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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 4055615" data-attributes="member: 41187">Not exactly.  The earth will still revolve around the sun, so you'll actually see a six month light period, followed by a six month dark period.Each "day" will be a solar year long.  It won't be quite as bad as Mercury (which manages to rotate so that one side is always facing the sun) but it will be pretty danged inhospitable.Agreed.Don't forget artificial growth environments.  Also, depending upon the immediate effects of the impact, you may have a) a large human death toll, b) accusations of aggression resulting in wars of various scales, c) massive natural disasters such as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and massive storms, d) continent-spanning wild fires, or some combination of the above.Humanity won't actually regress, we'll just find ourselves crippled in some serious ways.  Most of the knowledge of science, engineering, and technology will still be around, inside people's minds if no where else, but the resource base used to take advantage of this knowledge will be radically different than it is today.  So what's most likely is a hybrid technology level, combining the most sustainable bits of humanity's many technology levels.  Societally, we'll almost certainly drop back to some sort of tribal or feudal state, but that's because most people can't think of themselves as being part of a group larger than about 1,000 people.  It's just too large for most people to internalize.  Plus, people respond instinctively to a single leader during crisis.</blockquote>

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