Distant space collision meant doom for dinosaurs
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Distant space collision meant doom for dinosaurs
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A collision 160 million years ago of two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter sent many big rock chunks hurtling toward Earth, including the one that zapped the dinosaurs, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Kinda scary on how fast life can be wiped out. They ruled the earth one day and gone the next. Could totally happen again. I hope there are lots of nukes on hand for that.
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Originally Posted by Arctic Cat F7
Kinda scary on how fast life can be wiped out. They ruled the earth one day and gone the next. Could totally happen again. I hope there are lots of nukes on hand for that.
There are not enough explosives, of any kind, in the entire earth's arsenal, that would deter a 10km diameter chunk of iron, nickel & rock, one iota.
Any idea of the kinetic energy involved?
This is not even touching upon the fact that we also have no effective delivery system to do an intercept far enought away to even bother attemping it.
PLUS - we also have chitty detection systems; there are a LOT of NEO's that are, like, "whoa, where da fek did dat come from??"
(BTW - NEO = Near Earth Objects).
Pipe dream - we have a ton of R&D to make this happen. Who's gonna pay?
Not a question of IF, but When. Bendo over ....
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Originally Posted by MGDfan
LMAO
Damn Marlboro's.
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From: HUSKER COUNTRY, USA
Originally Posted by jamzwayne
I was just a case of the American dinosaurs emitting green house gases, the Earth got too hot. Leonardinosaurous made a movie with Algoreosops, but none of the other dinosaurs paid attention. They did it to themselves, don't ya know.
