Asteroids have been crushing Earth for nearly 300 million years and no one knows why

Fox News ^ | January 18, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia

[EdnaMode]

Asteroids have been hitting the Earth for nearly 1 billion years, but the atmosphere has largely shielded the planet from some catastrophic events. However, some space rocks make their way through — including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.

But a new study notes that, over the past 290 million years, asteroids have been impacting the Earth at triple the rate they were previously and scientists aren't sure why.

After looking at 1 billion years' worth of asteroid impacts on both the Earth and Moon, researchers found that dinosaurs' fate was perhaps an inevitability.

[EdnaMode]

Those darn dinosaurs and their huge gas guzzling SUV's and mega mansions.

[Diogenesis]

i’ll take ‘gravity’, alex.

[Catmom]

Maybe if earth learned to be more assertive...

[BipolarBob]

If this is true, why haven’t Nancy Pelosi, Chuck the Schmuck or Michael Moore been hit by one?

[irishjuggler]

including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs

That's a THEORY, right? This piece states it very matter-of-fact-ly, but has that really been proven beyond a reasonable doubt?

[tellw]

Because we’re dealing with fragments from Princess Leia’s home planet of Alderaan, which was blown up by the Death Star a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

It could also be fragments from Kal-el’s home planet of Krypton.

[tet68]

It’s because democrats weren’t around til recently,
they’re able to deflect any thing coming at them.

[Parmy]

Scientists can’t know the unknown.

[Yo-Yo]

Maybe they drowned?

[EdnaMode]

That makes sense. :D

[C19fan]

I am not saying...hell you know the rest.

[C19fan]

Planet X

[Red Badger]

OOOOOH! OOOOH!

I KNOW, I KNOW!

GRAVITY!!!!!!......................

[sparklite2]

Because gravity sucks.

[C19fan]

The remnants of Alderaan.

[C19fan]

Gravity bends not suck....

[oldasrocks]

Maybe God thinks he made a mistake and keeps tossing rocks at us.

[Sir Napsalot]

WHY?

Physics.

Next question.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I detected a disturbance in the force. Like millions of cats, meowing at once.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Dude.

Newton beat you to it.
Womp-womp.