[RightWhale]

This might be important if it leads to prepositioning of hardware in space, and if techniques for moving asteroids and comets are developed.

[KellyAdmirer]

I don't doubt the science. I just find it amusing that buckyballs have become the answer to everything these days. A big-time chemist told me a few years ago that he even thought they would be the cure for AIDS.

Fifty years ago it was uranium, one hundred it was x-rays, I wonder what it will be in 2050?

[John Jamieson]

Liberals never want to talk about the advantages of huge stresses to the enviornment. These thing are always described as disasters.

These disasters also force "survival of the fitest". Without them, earth would still a covered with much simpilier life forms. We certainly wouldn't be here. Conservatives would never have evolved.

[JmyBryan]

Leading democrats have notified the press that President Bush will make no mention of the Permian-Triassic extinction in the State of the Union address, proving once again the callous, cold-heartedness of his administration. Bill Clinton suggests convening a diverse panel of representatives to consider paying reparations to all life-forms.

[VadeRetro]

Interesting article bump.

[The Shootist]

If there was a great die it happened because of Noah's flood. To suggest anything else is blasphemous. /sarcasm

[Cincinatus]

While these results are interesting, they are far from proving an impact extinction event. In addition to fullerenes in the KT boundary layer, we have an iridium anomaly, a global clay layer (containing microtektites), shocked quartz grains within the boundary clay, an instananeous extinction event (even 100,000 years, while short geologically, seems excessively protracted for species and familial extinctions), and -- best of all -- a 300 km diameter crater in the Yucatan (Chicxulub) whose impact melts date precisely from the KT boundary time (65 million years ago).

It took the community over a decade to believe the KT extinction was impact-induced. Although the next battle will be easier, the Permo-Triassic extinction has a long way to go yet.

[PatrickHenry]

So that everyone will have access to the accumulated "Creationism vs. Evolution" threads which have previously appeared on FreeRepublic, plus links to hundreds of sites with a vast amount of information on this topic, here's Junior's massive work, available for all to review:
The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource [ver 14].

[DoctorMichael]

I remember some TLC show discussing this. The search is on now to find the "smoking gun".

In other words, the Chichilub crater in the Carribean (North of the Yucatan) has been discovered to have been made approximately 65 mya, SO where is the 250 mya crater?

The TLC show said that.......Some geologists think it is submerged in the South Atlantic in the area where the present day Falkland Islands (remember Maggie Thatcher's early war) are.

[Nebullis]

From Science at NASA The Great Dying

What the world looked like 250 million years ago.

[Junior]

But as their methods for dating the disappearance of species has improved...

A "look at how accurate dating techniques have become in the last few years, creationists" bump.

[aShepard]

In a region that is now called Siberia, 1.5 million cubic kilometers of lava flowed from an awesome fissure in the crust. (For comparison, Mt. St. Helens unleashed about one cubic kilometer of lava in 1980.)

Perhaps the awesome fissure was caused by an awesome rock that slammed into the region tearing through the earths crust.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Hunt for Oil Leads to Crater Linked to 'Great Dying'
by Robert Roy Britt
13 May 2004

The team, led by geologist Luann Becker of the University of California, Santa Barbara examined undersea drilling samples taken by oil prospectors in the 1970s and '80s and since held in an Australian lab. They also studied ancient layers of Earth now exposed on land Down Under and in Antarctica. Dated to the time of the mass extinction, they found breccia, a porous rock often linked to impacts. And they uncovered tiny glass beads and material known as shocked quartz, which has been fractured in several directions. These can be indicators of the extreme heat generated when a large, high-speed extraterrestrial object slams into the planet... The findings point to the existence of a 125-mile-wide (200-kilometer) crater called Bedout off the northwest coast of Australia. The ring-like structure had previously been identified as a possible impact crater by seismic data and a map of gravity variations in the area.

[SunkenCiv]

from five years ago.

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