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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. We're not making history after all by Sentry21 · · Score: 3, Troll

    If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.

    Historians say this would be the first proof of such an event to have happened prior to September, 2001, and may hinder the US's attempt to enter the Guiness Book of World Records for 'largest bombardment of the Middle East'

    --Dan

  2. If only... by TWR · · Score: 1, Troll
    If only this would happen again; a meteor strike would do wonders for Iraq.

    -jon

    --

    Remember Amalek.

  3. Re:Ulterior Motives? by bareminimum · · Score: 0, Troll
    I believe that we can find a serious 'ulterior motive' to this story being brought up at this time. The Arabs always present themselves as the origin of Modern Civilisation, that was their motto dating back from the Gulf war.

    How can a modern country bomb a civilisation, where civilisation has begun? With this new space-attack theory we are attempting to whipe out all previous beliefs and show the world that Arabs are not the descendants of who they pretend they are. The same way Italians are not descending from the Romans and so on..

    The marvels and subtilities of modern day propaganda..