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Did an Asteroid Impact Cause an Ancient Tsunami?
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| Nov 14 2006
| SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Posted on 11/15/2006 8:00:40 PM PST by djf
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To: djf
So is Manhattan about the same size as Clay County, Minnesota, and is the Chrysler tower about the same size as the Needles in Strawberry River, Utah? I hate these parochial comments...
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:33:45 PM PST
by
Skylus
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To: lafroste
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:35:22 PM PST
by
blam
To: lafroste
Depends on the speed, size and weight, plus hardness/density. That thing must of been really movin' to go through 12,500 feet of water and then create such a crater.
To: djf
Wow, this event happened around the same time that the moon first appeared in the night sky.
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:41:26 PM PST
by
UglyinLA
To: GOPJ
Well, don't have to spend a lot of time worrying about global warming... The Libs will. They would be complaining about the pattern on the living room wallpaper while the house was burning down around them.
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:43:35 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Democracy: The worst form of government, except for all the others.)
To: djf
To: Mad Dawg
How large of an asteroid is needed to make an 18 mile diameter crater (under 12,500 feet of water)? About the size of Ted Kennedy or Gerald Nadler traveling under impulse power?
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:46:43 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Democracy: The worst form of government, except for all the others.)
To: djf
mark for later read...thanks
To: djf
Of course not, it would have capsized Noah's ark and killed off all the animals of the world.
LOL
Leave no child behind, teach evolution.
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:52:26 PM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(Pro Evolution, Pro Stem Cell Research, Pro Science, Pro Free Thought, and Conservative)
To: blam
Wow, that second pic is pretty telling. You can see exactly what happened.
And actually, those types of formations would seem to date it geologically pretty recent. They're probably not gonna last tens or hundreds of millions of years.
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:52:35 PM PST
by
djf
(Islam!! There's a flag on the moon! Guess whose? Hint: Not yours!)
To: djf
"Astronomers monitor every small space object with an orbit close to the Earth."
No, they don't -- current, generous estimates put us as monitoring around 40% of near earth asteroids large enough to have "severe global consequences"-- we could still easily be blindsided by something that might, say, leave 600 ft chevrons behind.
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posted on
11/15/2006 8:54:45 PM PST
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: djf
Trillions of tons of seawater would be instantly evaporated. One of the mysteries of the Great Flood is -- "Where did all that water come from?". I guess it didn't stay in an evaporated state -- it precipitated out.
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posted on
11/15/2006 9:12:19 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: djf
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posted on
11/15/2006 9:15:58 PM PST
by
blam
To: djf
"
I remember reading something about it raining forty days and forty nights, this sure would do it."
actually this might be it. the timing would be early enough to fit into other cultures' flood/rain stories (sumeria had one IIRC, and I have read that some indian cultures did as well?), and would certainly put enough water into the atmosphere to drasticly disrupt weather patterns worldwide.
To: ClearCase_guy
There's no mystery if you believe in magic.
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posted on
11/15/2006 9:44:57 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: djf
For God to throw a rock at us that size must mean that He was really pissed!
To: djf
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posted on
11/15/2006 9:52:10 PM PST
by
aShepard
To: sailor4321
That time ocean strike, rain/water.
Next time a dry land strike, fire.
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posted on
11/15/2006 10:04:11 PM PST
by
null and void
("Jihad" just means "[My] Struggle", but then again, so does "Mein Kampf"...)
To: Interesting Times
Thanks for the ping. I recall reading something about an impact off the southeast coast of Australia that put massive areas of debris many miles inland, including the remains of a Chinese fleet.
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posted on
11/15/2006 10:07:05 PM PST
by
zot
(GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
To: djf
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posted on
11/15/2006 10:09:04 PM PST
by
Vasilli22
(http://www.richardfest.blogspot.com/)
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