Study: One asteroid wiped out dinosaurs

[Big Booger]

single, gigantic asteroid slammed into Earth 65 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species, scientists said on Thursday in a new study rebutting theories that multiple impacts did the deed.

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An examination of rock sediments drilled from five sites at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean strongly supports the notion...
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I think this has been the most widely accepted theory. Finding that iridium ring helped seal the deal. I just hope we humans don't have to face the same problem in the future.

[Fenalaar]

The worst of it is that Bruce Willis won't be able to blow up possibly dangerous asteroids for so much longer, either...

Johan-Kr

[Big Booger]

The worst of it is that Bruce Willis won't be able to blow up possibly dangerous asteroids for so much longer, either...

Johan-Kr

Imagine if the world united on this cause though and we took money from our military budgets and spent on finding a solution to a moving, destroying or otherwise preventing a collision with an asteroid.

[Mousesk]

Imagine if the world united on this cause though and we took money from our military budgets and spent on finding a solution to a moving, destroying or otherwise preventing a collision with an asteroid.


That's a nice thought, but I don't think it would happen until the danger of an asteriod is imminent. It's like how no one ever thinks bad things can happen to them until it does.

[Big Booger]

That's a nice thought, but I don't think it would happen until the danger of an asteriod is imminent. It's like how no one ever thinks bad things can happen to them until it does.

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