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Rings Around Earth From Ancient Meteorites
HorsePunchKid writes "According to an article on CNN (SNL version), ancient meteorites may have glanced off of the surface and shattered, causing rings around the Earth. These rings, which may have persisted for hundreds of thousands of years, could have had a profound effect on the climate in tropical regions, where the rings would block out light from the Sun. Still rather speculative, but the theory may help explain some patterns observed in the geological record. The idea has been around for a while, and some scientists are skeptical."
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
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I can not suspend my disbelief about this one. There are too many light sources in space. IMHO, the light from the Big Bang should be travelling away from earth instead of towards it -- How did they see it? If they did see it, how can they even have an inkling that its from the beginnings of the earth -- there are uncountable light sources from space.
I think somebody needs funding, and somebody has a lot of useless time on their hands.
I'm looking forward not only to the scientific explanations that follow, but other theories about whether there is a remote chance or not that the people in the article see what they think they are seeing.
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...dates back to Taco's childhood. Taco must be gettin h4rd just thinking about all those lovely big rings.
Take it to 'em, Tacoboi, bust their rings.
Anyone else notice how CNN's webpage now looks auful in Mozilla? What the &$%# did they do to it? Do they look at other browsers?
What does Star Trek's Enterprise have in common with toilet paper?
They both search the rings of Uranus for Klingons.
*ba dum tah*
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Someone posted an opinion that I didn't like; I'm being oppressed !
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Apply below.
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... Once again proving my theory that Germans love David Hasselhoff.
That was gay. And so are you, apparently. Why don't you quick sucking your mother's penis, go outside and suck your neighbor's dog off?
Yours Truly,
l33t j03
Millions of Americans spend their entire lives unable to detect even the most obvious sarcasm. But more than that, their natural self-righteousness leads Yanks to make pretentious rebuttals on the literal meaning of a sarcastic comment. The waste of energy is alarming. I propose that somebody invent a sarcasmometer at once, and that installation becomes a Federal requirement.
This comment is stolen from when the article was put on slashdot on Tuesday. Please mod appropriately.
Yay. Well said,droog.
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
Shit for brains.
Fuck you,
l33t j03
This is right on the line between the Slashdot-Troll and the Slashdot-Humans-Destroy-Everything-We're-Evil-And- Must-Be-Destroyed posts...
But I can't tell which...
Wiwi
"I trust in my abilities,
but I want more then they offer"
what of it, it's just as interesting as it was back then.
Steven N. Severinghaus
In fact, depending on the Latin nominative of "Google", this should be...
- [from "Googlus" or "Googlum"] In Googlo non est (most probable solution is "Googlum", I think)
- [from "Googla"] In Googla non est (if you prefer a female Google)
- [from "Googlis" or "Googles"] In Google / Googli non est (if you're a fan of the more exotic declination classes)
Unless, of course, your version of the Internet contains several Googles... (Alright, there are google.com, google.de, google.fr,Wow, how appropriate! (text under sign means "Please, not so fast!")
That wasn't funny, it was just stupid.