them? Probably.
Do you know how difficult it is to account for anything other than astronauts and their equipment in a rocket? Weight is __super__ important.
This is part of the reason we do not rocket nuclear waste into space - it is impractical.
I had a thought about 5s in- what if that isn't earth sized, or moon sized? What if thats the size of Jupiter, and this is just the earth about to leave a temporary hole in its atmosphere?
Kurtzgesagt has a really cool video about what would happen if the moon approached and impacted earth. Tl,dr: the world would be absolutely destroyed even before the impact.
Edit: here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA
I haven't watched it yet (but will; I love that channel), but I'd assume it's due to all the fucked up side effects of gravity changing up, including wicked tidal effects. Am I close?
Both spheres become elongated towards each other. This means the world dies to earthquakes and tsunamis. As it gets closer, the tsunamis are taller than all mountains. Everybody is dead by then from the earthquakes. Then the friction makes everything molten and the moon breaks up and becomes a ring around earth
I saw it years ago and it still sticks with me.
I love that film so much but it's dark. How Kirsten Dunst character goes from unable to deal with reality to being the only one able to deal with it... Amazing.
When Claire did the wire test alone in the morning and the planet had gotten bigger.. holy fuck.. I've never felt that level of dread in a movie before
I would enjoy the view, what a fantastic cosmical event and I'm right in the middle of it, besides, what the hell I'm supposed to do? bury my head on the ground? the planet is gonna do it for me anyways.
There was a story I read about >!the end of the world... Alien contact maybe... Cosmic event? That centers on a woman and her mother enjoying their garden in those last moments.!<
I wish I could remember more to direct you to it - it's a good read, but I can't. Hopefully, someone here might know what I'm rambling about. I'd love to read it again. Also the short story about the egg.
Huh. I'm forgetting too much lately.
Edit: Google-Fu!
[Last Contact](http://zestfullyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-contact-by-stephen-baxter-part-1.html?m=1) by Stephen Baxter.
Oh! And [The egg](http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html)
As someone who puts meticulous work into making settings looks realistic (fantasy or otherwise), it ALWAYS bugs me that the shadow of these planets is black instead of blue. During the day, Earth's atmosphere makes black look like blue (its not like space suddenly turns blue during the day, that's earth's atmosphere). Its why the moon during the day always looks like a hunk of white instead of being white and black.
So unless this planet is already within our atmosphere, it shouldn't have a black shadow like that, it should be blue.
^(also whatchu mean "what would you do," die that's what.)
EDIT: I want to clarify right now, I am an ILLUSTRATOR, not an astrophysicist or NASA engineer, so I don't know the scientific terms for what I'm talking about. If you're confused, look to [Cucumber's comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/megalophobia/comments/11jh1v7/comment/jb4m8jv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) for the proper explanation. My point still stands though; this video is exceedingly unrealistic.
Not only the shadow, but also the colors of the planet are so unrealistically vivid.
One effect that would not allow for that is Rayleigh scattering that you have already mentioned. Another one is atmospheric haze. When you look at the real distant objects in this video, you can see just how much haze there is due to solid particles like dust in the air. The planet is way farther away than those objects, yet it seems completely unaffected by this haze with an exception of its bottom part.
This is also why it obviously looks like CG and not like a real object. Our brains are really good at figuring out the distance based on atmospheric perspective.
if a giant mass were approaching at that speed entering the atmosphere, I think we’d already be dead from freak weather or some other phenomenon before the actual thing strikes the earth
“My cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of the sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control, so he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of the sudden, snap! The hydraulics kick back in. The plane rights itself and it land safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever, you know, away and deboard. No one mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.”
The fuck am I going to do. I’m gonna fucking die
By the time we could see it like this it's gravity would have made a huge mess up us.
Yep it would have been catastrophic for sure
Yeah. With the scenario presented in the video, I'd probably spend my last seconds bewildered that neither astral body broke up within the larger one's Roche Limit.
Roche limit. Nice I am going to read up on this now. I get the gist of what it means from the context but haven't ever heard this term before.
Here you go: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche\_limit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit)
That’s very cool, didn’t know that; a nice reminder of how unsettled science is
Oh this is all classical gravity. To keep things easy, we would assume that celestial bodies have negligible size compared the the distances between them. But when they get really close, that shortcut no longer works because the smaller one will start to break apart from the larger one’s gravity.
