[Isinlor]

Probably easier option is just redirecting an asteroid bigger than Chicxulub impactor. But the point is that even that is not enough to eradicate life.

As I said, you would need something like Late Heavy Bombardment or Venus like greenhouse effect and even that may not be enough.

Based on the Moon craters Late Heavy Bombardment would include:

- 22,000 or more impact craters with diameters >20 km (12 mi),

- about 40 impact basins with diameters about 1,000 km (620 mi),

- several impact basins with diameters about 5,000 km (3,100 mi)

It's also important to highlight that everywhere were our ancestors appeared soon after megafauna population got reduced by 20% - 70%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction#/media/Fil...

In the last 100 years we just entered path to near total eradication of megafauna. E.g. wild mammals account now for ~4% of mammals biomass.

Complex life is nowhere near as robust as simple life forms.

[neolog]

If I'm reading this right, it took evolution about 3.5 billion years to get animals, and there's only 1.3 billion years left until it's too hot for eukaryotes.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Ear...