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Study Provides Compelling Evidence of Single Impact Extinction Theory
ectotherm writes to tell us that a new study at the University of Missouri-Columbia claims to provide compelling evidence that a single meteor impact was the cause of animal extinction 65 million years ago. From the article: "MacLeod and his co-investigators studied sediment recovered from the Demerara Rise in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of South America, about 4,500 km (approximately 2,800 miles) from the impact site on the Yucatan Peninsula. Sites closer to and farther from the impact site have been studied, but few intermediary sites such as this have been explored."
I once dated a smoking-hot (female) engineering student. I was totally psyched, because I thought an engineering student would make a much better date the the vapid and witless masses in the communication and humanities majors*.
Well, I learned that knowing calculus and physics doesn't always make you smart. After a few too many drinks one night, she opened up to me. She told me about the "proven scientific evidence" that recently demonstrated that the dinosaurs went extinct in "Noah's flood." I was dumbfounded and had no idea how to respond.
That was the last time I asked her out. Oh well. She was so hot! But even I have standards.
* Don't kill me. Not all of you are dumb. Just the vast majority (including all those I dated).
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