Interesting that South Sudan decided to forfeit its independence.

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!

(keikaku means plan)

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.

Without it the value of the Suez Canal plummets. Please, think of the shareholders.

Trump solves global warming with nuclear weapons. Get his Nobel prize ready.

I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.

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.

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)

Combination sea level rice abd lots of much smaller nuclear explosions.

So they're really trying to fix global warming!

this would actually be achieved by a team of 20 thousand oompa loompas with small shovels and 500 million tons of cocaine

One can hope

I don't think there's anything that could make a crater like that on Earth. Like, an impact big enough to leave a crater that big would render the entire crust splashy enough to fill it back in.

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.

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

No, but they could create a thin glass crust over the whole area that would accomplish much the same effect.

You can't convince me that isn't a nipple snuck in by the image creator.

the safest place is in the eye of the nuke

No, sorry, letting arabs live is antisemitic. And that's a bad thing to be. I don't make the rules; i just uncritically accept anc enforce them upon those who cannot defend themselves and nobody else.

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

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.

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.

The nostalgia for the Kerbin map is going be crazy if KSA takes off and fills the void for the next decade or so.

That would be moving Israel somewhere else.

That's the holy land

Intact Russia. Not very good.

maybe, but it seems it would lower the sea level