[JimSEA]

I don't know if this has been posted. I searched but didn't see it.

[Uncle Miltie]

[TexasCajun]

Worried ?

Man-Made Global Warming ...not so much.

Galactic Collision --- Now you got my attention!

[txhurl]

The ‘what to expect if it happens again’ .. pretty funny.

The TX Hill Country is one big reminder of what the asteroid caused.. fascinating but terrifying to contemplate.

[Gay State Conservative]

It also gives scientists an idea of what to expect if another such impact were to occur now.

Well,if another such impact occurs scientists can expect,among other things,that 99.9% of the humans alive at the moment before impact will be dead within a month.

[IronJack]

Is it true that some speculate this meteor impact is what imparted the “wobble” to Earth’s axis?

[stonehouse01]

Climate change.

[qam1]

The Chicxulub impact, which wiped out large dinosaurs and giant marine reptiles,

Cool Story but False

They were all dead long before the meteor hit (if it was actually one).

[RayChuang88]

Some scientists estimate such an impact probably turned the sky pitch black for at least a decade. Not only did it kill off much of the life on the planet, but it may have triggered off an Ice Age because with no warming effect of the Sun, for ten years when it snowed, the snow never melted and caused glacial sheets to develop.

A smaller version of this could happen if we have another supervolcano eruption--and we know of at least 4-5 sites around the world capable of a supervolcano eruption, including Yellowstone National Park, the huge caldera near Mammoth Mountain in California, and Lake Toba on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

[Mr. K]

I always thought the Gulf of Mexico was way too circular too, to be natural- and looks like a much larger impact from several hundred million years earlier

[Organic Panic]

“We Finally Know How Much the Dino-Killing Asteroid Reshaped Earth”

I’d say so since we are all alive

[Verginius Rufus]

The Chicxulub crater...the oldest disaster that can be blamed on George W. Bush.

[MileHi]

It also gives scientists an idea of what to expect if another such impact were to occur now.

Mass extinction?