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Theory of Disaster 4, Scale Fit - Much of the physical world is not linear. Of many biases this is just an example. The degree of fit can be the difference between a good and bad decision. Should you fix an operation on it small scale or large scale? Can you extrapolate an effect?
Here is a classic example of a scaled-up disaster.
Clyde splashed
down in Middle
Tennessee!
It was great, he
had delivered.
Smacked his
smile all over from Lewisburg
to Lynchburg
Clyde meteor
marbled limestone.
Clyde hit so hard he cracked three smiling
faults
Verona, TN get
hot dog.
Clyde splashed
down in Middle
Tennessee!
It was great, he
had delivered.
Smacked his
smile all over from Lewisburg
to Lynchburg
Clyde meteor
marbled limestone.
Clyde hit so hard he cracked three smiling
faults
Crossing pattern in slate in a creek west of Collinwood, TN. The concept of Planar Deformation is only considered to be a micro effect. There is no rationale for this constraint. It is another example of using small crater effects to flash card all craters.
The Spider Leg Crater in Australia. What crater studies do not understand is impacts are unique and are liquid events. What happened is this central up splash cooled to make a mosaic. The dark red surrounding the crater is iron from the meteor. If you read the NASA article, they posit this crater to be 600 to 900 million years ago (mya). The size of craters gets smaller with time so a crater of this small size would be later statistically. Basing crater age on the surrounding strata ignores that impact is the great excavator and a previous large impact could have removed the upper strata making this a small crater in a larger crater terrain. 14 Oct. 2026. Spider Crater Close-up - NASA Science
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