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Scientists To Drill Into 'Ground Zero' of the Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: This month, a drilling platform will rise in the Gulf of Mexico, but it won't be aiming for oil. Scientists will try to sink a diamond-tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs, along with most other life on the planet. They hope that the retrieved rock cores will contain clues to how life came back in the wake of the cataclysm, and whether the crater itself could have been a home for novel microbial life. And by drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180-kilometer-wide crater rim, scientists hope to settle ideas about how such 'peak rings,' hallmarks of the largest impact craters, take shape.
dmbasso is a pedophile who likes to look at pictures of children being sexually abused and is a real and present danger to any children near him.
It has not been established that the impact was the cause of the extinction event. Other evidence indicates that life was already on the wain beforehand.
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If the drill samples turn out to be a green or black sludge that seems to move by itself, toss it back down the hole and pour in a bunch of concrete.
Everyone should know that by now.
...alert. Half your damn articles are bogus propaganda. Wtf???
Drilling the outskirts - where something might have survived the blast - could also be interesting.
I mean, we are only assuming it was an accident right ?
How do we know it wasn't an alien extremophile virus? Don't drill!
New York City built a memorial where the World Trade Center used to stand. I've been there. I don't think anybody is going to like somebody drilling into Ground Zero.
Sorry....
Butt seriously, who doesn't like gay sex?
--cmdrtaco
if they discover it's got a depleted uranium core
We already know the dinosaurs drowned in the flood.
And the few that went ont he ark starved afterwards for lack of vegetation*.
Just ask the former teacher and new Texas State Board of Education member Mary Lou Bruner.
(http://gawker.com/meet-the-science-and-muslim-hating-conspiracy-theorist-1758545449)
Mary Lou Bruner on climate change:
Just think about how much money the government has wasted educating the people about the government hoax which officials first called “Global Warming”. Government later changed the term to “Climate Change” because government lies or predictions did not come true, and the people were becoming very suspicious because the world wasn’t getting warmer. It was much easier to call the hoax “Climate Change” because with the new name, corrupt government officials and scientists could say every hurricane, tornado, flood, drought, snow storm, earthquake, tsunami, blizzard, and EVERYTHING that happened was caused by “Climate Change”. And a few people still believe them.
Mary Lou Bruner on dinosaurs:
When the flood waters subsided and rushed to the oceans there was no vegetation on the earth because the earth had been covered with water. It took a while for grass and trees to grow back and the big plant-eating dinosaurs needed lots of vegetation to live. The dinosaurs on the ark may have been babies and not able to reproduce. It might make sense to take the small dinosaurs onto the ark instead of the ones bigger than a bus. After the flood, the few remaining Behemoths and Leviathans may have become extinct because there was not enough vegetation on earth for them to survive to reproductive age. Most of the dinosaur fossils which scientists have found are permanently preserved in positions of great distress as if they were trying to keep their heads above water or above the mud.
Mary Lou Bruner on school shootings: ... The school shootings started after government removed the Ten Commandments and the Bible from public school buildings, and disallowed prayer at school and school events. The school shootings started after the schools started teaching evolution is an absolute fact and the classes cannot talk about weaknesses in the Theory of Evolution. The shootings started after the schools started teaching the Constitution of the USA is a flawed document written by selfish aristocrats who were only looking out for their own wealth, The school shootings started after the government started teaching children to feel sorry for themselves if they do not have as much as other children in the school....
Mary Lou Bruner on sexual education:
Every parent of young children should hear this woman speak. Most parents do not know about the drawings of nude men, women, boys, and girls in some children’s books in our public schools. Many children’s books on the recommended list contain frank discussions about sexual issues which are inappropriate in my opinion. Many of the books which teachers read to your small children are not allowed in jails and prisons because of the bad effect the books have on the prisoners. These books stimulate children to experiment with sex. Please attend this meeting if you can.
Mary Lou Bruner on the JFK assassination:
Many people believe the Democrat Party had JFK killed because the socialists and Communists in the party did not want a conservative president. Remember who followed JFK as president — (LBJ). the exact opposite of Kennedy — a socialist and an unethical politician. It does seem like this might have been the master plan: They sneaked the bad guy (LBJ)into the administration on the coat-tail of a good guy (JFK). Then they got rid of the good guy; in the end, they got a socialist president which is what they originally wanted.
*Bonus round*:
Meet the Science- and Muslim-Hating Conspiracy Th
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
It seems there is a LOT more energy underground than can ever be accounted for by rotted biological products. I mean are we really driving around in our cars with dinosaurs "off gasses?" I feel a lot of the energy was slammed underground before it could explode and buried deep for our energy companies to rape us. Thanks Exxon
They gonna drill down there and put a parking fine under my wiper?
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
Sure, they drill into this site, and they'll let the dinosaurs back out.
Why can't man let well-enough alone?
No. Wait. It didn't. She died. Twice.
I wouldn't brag about that parking job. You burned off a huge chunk of your ship's iridium hull before plowing into the planet...
Surely more than a few science fiction novels have started like this.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
It's about time.