Hi Mr. Tyrannosaur - the dinosaurs (name sounds familiar ha ha )
were most likely taken out by a massive asteroid hit on earth many
millions years ago. The cause of the extinction was due to
the collateral damage in the form of the asteroid impact throwing
up debris & blanketing earth leading to climate changes &
making life not sustainable to the dinosaurs.
Here we are talking about not only the great firepower of a
nuclear explosion but more importantly the massive atomic rediation
& its ensuing side effects on human health, mutation of cells
& changes in the earth's ecology & environment.
Another point is that asteroid impacts are acts of God & beyond
human control but nukes are man made.
That's why I stated in my 1st post dated 28.5.09: "For
ordinary folks like many of us , we should tell all these
f..xxkk.bas..taks: "Please dont play play with humanity!".
You are restating my point basically. Nuclear warfare will
probably end human civilization as we know it, and possibly
lead to human extinction, but life itself on earth is pretty
safe.
There are plenty of life forms that can tolerate far more
radiation then we can, and the mutations caused by radiation from
fallout will lead to selective pressure towards organisms that are
more tolerant towards such an event.
To note case in point, in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster,
where massive amounts of radiation were released, the areas most
affected by fallout were feared by scientists to be unable to
support any form of life, but 20 years on the wildlife in the area
seems to have carried out far better then expected. There were some
disturbing mutations though, and you probably shouldn't go hunting
for meat there... but practically it seems that nature in itself is
a lot more hardy to such disasters then we are.
If they aim the North and South poles ice caps…perhaps enough to
raise the sea water level to dangerous level?
Not very likely... I do not think the world's suppy of nukes
will be able to melt our ice caps. We don't have anywhere near that
amount of firepower.
In any case even if ALL of our ice caps melted there will still
be plenty of land left around, though costal areas will be pretty
much underwater. Note that there were times in Earth's history
where it had far less ice then we have now, especially during the
Triassic where we had no ice caps at all.
