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Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-when-it-was-getting-warmer dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Recent geological evidence gathered in Ohio and Indiana has been verified by a University of Cincinnati assistant professor as support of a comet theory, claiming a comet explosion over earth was the cause of drastic changes to life on our planet. This evidence strengthens initial data collected over a year ago. The explosion, which occurred over what is now Canada, caused the extinction of animals and cultures and lengthened the Ice Age nearly 13,000 years ago that should have been coming to an end."

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  1. new tag needed by spir0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    blamecanada

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    1. Re:new tag needed by LeafOnTheWind · · Score: 2, Funny

      seriously, what is it with you guys and ice?

  2. Blame Canada! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're not even a real country anyway.

    1. Re:Blame Canada! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course not; it's spelled Canadia.

    2. Re:Blame Canada! by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You know why it's called Canada, eh?

      Originally it was the Commonwealth Northern Dominions, which they recognized as a mouthful, and abbreviated as C, eh, N, eh, D, eh.

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  3. Blame the Canadians, of course! by failedlogic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not surprising. Americans are always blaming us for everything. Now they're blaming us for a poor environmental record, preventing the advancement of man, being a magnet for comets - a problem the Americans know our government won't fix so they'll have to do something.

    This story will surely convince the last bunch of skeptical Americans that we live in Igloos. My Core2Duo is overclocked to 10 GHz with "air" cooling. I have heat pipes on the CPU which are used to warming up my living space. Even though it might be a heat wave where you are, I know that shorts were not invented by a Canadian.

    Great country, eh? We're great story-tellers too!

    1. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by tgd · · Score: 1, Funny

      Don't forget: we blame you for not getting your dollar to fall in value along with ours.

      Now lap dances in Montreal are expensive.

    2. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      So we can blame canadians for the lack of nudity in the world?
      Wait, this is slashdot. Home of the Roll packs...
      I for one welcome our Fur bearing Canuck overlords!

    3. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by TheLink · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Last winter I dug my '91 Chrysler Daytona out of the snow (literally up to over a meter high) a few times "

      You left out "in a blizzard and you liked it" :).

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    4. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by Minwee · · Score: 3, Funny

      And that is why the first Monday of August is celebrated as "Gwen Jacob Day" in Ontario.

    5. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by Nasajin · · Score: 1, Funny

      Give him a break, he's clearly Canadian.

    6. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by DarenN · · Score: 2, Funny

      Typical Americans, claiming that their volcano is "Super"

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    7. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by Synonymous+Bosch · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's convenient enough for Canadians to tell how they saved Americas Bacon during the war for Independence, but the second you blame them for Americas rise to world domination, they get all defensive...

    8. Re:Blame the Canadians, of course! by Brynath · · Score: 2, Funny
      Bahh, You Canucks can't take all the credit for that very warm winter Getup.

      Us Alaskans have been wearing that for just as long as you all.

      But then again most of the US doesn't believe we are part of the US, so uhhh can we stay with you?

  4. I can hear them now... by Adreno · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... cynical politicians all over the U.S., secretly planning to bring a comet to Earth to quickly solve our global warming crisis. Hey, it'd be easier than lessening our dependence on foreign oil, right?

  5. Re:Playing the odds by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what you're saying is that's a race between the end of mankind and Duke Nukem Forever?

  6. Re:Playing the odds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    do you really think Duke Nukem Forever is going to be good enough to be considered an extinction-level event?

  7. Re:Playing the odds by symbolset · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I had modpoints and I hadn't posted in this thread, I'd mod your post +1 informative even though it was just one word.

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  8. Priorities by Tabernaque86 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look guys, we're sorry and all, but really, this was important to us. I mean, the beer was starting to get a little warm, and we still had a few thousand games of hockey to play. This ice age extension was really just the thing we needed.

  9. Damn Comet!!!! by jameskojiro · · Score: 2, Funny

    By lengthening the Ice Age we messed up the cycle and today we are entering in a warming period, if this comet hadn't hit us we would be running into another cooling trend around now and CO2 would be the bees knees and we could drive our SUVs and people would be a lot damn happier.

    I blame Canada too.

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