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Meteor May Have Wiped Out Middle East Civilization

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-nugget-of-thought dept.

GFD writes "The Telegraph has a story about how a recently discovered impact crater in Iraq could have wiped out several civilizations that 'collapsed mysteriously' about 4000 years ago. This is the first find, AFAIK, of a meteor impact affecting human civilization directly. Very thought provoking."

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  1. Let us hope this happens again.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    damn towelheads!

  2. Velikovsky said this all those years ago. by os2fan · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Velikovsky said that a lot of civilisations came to greif as a result of Venus coming close to Earth around 1500BC. Because of some errors in the calendars (the "Dark Ages" of the ancient time), this could also mean 2000BC.

    The relevant books are things like Ages in Chaos, Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheval.

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  3. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Good for those bastards.

  4. Holy War by Knunov · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Perhaps we should drop leaflets explaining this to the Muslims, after which they'll declare jihad on the "unbelievers from space." Then they'll like us, because we can give them a ride to war.

    Knunov

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    1. Re:Holy War by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      ALL muslims are not only terrorists and war-crazy, but enjoy shooting man-seed onto the koran. It's a fact!!!!

  5. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's surprising how little I care about this. I really couldn't give two flying fucks about any tragedy affecting these towelhead, warring, ignorant, backassed zealots. Fuck them. Fuck them 4000 years ago, and fuck them now.

  6. Re:OT: Axis and Allies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    wHut % of the time do u have a PENIS in ur muoth????//

  7. Re:Great News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Who said anything about Afganistan? Lets just land it some where we can take out all the camal fucking bastards. From Afganistan to Lebanon, cleanse the world of these stinking bastards.


    Take care of the sandniggers then we can work on the nigger problem.