BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICA -- KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE

Ohio State University ^ | 01 June 2006 | Staff (press release)

[cripplecreek]

I was expecting another thread about Anna Nicole

[MHGinTN]

But God put some ice on it ...

[KC Burke]

I'm sure that Gore and RFKjr will explain to us how this was caused by those wascally wepublicans and will be again if they aren't voted out in 06

[narby]

Everybody be nice.

First you people want everyone to bow at the feet of Darwin, now you want us to believe that Gaia evolves? Ha! [/creationoid mode]

[angkor]

why did the mass they found underneath stay with the surface rock?

Global cooling??

Uhhhhhh.... global warming?

Dunno. I wuz joking.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A 300-mile-wide crater?

:whistles:

Surfs up dudes!

[Dark Skies]

bump

[G Larry]

Yep!
It probably was brought about by all of the SUVs roaming around causing GLOBAL WARMING, eventually attracting the comet to that region......

[bobdsmith]

I don't think there is an irridium layer associated with it. Don't ask me why there wouldn't be an irridium layer, I don't have a clue

[Ruddles]

That's not a mascon, that's a Shoggoth.

[conservative physics]

Since the cost of drilling through more than a mile of ice to reach these rocks directly is prohibitive...


um... they might want to try a few phosphorous grenades instead of drilling.

[PatrickHenry]

I must brag a little bit. If you Google for this story, you may find one hit. By tomorrow there will be dozens. As with several other significant science stories, you read it first on Free Republic.

[WoofDog123]

obviously when working with the fossil record in the p-t extinction area I assume there is so little to work with, and dating issues involved, that without a crater anything was speculation but I was always surprised at the number of scientists pretty much dismissing the impact theory for the P-T extinction, of all the extinctions to be doubtful of. 95% is a LOT.

Now that there may be a crater confirmed, how is anyone going to argue that such an impact wouldn't have exactly the P-T mass-extinction-type effect, given what the more accepted chicxulub impact did 65m years ago.

[ItsForTheChildren]

I have a feeling before it's all over we'll find all kinds of things buried under a mile of ice.....things that will answer a lot of questions.

Jimmy Hoffa? 8^)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wonder what 250 million years of 5 mile deep ice moving around on top of the original sediments and gravel does to fossils in those rocks...

But actually, it'd probably be irrelevant: Inside the original crater, and around it, there are no fossils. Nothing but melted rock and shatter cones.

[DBrow]

If the impactor was a comet head, there'd be mostly water, as opposed to a rocky-type asteroid. Just guessing.

[kinghorse]

Put Macready on it. He'll get to the bottom of this crater.

[layman]

a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs

I've been saying this for years, but nobody ever listens to me.

[ZGuy]

So Ohio State is using Wikipedia as its primary reference source? Remind me not to send my kids there.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Does not compute in Young Earth Theory.