spicy one

Nice to see Ukraine won

And they got crimea back!
Interesting that South Sudan decided to forfeit its independence.
- The haters will say an old map was used to edit this but realistically a lot can happen in 10 years.
- Well they didn't get any Western students protesting the genocide there, so it doesn't surprise me.

I love how the answer to the Middle East problem is a nuke, and not just, I don’t know, leaving us alone for a change.

- Nobody tell Israel that Arabs are semites too.
Nowhere does it say who nuked them. Maybe it was themselves.
- Then leave them alone to nuke themselves.

Kazakhstan, after finally securing access to the oceans: Just according to keikaku.

Imagine how much potassium they could export with direct access to the GZ Ocean?
Edit: And Russia would have warm water ports! Ukraine War averted!
- Doing this creates world peace change my mind lol

Whoever drew this went to great lengths to keep Israel on the map

Without it the value of the Suez Canal plummets. Please, think of the shareholders.
Which is illogical if it is supposed to be an epicentre of explosions. However, if it was Israel nuking everyone around... I mean, one ongoing genocide may not be enough for them.

It looks much larger than the Chicxulub crater (~200km diameter 72 tera tonnes of TNT), this must be a exatonne explosion, I measured the crater diameter to about 3500km!

It would take decades or centuries before the sky would clear after such an explosion, most likely resulting in a mass extinction event.

Considering that we're in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I'd say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I'm guessing it would exceed the "Great Dying" (Permian-Triassic extinction event) to take the crown.
Edit: The Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica, which may be associated with the Great Dying, was "only" a little over 2.5 times larger in diameter than Chicxulub and thus still way smaller than the crater depicted. That said, I guess a nuclear crater wouldn't be associated with a flood basalt "exit wound" at the antipode the way an impact crater might be, so maybe it wouldn't be comparable.
Trump solves global warming with nuclear weapons. Get his Nobel prize ready.
- That's actually a brilliant idea. Once you eradicate most of the humanity, the rest will sort itself out.
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
- I call that winning.
it would also shatter tectonic plates, create rifts and reverse the directions some plates were moving, the asteroid impact you mention resulted in the Indian subcontinent (I'm simplifying a lot of things right now)
- Well, now you've piqued my curiosity. Got a link?
  The Wikipedia article I'm reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that's not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn't actually as settled as I'm making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn't change the "result" of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.
So they're really trying to fix global warming!

Every single nuke in the world pointed at the same spot could not achieve anything even close to this.

This would require an asteroid/comet impact .. an order of magnitude, or two, or three, more destructive than the chicxulub impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The entire chicxulub impact crater is about the size of 'Mound Island'.

An impact this huge would probably shatter the crust of much of, if not the entire planet, and turn the entire atmosphere into fire.

this would actually be achieved by a team of 20 thousand oompa loompas with small shovels and 500 million tons of cocaine
- I like how you think
One can hope
But anime amiright?
- Hell's Gate, Heaven's Gate - Darker than Black
That circle is roughly about 2000 miles across (according to rough measurements in Google maps), which is only about 2x the size of the Gulf of Mexico.
But yeah, this would be a cataclysmic event.

Israel would still find a way to fight over more land

"this floating fridge is a part of what God promised us!"

Aaaaah destroying entire nations - every zionists wet dream

- Why? Only a couple people in that country actually cause the bad stuff

crazy how the bomb ignored the island in the middle, didn't know we had donut nukes

the safest place is in the eye of the nuke
You can't convince me that isn't a nipple snuck in by the image creator.

The Atomic Sea

or, if a Fallout fan, “The Glowing Sea”

Missilepotamia

Whatever made that crater was an ELE. Bigger than Chicxulub.

We have plenty of great filters to navigate:

We end war, or we die.

We restore the atmosphere and rebuild global ecology, or we die.

We end stratified society and power disparity, or we die.

Where are all the aliens? Fermi asked. The first question is, how do we navigate our way to becoming a space-faring, world colonizing species, ourselves? It's turning out to be pretty difficult for the common hominid.

Not to mention skynet. It always bothers me when people leave AI out of lists of x-risks. I guess it's because a popular sci-fi movie predicted it would happen, so nobody takes it seriously. Or perhaps it's just because AI is so unpopular now, nobody wants to devote any time to thinking about the ramifications of it becoming smarter.
- Courtesy of XKCD, long before we have to contend with unfriendly AI (we have committees of AI-techs working on this problem already) we'll have to contend with someone like Musk or Bezos determined to own everything and capable of creating an AI-controlled army of killer robots.
  We're not sure how rogue AI is going to manifest. We are sure rogue power-seeking humans exist all the time, and positions of power are commonly filled by them. (That's the primary argument for election by sortition, or by lottery.)

Anyone else glad that the USA has been kicked off the planet?

The New Gulf of America

The actual "Gulf of America"

Fuck we missed Israel again, launch another one.

Deoccupied Ukraine. Very good.

Intact Russia. Not very good.
- No South Sudan. Very confusing.

So would this lower sea levels?

No, because (a) that's way, way bigger than any single bomb would make (the largest nuclear crater ever made was "only" about 390m across), and (b) actual nuclear weapon attacks would be detonated as air-bursts and therefore wouldn't make craters at all to begin with.
The afore-mentioned crater was the result of an underground test, BTW. Also, it was designed to make a big crater, being part of Project Plowshare. The largest bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, left no crater because it was an air-burst at 4,000m altitude.
Also, a crater that big would be an extinction-level event. For comparison, Chicxulub crater, from the impact that ended the dinosaurs, is "only" about as wide as "Mossad Island" in this image.
Maybe we'll finally find Atlantis! Get that Stargate working.
- SG-1 was so optimistic... im only now getting into Stargate

Wouldn't a nuke that big crack the crust?

maybe, but it seems it would lower the sea level

How to achieve peace in the middle east with this one trick.

That would be moving Israel somewhere else.

ts looks like the kerbin map from KSP 🥀

The nostalgia for the Kerbin map is going be crazy if KSA takes off and fills the void for the next decade or so.
- Oh wow, didn't realize someone picked up the torch after ksp2 died. Haven't touched a rocket in a few years but I'm down for some unplanned rapid dissasemblies in my future.

the idea that national borders would still exist, let alone be so unchanged, after such a world changing impact, is laughable.

That's a nipple in the middle.

That's the holy land
- Another war shall be fought for it!
- That's the holy sea.

And thus it happened. There were peace for a hundred years.

3 years. Balkans.
- We need a bigger circle

Not even remotely funny.

- Making "fun" about the eradication of someone (some country) already the target of current and ongoing aggression from all over the world, while the shitheads of America and Israel are bombing them, committing war crimes and mass murdering people faster than we can count, is decidedly inhumane and despicable.

Is this boomer shit really making the rounds again? This is so 2003.

E: downvote all you want; eat my ass, CIA

but think about the military industrial complex shareholders, they would struggle after this

The existence of man is proof that there is no god.

But from where will we get the oil!?! 😥

Couldn't they just tow them out of the environment instead?

and we still wouldn’t transition off oil.

Why would an asteroid Impact convince OPEC to transition?
- A lot of the oil production is in the crater

How nice of the bombs?, super sized asteroid?, to leave a neat ~~little~~ huge mountain right in the middle of the impact zone

Half of Pakistan gone 😅

Lex Luthor

Kinda upset about the thought of all the great food being lost.

Arma calling it again

oh hey another warmed over meme from 2003 that is somehow relevant again

man i just wanted jelly bracelets and emo to come back

Man, couldn't they have missed a little to the west?