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If it were only so simple! The almighty is, conservatively, the size of a small city itself. It also contains a fairly advanced nuclear core. Let’s say the almighty weighs, all included, roughly the same as the Grand Coulee dam in Washington state, US. It would weigh roughly 11 million (11,000,000) metric tons or 1.1e10 kg. Entry let’s say the almighty takes the length of the Season of The Worthy to get from near Mercury orbit to Earth. That equates to, at closes pass, 77 million km. That makes its average speed (remember these are VERY ROUGH estimates) 77million km / 91 days. This gives us ~ 35 thousand km/hr OR about 8.9e5 m/s. Impact force in joules is determined as 0.5 x mass x velocity squared which gives us: 0.5 x (1.1e10) x ( (7.956e11 x 1.1e10)/2 = 8.75e21/2 = 4.376e21 joules This is equivalent to 10.46 teratons (10460000000000 tones) of tnt. This is well within the higher end estimates of the Chicxulub asteroid impact and would likely vaporize anything within a thousand miles of the city center. The rest of the earth’s surface would likely suffer a catastrophic heating and cooling followed by an elongated extinction epoch. The almighty should probably not be allowed to hit the city... probably should not be allowed to hit the earth at all.
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  • the city has the traveler which will take most of the blow. Id say it would sacrifice itself to save the planet, but would be unable to save the city

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  • We can only hope. Given the forces we’re talking here, even if the traveler were to absorb 50% of the impact, the remaining explosion as an air burst would likely flash boil stone at ground level. We can all hope for space magic to save us!

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  • i mean all this math really means nothing considering how the almighty is unable to hit the earth given what we were told anyways plus we dont know the impact velocity or the angle at which it would hit.

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  • I should’ve stated my given states and angles. I made my calculations based on non-elastic, right-angle collision ooa. That said, even if the energy released is half of my estimates, it would still be a likely extinction-level event.

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