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New NASA Maps Show A Bad Day On Earth

Posted by timothy on from the that-is-a-bad-day dept.

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."

12 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. fr1st ps0t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first :P

  2. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    need mirrors!

  3. fear me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i am an impact crater

    all life bows down to my greatness

  4. Interesting.... by XianDeath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My favorite part of the article was the part about "ÁÏ.ãqÌ|fs~á×|bovVÁ3pè5B úèÍ2E¼}Â÷Pg|\ÎÝ®ÝXD(TM)ÓËûÀêâæÐóØq3 ì8Îx-×> M'r " I have no idea how to even begin to respond.

  5. fsdfd fifst? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dfsdfdsfdfs

  6. No Worky by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Second link doesn't work. FP?

  7. YOU FAILED IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    etc.

  8. Re:Fight Meteor Impacts, Not Iraq by dammy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just take it to the UN, that should solve all our problems, right?

    Dammy

  9. Re:Slashdotted... by bluecalix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i was referring to turning the water on and off to simulate binary data transfer

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    e x p e c t d e l a y . c o m
  10. Re:3rd post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude your 3rd post generator works about as accurately as all the 1st post generators out there

  11. At least.... by Alomex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ....for once an extinction that wasn't really Microsoft's fault.

  12. dupe!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Re:I'm trying not to be anti NASA here, (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10, @03:24PM (#5479340) they did little more than send up the device with the Shuttle, and bring back the data on tape Oh is that all? Well, any shmuck with a couple extra dollars could do that, eh? Well, that and a space shuttle. [ Reply to This | Parent ] And of course... (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 08, @07:22PM (#5469316) Check out this blast crater. [goatse.cx] [ Reply to This ] Re:I'm trying not to be anti NASA here, (Score:2) by Lars T. (470328) on Saturday March 08, @02:20PM (#5468026) The Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) [nima.mil]. Google for "Shuttle Radar Topography Mission". [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:I'm trying not to be anti NASA here, (Score:1) by robsimmon (462689) on Saturday March 08, @02:14PM (#5467995) "little more than"? how about: design and build the instrument extend the 2nd antenna 60 meters out of the Shuttle payload bay develop the algorithms to get topographic data out of microwave radar interference patterns process and calibrate data for 80% of the Earth's land surface at 30 meter resolution you're hard to please more info: SRTM: Instruments [nasa.gov] [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:I'm trying not to be anti NASA here, (Score:1) by torpor (458) on Saturday March 08, @12:01PM (#5467355) (http://www.access-music.de/ | Last Journal: Friday February 07, @04:21PM) What device, exactly, and how does it work? [ Reply to This | Parent ] Now that's what I call an image... (Score:3, Funny) by JamesO (56897) on Saturday March 08, @10:44AM (#5467014) (http://slashdot.org/) 208 Megabytes Broadband? Bring it on! [ Reply to This ] I'm trying not to be anti NASA here, (Score:2) by Lars T. (470328) on Saturday March 08, @01:58AM (#5465797) but they did little more than send up the device with the Shuttle, and bring back the data on tape. [ Reply to This ] Is this the least popular topic ever? (Score:-1) by YourMissionForToday (556292) on Saturday March 08, @01:44AM (#5465762) (http://www.nolanryanbeef.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday February 18, @05:11PM) 9 comments? Shit, I could think of more comments while I poke my nose up my butt! (I'm a contortionist you see) [ Reply to This ] try these images (Score:3, Informative) by molo (94384) on Friday March 07, @09:01PM (#5464729) (Last Journal: Thursday June 13, @01:47AM) It is more clear without the dashed line in the way. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/earth/centralameric a/pia03379_combined_340_264.jpg [nasa.gov] [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Finally (Score:0, Redundant) by Lshmael (603746) on Friday March 07, @07:38PM (#5464244) Actually, if you live in the US, you could, if you go to TerraServer [microsoft.com]. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Maybe I'm a little dense, but ... (Score:3, Insightful) by C21 (643569) on Friday March 07, @07:25PM (#5464168) thats how people formulate scientific theories based on empiricism, they interpret data into their own ideas. This theory, along with every new theory, is now standing to be negated and scrutinized by anyone with the knowledge/ability to do so [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Images are available from lots of missions/craf (Score:2, Interesting) by (a*2)+(ron) (204237) on Friday March 07, @07:05PM (#5464012) Wow, there's some awesome [nasa.gov] stuff [nasa.gov] there [nasa.gov]. Thanks for the link! [ Reply to This | Parent ] Something landed there. (Score:2) by Syncdata (596941) on Friday March 07, @06:59PM (#5463963) (http://slashdot.org/~Syncdata/journal | Last Journal: Saturday March 08, @02:32PM) While it is entirely possible that they ARE interpreting the data to fit their pre-conceived notions, if you look at the larger images, not the thumbnails, you will notice a distinct circular ridge in the upper left of the photo of the yucatan peninsula. Clearly though, this better fits my hypothesis of an independance day like alien death ray. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Maybe I'm a little dense, but ... (Score:2) by GreatOgre (75402) on Friday March 07, @06:55PM (#5463938) From the article: The Chicxulub data show a subtle, yet unmistakable, topographic indication of the impact crater's outer boundary: a semicircular trough 3 to 5 meters (10 to 15 feet) deep and 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. Good picture here. [nasa.gov] I just can't tell that there is a crater there. Maybe this is because I'm an engineer and not a geoscientist or geologist. Can somebody explain to me how to tell that there are ridges where they claim there are? Without this explanation, I just feel that there are interpretting the data to fit their preconcieved idea. [ Reply to This ] if you thought that was interesting... (Score:-1, Troll) by C21 (643569) on Friday March 07, @06:30PM (#5463783) who can forget NASA's discovery of faeries, sprites, and elves, as well... [ Reply to This ] Images are available from lots of missions/craft (Score:4, Informative) by Exocet (3998) on Friday March 07, @06:23PM (#5463737) (http://exocet.ca/ | Last Journal: Wednesday February 26, @03:50PM) http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/PIADetQuery.html Images are available from the 2001 Mars Odyssey, Cassini, Galileo, etc. Go check 'em out! [ Reply to This ] Finally (Score:2, Funny) by jptechnical (644454) on Friday March 07, @06:18PM (#5463702) (http://jptechnical.com/) I can see my house from here! [ Reply to This ]