Articles like this make me feel like we’ve been transported back to the year 1370 with all the ignorance and superstition that implies, where people are bracing for another punishment by God in the form of the plague, every poorly understood or novel phenomenon is attributed to a diety, and everyone knows the heavens revolve around the earth because the Vatican said so.
I spent weeks arguing with a FReeper who claimed its a known scientific fact that the sun is fueled by a continuous supply of gas and dust falling into it.
Many humans never left the 1370. Ya got religious nutbars all over the planet, all believing their own personal God is the only God...Of course if the Muslim was born in Louisiana or Colorado instead of Tehran, the Muslim would likely be a Christian or Catholic or whatever. Depending on where they were born, seems to dictate which God these people worship.
In any event, this planet has taken many substantial cataclysmic impacts in the past and it's only a matter of time until another major impact or planet changing/killing event occurs.
Yes, and everybody knows there’s Global Warming, because Al Gore said so. /s