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DR Congo Ring May Be Giant Impact Crater
Phrogman writes "The BBC is reporting that deforestation has 'revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say. The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered in the last decade.' If you search Google Maps for 'Omeonga Democratic Republic of the Congo,' you will be right in the middle of the suspected crater."
Christopher Walken.
But seriously, my GF in college worked with Chris Reeves at the Williamstown Theater Festival, and she said he was the nicest, most supportive and hard working actor she's ever met. He would thank the freaking techs! He would run lines with interns fer chrissake!
He got thrown from his horse the summer after that, we were both pretty sad for the man.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
So the current destruction of that part of the earth has revealed an earlier attempt to destroy that part of the earth ... when will Mother Nature learn she can't get rid of us that easy?
She doesn't want to kill us off. We're her eggs. She wants us to leave the nest, and go reproduce her on other planets.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Something that let you zoom in and out let you feel the proper magnitude of both the impact, and the deforestation around. Probably the scale of deforestation should had made the headlines, not the impact crater, our past is interesting, but is much more our (lack of?) future.
What I never understand is that with a different packing pattern (hexagonal), they could use around 10% more land than they do now. Why don't they do this?
That's not a gigantic ancient impact crater. That's a gigantic ancient impact crater.
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