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More Evidence Supports Massive Asteroid Strike

Posted by Hemos on from the ka-WHAM! dept.

InnerPeace Volunteers writes "From a BBC Sci/Tech article: The idea is that a giant asteroid about 10 kilometres wide, travelling at 90,000 km/hour slammed into the Earth at the southern margin of North America. This was a case of global devastation rather than North American catastrophe. The asteroid devastated pretty much everything."

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  1. What would Buck Turgidson say? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, we gotta get us one of those asteroids. We can't let there be an asteroid gap!

  2. If they want to strike, let 'em by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Look, Asteroids have been members of Dockworkers Union Local 3223 for what?, one or two hundred million years? If they want to strike, that is their right. They obviously have some grievences with working conditions in our solar system and earth in particular.

    Two words I like to say in sentences: Uranus and Asteroids

    Thomas Dz.

  3. Re:Everything but the frogs by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe the salamanders were hiding in caves in Afghanistan when the asteroids hit. Those suckers are pretty safe.

    --
    "If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
  4. Until real evidence show up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I still stand by my 'invisibly thin line stretched between two trees' theory...

  5. We need an ASTEROID defense system not MISSILE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Instead of wasting 100 of billions of dollars on Missile shield we should develop an ASTEROID DEFENSE SYSTEM AFAIK!

    This is a much better way to spend the Money.