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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. Ulterior Motives? by cascino · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. Re:The only question that remains by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Funny
    did it hit Sodom or Gomorrah?

    Gomorrah. That's why sodomy still exists - I don't even want to think what Gomorramy was.

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  3. This can't be true... by GoofyBoy · · Score: 4, Funny


    ... 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.

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