Today's Match-Up: The Lollipop Guild vs The K-T Meteor

[whosdaboss]

Comments

[bluestknight]

I'm willing to be that the Lollipop Guild is prepared for this eventuality. They have built an additional candy-making civilization deep below the ground, drawing power from the Earth's molten mantel. Their bomb-shelters are secure, and their candy supplies are unlikely to run out before they can get a subterrainian factory going.

The meteor, on the other hand, is destroyed on impact, and thus the Lollipop Guild wins by default (ie. by surviving the kamakazi attack by K-T).

K-T Meteor

[outragedkodiak]

Assuming the meteor was approaching at a close to perpendicular angle to Oz, and giving it a size of about Texas at 60-80 k/s -- I'm pretty sure no subterrainian factory would survive either, and I'm even willing to pretend that this factory is in the Canadian Shield. The impact, transferred energy as heat and subsequent tectonic forces would crush anything you build down there into a Lollipop Guild Paste.

Re: K-T Meteor

[bluestknight]

My assumption was not that the Lollipop Guild would be underground at the point of impact, but far enough away that they would be largely unaffected by the impact itself, and more worried about the ensuing volcanic activity and nuclear winter. With all of the advanced astronomy that the Lollipop Guild is so well-known for performing*, I'm sure they'd have ample warning and be well prepared.

*this may be a lie.

Vote: K-T Meteor

[waygroovy]

the cake is a lie

Re: K-T Meteor

[bluestknight]

Ooo... and let's even say that their fortifications are at the point of impact (the meteor is somehow sentient, and knows where they are trying to protect themselves, and heads straight for it). The meteor is destroyed on impact, while a few precious milliseconds later all of the Lollipop Guild perish. The meteor, however, died first, and so looses, as the competition instantly ends when one competitor is destroyed. Ergo, the Lollipop Guild wins by default (such is the problem when your only method of attack is self-destruction).

Re: K-T Meteor

[outragedkodiak]

I always operate under the assumption that the meteor is sentient.

And I wouldn't neccessarily discount a sizable meteorite surviving the impact of a thousands of km wide hypotheteroid, particularly if it's made of iron ferite, like in Armageddon.