What If Earth Was 10 Times Bigger

[Music] i don't know who i'm writing this to or why it's the end of the world after all so everybody knows all i have to say anyway but somehow i feel that i have to tell this to someone so it began as slight jolts from under the ground nobody really paid attention to them especially in seismically active regions people thought these were just minor earthquakes they talked about them in the news but only few actually cared my parents i was only 12 back then were among those who did but let's save it for later in just a year the jolts became much stronger and more frequent in some areas they turned into full-fledged earthquakes doing a lot of damage to cities and villages where still previously dormant volcanoes began waking up all over the world people started raising alarm scientists talked a lot about climate change and impact of humankind but it was obvious nobody really had any definitive answers it didn't get any better either as months went by earthquakes and volcano eruptions gradually grew in power and frequency at first only one major natural disaster per month was reported but in two more years there were at least four of them occurring within the same period in every corner of the world even the normally calm regions suffered from quakes and resulting tsunamis people tried to adapt but it was all unfolding too fast for us to react adequately all we had left to do was to learn to be always ready to move out from our homes and run we stopped building big and sturdy apartment buildings opting for lightweight 3d printed houses they were easily destroyed but easily built too which was a huge advantage items of luxury were rapidly losing their value while on the other hand mobile electronics and survival tools grew in price people began really appreciating what they had and each other neighbors were helping one another and whole towns unified their efforts to build strong communities and prepare for the worst together and the worst came sooner than we expected one day the whole planet was shaken in one titanic earthquake we thought it was the end for us all because the ground went on shaking for hours and didn't cease until the next day and then came reports from the atlantic coast the ocean receded leaving vast swathes of naked sand and corals research teams on helicopters went to learn what caused this cataclysm and found the unthinkable there was an enormous whirlpool in the middle of the atlantic hundreds of times bigger than the largest sinkhole in the world the water from the ocean was gushing down the gigantic drain as if someone pulled the plug on the bottom in a sense that was exactly what happened tectonic plates beneath the atlantic came apart forming a huge gap in the bottom boiling magma poured out but was extinguished by the overwhelming mass of water which then rushed down into the abyss it went away so quickly that the overall water level fell in a matter of hours the event was dubbed the great atlantic rift but it was still only the beginning with the rising frequency of earthquakes and eruptions wind patterns around the world changed resulting in massive hurricanes it seemed the whole planet was against its inhabitants but like i said earlier my parents were the ones who cared and they had to know the reason they were geologists at the international space agency which continued its work even through all the cataclysms and it was them who came to the distressing conclusion for some unknown reason the earth had started to grow in size it would explain everything the ever more frequent earthquakes were caused by tectonic plates come into motion the flowing magma was pushed from the mantle up towards the crust and burst onto the surface in places suited exactly for that volcanoes and that meant there would be other events like the great atlantic rift only even more catastrophic after another year we moved to live in the agency along with the families of other employees and research workers the buildings were made to withstand almost anything so we were protected from the horrors of the outside we took in as many people as we could but of course it wasn't nearly enough millions more were left to their own devices and we could only hope that everyone was safe by that time as scientists estimated the planet had already grown one and a half times its original size and by the looks of it the rate at which it ballooned was growing in another year of our bunkered life we witnessed it grow twice again rifts even bigger than the one in the atlantic popped up in different parts of the world causing widespread chaos everyone went to live underground where it was relatively safe communications between continents were all but lost and all we learned about the situation above was from daring expeditions by scientists the planet was ravaged by quakes volcanic eruptions tsunamis and hurricanes happening almost daily now life on the surface was virtually impossible it was then that the joint team of researchers and engineers suddenly came out with the solution they'd been working on for the last five years they called it the ark it turned out several teams agreed to build huge spaceships to evacuate humankind along with a surviving animal fish and insect species in case the earth comes apart and the time they'd feared finally came everyone in the agency's buildings including me and my parents were escorted to an enormous hall where one of the arks was kept all other people from the continent who managed to come were also there we were given personal ids and then allowed to board each person was allocated a separate capsule that was to keep us hibernating for the whole time of space travel we were told we were the colonists the pioneers in space settlement we were going to mars and that's how i ended up here where i'm riding all this we successfully boarded the ark and were put to sleep in our capsules when i woke up we were already landing i won't bore you with the details of terraforming and settling in our new home at first we all wore special suits equipped with oxygen tanks but soon enough we built a dome with artificial atmosphere that started making the territory suitable for living both for us and for the animals we brought since then 10 years have passed already we're feeling almost at home on the red planet which isn't really red anymore there are lush forests and big cities sprawling all around mars is inactive so there are no earthquakes or hurricanes here life is pretty peaceful although it's as busy as can be with all the work that still has to be done but all this time we've all been anxiously watching our home planet grow in size at first it was barely visible in the night sky but as months passed it became more and more apparent until one day it could be viewed in some detail with an unaided eye today it's the size of the moon in our skies invisible even in the light of day the sun is much smaller from here than it was seen from earth so basically our home planet is now larger than its star through telescopes we can see its surface covered in scars and fissures dozens of times bigger than the grand canyon there are no more seas and oceans and continents drifted far apart the once green and blue and welcoming world is now a barren wasteland boiling with fire and brimstone the sun isn't helping it either when the planet was small the star bathed it in its light in warmth giving it life and energy now when earth is a hundred times larger the sun is scorching its surface and burning off the remnants of its atmosphere but even that's not all with the size the gravity has grown too being so big and massive earth has collided with the moon virtually eating it up venus which was similar to the previous earth started to be tugged toward the suddenly grown planet and was soon to run into it as well and earth itself is slowly gravitating toward the sun scientists say that one day it would first consume both venus and mercury and then get burned completely in the sun's sea wow all i can hope now is to never see it with my own eyes

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Id: WNUb7PLZkLM

Length: 9min 2sec (542 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 19 2020