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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

xkcd #3265: Asteroid Threat

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xkcd #3265: Asteroid Threat

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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago
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xkcd #3265: Asteroid Threat

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Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3265/

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    29 days ago

    When reached for comment, preteen boys agreed it was “kick ass”, after looking around to see if any adults were in earshot.

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    Does that mean we get to drive kickass Cadillacs?

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Speaking of the antipode of Chicxulub, the Deccan Traps formed at about the same time.

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    Then for 40 days and 40 nights, chickens danced.

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    That would be wild…an asteroid returning fossils (surely fossils were blasted into space, not that I’m suggesting anything balsted into space can fossilize.)

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