The Sky is Falling

[BA93]

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If you have a spare 15-20 minutes, this is a good read about space objects hitting the earth.

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[capnamerca]

So where are the reports from a massive, population-ending asteroid from the 1900's? The 1800's? 1700's? We're over-socializing this problem. There's ALWAYS been a lot of crap in space. To our knowledge, impacts large enough to significantly impact the ecosystem of our planet have happened what, three times in 300,000 years? And one of those is still up for investigation?

 

[BA93]

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[NEWDOC2002]

(sarcasm) So would this decrease the demand for oil?

 

[Statalyzer]

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[IRC]

It's Bush's fault.

 

[KC-97HORN]

Ok i will bite.

70% of the earth is covered by water.

So lets say 70% of these destructive asteroids have hit/exploded/ whatever/ over water.

That still leaves statistically 9 chances the 1 in 100 year population destructor over the last 3000 years hitting, and or destroying a large portion of the ground somewhere.

We have no major records of "big" impacts anywhere on earth in the last 10,000 years - in fact i think Meteor Crater in AZ at 50,000 years "old" is the youngest confirmed hit on the planet. And even including the Tunguska blast as another one, still only gives us 2 out of the last 50k years.

HistoricallyThe only cities that could have been wiped out are Soddom and atlantis - and it looks more and more like atlantis was built on a supervolcano in the mediterranean- and Soddom was probably built on the earthquake zone in the dead sea