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Antarctic Craters Reveal Asteroid Strike
dhuff writes "Scientists using satellites have mapped huge craters under the Antarctic ice sheet caused by an asteroid as big as the one believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago."
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It could have been an explosion from several adolescent Predators when being overtaken by thousands of Aliens?
Well....
;)
The compass industry will go South
If they find pyramids under there, stay away from them.
I for one welcome our new asteroid overlords
Hah! Take that Karma!
"Is it just me, of is that article have the stench of bullshit about it?"
Not at all, but if they claimed the dinasaurs built an earth ship to drill to the core and detonate 4 nuclear bombs, I'd be suspicious.
That's 24 days ago.
The dinosaurs were wiped out on July 28 2004?
Other people have already mentioned some of the problems we might expect, but think of the upside: all the pigeons will go and shit on things on the southern hemisphere!
It won't save the Earth but it would make our last moments valuable by throwing the full crew of that movie out in space. Almost worth the end of the world.
"I think this line is mostly filler"
The poor widdle penguins. If they all died, Linus may have picked Walruses instead. Walnix?
Table-ized A.I.
The Earth's rotation has a completely-negligible effect on the outflow.
I take it you don't watch The Simpsons...
Bart: "Do the toilets go backwards in here?"
U.S Embasy guy: "No. To combat home sickness, we've installed a device that makes them swirl the correct American way."
*Flushes toilet. Machine kicks in and water swirls the other way*
Homer (weeping, singing): "Sweet land of liberty..."
You're using her as bait, Master!
In fact it was a preemptive strike; the asteroids found evidence that the dinosaurs were close to developing weapons of mass destruction.
Everyone remain calm. I spent countless hours in arcades preparing for such an impact. That's the real reason the dinosaurs died: they didn't have arcades.
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking