cue Mass Effect ending...
I am soooooo not paying off my Visa now.
A ping.
The science teacher just told her class that the sun will burn out in five billion years and that will be the end of Earth and all the planets. A kid in the back is jumping up and down with his hand raised so the teacher calls on him. He says “how many years?” Teacher: I said five BILLION. The kid wipes his forehead and says, “on, thank God, I thought you said five million!!”
Not to worry. 16 million years from now, the benefits of Obama Care, as opposed to the costs, will have kicked in and we all will be saved.
whew.. what a relief.
I guess I can remodel the bunker with confidence and get some good use out of it after 2012 ,, maybe. :-)
[1999 -- The letter of rejection from Nature for the following article is dated August 28, 1968. At the time most earth scientists would not even accept the fact that meteorites regularly impacted the earth. For example, Barringer Crater in Arizona was still thought by many to be of volcanic origin, as well as the craters on the moon. Bob Dietz had just published his work on shatter cones but I wouldn't say that had been generally accepted. There was not even general agreement on sea floor spreading and plate tectonics outside the radical few at Scripps, Woods Hole, and related institutions.]Possible Formation of the Guatemala BasinThe earth must be as frequently cratered per unit area as the moon. By a relative cross section argument, more than 13 times the number of craters the size of the maria on the moon exist, or existed, on the earth. Whether such events occur with sufficient frequency in recent geologic time to provide tangible evidence today of such cratering is uncertain. From the arguments set forth, and the continuing discovery of meteorite craters on the continents (Short, 1966, Baldwin, 1963, Dietz, 1961, and Prouty, 1952) it seems likely that the importance of the effect of extraterrestrial bodies impacting the earth has been, at least, underestimated (the Alverez's hypothesis concerning the end of the dinosaurs by such a mechanism was more than a decade in the future). Certainly there is as much evidence at present to support our hypothesis for the formation of the Guatemala Basin as other hypotheses advanced to explain the low heat flow found in this basin.
by the Impact of an Extraterrestrial Body
by Charles E. Corry and Miller L. Bell
With the tests for shock processes advanced by Short (1966), our hypothesis should be capable of field verification or rejection.
Let’s just take the Dinos for instance. They Originated, roughly, about 235 million years ago and went, mostly, extinct about 65 million years ago, that is about 170 million years. So what happens to the “every 27 million year extinction” theory then? They only went extinct once in that 170 million year period.
So, that means that we will be destroyed about the time they get that hole in the Gulf plugged.
My thanks to whomever it was sent me this link, originally. It was actually a saved XML file, and didn’t do what it was supposed to, AND I do apologize to whomever sent it, I should have saved that information in the same folder.
Muller, one of the good guys, in case anyone wondered.
http://muller.lbl.gov/
Muller’s Nemesis page:
http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/lbl-nem.htm
(Sigh!) It figures. That’ll be just as the Mariners are getting ready to win their first World Series.
I remember years ago when the term "millions" seemed like a lot........
Am I the only one that reads stories like this and wonders how theories such as this get stated as if they are absolute fact?
Any links to the science behind these claims of events happening millions of years ago - would love to read how they postulate and prove this?
could happen anytime from tomorrow or anytime in the next 2000 years... it is anyones guess.
Bump to read tomorrow... if there is one.
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