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Catastrophism Ping.
I know I'm being picky, but there's an implication that the impact threw debris out of our solar system, out of our galaxy, and out across the universe. That's ... ah ... impressive. Snort.
All this supposed whirling around is making me nauseous.
Another opinion:
Munir Humayun, an associate professor in FSU’s Department of Geological Sciences and a researcher at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, co-authored a paper, “Partitioning of Palladium at High Pressures and Temperatures During Core Formation,” that was recently published in the peer-reviewed science journal Nature Geoscience.
The paper provides a direct challenge to the popular “late veneer hypothesis,” a theory which suggests that all of our water, as well as several so-called “iron-loving” elements, were added to the Earth late in its formation by impacts with icy comets, meteorites and other passing objects.
This is ‘science’
I’ve always suspected there are occasional mass bombardments like this, and it will be a bad day when it happens again.
Like it or not, we are all in God's hands.
2012, man....
This needs to be passed on to Nancy Pelosi immediately so that legislation requiring human measures to stabilize the sun’s movement through the galaxy can be passed. The bulk of the human measures can be implemented by the wealthy countries because the poorer countries can’t afford to do it and the wealthy countries got their wealth by exploiting the poorer countries. We need to act now. The world can’t wait!
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Asteroids:
Deadly Impact
National Geographic
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Comet/Asteroid Impacts
and Human Society
ed by Peter T. Bobrowsky
and Hans Rickman
intro (PDF)
due to links here
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Thanks Blam. To all -- this topic is getting a little ugly, but I have posted a droll joke, so... |
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Who knew Bill even *had* a cell phone? :’)
I’m disappointed. 32 posts and Laz has not declared we are all going to die.
I knew it. I juuuuust knew it... sigh
Scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology built a computer model of our solar system's movement and found that it "bounces" up and down through the plane of the galaxy. As we pass through the densest part of the plane, gravitational forces from the surrounding giant gas and dust clouds dislodge comets from their paths. The comets plunge into the solar system, some of them colliding with the earth. The Cardiff team found that we pass through the galactic plane every 35 to 40 million years, increasing the chances of a comet collision tenfold.[note: this is the same idea advocated by the late Gene Shoemaker; also, this stands as an alternative to the Nemesis model for periodicity in the impact record]
Well, I dunno about all that. It just may be that the sun drags us through hostile areas of the galaxy where abideth many objects with which to play bumper planets.
"...and shows a mechanism by which life can be dispersed on a galactic scale."
HOR$E$HIT! But I guess they couldn't pass up the opportunity to suggest a hypothetical that scores points within the scientific community™.
