@DderwenWyllt
What I find amazing about collisions of these sizes is the fact they're so massive that the tidal forces alone are enough to liquify entire planets before they've even collided, watching incoming objects being stretched out as they reach their periapsis mesmerizes me every single time.
@jaydonbooth4042
Wow, those fluid dynamics are amazing. Crazy to imagine the real impact.
@dfs-comedy
"I wish I was there to see it" but "I'm glad I wasn't there to see it" are the two thoughts living in my head at the same time.
@ravioli-oo9ku
I have never seen a simulation like this one and the fact that this is not unusual in the universe is mind blowing.
@jayphat99
The insane part of this you don't get from the video is that this didn't happen over a period of millions or thousands of years, but just 13 hours. That is absolutely wild when you think about it.
@ParallelPenguins
Gotta say the way the earth just went full liquid and you could see the ripples go back and forth was amazing and terrifying and fascinating. I’m gonna watch this a few times more.
@julianpowers594
Having one moon is cool but based on this simulation I don’t think we should make another one.
@Thoran666
Fascinating animation. So some parts of Moonearth are probably still flying through space as asteroids?
@brandon2755
If I could have one thing answered in whatever afterlife there may or may not be, I would want to be able to witness these events happening. The sheer time scale involved in planet formation, watching a star ignite from pressure alone, seeing inside a black hole. Space is my favorite thing by far
@El_Migz
To have a "fly-on-the-wall" view of the actual collision would be equal parts amazing and terrifying.
@Brick_Wall_quote_Entertainment
I can only imagine how disastrous this was for the local trout season.
@duckilythelovely3040
What's really crazy and wild, is when you try to imagine just how horrific and violent the scenario actually would have looked to the human eye.
@shumoko
What i like about this sim is it shows that had we had a little more energy in that impact we could have wound up with two moons potentially
@DustDragon
The fluid feeling seems so off, but the forces at play must be so insanely strong even the toughest matters must look liquified during such an event! Incredible work. It just forces humility on us wee humans
@Gabethedoggo
The big unnamed body is like “go on without me, little one.”
@RickyG93
The fact that the collision caused exactly two bodies, one large and one small, to form and then for the larger one to pull the smaller one into a stable orbit before being absorbed back into Earth is the most astonishing aspect of this to me. Humans are naturally curious about and facisnated by what's out there, but I think no matter what we find nothing will ever be as remotely wonderous as planet Earth and its moon. What a series of happy accidents this planet has undergone to become the cosmic anomoly that it is, and I think we take it for granted. Like humans think Earth is normal and there must be extra terrestrial life out there somewhere but even if that's true, the kind of world Earth became is probably the farthest thing from normal in the universe. There is sustained life here and there has been for millions of years and it's all thanks to cosmic events of pure happenstance like this. That's insane.
@rachel_rexxx
It is pretty cool that the computer simulations are finally able to simulate the theories I learned about in that astronomy class a decade ago
@tim_vergos
What's even more crazy is that a single tiny change in that would have changed completly the world as we know it today.
@Nightmar3YT1
We was about to have a second moon but the second moon crashed 0:21
@ToastyEggs