ASTEROID IMPACT PLAYED PIVOTAL ROLE IN RAPID PROLIFERATION OF LIFE

The Australian Centre for Astrobiology ^ | May 2003 | The Australian Centre for Astrobiology

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Well...

I guess...

If I woke up in the morning and discovered that a huge asteroid was about to really knock the china outta the cabinet, the wife and I would surely engage in some "rapid proliferation" of our own.

TMMT

[dagoofyfoot]

Giant explosions lead to higher levels of complexity.


Exactly....I'm still waiting for a tornado to blow through the local junkyard and create my "Corvette".

[dagoofyfoot]

Small Bang Theory


Big Bunk Theory!

[Mike Darancette]

Discusses the Snowball earth without the BFR.

Snowball Earth Ala Harvard

[liberalnot]

an al sharpton rock!

[AndrewC]

Better?

Yes, but I feel that birds still might run things. Ever leave your nice beautiful recently washed and polished car under a tree?

[AndrewC]

Discusses the Snowball earth without the BFR.

Yes, thanks. I had skimmed that previously and missed the 1km reference. I also assume that BFR refers in a colorful manner to the extraterrestrial object. That or I am lost.

The link also points out they don't have any explanation as to how the freezing process was set off. Something has to "suck" the CO₂ out of the atmosphere.

[AndrewC]

Yeah, take your choice. But this theory does place Australia in the limelight in relation to life on Earth.

[forewarning]

The Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 100 million years then disappeared in the blink of an eon, to be replaced by the Mammals as top creature.

Unless, of course, the fossil evidence is a well-made deception, not of human making. (Just being thorough here.)

[forewarning]

I'm still waiting for a tornado to blow through the local junkyard and create my "Corvette".

Since absolutely nobody thinks this will happen, you may wait a long time. Your junkyard doesn't have cars giving birth to slightly different cars, and even then, you'd have to wait millions of years to see much happen.

[CobaltBlue]

>>Because that didn't happen<<

How do you explain the fact that the Universe is more than 12 billion years old but the Earth is only about 4.5 billion years old?

Just curious.

[CobaltBlue]

>>life that was ancesteral to life that existed afterward<<

Could be. Can you refer me to the DNA sequencing?

[dagoofyfoot]

You'd have to wait millions of years to see much happen


This is a joke, right?

[CobaltBlue]

>>Unless, of course, the fossil evidence is a well-made deception, not of human making<<

By whom? Some minor Trickster diety e.g. Loki?

Surely not God proper, omniscient, omnicompetent, and omnibenevolent?

Why would God want to trick you?

[ladyinred]

ASTEROID IMPACT PLAYED PIVOTAL ROLE IN BRINGING FORTH LIBERALS.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If true, where did the asteroid come from? I am under the impression that most, if not all, asteroids come from within our own solar system.

Almost all of the space junk crossing earth orbit is from our own solar system. But material from nearby solar systems appears in our solar system as well and can end up on earth. However, I'm not aware of any present claims of finding intergalactic rocks.

[gortklattu]

Look, no asteroid hit this earth and created life. The mothership crashed, resulting in a dust storm that killed the dyno-soars. We had to live in the ship for 2 years while the dust settled.'

I just don't understand how you all don't understand this.

Screwy Louie

[Junior]

There is that ... and the two cockatiels and one parakeet that run my house ...

[AndrewC]

and the two cockatiels

Whoa! You must have a high noise tolerance!

[Junior]

If you drape the cage with a sheet, they quiet down almost instantly.