Wednesday September 7, 2016
Book 16: Big, Dumb Objects — Part IV

Transcript

KATHRYN: The impact energy will be around four hundred million megatons.

Put another way, it's three-point-three dinosaur killers.

CDRE TAGON: Angle of attack?

KATHRYN: Shallow.

CDRE TAGON: Hmm...

Mountains of debris will become escape-velocity shrapnel.

They weren't aiming at us.

KATHRYN: Or their aim is bad.

CDRE TAGON: Their aim is perfect.

They're strip-mining.