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Giant asteroid rocked Antarctica
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Posted on 10/17/2004 9:26:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:26:52 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; 2Jedismom; 4ConservativeJustices; ...
Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:27:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: SunkenCiv
"The collision happened around 870 000 years ago,"Old news, as Clinton would say.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:30:05 PM PDT
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bayourod
(Old Media news is poll driven, not fact driven, not event driven, not newsworthy driven.)
To: SunkenCiv
And they say doing drugs is a victimless crime.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:35:30 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." Jonathan Swift)
To: bayourod
Sure, but I didn't want to put "868,000 B.C." as the date of the article. ;')
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10/17/2004 9:36:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: SunkenCiv
Yes, I often wonder if the huge glyphs and megaliths aren't really ways to say 'please stop chunking these rocks - we're friendly' - and 'well, if they're going to keep chunking them, let's find a way to predict them'.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:36:07 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(...it would tilt the election one way or the other.)
To: txflake
Maybe the rocks are glyphs for FU too...
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:39:33 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: SunkenCiv
Check the growth rings on Al Gore and check for that time like to see if the atmosphere was effected.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:44:30 PM PDT
by
ProudVet77
(Flush John 'Fonda' Kerry)
To: SunkenCiv
So how deep did the impact crater go? Did it have an effect on Antarctic volcanoes? Are there/were there parts of Antarctica that are green and growing?
To: Texas Eagle
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:55:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: ValerieUSA
The article sez 1.5 kilometers, which is a bit less (110 yards) less than a mile, into the ice. There is at least one active volcano in Antarctica, on land, and I believe at least one under the submarine ice.
Among the first fossils returned from Antarctica were of beech trees, between 2 and 3 million years old, from about 200 miles away from the Pole. This means the climate got no worse than ordinary winters, not the permafrozen, ice covered wasteland seen today.
See the "Eltanin Impact Crater" topic, which is just a few minutes younger than this one, regarding an impact near Antarctica a bit more than 2 million years ago. The Eltanin impact was identified during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) which began I think in 1955, but didn't end until the 1960s sometime. It was a long year. ;') Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
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10/17/2004 10:03:21 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: SunkenCiv
Using new satellite technology to help detect magnetic anomalies, scientists located up to five new impact craters. Three of them are on the continental land mass and two more are in the Weddell Sea. I wonder if this new satellite technology will eventually show that the earth is pockmarked to the extent that if resembles the moon? That is, would resemble the moon but for the geologic forces here; absent on the moon?
Thanks for another interesting read.
FGS
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:11:06 PM PDT
by
ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
To: ForGod'sSake
The seeming lack of craters was more a psychological problem than a physical one. While erosion changes the look here and there, the surface of the Earth has quite a few craters, and more are bound to show up as more people are looking. Besides Barringer/Meteor Crater in AZ, Shoemaker also proved the Ries Basin in Germany was formed by impact. The dominant force shaping the lunar surface OTOH is impact. Erosion on the lunar surface is due to micrometeorites, which don't reach the surface of the Earth (other than as slow-settling dust).
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:07:57 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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posted on
01/15/2005 4:11:49 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
To: SunkenCiv
interesting, to be sure. but from the headline, I thought this happened Friday night, or so.
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01/15/2005 4:13:39 PM PST
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smonk
To: smonk
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01/15/2005 4:21:35 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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03/26/2006 8:18:13 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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03/19/2016 11:57:56 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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