“The evidence shows that this has happened at least six times in earth’s history.”
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I think that this is only half right. And the comments are half right.
Yes, I’m sure that the earth has been hit by an asteroid of this size. And I can believe that it did this much damage and lit a firestorm that engulfed the planet. And I also can believe that it may have happened more than once.
But I think that impacts of this massive scale happened before water, air, and life came to earth. In other words, this happened when the earth and out solar system were still young and hot. Before the solar system stabilized and there were still large chucks of rock that had not been sucked into another planet, the sun, or into a stable orbit.
There is plenty of strong evidence that there were asteroid strikes AFTER life took hold. But these strikes were not at the scale illustrated in this video. The destruction and death was massive, but not total where all life, water, and the atmosphere would be destroyed.
I think that the video showing this massive strike along with trees, oceans, and glaciers was mixing up different periods of time, sort of like showing cavemen with dinosaurs.
Make sense?
And on the 6 day, Cheney came out of his undiclosed location.
You have to admit that Bush HAS protected us from such an Asteroid. I don’t recall one in the last 7 years.
#13 Pink Floyd Rules…
I had to laugh when I read the “Black Woman” comment. I thought the same thing as you. Either this guy is joking, or is clueless.
That song is “The Great Gig In The Sky” from Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon”.
The vocalist on that song, Clare Torry, was a vocalist in the church choir where Alan Parson, the album’s recording engineer, went to church. He recommended her when the band decided they needed a woman’s vocals on the track. She was only paid 30 pounds for her day’s work.
Clare was described by the band as nothing remarkable. Just a typical early 70’s English housewife.
And the song is not about sex. It is about death.
#13
+10000000000000000000000000000000000000
(though i have to admit #6 did make me laugh)
@31
When the earth was formed, large impacts from other large bodies were common, that’s how planets, stars, etc were created. But none of that can actually be proven since there’s no evidence to dig up.
There needs to be a weather system in order for those sedimenty layers to be formed for archioligists to dig into, which didn’t exist back when the earth was being formed.
But these layers of sediment only goes back a couple billion years, not the full 6 billion years when the earth was belived to be created since it would have probably been absorbed by the mantel by now. Plus I don’t think we can dig down that deep enough anyway.
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This has happened. I am in the process of making a youtube vid for how and where. If anyone wants to see where, open your favorite map program. I use google maps and maps.live.
Center on the Pacific North West. Particularly the Columbia river basin. Just North Enterprise Oregon was where we were hit. I have found literally thousands of ejecta impacts from this event.
I cannot promise a good quality vid since this will be my first attempt. I think I ought to be able to convince anyone though. Time will tell.
-Dennis-
That would be fucked…
Provided we all die I don’t have a problem with it.
And so life as we know it ceasees to exist.
Blah blah blah.
Like we all not going to die sometime?
People are so fearful of a natural thing like death.
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Henny Penny was right.
1. THATS to big.
2. it would take LESS size, to do anbout 1/2 that damage..Including the one coming in 2029 at 800 meters(?) that could WIPE about 1/2 the population, depending on the Area of impact.
Natural disasters and huge extinctions are cool. It we’re all riding mass transit in 2036 better to be wiped out.
mmmm…. pizza
Someday, in a land that has grown up into an appreciation of the differences between right and wrong, aspec ratio of media pieces will avoid the inappropriate “does this make me look fat” stretch and the equally tragic “egg scrambles egg” collision footage.
Still, it’s comforting to know that the world is run by C students.
But the video doesn’t tell the ugly truth: that humans were responsible for 5 of the 6 impacts, despite the fact that we weren’t around at the time!
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What the?
George Bush did it.
I dunno Lou (#55). It seems to me its one of the few things he hasn’t fucked up.
This scenario, while it does make a compelling animation, is extremely unlikely to happen in the next billion years, or to have happened any more recently than 3.5 to 4 billion years ago. 500km is over half the diameter of Ceres, the largest of all the asteroids. There can’t be that many, and if any were in Earth-crossing orbits we _would_ know about them by now.
Heck of a show, though.
If it happens it happens…and hopefully when Earth awakes and there is “human” life again they will appreciate and respect eachother more.
Maybe we (so called “humans”) will destroy our planet before anything like this happens…but if this happens…hopefully then, when Earth awakes and there is “human” life again, they will appreciate and respect eachother more.
I have a low quality vid up now. My first narrated video, it feels strange talking to yourself while making it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJzBuzTKo4Y