Comet killed these critters. Class is canceled for today!
:)
The funny thing is there are FReepers who think the earth only existed for 1/2 of this amount of time...
Posted on 05/20/2007 4:50:33 PM PDT by Renfield
Fireballs set half the planet ablaze, wiping out the mammoth and America's Stone Age hunters
Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere.
Primitive Stone Age cultures were destroyed and populations of mammoths and other large land animals, such as the mastodon, were wiped out. The blast also caused a major bout of climatic cooling that lasted 1,000 years and seriously disrupted the development of the early human civilisations that were emerging in Europe and Asia......
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ROFL!
susie
Yeah, if I’m not mistaken, that’s about when agriculture started.
susie
Wouldn’t it be cool if this happened to California and Mexico ?
So easy to figure it out a cave man could do it.
May I please have about two years advance warning?
FRegards,
Ben (in L.A. County)
Nah...but I had a girlfriend once that had one just like that, but I just don't know where they got that fireball thing.
Just because I’m lactose intolerant, that doesn’t make me a caveman!
My lice might, but not my digestion!
Perhaps the cause of the “Great Flood”?
or even purchase car insurance
Why would a comet explode above the earth?
Sounds a little fishy to me. Like a convenient excuse that cooling and warming are not natural cycles but occur due to outside influences.
Probably exploded when in entered the dense lower atmosphere.
“Why would a comet explode above the earth?”
They are mostly ice...with a bunch of rocks. it gets superheated due to atmospheric friction, some interior ice turns to gas, the gas expands, and it goes kablooey.
Kablooey is a scientific term, and stuff.
Stuff - I understand. I think I can dredge “kerblooey” up from my chemistry classes.
Diamonds are forever..
Who's gonna notify that hillbilly flat earth creationist museum in Tennesee?
Yup, they are that bad!
I am not so sure.
When I see old movies and photographs from the 1950's and before, Americans back then--even apart from clothing, hairstyles, and women's makeup--look different from current Americans.
Some of this could be diet and lifestyle. And some of it could be from mixing in a more diverse gene pool . . .
Still, I dunno. We might have evolved enough over the last 50+ years to be noticeable.
From my personal perspective, Americans, especially the women, got better looking up until the 1990's.
Since then, they seem to be getting uglier.
Ten thousand years from now, scientists will conclude that a comet explosion wiped out spandex and big hair at the end of the 1980s. Humanity will be preceived as vastly better off because of it. :)
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