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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. Re:Holy War by istartedi · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, it depends on where they are from. Searching Google for poll muslims osama revealed this. (you need to scroll down a little).

    Approval for the 9-11 attack was as low as 3% in Turkey, and as high as 26% in Morocco. The Netherlands were in the middle of that with 10%. Of course people are calling the poll into question, but I bet if you gather info from enough sources you can come up with some kind of figure for how many Muslims approve of terror, and although it is a minority, it is most likely not an insignificant minority.

    Even given this, I want you to bear in mind that I'm not condemning them. For example, what if you had conducted a poll 100 years ago and asked Americans from the South "Do you think all Blacks should be lynched?". Now, if you conducted such a poll today the results would be quite different. One can only hope that the same is true for these Moslems who support terror.

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  2. Do they have their facts straight? by Powercntrl · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It wasn't a meteor - it was a bug in iTunes 2.0.

    Rest assured though, iTunes 2.1 WILL not wipe out hard drives OR civilizations.

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