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Meteor May Have Wiped Out Middle East Civilization
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."
*wham*
Nah, not a meteorite, more probably those we caused by the first tests of "bunker buster" bombs thrown at Saddam by the U.S...
cheers
...hopefully another one will hit the Middle East next week.
Frantic phone calls from the White House this morning, as "W" ordered his staff to find one of dem there meteor thingies and buy one, durnit!
Why is it called COMMON sense when so few people have it?
The only reason they're "discovering" this now is because it provides a conveniant excuse should Bush decide to carpet bomb Afghanistan or Iraq into the Indian Ocean...
Reporter: Mr. President, why haven't we heard from Bin Laden or Sadam Hussein in three weeks?
Dubya: They were hit by a... meteor.
And I guess we're going to blame meteors for the death of all dinosaurs too?
the byproduct of years of oppression by the white man
Ancient Red Cross centers were also accidently destroyed by the meteor.
We might still be rodent like creatures...
That explains politicians, the MPAA and the RIAA...
My sig is too lon
Gomorrah. That's why sodomy still exists - I don't even want to think what Gomorramy was.
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
Is there corroboration of this event in any historical documents?
Yes, but the documents were written in Word 2000(BC) format and the Clay Millenium Copyright Act forbids decoding them.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Perhaps taking it with a pillar of salt would be more appropriate?
Maybe I should cover it with fur.
Because all OUR records are COMPUTERIZED! If WE got hit by a asteroid, literally billions and BILLIONS (think Carl Sagan here) of plastic CDs and magnetic backup tapes full of grit and, and fragile hard drives would... um, survive the millennia to be discovered by, umm, to be discovered by...
Oh.
Nevermind.
the other thing that can wipe out an african tribe is not being able to pull your weight in a challenge and getting voted out...
If a civilization vanishes without a trace in the forest, does it make a sound?
You can't take the sky from me...
The real (Biblical) history of the dinosaurs
The extinction of the dinosaurs is one of the greatest mysteries of secular science. It would not be if people believed the true eye-witness account of Earth's history recorded in the Bible. This reveals that:
Land animals (this includes dinosaurs) and man were created on Day 6 about 6,000 years ago--so dinosaurs lived at the same time as people.
Adam sinned and brought death, disease and bloodshed into the world. Before then, no dinsaur could have died.
A global Flood occurred about 1,656 years later, wiping out all land animals that breathe though nostrils (that weren't on the Ark). Thus billions of animals were buried quickly and formed fossils. This is when most dinosaur fossils formed.
Noah took two of every kind of land animal (seven of the clean' ones) on board an ocean-liner-sized Ark this included dinosaurs. For more information, see How did all the animals fit on Noah's Ark?
After the Flood, the descendants of those dinosaurs existed for a while with humans, and there seem to be eye-witness accounts of them, e.g. in Job 40:15 ff. and in the many dragon legends found around the world.
Eventually they all died out, except for possible rare sightings in uninhabited areas which have not been properly verified. The causes were probably no more dramatic than those that cause extinctions of other species, e.g. man's hunting, change of climate, loss of food source, fragmentation of habitat.s /dino_meteor.asp
Taken from http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/doc
PS. I'm not serious. Yes, that site has a LOT of fun stuff.
Slagborr
... I've been playing Civilization3 for the past week and haven't seen anything like this yet and no mention of "random meteor strikes" in the Civilopedia.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.