[PatrickHenry]

Everybody be nice.

[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.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

300-mile wide crater?

Obviously, the dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't wear seatbelts.

[VadeRetro]

KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE

Craters don't kill people! We have to learn to look for root causes!

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[johnny7]

That's why it's hard for me to believe that the universe contains thousands of earth-like planets. Life on earth has gone through so many, catastrophic mutations that the odds of intelligent life elsewhere are much slimmer than popularly thought.

[oldleft]

OAE Bump

[bkepley]

Everybody be nice.

F' that, I hate friggin meteors.

[Fractal Trader]

ggg?

[Centurion2000]

Meteor Impact: Women and Minority amphibians worst affected.

[Alouette]

Thrilling new novels by DAN BROWN and DOUGLAS PRESTON

Maybe they will collaborate this time.

I CAN'T WAIT!

Well, maybe I can wait, a couple million years

[Mike Darancette]

They have been looking for the cause of the P-Tr extinction for a long time with many pointing to the Siberian Traps volcanism as the cause.

Should this Antarctica impactor be concurrent with the Siberian Traps volcanism then the impactor could have been the cause. Just as the K-T impactor is concurrent with the Deccan Traps volcanism.

[RandallFlagg]

I know I'm late, but.....

[DugwayDuke]

"Re-unite Gandwana Now!" My favorite bumper sticker.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Velikovsky would've been pleased with this information.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - somebody needs to bridge the information gap!

[righttackle44]

"Everybody be nice."

Okay. I think it's nice they found the
former site of Michael Moore's outhouse.

[Lancey Howard]

"Fascinating."

[xJones]

>>>The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. And the gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years -- the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out.

Its size and location -- in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia -- also suggest that it could have begun the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent by creating the tectonic rift that pushed Australia northward.<<<

It's a good thing that you told us to be nice or I might have suggested what the author could do with his paper.

[Razz Barry]

He and Potts would like to go to Antarctica to confirm the finding. The best evidence would come from the rocks within the crater. Since the cost of drilling through more than a mile of ice to reach these rocks directly is prohibitive, they want to hunt for them at the base of the ice along the coast where the ice streams are pushing scoured rock into the sea. Airborne gravity and magnetic surveys would also be very useful for testing their interpretation of the satellite data, they said.

It's no problem. Gore says the ice caps are melting.

[SunkenCiv]

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