- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
This is the first time i have ever thought about this, about the effects of the slipspace explosion ( or rupture) that destroyed most of new mombassa. Either all of the buildings and dust and debris were pulled into slipspace, which of course some of it was, or most of it was thrown out into the surrounding land. If the dust and debris were infact thrown out into the surrounding area, then the effect of it would have been catostrophic. Now we look back to the extinction of the dinosaurs, what happened when the metioritre hit the Earth? well first of all there was a massive explosion which sent dust and fire into the air. The dust covered the sun for about 2-5 years, killing nearly everything. Now the explosion that happened at new mombassa wasent as large, but it was certinly much larger than the explosion of a Hydrodgen bomb. But thats not the big problem, the problem is the space elevator. When the space elevator was thrown down it would wrap its self around the equator and cause an explosion the size of a small asteroid. Altogether this would be a massive disaster. One othre thing is the ocean nearby. if the space elevator fell into the ocean it would send a massive tidal wave at india and the surrounding coast, estroying not only new mombassa, but also many other, perhaps larger cities. But since the space elevator fell inland, it would fall into desert, stirring up vast ammounts of sand, jungle which would start massive forest fires and burn most of the forest, and it would probly lop off the tops of some mountians causing absoutely massive land slides, and the evaporated water from the ocean would go into the apnosphere and cause excessive rain storms. The rain would fall on the dry desert, causing vast, shallo pools of water. But where does all the dust go? it all goes into the apnosphere and get pulled be high altotude winds all around africa, across the ocean it would be intercepted by other high altotude winds and get pushed into asia and then fall down to earth causing great dust storms which would kill many plants, and people.
That was basicly a worst case scenario.
(btw sorry about the spelling mistakes)
[Edited on 7/2/2006]