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To: gleeaikin

There’s no way to know about any reduction or ‘bottleneck’, that’s merest speculation. A volcano is a pimple on the planet’s derriere’ compared with a bolide. (nyah nyah) ;’)


43 posted on 10/12/2012 3:11:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv; All

A boloid can do much more harm if big enough. The Chesapeake meteor of 34 million years ago left a crater about 60 miles in diameter and resulted in a number of extinctions. However, Toba left a crater 18 miles by 65 miles, and that is a rather large carbuncle not just a pimple. The “speculation” is based on some detailed DNA analysis not just speculation, although I have also heard that it may have been something at least 125,000 years ago that caused the “bottleneck”.


46 posted on 10/12/2012 10:40:42 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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