Are Asteroids History's Greatest Killers?

National Geographic News ^ | 11/20/03 | John Roach

[buffyt]

The Clintons are History's Greatest Killers, just ask Vince.....

[Poohbah]

Absolutely. Howard Hunt plotted this whole thing so that there'd be oil for him to pump out of Texas 65 million years later.

[buffyt]

Clinton Body Count CLICK HERE
I nominate the Clintons as the world's greatest killers! And rapist, etc.

[LibWhacker]

Makes a lot of sense to me. Thirty years ago they didn't think it happened with run-of-the-mill extinction meteorites and pointed to the moon as proof.

[dirtboy]

Absolutely. Howard Hunt plotted this whole thing so that there'd be oil for him to pump out of Texas 65 million years later.

And what do the oilfields in West Texas produce from? The Permian Basin. Skull and Bones must have triggered the Permian extinction so there would be lots of dead dimetrodons to make vast pools of oil and make the Bush family rich.

Yep, it's all coming together now, in one tidy package. We should ping that ChistopherABrown nutbar from yesterday and give him something else to obsess on.

[Consort]

Craters or calderas?

[Poohbah]

What do you get when you cross ChristopherABrown and f.Christian?

Answer: I don't think we want to find out!

[NicknamedBob]

"Ever shoot a watermelon with a high-power rifle?"

I would never think of disturbing a watermelon that is capable of self-defense.

When guns are outlawed, watermelons will have no defense against people with knives.

Asteroids are only there to "punctuate" the equilibrium.

[Mr.Atos]

One recommendation... "Lucifer's Hammer."

Speaking of the effects of "Hydrostatic Shock" (or Seismic Shock in this case) One of the moons in the solar system shows the effects of an impact so large that it cratered one side of the planetoid and warped the opposing side where the shock waves interested at the mirror end of the sphere.

There is some evidence to suggest that our own moon was created in this fashion.

Massive Collision Created The Moon.

The Pacific ocean was left as the remnant of the loss of mass, Pangea (single land mass) the bulge at the opposite side of impact, Water left over from the comet that hit, and the Thermal heat of the core and subsequent volcanism a product of the transferred energy of an impact that ultimately transformed an old, cold piece of rock into a Paradise.

One might rather call that the 'Fist of God.'

I have been out of Archaeology and Geomorphology for sometime otherwise this might have been the subject of a dissertation. I would be curious to hear if anyone can expand on this theory.

[NicknamedBob]

"...I have been out of Archaeology and Geomorphology for sometime..."

This stuff is all old news anyway.

[dirtboy]

What do you get when you cross ChristopherABrown and f.Christian? Answer: I don't think we want to find out!

Then...

Being an American

IS

likely going to be more than YOU and the evolutionsists

can handle!

[hispanarepublicana]

asteroids don't kill people...people kill people

[Mr.Atos]

Saturn's, Mimas

The surface of Mimas is dominated by an impact crater 130 km across, known as Herschel; it's almost 1/3 of the diameter of the entire moon. Herschel's walls are approximately 5 km high, parts of its floor measure 10 km deep, and its central peak rises 6 km above the crater floor. The impact that made this crater must have nearly disrupted Mimas. Fractures can be seen on the opposite side of Mimas that may be due to the same impact.

The surface is saturated with impact craters. But no others are nearly as large as Herschel. This suggests that early in its history, Mimas was probably impacted by even larger bodies than the one that created Herschel which completely disrupted the new moon (wiping out the evidence of earlier large impacts) but that the impact debris then coalesced again to form present-day Mimas.

[Poohbah]

That's no moon. That's a space station.

[jpl]

And of course, Bush and his band of Cretacious neocons manufactured the bogus intelligence of the Great Magellanic Cloud's Asteroid of Mass Destruction. Everyone knows that Andromeda was acting alone.

[John H K]

The Pacific ocean was left as the remnant of the loss of mass, Pangea (single land mass) the bulge at the opposite side of impact

The moon is much older than the Pacific.

And there have been MULTIPLE "single land masses" on earth. There was Rodinia, which was a single land mass that split up scattering continents everywhere, then those continents came together to form Pangea. There may have been ones before Rodinia but Rodinia is the earliest one we can reconstruct well.

[Mr.Atos]

LOL! And as David Allen White reminds us, nowadays old information is more accurate and 'true' than contemporary belief.

Yeah, well I changed professions when scientific evidence was as yet unblemished with liberal 'belief' and subjective relativism. You know, like when 'Global Warming' was acknowledged as the interim between the last 'Ice Age' glaciation and the next.

I guess according to modern liberalism the 'pristine' condition of this desolate planet was destroyed by a right-wing 'heavenly' body...ie. God's SUV. The original conspiracy. God did it for his own self-interest... selfish religious zealot that he is.

[LibWhacker]

That's a great moon. When looking at Herschel headon, Mimas looks kind of like a giant eyeball to me.

[Mr.Atos]

ROTFLOL!!!!

[Mr.Atos]

Apologies for the over-simplification... and, I appreciate the correction. I am aware of the on-going movement of land-masses (Prior to Pangaea). The theory that I have heard suggests the crust on the pudding has been moving around ever since that impact. It was a thin theory then, and likely still is (No pun intended). But, the more we learn about 'planet-killers' the more believable it becomes.