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Mystery of the mile-wide ring in Antarctica: Enormous scar may be crater from house-sized meteorite
UK Daily Mail ^
| January 12, 2015
| Richard Gray
Posted on 01/12/2015 6:45:03 AM PST by C19fan
An enormous impact crater thought to have been created by a meteorite the size of a house smashing into Earth has been discovered in the Antarctic ice sheet. Scientists conducting a routine aerial research flight above East Antarctica noticed a strange ring-like structure in the normally flat and featureless ice. It appeared to be a series of broken 'icebergs' surrounded by a 2km (1.24 miles) wide circular scar, surrounded by a few other smaller circular scars in the ice.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; arctic; astronomy; catastrophism; extinction; globalwarminghoax; impact; massextinction; science; velaincident
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Movies like "The Thing" have taught me mysterious ring in Antarctica = Bad News!
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posted on
01/12/2015 6:45:03 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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Artist's rendition of the cataclysmic event:
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posted on
01/12/2015 6:53:00 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
To: C19fan
I can think of several better places for it to land.
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posted on
01/12/2015 6:53:03 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: C19fan
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posted on
01/12/2015 6:54:56 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: C19fan
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posted on
01/12/2015 6:56:11 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: C19fan
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posted on
01/12/2015 6:58:48 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
To: Red Badger
One thing that puzzles me about that shot from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.
Did the Norwegians excavate that site? Did they remove the material from above the spacecraft? If so, where is all the snow and ice? Plus, with the resources available to them in Antarctica, it would have been a near impossible task to excavate and remove that much material. I mean, we're talking Arcturian megatons of snow and ice.
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:01:42 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Life and death are but temporary states. But Freedom endures forever.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Short story, “Who Goes There?” written in 1938.
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:04:52 AM PST
by
wiggen
(#JeSuisCharlie)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
It gives the ‘impression’ of recent descent...............
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:05:16 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
“I mean, we’re talking Arcturian megatons of snow and ice. “
A bigger question is, how did those three guys do it?
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:05:28 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("Global Warming is caused by government grants to academics." DJ Taylor)
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:06:45 AM PST
by
DAC21
To: wiggen
John W. Campbell, Jr.
No movie will ever be able to capture the quiet claustrophobic horror of that tale.
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:18:02 AM PST
by
null and void
(The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
To: C19fan
Similar to the Tunguska Event?
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:26:43 AM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: EQAndyBuzz
A bigger question is, how did those three guys do it?Well, they didn't. That's McCready, Fuchs and the Doc from the American station. The Norwegians discovered the spacecraft and presumably excavated it. We know it wasn't a recent crash because in the film Doc states that based on the depth, it has been in the ice for about 100,000 years. So...that means it was buried.
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posted on
01/12/2015 7:28:04 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Life and death are but temporary states. But Freedom endures forever.)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
It's this. It's just frozen over:
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:00:24 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
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posted on
01/12/2015 8:05:58 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: C19fan
I really do love the original “The Thing” far more then the remake
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posted on
01/12/2015 9:01:16 AM PST
by
tophat9000
(An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
To: C19fan
George Noory, please pick up the yellow courtesy phone.
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posted on
01/12/2015 9:51:46 AM PST
by
rdl6989
To: C19fan
Scientists conducting a routine aerial research flight above East Antarctica...If you want to drive yourself crazy, ponder this...
All directions are "North" when on Antarctica.
So where is "East Antarctica?"
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posted on
01/12/2015 12:03:17 PM PST
by
publius911
(Formerly Publius6961)
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