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BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICA -- KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE
Ohio State University ^
| 01 June 2006
| Staff (press release)
Posted on 06/01/2006 2:26:58 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
i am just trying to imagine the blast area (i.e. beyond the crater, 300 mi diameter there already) from such an impact. could be an area thousand+ miles diameter of tunguska-type devastation.
I wonder if that impact noise would have covered the world? been defeaning at the opposite end of the world? surely would have been felt all over the world.
maybe some math models on the possible meteor impact area/effect will be put together later.
To: The_Victor
I hope to shout that will leave a mark! Better put some ice on it....
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posted on
06/01/2006 2:58:35 PM PDT
by
Bender
To: bobdsmith; RadioAstronomer
Don't ask me why there wouldn't be an irridium layer, I don't have a clue I wonder if an impact created from lunar rock would leave an iridium signature.
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posted on
06/01/2006 2:59:02 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(The social contract is breaking down.)
To: bobdsmith
Don't ask me why there wouldn't be an irridium layer, I don't have a clueAn abundance of iridium.....layered, would prove cometary/asteroid impact.
To: bobdsmith
I don't think there is an irridium layer associated with it. Don't ask me why there wouldn't be an irridium layer, I don't have a clue Another hypothesis .... an ice impact wouldn't leave iridium signatures either.
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:03:39 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(The social contract is breaking down.)
To: PatrickHenry
300-mile wide crater?
Obviously, the dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't wear seatbelts.
To: PatrickHenry
KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE Craters don't kill people! We have to learn to look for root causes!
</Prissy_Lib_Mode>
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:06:59 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
To: conservative physics
"um... they might want to try a few phosphorous grenades instead of drilling."
Worked TOO good in " The Thing"
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:08:24 PM PDT
by
Renegade
To: PatrickHenry
That's why it's hard for me to believe that the universe contains thousands of earth-like planets. Life on earth has gone through so many, catastrophic mutations that the odds of intelligent life elsewhere are much slimmer than popularly thought.
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:08:37 PM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: PatrickHenry
OAE Bump
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:12:42 PM PDT
by
oldleft
To: PatrickHenry
Everybody be nice. F' that, I hate friggin meteors.
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:13:17 PM PDT
by
bkepley
To: SunkenCiv
To: PatrickHenry
![](http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_sites/dino_pit/images/seymouria.jpg)
![](http://www.kwp.radom.pl/pgm/44_eryops.jpg)
Meteor Impact: Women and Minority amphibians worst affected.
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:27:40 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(The social contract is breaking down.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:29:29 PM PDT
by
Unicorn
(Too many wimps around.)
To: johnny7
Life on earth has gone through so many, catastrophic mutations that the odds of intelligent life elsewhere are much slimmer than popularly thought.
I prefer to see the glass as half full. Intelligent life survived despite these catastrophes. Nature is resilient.
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:34:42 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: WoofDog123
given what the more accepted chicxulub impact did 65m years ago. The Chicxulub impact killed the Dinosaurs hypothesis is not more accepted, in fact the opposite as it is easily debunked (Honeybees & Alligators anyone).
It's pretty popular in the media because of it's Hollywood type ending and with some Astronomers & Geologist looking for a trip to Cancun, but you will find very few paleontologist who agree with that silly hypothesis.
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:40:29 PM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: PatrickHenry
Thrilling new novels by
DAN BROWN and
DOUGLAS PRESTONMaybe they will collaborate this time.
I CAN'T WAIT!
Well, maybe I can wait, a couple million years
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:43:10 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Psalms of the Day: 29-34)
To: PatrickHenry
They have been looking for the cause of the P-Tr extinction for a long time with many pointing to the Siberian Traps volcanism as the cause.
Should this Antarctica impactor be concurrent with the Siberian Traps volcanism then the impactor could have been the cause. Just as the K-T impactor is concurrent with the Deccan Traps volcanism.
I know I'm late, but.....
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:45:40 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: PatrickHenry
How vile! A story that combines the twin scourges of evolution and
craterism!
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posted on
06/01/2006 3:46:05 PM PDT
by
Phocion
("Protection" really means exploiting the consumer. - Milton Friedman)
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