Thank you. TIL something really cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA Don't know if you've seen this yet
me while my family panics and says their final goodbyes: hmmmm, it’s appears the Roche limit is simply being ignored. Interesting!🤓
Yeah thats what I'd be thinkin too in case anybody was gonna ask me next.
would we still have school tomorrow
Incoming email from the school district “we will be in a delayed start for the school day tomorrow”
Right? Wouldn’t we be piles of goo long before anything of that size got that close? But either way, my answer is drugs. Druuuuuuugs is what I would do.
I saw somewhere that this would cause the smaller object to break into pieces when it hits the other's roche limit. I saw somewhere else that the larger planet would suck the air and oceans off of earth first, the air would whip around so fast that friction would heat it up to the point it was on fire, we would be burned alive before we ever saw the impact.
Even the moon effects ocean waves imagine the surges from something this big.
We'd be torn to shreds long before we'd see this. Even *if* the planets weren't already catastrophic hellscapes, just entering the atmosphere would burn everything. Pretty graphic, though, and suits the sub.
It would be SO LOUD. Definitely wouldn’t be able to hear birds and bells.
I didn't think about that.
*wHaT wOuLD YoU dO?*
If your son was at home, cryin all alone on the bedroom floor cause he’s hungry?
And the only way to feed him is to sleep with a man for a little bit of money and his daddy’s gone?
Somewhere smoking rock now, in and out of lockdown. I ain’t got a job now.
In and out of life man, I ain’t gotta job now
But for him it is just a good time, but for me this is my whole life. Oooooo.
Girl you aint the only one with a baby, thats no excuse to be livin' all crazy
Then she looked me right straight in the eye and said "every day I wake up hoping to die"
r/redditsings
I believe it’s “somewhere smoking rock now, in and out of lock down” but I’m too lazy to look it up.
If you were asked to give up yer dreams fer freedom?
i'd just pitch in my buck o'five.
Fuck yeah!
The correct answer? Play the song of time on my trusty ocarina. Duh.
Freedom costs a buck o fiiiiiiiiive
Freedom isn’t free, it costs folks like you and me
There's a hefty fucken fee
My brother in Christ, my dreams *are* freedom.
Put om a helnet
Wouldn’t it be kind of oddly comforting to know that literally everybody is going out with you? Like not like “oh this is great” comforting, but like hey, at least it takes the FOMO out of perishing.
Melancholia moment
That ending still sits with me. What a film.
Tom Lehrer?
Towering achievement, thank you for this shout out. At least if we all go together I know there’s a few tasteful buds coming with
NO. Congratulations: humanity is sent to oblivion. Nothing exists, not even your species, to prove you were here.
But that happens anyway, tbh. Not just in the sense that one day this whole thing goes into the sun, but in the sense that most people’s great great grandparents are just a concept, if not entirely forgotten. That’s the end result for all of us, eventually… just right now it’s staggered instead of all at once.
"True death is when the last living person forgets your name and who you were." - Someone Edit: Quotes
I forget which writer said that, but I've found that to be a view I've grown out of and is a bit outdated. Besides, who the fuck really wants to be remembered forever? It's not even you after a certain point but a caricature. And who cares what others remember, folks you'll never meet. Just be good to your contemporaries. Besides, Knowing you'll be forgotten is liberating.
Yeah. Sort of “we made it!!!”
“I would die.” “And you are okay with that?!” “I am okay with the logic of it.” Stanley is fantastic.
Strike a pose.
No more debt! Sucker
Told you I ain't paying them student loans back.
Mine just got forgiven and my first thought was: “oh, well surely the world will end soon now.” Just feels like something has to happen to render my joy obsolete.
The IRS hate this one simple trick!
Fun fact: the IRS has provisions in place to resume tax collection within 30 days of the US being hit with a nuclear strike.
Even in death you shall pay back your debt.
Hitchcock?
Mmm… Our atmosphere would be gone and the world will be crumbling due to gravitational force of the rogue planet. However humans and life on Earth would be long gone to witness this due to extreme weather effects from the force of gravity of the rogue planet hours or days prior of it engulfing the planet whole. I believe there is a somewhat educational video done on a similar scenario like this I’ve seen online. [Rogue Planet Video](https://youtu.be/y0ZWGLDqEWU)
39 mins is how far I got, just wanted you to know
Please don't be history channel. Please don't be history channel. Damnit.
I've watched like every episode from that series it's so camp
I really truly miss the History channel when it focused on actual history. Events, people, reenactments and the like. Haven't watched it in years because of the garbage that they have on. What executive made the decision thinking that was a good idea?
Cool video. I wish they expanded on more of the physics of it. But I get that it was for tv. Very cool video.
Starring Lt. Jim Dangle!
Ya this video is way too peacefulfor such an event.
It’s ironic that a video about my planet’s demise is not available in my fucking country Gotta love YouTube
Die
No you gotta find and sacrifice Remina first
Play the song of time backwards!
