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I like this game. Imagine if all of the water vapor in a cloud condensed in an even distribution so that all of the rain fell at once.
"There's an xkcd for that"
https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/
After explaining the destructive force of a single raindrop over a kilometer in diameter:
Poetry. True poetry.
I can only recommend Randall Munroe's books "what if", " how to" and "what if 2". They are really entertaining comedy.
Think explainer was great if you were in for that sort of thing.
That one, I wasn't a big fan of. But maybe that's because I am not a native English speaker. Maybe its better for native speakers.
I could absolutely understand the difficulty of a non native English speaker in understanding the extreme amount of implication and nuance that book requires.
Using simpler words does not mean a smoother conveyance of information.
imagine that you're looking at the night sky and the stars blinked out all at once for just a second
Since they're all so far away and so many different distances away, it would imply something very very very large and very very very fast passed between us and the closest stars. Probably aliens. That would be cool
It'd be fine, we'd have 400 years to get ready.
Oh, so we can start next year?
Then you just live in a totally dark world forever
no no, just a second. like a cosmic blink
xkcd got your back.