BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICA -- KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE

Ohio State University ^ | 01 June 2006 | Staff (press release)

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.thunderbolts.info/velikovsky-ghost.htm

thought you might enjoy this.

[Fred Nerks]

ANTARCTICA ROCKS!

http://www.exo.net/~pauld/antarctica/dryvalleys.html

[coconutt2000]

I have no trouble believing that earth type, life supporting planets are probably quite common.

But the necessary stability, and low probability events and conditions that lead to the development of a sentient species are probably so rare so as to mean that we're probably the next thing to being alone in this galaxy.

All the more reason to get out there, explore and colonize.

[WoofDog123]

actually it is almost certainly a curve asymptotic at %=100, need one more data point.

[S0122017]

This doesn't surprise me in the least. I have a feeling before it's all over we'll find all kinds of things buried under a mile of ice.....things that will answer a lot of questions

Frozen aliens?

[Renfield]

Antarctica wasn't ice-covered for most of the last 250 million years. In fact, for much of that time it wasn't even in a polar region. Remember, the continents drift around on the surface of the earth like corks (albeit slowly).

Somewhere I have a link to a good web site that explains this nicely (probably on my work computer). If I can find it, I'll post it for you.

[johnny7]

All the more reason to get out there, explore and colonize.

Most definitely.

Our advancements on Earth related to our off-planet exploration have made a case for that already. Whether there are other human-like beings out there should not be our 'reason-number-one' to explore.

Besides... something... created this universe... and any species worth its salt would want to find out the why's... when's and the what for's.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

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.

I am still looking for signs of intelligent life on earth.

[johnny7]

Some would not recognize it if they saw it.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I'm agreeing with you.

That's what I'm asking actually: If the crater resulted in a massive rise in magma up from the mantle big enough to to be detected by its local gravitational influence, but the (very thin) crust is moving extensively, then why can you assume the magma bubble (located under the crust, right?) is still co-located with the crater?

[Robert A Cook PE]

How vile! A story that combines the twin scourges of evolution and craterism!
Ya ruined it! I was gonna post the craterism stuff later in the thread.


Technically speakin' of course, ya can't really post a crater since it's already a hole not a pole. (Though this hole is under a pole...)
Then again, since the crater's already a hole, I guess it is easiest to place your post where the hole is ....

[bwteim]

Thanks!

[WIladyconservative]

Deception Point by Dan Brown . . . .

[null and void]

And all this, all these lies, merely to satisfy your animalistic lust.

Point conceded:

Death is everywhere
There are flies on the windscreen
For a start
Reminding us
We could be torn apart
Tonight

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There are lambs for the slaughter
Waiting to die
And I can sense
The hours slipping by
Tonight

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Now
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Kiss me
Now
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The more I look
The more I see
The more I feel
A sense of urgency
Tonight

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Kiss me (touch me)
Now (touch me)
(touch me)

There are flies on the windscreen
There are lambs for the slaughter
There are flies on the windscreen
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[null and void]

actually it is almost certainly a curve asymptotic at %=100, need one more data point.

Yeah, and it doesn't quite go through 0,0 either, as species die off even without impacts.

[Robert A Cook PE]

From that, what is earliest accepted time of:

First uni-celluar life?

First "thing" that could be considered a "plant"? (Those are the limestone rock columns off of Australia, aren't they?)

Solidification of the earth from interstellar rubble into what we'd recognize as the original stable continents? (Canada shield is oldest rock still around, right?)

Collision that created the moon?

[null and void]

Frozen aliens?

That would be way kewl.

(John W. Campbell's "Who goes there?" and it's derivative movies not withstanding)...

[null and void]

Besides... something... created this universe... and any species worth its salt would want to find out the why's... when's and the what for's.

Too bad Science deals with whats, not whys.

[Dustbunny]

Wow, what a find.

[null and void]

I am inclined to think there may be a very major crater buried under the Siberian lava flows.

I wonder if the Siberian traps are contrecoup damage to the Antarctic strike.

Anyone happen to know the relative locations 250 mya?

As an aside, the Chixchulub strike was a shallow water strike. Much more deadly than a dry land strike. Sea water poured into the white-hot crater and flashed to steam, it's the recipe for poached planet.