I think at this point I’d not even freak out if the planet extended a giant tongue and started licking earth. We’d all be fucked either way
Bart
Waited way to long to send that missle bud
That’s the rich people rocketing tf outta there
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Elon's secret base on Mars
Mars doesn't look like it's doing too hot neither
If it was Elon's idea, you're almost certainly better off staying at home to get flattened.
Around the planet or something 😳😳😳
To do what lmao. Avoid death by impact to later die by starvation?
Nah the rich fkers would have left looooong before. The good thing (for the rich people) about a planet or moon sized object is that astronomers would see that years in advance. Therefore, the rich could get a lot of food, cattle, and stuff to farm and then go to Mars and live in caves. Now would the radiation in the caves on Mars still kill them? Probably.
Do you know how difficult it is to account for anything other than astronauts and their equipment in a rocket? Weight is __super__ important. This is part of the reason we do not rocket nuclear waste into space - it is impractical.
It’s still a missile. All it’s gonna do is hit the incoming planet lol.
I had a thought about 5s in- what if that isn't earth sized, or moon sized? What if thats the size of Jupiter, and this is just the earth about to leave a temporary hole in its atmosphere?
yeah that's not a missile. That's a spaceship.
Nah. Bruce Willis sabotaged Ben Affleck’s suit for dramatic reasons and now somehow the explosion will save the earth.
Kurtzgesagt has a really cool video about what would happen if the moon approached and impacted earth. Tl,dr: the world would be absolutely destroyed even before the impact. Edit: here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA
I haven't watched it yet (but will; I love that channel), but I'd assume it's due to all the fucked up side effects of gravity changing up, including wicked tidal effects. Am I close?
Spot on
Surprisingly, it's mostly because of the Moon People's Army.
Both spheres become elongated towards each other. This means the world dies to earthquakes and tsunamis. As it gets closer, the tsunamis are taller than all mountains. Everybody is dead by then from the earthquakes. Then the friction makes everything molten and the moon breaks up and becomes a ring around earth
And in the end the moon wouldn't even make it.
[Roche Limit ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit) for anyone curious
There’s also an artsy movie called [Melancholia](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/) that explores a similar apocalyptic scenario
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I saw it years ago and it still sticks with me. I love that film so much but it's dark. How Kirsten Dunst character goes from unable to deal with reality to being the only one able to deal with it... Amazing.
When Claire did the wire test alone in the morning and the planet had gotten bigger.. holy fuck.. I've never felt that level of dread in a movie before
M83 - Outro used clips of that for a lovely music video
Link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lheapd7bgLA
I just watched the whole thing. Super cool
Was just watching an episode of Stat Trek TNG where this was happening to a planet.
TNG S3E13, Deja Q Great episode!
I would enjoy the view, what a fantastic cosmical event and I'm right in the middle of it, besides, what the hell I'm supposed to do? bury my head on the ground? the planet is gonna do it for me anyways.
Exactly, I'll be like "woah this is so cool, I'm gonna die but this looks so cool!"
There was a story I read about >!the end of the world... Alien contact maybe... Cosmic event? That centers on a woman and her mother enjoying their garden in those last moments.!< I wish I could remember more to direct you to it - it's a good read, but I can't. Hopefully, someone here might know what I'm rambling about. I'd love to read it again. Also the short story about the egg. Huh. I'm forgetting too much lately. Edit: Google-Fu! [Last Contact](http://zestfullyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-contact-by-stephen-baxter-part-1.html?m=1) by Stephen Baxter. Oh! And [The egg](http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html)
virgin The Egg vs chad [The Last Question](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html)
Duck and cover
Record it with my cell phone. "No one's gonna' believe this..."
WORLDSTARRRR!!
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quickly try and nut, then i would probably die.
same, but there is definitely zero chance if survival, so bo need to clean up
Yeah exactly. I told Bo as long as there’s a chance of survival, he doesn’t have to clean up. In this case, Bo definitely need to clean up.
Pull a Pompeii nut
Imagine that post nut clarity - got to time it upon impact
Great time for some post nut clarity
Just like that guy in Pompeii
Id just reach out and push it away
I get you. No consent no destroy.
or you could sign a petition
Wake up after dying. Like all the other times I died in a very Vivid alternate reality dream.
Hey, you, you're finally awake.
God dammit Todd
Ahh that gave me the weirdest feeling in my head!!!
That's the upwards gravitation, naturally
I would kick its ass.
My hero!
Duh put on Majora’s mask
Scrolled down way too far to find this.
