EVE General Discussion

OK , let put on our nerdy classes and see what will actually happens when the titan CRASHES

Lets see what would the impact be like if the titan crashed down to earth assuming from 0 at 200km above Caldari Prime.

As Caldari Prime can sustain life and people aren't Oompas Lumpas . Lets say it has a similar makeup as Earth.Well.. similar gravity to say the least .

FIRST , let see the gravity gradient.





HOWEVER , thats not what the asteroid impact tool said about impacts of such magnitude.


Major Global Changes:
The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and loses negligible mass.
The impact does not make a noticeable change in the tilt of Earth's axis (< 5 hundreths of a degree).
The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.

Crater Dimensions:
Transient Crater Diameter: 64.5 km ( = 40.1 miles )
Transient Crater Depth: 22.8 km ( = 14.2 miles )
Final Crater Diameter: 112 km ( = 69.3 miles )
Final Crater Depth: 1.22 km ( = 0.76 miles )
The crater formed is a complex crater.

Seismic Effects:
The major seismic shaking will arrive approximately 40 seconds after impact.
Richter Scale Magnitude: 9.5 (This is greater than any earthquake in recorded history)
Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 200 km:

IX. General panic. Damage considerable in specially designed structures;
well-designed frame structures thrown out of plumb.
Damage great in substantial buildings, with partial collapse.
Buildings shifted off foundations.
Serious damage to reservoirs.
Underground pipes broken.
Conspicuous cracks in ground.
In alluviated areas sand and mud ejected, earthquake fountains, sand craters.

X. Most masonry and frame structures destroyed with their foundations.
Some well-built wooden structures and bridges destroyed.
Serious damage to dams, dikes, embankments.
Large landslides.
Water thrown on banks of canals, rivers, lakes, etc. Sand and mud shifted horizontally on beaches and flat land. Rails bent slightly.

Ejecta:
The ejecta will arrive approximately 3.43 minutes after the impact.
At your position there is a fine dusting of ejecta with occasional larger fragments
Average Ejecta Thickness: 19.3 meters ( = 63.4 feet )
Mean Fragment Diameter: 12.1 cm ( = 4.75 inches )

Air Blast:
The air blast will arrive approximately 10.1 minutes after impact.
Peak Overpressure: 1.56e+06 Pa = 15.6 bars = 221 psi
Max wind velocity: 969 m/s = 2170 mph
Sound Intensity: 124 dB (Dangerously Loud)
Damage Description:

Multistory wall-bearing buildings will collapse.

Wood frame buildings will almost completely collapse.

Multistory steel-framed office-type buildings will suffer extreme frame distortion, incipient collapse.

Highway truss bridges will collapse.

Highway girder bridges will collapse.

Glass windows will shatter.

Cars and trucks will be largely displaced and grossly distorted and will require rebuilding before use.

Up to 90 percent of trees blown down; remainder stripped of branches and leaves.





AHA_HA!!!
The VOID HAS BEEN FILLED!!!

I didnt recalculate any numbers... but are 7130km/h not 1.98km/s?

Ivy, you should check the actual data both for Caldari Prime gravity and the Titan's mass. With that and an estimate of altitude for the Titan, we could calculate its potential gravitational energy in ergs, then transform ergs to our lovely kiloton/megaton scale and check what would be the maximum damage the Titan fall could inflict on the planet.

How that energy was spent would be quite a different issue and would depend on how the Titan was over there, either in a true orbit or hovering at suborbital speed with an active pull up.

As we are told that the titan fell after destruction, then we may assume it was hovering at suborbital speed (either it would just deorbit at a pace that would depend on altitude, but likely it would take several days at least and the wreck would fragment and spread a lot of mayhem and debris along its orbital path).

Determining the actual altitude, or distance from surface, would be another question that would depend on what was the Titan doing there as a military tool.

*Indahmawar Fazmarai checks Leviathan's data from EVEmon*

Here it is, a mass of 2,430,000,000 kg... huh? Only? The Empire State Building alone weights 365,000,000 kg! That's ludicrous...

Forget it, the stats are bullsh*t. The Leviathan's ingame mass is just like 7x that of the Empire State building. My guess is that the "mass" tab in the data base can't handle numbers longer than 10 digits.

A theory is only good as long as it matches reality. You need to work more on your formulas.

So what you're really saying is that that "meteor" over Russia a few weeks ago was a CCP Titan gone "rogue" ?

Kewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwl.

I prefer kerbal space program to have my science muscle massaged.

I come to Eve for ultra captitalist dystopian future with lazors and clones and stuff.

Nanofit Titan... clearly.... erm...

AH!
But what you are ignoring is that the Titan is NOT orbiting Caldari Prime , instead , its just hovering above the planet powered by space magic .

But yes , I need a friendly physicists for this lol .