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BusyDadGaming t1_jba9gjj wrote

The kind of cataclysm you're talking about depends greatly on how much material you're ejecting into space, and also quite a bit on how far away it ends up. You say that it is a city that's getting yeeted out the planetary airlock, though you call it Mars-like based on its climate. That's a huge range. You're going to have to decide where in that size range it falls in order to get any workable details.

If the amount of crust getting cosmically defenestrated is the size of a city, there will be little to no impact on the planet at large. It doesn't matter how far away it ends up in this scenario. It's a small asteroid, too small to fall into a spherical shape, and it's going to need all kinds of magic to have anything to make it habitable, like air or sufficient gravity.

If on the other hand it's the size of Mars, the entire biosphere of the original planet will be utterly destroyed, the surface liquified, and no kind of life will be able to exist there for several million years (which is what actually happened to earth).

You'll need to provide more details.

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_Warp_Rider t1_jbaqfk0 wrote

Love your word choices.

> Planetary airlock

>Cosmically defenestrated

Cosmic Defenestration sounds like interdimensional astral projecting.

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Aubin_kun OP t1_jbadiz4 wrote

When I say Mars-like, I'm thinking of its landscapes. It's not meant to be habitable, it's supposed to be a warning to other species that want to rebel.

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BusyDadGaming t1_jbadv3k wrote

Well, if it's city sized, then you have your answer. It's too small to have any impact on the planet. It's going to be a floating clump of dirt.

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Ihadanapostrophe t1_jbd6cuk wrote

In all seriousness, couldn't Age of Ultron be used as an example? I can't remember if that's a full city or just a section.

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EagleDriver1776 t1_jbvgp5n wrote

Well when crashing into the planet yeah. Its gonna make a massive impact but orbiting the planet, no nothing will happen.

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Ihadanapostrophe t1_jbvqb06 wrote

I realize I didn't clarify well. I meant just a visual example of a city being ripped from a planet. Earth was largely unaffected.

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