Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age

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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[spir0]

blamecanada

Blame the Canadians, of course!

[failedlogic]

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!

Re:Blame the Canadians, of course!

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Re:Blame the Canadians, of course!

[WgT2]

"the" ice age?

Re:Blame the Canadians, of course!

[Minwee]

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

Playing the odds

[symbolset]

Finally one of these articles that mentions both panspermia and periodicity of extinction events in TFA.

Before the bookmakers get started let's get this out there: although the odds of an extinction level event occurring today or tomorrow or this year is exceedingly remote astronomers agree that in the fullness of time it's not just likely, it's certain.

Re:Playing the odds

[Yvan256]

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

Re:Playing the odds

[Jorophose]

Yes.

Re:Blame Canada!

[A nonymous Coward]

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.

Interesting ad placement

[damn_registrars]

Is anyone else getting a banner ad on the side that is advertising the "Scientology Video Channel"? Rather amusing pairing, I suppose. Real science sharing my browser with a religion based on the writings of a third-rate science fiction author.