Not one big enough to cause another great extinction, but small enough to just turn a whole small country and parts of neighboring ones into a huge crater. Will the people who was evacuated out after NASA stated a warning try to rebuild the country after everything has settled down or do they’d become citizens of another country?

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    8 months ago

    It’s an interesting question and would require a sophisticated model. As others have pointed out, the size, velocity, and density of the object and the amount of warning time are all critical variables. The target location is also a critical variable. Some countries have friendly neighbors who would want to help. Other countries have hostile neighbors. Some countries have a culture and infrastructure that would have a chance of executing a swift and semi-orderly evacuation. Many would not. Many populations would panic and there would be mass chaos.

    This would be a fascinating thing to train an AI on to see what sorts of answers/hallucinations it comes up with. Apply for a grant and get on it!