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New NASA Maps Show A Bad Day On Earth
Stephen Lau writes "ScienceDaily has an article talking about the new NASA maps that reveal the geography of the North American continent in amazing detail. One of the maps provides strong evidence of a 112 mile wide, 3000 foot deep impact crater which they believe was the comet/asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs and more than 70% of Earth's living species 65 million years ago."
Everyone knows that cigarette smoking did. At least that's what Gary Larson has hypothesized.
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It seems whenever anyone finds a reasonably large crater, they declare "this is it, this is the one that killed the dinos". It grabs headlines. I'd hate to be a dinosaur, because it seems like I'd've been extinctified about 12 times over by genocidal asteroid de jour.
The Dinos died coz they ran out of beer. Stop lying to us !
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C'mon! If the dinosaurs were killed by a comet, why weren't people killed, too? Didn't you ever watch the Flintstones? Given the interspecies symbiosis, it is highly unlikely that a sudden and catastrophic loss of the dinosaurs would not have resulted in a destruction of mankind as well. How would humans have quarried rock?
No, I think a much more plausible explanation is that the dinosaurs were actually the victims of second-hand smoke, overpopulation, and perhaps disease. I mean, really.
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The crater that used to be their server before it was slashdotted.
my dialup is angry at you right now.
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Maybe it was a slashdoting that killed the...er nevermind.
Yeah, server is dead. Throw it in the crater...
(Hell, increase their budget so they can afford non-slashdottable servers)
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Scientists have been unable to found any traces of intelligent life anywhere on that side of the planet.
Last I checked, Mexico isn't part of the U.S. Yet. Perhaps we'll get to them next after we are done annexing Iraq, though.
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TIFF? 617 Megabyte? You moderators are cruel.
/. could see it. :-P
BTW, that's not a picture of a 112 mile wide, 3000 foot deep impact crater - that's an aerial view of what happened to the server when morcheeba's linkage comment was modded up so the whole of
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I take it that the "112 mile wide, 3000 foot deep impact crater" is actual size?
...of a post about an article being a dupe being modded redundant?
Oh, yeah, I'm killin my karma now...
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For the sake of tradition, shouldn't we be blaming microsoft for the death of the dinosaur? :) (And for that matter pointing out that linux helps prevent system crashes of this magnitude ;)
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Will you post a link to it on slashdot?
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Knowing Chirac, he'd veto any plans to evacuate.
Isn't posting a story on slashdot that links to a government website (which results in bringing down said website) considered an act of terror?
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Oh, don't wuss out completely. I have learned from playing Fallout 1 & 2, Wasteland and watching all the Road Warrior movies that I can finally have a pink mohawk, wear football pads and drive as fast as I want with a sawed-off shotgun in a Post-Apocolyptic world.
Wow... I think I can see my house from here...
i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
Why? Running away is what they're best at.
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that's as useless as saying "death is what made that guy die".