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Ancient Asteroid Impact Coated Earth in Blanket of Beads
livescience.com — The asteroid linked to dinosaurs' demise 65 million years ago slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula with such force it pulverized Earth's crust. The result was a veil of airborne carbon beads that blanketed the planet, a new study finds. Spanning about 124 miles (200 kilometers), the giant indentation left by the asteroid impact continues to ...
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- Wartyboskfapped, on 05/12/2008, -1/+7***** hippy asteroid.
- Jeffler, on 05/12/2008, -1/+5It wasn't an asteroid - it was Zoidberg being kicked off his planet and landing into the earth. It explains the beads too.
http://www.deadinthescene.org/coppermine/albums/fu ...- Thuktun, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Blargh!
- DougUpndown, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4pics or it didn't happen......
- troon, on 05/12/2008, -0/+5That's why the dinosaurs died - they couldn't stand up on all the beads. Extinction through multiple slapstick-style falls.
- ortucis, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2Dinosaurs died for our sins..
.. by choking on small balls.
- ortucis, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2Dinosaurs died for our sins..
- zadadka, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2All meteor strikes create these beads, only the quantitity and size is variable.
- shadowspawn, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Wow, I guess all those dinosaurs took their tops off at that instant and they all caught colds.
- Arramol, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Actually, the beads were decorations in the Reptite palace, and were scattered when Lavos impacted. No more sweet water. Get cold now.
- AnotherUsername, on 05/19/2008, -0/+0an interstellar pearl necklace
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