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Antarctica, 108 million years ago. A group of Leaelynnasaura is fascinated by the bright spot that appeared on the Moon's night side as a large meteorite struck it, forming the Tycho crater.
This piece was inspired by the Artemis II mission. I wanted to paint something about the Moon, and while doing some research was delighted to discover the prominent Tycho crater on the Moon's surface was formed right in the middle of the Cretaceous period!
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972998 Epipheron, as seen from the Eureka Fast Flyby mission's Long Range Imaging System (LoRIS). (Photo Credit to NASA)
Reconnaissance missions to the Asteroid were numerous, building on countless hours of routine and practice undertaken by space agencies across the world. Readiness, in many ways, was at an all time high - at least in terms of policy practice. Javelin Protocol, a complex policy and continuity of government agreement, had been signed into law in mid-2025, upon the recommendation from the National Space Council, Small Bodies Assessment Group, Space Force and Department of Energy. However, the second Trump administration had kicked the can down the road in terms of its execution, with the first task order for the promised "Deflection Fleet" of spacecraft only going out alongside the long delayed 2027 Budget Request. Cuts during the second Trump Administration, a key talking point of the Ossoff campaign, had done more to decimate the American industrial landscape in terms of readiness. Quality control suffered, and commercial partners who lacked experience were drawn in as a main element of the American industrial base - whether they were ready or not. NASA's Eureka mission, alongside the Japanese Sukauto spacecraft, would conduct in depth flybys of the asteroid, with the hopes of characterizing the rock for a potential deflection mission. This would ultimately never come, with the first Deflection Fleet spacecraft failing nearly 2 weeks prior to its expected arrival at Epipheron - ultimately precluding any attempt to move the asteroid away from Planet Earth.
And the poll winner is
Chrono Trigger, with the disaster being Lavos: an asteroid impact and the living being within the asteroid emerging billions of millennia later, creating a supervolcanic eruption and a verneshot (displacement of material into the upper atmosphere, for it to rain back down equivalent to an asteroid impact/meteor storm)
I'm going to be brushing up on research on this and writing it up as best as I can over this week - like some of our disasters (e.g. the close runner up of Xenogears' Disc 2 with nanomolecular gray goo/mutation zombie apocalypse) this is one that's mostly speculative/hypothetical - even the closest analog we have in real life (the Chixculub impact) is something no one living thankfully experienced, although there's smaller impacts that have been (Tunguska, Chelyabinsk) and a lot can be inferred from those and calculations from nuclear weapon yields and the like.
Similarly, no supervolcanic eruption has happened in the real world since Krakatoa, so while it's somewhat more easy to model from living memory than an extinction level asteroid (and we do know more about volcanoes and how they work than asteroids and comets) there has never been a true verneshot within human existence (which would require a lot more power than even Krakatoa provided, it would likely need at least a level of the Toba catastrophe)
Congratulations to the people who voted for Chrono Trigger, and I shall have this up sometime within the week: I'm going to do some more research, update what I know from what real events and science we do have, so while I'm obviously speculating, I'm not JUST regurgitating something like Supervolcano or History Channel Doomsday and covering the same territory they did but for the setting of Chrono Trigger. (And unlike Doomsday, I promise there will be NO CGI butt plugs presented as Balanced Rock at Arches National Park. Not even joking, I just saw that episode again...)
Also, to be truly pedantic, since Lavos is a "living being," this would also qualify as an "alien attack," but I'm going with "asteroid, supervolcano, and verneshot" since that's the apparent effects and how it did its damage - it didn't say release armies or biological substances, didn't intentionally terraform aside from the results of its arrival, didn't take over existing power structures (but did get found/used by them) and seemed to do most of its damage just from being an impacting object and then from coming out from the ground.
Although that might be an interesting point for the write-up about true accidents/purely natural disasters/competing access need events: e.g. disasters that no one could have prevented because everyone/everything involved was operating exactly as intended/just as it does, and the bad consequences could not have been reasonably foreseen/were foreseen way too late, or it wasn't really anyone's specific fault but just one of bad placement for population/competing needs - e.g. in this fictional scenario, a planet devourer that just needs a solid meal, unfortunately the place is populated.
66 million years ago an asteroid struck offshore of what is now Chicxulub near the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The impact and its aftermath are widely credited with a mass extinction that wiped out 75% of plant and animal life on Earth, including non-avian dinosaurs. (Image credit: illustration - SWRI/D. Davis, simulation - NOAA; research credit: M. Range et al.; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh)
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What if quantum immortality, the observer effect, the multiverse, the Mandela effect, ghosts, missing 411, and reincarnation are all real and connected. What if we can *only* experience being alive? What if there have been mass extinctions that we as a species have experienced over and over again that we just don't remember because we can only experience consciousness? What if we're overdue for the Big One, supervolcanoes, and asteroid impacts because we're actually experiencing those things all the time, and when we "die," our consciousness just hops to a universe where we survived the incident?
Dimorphos’s surface seconds before impact.
Hollywood is weird. Periodically studios will release very similar movies in the same year. It probably dilutes the box office for both.
Now we have two animated movies about oversized large red animals - “Clifford the Big Red Dog” and four month later “Turning Red” (from Pixar). I’ve seen trailers for both and although I like animation - they look way to cutesy. I’ll pass…
Below is a list of some of the other “twin” films that have come out in the past 20 years or so. Several of them are also animated films.
1991 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Robin Hood
1992 - 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1994/1995 - Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1994/1995 - Street Fighter and Mortal Combat
1997 - Dante’s Peak and Volcano
1997/1998 - Prefontaine and Without Limits
1998 - Antz and A Bug’s Life
1998 - Armageddon and Deep Impact
1998 - The Matrix, Dark City & Thirteenth Floor
2000 - Mission to Mars and Red Planet
2005/2006 - Capote and infamous
2006 - The Prestige and The Illusionist
2006 - Happy Feet and Surf’s Up
2010 - The A-Team and the The Losers
2011 - Skyline and Battle Los Angeles
2011 - Centurion and The Eagle
2012 - Hitchcock abd The Girl
2012 - Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman
2013 - Jobs and Steve Jobs
2014 - Hercules and Legend of Hercules
2016 - Churchill and Darkest Hour
2018 - Goodbye Christopher Robin and Christopher Robin
2019 - Smallfoot and Abominable
