[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting the article.

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“The possibility of a comet causing catastrophic climate change and extinction relatively recently in Earth’s long history suggests scientists shouldn’t dismiss the possibility of it happening again, West said.”

One reason the NEAR observatories have been built all over the world.

[muawiyah]

This was one of the best science stories of the year. It explained the near extinction of the Clovis culture, the elimination of saber toothed tigers and mastadons, the clogging of the St. Lawrence valley with ice (from the break up of the residual icecap in Canada), the Younger Dryas event, and most of all, why there was gold on top of the hills in Southern Indiana (rather than down in the valleys or deep inside the hillsides like it normally is everywhere else on Earth).

Ain't every day you get one like that!

[Mike Darancette]

One reason the NEAR observatories have been built all over the world.

We'll probably get just enough warning for a quick trip to the liquor store.

I think that these events happen more often than we'd like to imagine, last one 1908.

[RobbyS]

If one shows up, I hope Morgan Freeman is president rather than THE ONE.