Re: [gurps] Re: [gurps ] [VEHICLE] of the w eek 753 – Post-Apoca lyptic Catamaran (TL 7)

[Onno Meyer]

Douglas wrote:
> Yes, I did. And thanks for the spelling help. I am dyslexic and really
> suck at spelling. Mostly the Spelling checker helps out but in this
> case I was sleepy and could not find right spelling for the word. 

Spellcheckers can't catch right words in the wrong place, and 
a 'big commit' could have been slang for something like people 
getting together to do something, which made no sense in 
context.

> Does
> not help living in Germany and never seeing much English ether.

Where? I live in Berlin.

> I did mean big, But, I do acknowledge that for it do be big enough, I
> think it would kill the whole planet. If say some bit of planet that
> got smashed up at the beginning of the solar system found its way to
> Earth. Or maybe a huge flock of them: would that keep it from totally
> destroying the Earth?

Deliberate comet strikes figure in some Mars terraforming 
scenarios, but Mars starts out uninhabitable and making it
even more so for a short time seems acceptable. On the 
other hand, the atmosphere of Earth might burn small 
comets before they hit the ground. 

'Waterworldforming' Earth would have to be a deliberate 
act, and it is hard to see a reason why. As acts of war
go, it is silly.

Chris replied to me:
> > Ah. Still I don't see introducing enough water for that.
> 
> What if it hit directly on a polar ice cap, causing all the ice to melt?

The antarctic covers roughly 3% of earth, so even if all 
of it melts, we're talking about less than 100 meters 
globally. That would be a global disaster, and it could 
kill civilization as we know it (perhaps even humanity), 
but it would leave plenty of dry land. 

Onno