Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880

JoeRobe writes "Researchers at UCSC have simulated a possible outcome of an impact by asteroid 1950DA when it passes near us in the year 2880. Note that there is a 0.3% chance of impact during that encounter. In the event that it impacts in the Atlantic, they predict that the '60,000 megaton blast' would create 400 foot waves along the east coast. In addition to an assessment of the danger, their studies point out the resulting geologic features that we should be looking for now, which would indicate where and when such impacts have occured in the past."

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Re:Asteroids: liberal myth

[VanillaCoke420]

The Bible was written by many people throughout hundreds of years. These people were not perfect, they were not divine, they were people. Sometimes, they were people who saw talking burning bushes and angels and whatnot. Where is god today? Where are the angels? If someone would claim he is talking to god, not many people would believe him. They would, however, be ready to believe a really old book about people talking to god.

The problem is that religious people don't seem to know why they are religious and why that specific religion. Why islam? Why christianity? In most cases, I would suppose, it has to do with their upbringing. They were told certain "truths" and eventually it becomes the Truth. Why do they believe the creation myth? What makes THAT story so much more likely than any other creation myths, for example? After all, none of them were based on any observations.