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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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  1. Sounds suspicious by lobsterGun · · Score: 0, Troll

    Severe gravitational anomolies...
    Meteor impact causes the magnetic poles to shift...
    Global water levels rise 2 feet but without any tidal waves beacuse of all of 'ice bergs'...

    Is it just me, of is that article have the stench of bullshit about it?

  2. Re:Parent is ignorant or trolling? Hard to tell. by Aardpig · · Score: 0, Troll

    The one we're talking about, smartass. Water going down drains.

    There is no rotational effect. Water does not go down the drain in opposite directions in the North and South hemispheres. I thought I made that clear in my first post, when I labelled this 'rotation effect' notion a fallacy.

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