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Antarctic Craters Reveal Asteroid Strike

Posted by michael on from the rock-of-ages dept.

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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  1. Maybe....but I'm not buying it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It could have been an explosion from several adolescent Predators when being overtaken by thousands of Aliens?

    1. Re:Maybe....but I'm not buying it by SirTalon42 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Lets find everyone named Shinji and kill him... FAST!

      I would rather the Angels win than he the world revolving around him...

  2. Re:Curious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well....

    The compass industry will go South ;)

  3. Stay away... by SteamyMobile · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they find pyramids under there, stay away from them.

  4. 65 milli years ago? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's 24 days ago.

    The dinosaurs were wiped out on July 28 2004?

  5. Asteroids? by feidaykin · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking