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Did a Comet Hit Earth 12,000 Years Ago?
Scientific American ^
| January 2, 2009
| David Biello
Posted on 01/02/2009 6:02:32 PM PST by neverdem
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To: gracesdad
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01/02/2009 7:32:30 PM PST
by
Ron Jeremy
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To: neverdem
Was the Burkle impact close enough to this iridium layer? It hit in the Indian Ocean.
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01/02/2009 7:37:11 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: Ron Jeremy
Thanks so much. Helps clarify things. :-)
To: eaglestar
Speaking of cosmic stuff, is there anyone here that did not know that Voyager 1 is still operational and is currently in interstellar space and approaching the heliopause which is outside out our star system? And with greeings from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.
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01/02/2009 7:43:24 PM PST
by
preacher
(A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
To: neverdem
the author's counterparts claim that mammoths were still around until just a few thousand years ago. The author's claim mammoths were overhunted to extinction may also be exaggerated, in light of the numerous animals that co-existed with mammoths, i.e., horses, camels, lions, tigers and bears.
http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/Journal/v37n1/vartanyan.html
Last upper molar from the bed of the lower Mamontovaya River (N-MAM-6) BC 2574-2464
Tusk (8 cm diameter (d)) from the bed of the lower Neozhydannaya River BC 2192-2038
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_/ai_n24977637
Fossils of mammoths, bison, cave bears and horses all seem to disappear from parts of Alaska and Siberia around
35,000 years ago.
“And then they show up again around 10,000 years later,” he said. “So they came in from elsewhere.”
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/2000/ut/
Gillette believes that present-day vegetation in the area is similar to what was here 11,500 years ago. Mammoth remains are most often found in areas that were covered by grasslands during the last Ice Age; in this area, there were likely both conifers and grasses, probably fed by a good water source. The mammoths co-existed with other now-extinct species, such as saber tooth tigers, giant ground sloths, musk oxen, camels, horses, tapirs, and lions.
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01/02/2009 7:48:28 PM PST
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blueplum
To: neverdem
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01/02/2009 7:49:23 PM PST
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org.whodat
(Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
To: SIDENET
Hey...give a guy a warning or something!
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01/02/2009 8:04:31 PM PST
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vger
To: org.whodat
Already posted!! The Scientific American version and a link to the abstract??
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01/02/2009 8:26:17 PM PST
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neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
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01/02/2009 8:29:03 PM PST
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org.whodat
(Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
To: neverdem
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01/02/2009 8:30:46 PM PST
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org.whodat
(Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
To: SIDENET
To: preacher
And with greeings from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.
Great. Just great. Voyager I runs into some alien race out there and those two idiots are going to screw up First Contact, just like they screwed up everything else in their careers.
We'll be lucky if First Contact doesn't degenerate immediately into an interstellar war of extermination. With us as the exterminatees.
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01/02/2009 10:43:37 PM PST
by
Cheburashka
(Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
To: Sherman Logan
All I can say about this is “DUCK!”
To: blueplum
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01/02/2009 11:49:49 PM PST
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neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
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01/03/2009 12:21:41 AM PST
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neverdem
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