Vast Asteroid Crater Found In Timor Sea 121
An anonymous reader notes the discovery of a 35-million-year-old impact crater in the Timor Sea, northwest of Australia, which helped to usher in a period of significant global cooling. "The new findings, announced today and published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, suggest that the impact could have contributed towards the formation of the Antarctic ice sheet... The minimum size of the dome, which 'represents elastic rebound doming of the Earth crust triggered by the impact' is 50 km across, but the full size of the crater could be significantly larger, [lead researcher Andrew Glikson] told Australian Geographic. 'It would be possibly 100 km.' From the probable diameter of the crater, Andrew estimates that the asteroid which struck the Timor Sea was between 5 and 10 km in size. This impact coincided with a time of heavy asteroid bombardment globally. Several other craters have been documented from a similar time, including one off the WA coast measuring 120 km in diameter. Another impact structure in Siberia was created by an asteroid 100 km in size."
Possible reason (Score:4, Funny)
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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Global Warming solution (Score:4, Funny)
So how long before dropping a rock in the ocean is offered as a technological solution to Global Warming ?
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Re:Global Warming solution (Score:5, Funny)
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Explore Baby Explore! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:total disbelief (Score:3, Funny)
There are easy (rough approximations of) conversions between three metrics -- miles to kilometers, yards to meters, and quarts to liters. A liter is just over a quart, so four liters is just over a gallon. A yard is just short of a meter, so a meter is approximately one yard (three feet). A kilometer is .6 mile, so with a rough number like "aproximately 100 km" it's easy to figure it's about sixty miles. No need to print both metrics with these easy ones.
We Americans think in imperial while the rest of the world thinks in metric, so it makes sense to give both measurements for the other units of measurement anywhere Americans and the rest of the world will be reading; rather than having thousands of people laboriously convert harder conversions, just do it once and publish that. Because the other ones aren't so easy e.g., -- inches to CM, degrees C to degrees F, soccor to football, or humor to humour.
Re:total disbelief (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps you'd prefer lengths in Smoots, or cubits? But seriously, you're free to continue using 19th Centrury units if you want, just don't expect everyone else to put effort into enabling you.
Actually .. I use 18th century units like km, m, cm and mm
Re:An asteroid 100km across? Err , I don't think s (Score:3, Funny)
Evolution is not a clock.
It's a series of screws.
Timor! (Score:3, Funny)
And the Lords of the Underworld!
Darkness fills my heart with pain!
When the girls start to sleep with girls,
Beelzebub will rise again!