Suggestion - Addition of Chicxulub Impact as a Historical Simulation

[BarnacleFilms]

You would probably have to recreate the basic shape of the continents 66 million years ago but I think it would be really cool to have a simulation with a recreation of the asteroid strike off the Yucatan peninsula, and to be able to see the devastation of the collision, even if only currently possible in the short term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_impactor
I know it would be a lot of work but it would be quite an interesting thing to see.

[Dan Dixon]

And it would be even more awesome if we were running a life simulation and this triggered a mass extinction event. And you got a plausible result without any 'scripting' or pre-determined result... a pure simulation, just like how Universe Sandbox ² is now.

This is one of the dream milestones that we've set for ourselves... we're years away from being able to do this and it may never happen, but this is the direction we're headed.

Great suggestion.

[OuijaMawl]

Dan, I thought I'd bring this to your attention.

List of Impact Craters on Earth[en.wikipedia.org]

It would be neat to see some of these more recent impactors. Here in AZ we have a well known and extremely intact specimen of a crater just east of Flagstaff created by a meteor ~50 thousand years ago known as Barringer (meteor) Crater I wonder if that asteroid could be put into a sim as well. Being so well known has made it quite a tourist stop these days owned by the Barringer family it's also been hot bed for study of meteorite impacts since it's dicovery in the 19th century.

Other intresting asteroids to consider for sims:

1908 Tunguska Event
2013 Chelyabinsk Event:
they didn't leave a crater though perhaps when atompsheric models for the game improve to a point where you can see how the atompshere played its part in their explosions seeing this would be really cool.

Vredefort Impact: the largest confirmed crater on the planet some 300 km across. It impacted some 2.023 billion years ago, luckily almost all life going on at that time was still running on anerobic metabolism or I'm sure it would have been truely devestating.
Another large asteroid also imapacted in this same geologic time frame creating the Sudbury Basin in Canada.

MAPCIS: also known as the Massive Australian Precambrian/Cambrian Impact Structure.
It's an unconfirmed impact structure, however it's speculated to be measured at 600 km in diameter. I could only image the destruction something that created that would have caused to the planet.