it's been 30 days since uranus first appeared in the sky at first it looked like our moon had found itself a stellar partner but then we understood something much much bigger was headed our way what caused uranus to become so unstable how could this epic collision change the ice giant oh and what's this horrific stink ugh this is what if and here's what would happen if uranus collided with earth let's roll back 30 days when things were still normal uranus lived a quiet life on the outskirts of our solar system about 3 billion kilometers away
from us and then suddenly it began to move closer astronomers would be the first to push the panic button by their calculations it would take uranus 13 years to reach the collision point we'd be short on time but at least we'd have a slight chance to evacuate the earth but the cold blue giant had other plans in mind this would be no standard planetary drill planets don't just take off from their orbits for no reason at all but somehow uranus did now it would be hurtling through the solar system ramping up to a speed of
around 1 000 kilometers per second because of this unexpectedly fast speed we'd only have about 30 days left on this planet uranus would shine like a bright blue star in the sky and every day it would appear bigger and brighter our sky would look gorgeous not only because of the ice giant shining down on us but also thanks to many shooting stars only those wouldn't be stars at all to get to the earth's orbit uranus would have to pass an asteroid belt between jupiter and mars this would disrupt the stable orbits of many asteroids and
throw some of them our way these asteroids can be as big as 240 kilometers in diameter that's a few times larger than the one responsible for wiping dinosaurs off the face of the earth about 65 million years ago we would have nowhere to go we'd just be left here watching the end of times unfold in front of our eyes huh might as well enjoy the view by the time the first asteroids appeared as shooting stars uranus would look about the same size as the moon but it would be growing rapidly as it moved ever closer
while you'd be here awaiting humanity's doom uranus would start shaking things up because uranus is about 15 times more massive than the earth its gravitational pull would start massively affecting our planet volcanoes would begin erupting uncontrollably and tremendous earthquakes would get in on the act destroying the earth from the inside and the stink you drop unconscious from even one whiff of it because well i mean uranus smells like farts the ice giant's upper atmosphere is mostly composed of hydrogen sulfide it's the same stuff that makes rotten eggs ring so bad imagine an entire planet of
rotten eggs engulfing the earth the thought of it makes me nauseous [Music] but uranus wouldn't come alone it would bring all of its 27 moons along for the ride and those moons would be hitting the earth from all sides as a fart filled finale uranus would compress what was left of our atmosphere and the rapidly rising temperatures would ignite it just like that our beautiful blue planet would fall in line and start circling the ice giant eventually becoming one of its many moons uranus wouldn't get away with this assault so easily however last time it
collided with another planetary object twice the size of earth it tipped over yeah uranus is the only planet in our neighborhood that spins on its side [Music] this impact featuring our earthly home could help tilt it back to how it once was but for the earth we know that would be it if by some unexplained mystery life on earth's stinking leftovers emerged once again we would see the blue of uranus on the horizon it would look just as cool as if the earth was one of jupiter's moons but that's a story for another what if
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