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Posted on 08/12/2009 4:05:16 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
OK that’s fine. If a big enough one does hit, you might want to btush ip on your stone chipping skills. There won’t be much left of civilization anywhere on earth, and the unlucky survivors will be in tramatic shock, having to learn the big lesson —— food does not grow in stores. The minor one -— starting a fire with no modern gizmos is harder than it looks.
Oh and BTW, those cute, cuddly, furry animals with sharp teeth are hungry... very hungry.
So even if it isn’t ELE, then it will be damned close. For just a few bucks more all that could have been avoided, but no one had the political will... Sic Transit Vir.
That extra blanket the homeless guy got due to funds being diverted away from NASA will do mankind a solid when the big one hits the earth like a billiard ball.....
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As if they could do anything much about it if they saw a bad one coming.
Hell, that makes me wonder....
Could that explain the irrational printing of money, and crazy economic behavior around the world? Maybe our governments know something we don’t.
The size of a bullet relative to a grown man is pretty small too, but it kills.
I don't think it's quite that simple. They believe the impact that contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs was an object the size of Mount Everest. When it hit, the upper part of it was still in outer space, that's how big it was. An object that large hitting the Earth causes a chain reaction that would eventually leave us without good Sunlight for a long period of time, which would mean the death of most living things on the planet. We are talking about an explosion of over a billion Hiroshima bombs here, OVER A BILLION!! If one like that hit in the Gulf of Mexico where they believe the one I mentioned did, most of the water would 'slash out' of it, onto land in the form of a tsunami about as bad as we could imagine, and that's just from the immediate impact.
I read a few years ago that 90% of the observers were in the northern hemisphere. Presumably there is a 50% probabiliy that a major strike would hit the southern hemisphere. I hope Australia, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile get their butts in gear on this.
As for the danger. We are here because a major strike caused the end of the 150 million year dinosaur dominance. I think that about 70% of all genuses were killed off by that one. The one at the end of the Permian killed off over 90%. And this figures are only for the genuses, not for the far larger quantity of creatures.
Krakatoa was in 1883. Interesting factoid. I just read a book about Powell’s 1869 exploration of the Colorado River. The book mentioned that the record flow in the river was in 1884. Remember the 500 year floods in the midwest a year or two after Pinatubo which had a crater 3 miles in diameter.
A more severe event occurred about 74 thousand years ago when Toba Volcano in Indonesia blew up leaving a crater 18 by 65 miles. Scientist are now speculating that the human race was reduced to no more than 5 or 10 thousand individuals. I think this is based on DNA variation studies.
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