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Scientists gear up to drill into ‘ground zero’ of the impact that killed the dinosaurs
Science mag online ^
| Mar. 3, 2016 , 2:00 PM
| Eric Hand
Posted on 03/06/2016 8:35:56 PM PST by Utilizer
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K/T even and Chicxulub news. Bewdy!
Note: "...asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs..." is still classified as speculation, as there is more than one simple theory that attempts to explain this event and many questions still present themselves when one looks into the facts surrounding their extinction(s).
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posted on
03/06/2016 8:35:57 PM PST
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Utilizer
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/06/2016 8:36:24 PM PST
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Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
To: shibumi
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03/06/2016 8:36:51 PM PST
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Salamander
(I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
To: Utilizer
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03/06/2016 8:47:50 PM PST
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null and void
(This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
To: Salamander
T-Rex and the Crater of Doom ping...
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posted on
03/06/2016 8:48:20 PM PST
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null and void
(This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
To: Utilizer
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03/06/2016 9:00:14 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Utilizer
3 meter long cores? That's pretty short. We were cutting 93 ft. cores 20 years ago.
They may be concerned about jamming the barrel or grinding up samples, though.
(lots of trip time for those hands...
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03/06/2016 9:03:41 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Salamander
They will come back with core samples of he alien starship that crashed.
To: Salamander; Darksheare
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posted on
03/06/2016 9:38:33 PM PST
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shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Utilizer
Oh, and for those of you who are not experts in the field (such as moi) or who do not deal with the name on a daily basis, I have found that the best way to memorize the pronunciation of “Chicxulub” is “Chicks-Who-Lube”.
*grin*
The K/T Event, I leave up to your imagination... *snicker*
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03/06/2016 9:43:12 PM PST
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Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
To: null and void
I’m anxious to see what they find. With a thick limestone cap, the stressed rock beneath should be well preserved.
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posted on
03/06/2016 9:48:36 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
What if they awaken a zillasaur?
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posted on
03/06/2016 10:17:02 PM PST
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Utilizer
“By 1 April, the team plans to start drilling...”
I think I would wait a day to start drilling into something left over from an extinction event. I’d skip Friday the 13th too!
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posted on
03/06/2016 10:22:31 PM PST
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21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: Utilizer
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03/06/2016 10:25:04 PM PST
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onedoug
To: Smokin' Joe
I’m guessing they are looking for a lot more detail with the 3 meter cores - changes in life forms, etc. At least it isn’t the 2 FOOT cores they use on shallow environmental jobs!
I worked on an oil rig back in college. One time we spent all day coming out of a hole. Went to bed dead-tired, but knowing that when we got up the other crew would finish and we would have an easy day.
Woke up and looked out the window to a rig with a lot of pipe still on the stack! The other driller lost count and slammed the drill bit into the bottom of the well. We had to continue tripping out of the hole to replace the broken bit! Aaaaggggghhh!
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posted on
03/06/2016 10:28:28 PM PST
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21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: Utilizer
Inbred muslims call for support of even more deeply inbred muslims.
its a muslim devolution.
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posted on
03/06/2016 10:32:07 PM PST
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onedoug
To: All
My humble apologies.
Wrong thread.
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posted on
03/06/2016 10:34:46 PM PST
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onedoug
To: Utilizer
In before the Far Side cartoon.
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03/06/2016 10:39:29 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: Utilizer
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posted on
03/06/2016 11:13:36 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: onedoug
Your answer actually does remind me of a Far Side cartoon. The newspapers got captions switched of a Far Side cartoon and a Dennis the Menace cartoon.
The fortune teller in the Far Side cartoon told the caveman, “Not peanut butter sandwiches again!” and Dennis told his mother at the lunch table, “I see your preserved skull resting on a shelf somewhere.”
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03/06/2016 11:14:42 PM PST
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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