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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."
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say.
Well then, we should keep deforesting the entire planet. Who knows what amazing discoveries await?!
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Circular features are a great way to find impact sites. Heck, this area must have been hit by hundreds of meteors: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.701207,-100.71991&spn=0.375406,0.617294&t=h&z=11
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. . . given Africa's leaders' penchant for pilfering natural resources (oil, diamonds, et al) for their own personal profit, I wouldn't be surprised if the crater got stolen.
Although, that would be an interesting challenge for Swiss bankers: you can deposit diamonds at a bank, but how do you fit a crater in a vault?
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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
What is to stop slashdot from linking to the image in Google Maps in the original article?
Well, the leading theories right now are that it was either Superman crashing to earth at hypersonic speeds, or your mom playing hopscotch.
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Good thing for deforestation, that big circular river would never have given it away.
If you search Google Maps for 'Omeonga Democratic Republic of the Congo,' you will be right in the middle of the suspected crater.
I did a google search, but I'm still here in this chair in my cubicle.
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Goddamn! It's a good thing you were here to notice that and saved a whole lot of people some pointless field work at the site.
Also good evidence that you didn't RTFA, which directly addressed this point.
A+ for Effort though.
Don't do that Google search!
I did it and then I was right in the middle of that crater.
I'll tell you more when I get back, the Internet link in the middle of this crater is really slow.
That's not a gigantic ancient impact crater. That's a gigantic ancient impact crater.
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