Did an Exploding Comet Doom Early Americans? 89
New Scientist outlines a new theory on the demise of the Clovis people in the southwest US over 10,000 years ago. A group of 25 researchers speculates that a comet exploded over ice-covered Canada 12,900 years ago and triggered a firestorm across North America that not only wiped out the Clovis people but also forced a number of large land mammals into extinciton and kicked off the Younger Dryas climate change. However, geologists are pretty conservative folks, according to the article, and some of them are not buying it.
LOL What? (Score:0, Funny)
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Confusing Sentence Structure (Score:3, Funny)
According to results presented by a team of 25 researchers this week, the American Geophysical Union meeting in Acapulco Mexico: that's where the Clovis people's doom came from.
I hate it when my doom comes from American Geophysical Union meetings in Acapulco, Mexico.
Re:Younger Dryas (Score:4, Funny)
When FreeRepublic and Fark went online.
Re:Geologists are indeed conservative. (Score:3, Funny)
Yes indeed! My math teacher told me that PI is an irrational number; as soon as I am done computing it out to infinity I will know this fact for myself, but until then I am still pretty skeptical.
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Re:So if humans want to survive we should (Score:4, Funny)
Teh community will be saved!!!
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The Dumas period was: (Score:3, Funny)
Don't know about the Smartas period though.
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