Largest asteroid ever to hit Earth was twice as big as the rock that killed off the dinosaurs

LiveScience ^ | 10/5/2022 | Harry Baker

[alexander_busek]

Shouldn't asteroid upon getting in to the earth's atmosphere will burn up in to dust? The earth's moon don't have atmosphere [...]

I could recommend a few good books on basic Astronomy that might help you better understand this.

What is your native language?

Regards,

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Well, I would expect a lot more erosion in 2 billion years vs 66 million.

[PIF]

Have you succeeded in cornering the world market for tin foil?

[KobraKai]

The dinosaurs lived during the mesozoic era, when there was only one supercontinent called Pangea. There are dinosaur fossils discovered all over the Earth, on every continent because the continental drift that occurred during the reign of the dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs were such a successful species, they reigned for 150 million years, enough time that the Pangaea broke up into several continents creating different realms of dinosaurs. Tyrannosaur dominated North America for example, but is not found in Australia. That’s because TRex evolved after the continental drift, near the end of the cretacous period. We are talking almost incomprehensible amounts of time.

[HypatiaTaught]

I find it incredibly laughable how many of the Bible Believers demand much stronger evidence in the secular world when at the same time they will say just for everything else just to “have faith”.

[EEGator]

It almost sounds hypocritical.

I believe in God, and I think the scientific method is the best method for revealing the truth.
The Bible was written by men, not God.
We’ll never know how the Universe “began”.
I still can’t comprehend no time and finite space...

[spetznaz]

You’re wasting your time. There are people who will refute science but blindly believe something they heard off ham radio claiming Delta Force was in a shootout in Frankfurt with the CIA. There was an idea that was FR, and that idea stood for Conservative ideals, small government, strong defense, robust family values (and yes, including faith as well …but not stupidity disguised as faith), and the group contained rich debate and intelligent thought.

Something happened. Something changed. Conspiracy theorists took over, and in something straight out of a Liberal playbook some of those even demanded a ‘safe space’ where their kooky ideas couldn’t be challenged! Something straight out of a crazy-town sub-forum in DU …and we have that in FR where on ‘their threads’ no one can criticize or question.

At this rate in another five years FR will be anti-gun and pro-choice, but with people believing Putin is good and the Earth is 6,000 years old. Five years, if that.

[logi_cal869]

Better pics:

http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/vredefort/vredefort.html

Hard to grasp the scale of this impact crater. I’ve never seen the ‘fir tree patterns’ in rock before (from shockwave).

[blackpacific]

Darwin did not know about the fact that modifications to appearances were driven by the computer code in the DNA, his so-called “theory” lacks this knowledge, but the public schools still push it because it negates the notion of an agent cause of nature.

As a human we are required to believe in a Creator, in a Redeemer, and in a Judge. If one does not believe in any of these, there will be hell to pay.

[SunkenCiv]

Ouch. Thanks LibWhacker.

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[blackpacific]

Are there folks who do not believe the fossil record? I have never heard of such a position. There are millions and millions of fossils, found all over the Earth.

Have you read the book by Robert Gentry? It is a scientific work about how old the granitic rocks are. It calls into question modern ideas of how they formed and how long it took. I think the title is “Creations Tiny Mystery” by Robert V Gentry. Here is a link:
https://www.amazon.com/Creations-Tiny-Mystery-Robert-Gentry/dp/0961675330/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XJTZ4E50FD0R&keywords=creations+tiny+mystery+robert+gentry&qid=1665498450&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=creations+tiny+mystery+robert+gentry%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-1

[blackpacific]

Who said that dinosaurs ever entered the Arc?

[BroJoeK]

"At this rate in another five years FR will be anti-gun and pro-choice, but with people believing Putin is good and the Earth is 6,000 years old. Five years, if that."

I began reading Free Republic around 2000, signed up in 2004, have been posting ever since.
Once or twice in the early years I got a little over-excited and had a post deleted, but never since.
What you predict won't happen so long as I'm still here, FRiend.

Frankly, I'm not afraid of people who disagree with me on any subject, be it current events, history, science, politics or even religion.
If we all have to agree on everything, there won't be much to discuss, will there?

[Clutch Martin]

“Who said that dinosaurs ever entered the Arc?”

Years ago I worked with a guy Dennis and he was a very structured person and quite intelligent and he laid that one on me from his local church and I just kind of kept my mouth shut.

[EEGator]

Those people exist, and there’s two on this thread.

Thanks for the link.

[EEGator]

I said it’s largely allegorical truth with some historical truth.

[wannabegeek]

So many things based on lies.

Ah you got the picture of supposedly SARS-CoV-2 virus that would cause Covid-19 infection?

Have you experienced observing micro organisms in the electron microscope?  What are the colors of nano organism particles you saw in the electron microscope?

[BroJoeK]

wannabegeek: "Have you experienced observing micro organisms in the electron microscope?
What are the colors of nano organism particles you saw in the electron microscope?"

Likely those photo colors are enhanced to make them easier to see.
That does not make the photograph a "lie".