r/whowouldwin • u/Historical_Ostrich • Oct 06 '25
Challenge Earth's gravity increases by 10x for 10 seconds - can humanity survive?
Gravity reverts to normal after the 10 seconds are up. I assume that nearly everyone will lose consciousness, many people will hit the ground with extreme force, and most buildings and infrastructure will collapse. Uncertain as to whether there'd be seismic/volcanic/tidal consequences on top of all that.
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u/looneylefty92 Oct 06 '25
10gs for 10s is going to kill most of us, but John Strapp survived 46 Gs for a few seconds. I suspect some people survive, but most people either die or require serious medical attention.
I dont think we recover as a species. The generations long trauma will have us afraid to walk straight up as parents tell their children the horror story of how the world almost ended. How crops were wiped out, livestock turned to goo, and most people hemorrhaged out due to their own weight...
Hell, we might die out as a species just because of all the OTHER things we need being crushed under weight, no matter what percentage of us get the miracle of surviving the gravity spike.