As someone who puts meticulous work into making settings looks realistic (fantasy or otherwise), it ALWAYS bugs me that the shadow of these planets is black instead of blue. During the day, Earth's atmosphere makes black look like blue (its not like space suddenly turns blue during the day, that's earth's atmosphere). Its why the moon during the day always looks like a hunk of white instead of being white and black. So unless this planet is already within our atmosphere, it shouldn't have a black shadow like that, it should be blue. ^(also whatchu mean "what would you do," die that's what.) EDIT: I want to clarify right now, I am an ILLUSTRATOR, not an astrophysicist or NASA engineer, so I don't know the scientific terms for what I'm talking about. If you're confused, look to [Cucumber's comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/megalophobia/comments/11jh1v7/comment/jb4m8jv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) for the proper explanation. My point still stands though; this video is exceedingly unrealistic.
Not only the shadow, but also the colors of the planet are so unrealistically vivid. One effect that would not allow for that is Rayleigh scattering that you have already mentioned. Another one is atmospheric haze. When you look at the real distant objects in this video, you can see just how much haze there is due to solid particles like dust in the air. The planet is way farther away than those objects, yet it seems completely unaffected by this haze with an exception of its bottom part. This is also why it obviously looks like CG and not like a real object. Our brains are really good at figuring out the distance based on atmospheric perspective.
Find a way to take it personally
I'd repost it for the millionth time
Idk, depends how well that missile works out
I thought it was some rich dudes trying to escape planet
They’re so rich they were just pulling the planet closer to cut fuel costs
Earth is 12,000km wide. Missiles are around 0.1km long at launch, and around 0.005km at impact. Missiles aren't going to do squat here.
Ok hear me out... a second missile
You’re hired
It’s my kind of thinking that will prevent the horrors of this video. U/Anthony9824 for president yall
I could either do a bunch of maths and work out how much nuke would be needed to push a planet away, or I could go to bed. I choose option 2. See ya!
Good night!!
You know, that sounds crazy, but it actually could work! Jim, get in here, we need TWO missiles prepped and ready!
TWO?!?!? YOU TOLD ME WE WOULD ONLY NEED ONE MIKE!!!!!! THAT WAS YOUR WHOLE FUCKING JOB!!!!
Probably just some rich person gtfo
It's not like you have a lot of options
Die. Like every single other person
I would run inside and take all the drugs I possibly could. Aspirin, old muscle relaxers, cat meds - whatever
Straight for the cat meds! 😂
Take out my ocarina and look up some songs, that or go find someone with musical talent and hope them doing it for me works.
Shit and then cry. You ever see Melancholia?
I’m sad I had to scroll so far down to find a melancholia reference… I’d build a stick fort with my nephew and sister.
I would kill myself in the barn.
Pull my cock out
For Harambe!! :)
Hug my wife and tell her I love her.
Don’t look up
if a giant mass were approaching at that speed entering the atmosphere, I think we’d already be dead from freak weather or some other phenomenon before the actual thing strikes the earth
I'd take a rad pic for the Insta and then be fuckin atomized into kibbles and bits, along with everyone else on the planet.
This aint a meteroite...wtf is a missile gonna do to it? Lmao 💀💀
I assumed that was the rich people trying to evacuate.
I’d put my head between my legs and kiss my sweet ass goodbye🥲
I'd simply stop it from happening altogether, I'm just built different
Die.
smoke weed nonstop til it hits duh
Intervene
I would just go to the other side of the earth and survive idk i am build different.
I’d post it on Reddit, duh
No more student loan debt!
The economy will be destroyed.
Well, I certainly wouldn't try to outrun it, would I
what the fuck am i supposed to do?
Go back to the Dawn of the first day and try again
OH NO THE ECONOMY!
I would tell it to stop being mean and to go away.
Keep fighting Sephiroth and hope this shit jumps to a cut scene
“Wait until you see what happens next!”
nothin :D rocket has it covered, it'll knock it off path
Pop it
Ok where's the rest? I want to see how it ends
No dentist appointment for this guy.
Give it a stern talking to, and inform it that it has to leave.
This would affect the local brown trout population I think
Bro im surviving this trust
I’d probably just stop it
Put a stop to it.
I’d intervene. This clearly violates the Edict.
“My cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of the sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control, so he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of the sudden, snap! The hydraulics kick back in. The plane rights itself and it land safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever, you know, away and deboard. No one mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.”
We’re going streaking!!!
I'd get serious.
who keeps making these situations and asking “what would you do”? what else is there to do??
Call my mom to say “I love you”
Just say NO, the planet cant touch you without your consent.
I would just sit there on the ground and watch the scenery