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- jquipp, on 07/18/2008, -0/+454 out of 10 in Canada ... thats it ... I'm outta here. Feel like I'm living in a time bomb!
- hakkola, on 07/18/2008, -0/+33"Deep Bay is a strikingly circular, very deep and unusually irregular and shallow lake."
Really? Very deep, and shallow? - JeeBs, on 07/19/2008, -0/+24I wonder how many impacts were in the ocean that we don't even know about.
- iBeej, on 07/18/2008, -0/+17Damn. Where's Bruce Willis when you need him.
- LucasVB, on 07/19/2008, -0/+13"Splosh", but a billion billion times louder.
- ceris, on 07/18/2008, -0/+12Great set of pix. What happens if they hit the water?
- shadowblade989, on 07/19/2008, -0/+12That last bit you said there "...that could wipe us out..."
Of course the Earth will be fine, but humans will not. - Enron, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10I am going to take an educated guess that you don't know much about science.
- Murdats, on 07/19/2008, -0/+10not only that, but circular and irregular.
this lake sounds like some crazy paradox, next they will say its empty full of water. - rearlgrant, on 07/19/2008, -0/+9Doesn't it say "Some" before 49,000 years ago. I appreciate what you are saying, but the article isn't for peer review, it's trying to translate scientific imprecision into a language/idiom for an audience that includes both scientists and non-scientists.
As a learning exercise for me, how would you rewrite the sentence so it works for its intended audience? - RoboRay, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8You seem to have overlooked (or simply don't understand the usage of) the word "Some" in the sentence you quoted.
HINT: That word means they are SAYING they don't know precisely when it happened. - inactive, on 07/18/2008, -0/+8I think there is a huge impact crater in North Eastern Oregon but I can not convince anyone.
- Lunarbunny, on 07/19/2008, -0/+8This article, has a lot of, misplaced commas.
- Rossimo, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/Wo ...
Map of all Earth's impact craters. - RoboRay, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5I noticed that, too. I suspect it's supposed to read something like...
"Deep Bay is strikingly circular and very deep in an unusually irregular and shallow lake." - pollyboxer, on 07/19/2008, -1/+6Very cool. Thanks.
- AmyVernon, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5i've been to the crater in airzona and i'ts astounding to see it in real life...
- rearlgrant, on 07/19/2008, -0/+4Your other comments sound like a troll, specifically your response to RoboRay. And his point is basically the same as mine.
You assume that the author is a scientist, and therefore people should consider climate change as a man-made scam created by scientists; while at the same time you say not to get you wrong b/c you "respect the scientific community....but".
Regardless, I have another load of laundry to do, so I'll feed you bait.
Replacing:
"Some 49,000 years ago..."
with
"Approximately 50,000 years ago..."
diminishes your call to "Know take what you know and apply it to today's "man-made" global warming scam.........."? - RoboRay, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3You've convinced me to change my mind and I am now in agreement with everyone else...
You're a moron. - berdusco, on 07/19/2008, -1/+4Suprised three craters were left off this selection, namely:
The Sudbury Basin: The Sudbury Basin is 62 km long, 30 km wide and 15 km deep. It was created as the result of a 10 km meteorite impact that occurred 1.85 billion years ago in the Paleoproterozoic era. Debris was scattered over an area of 1.6 million square kilometers and travelled over 800 kilometers away.[1] Its present size is believed to be a smaller portion of a 250 km round crater that the bolide originally created. Subsequent geological processes have deformed the crater into the current smaller oval shape. Sudbury Basin would then be the second largest crater on Earth, after the 300 km Vredefort crater in South Africa, and larger than the 170 km Chicxulub crater in Yucatán, Mexico.
Wanapitei: It was evident by the mid-1970s that Wanapitei Lake was an impact crater. Remarkably, it lies on the eastern edge of the much older, larger Sudbury structure. Cobbles of suevite, crumbly impact breccia cobbles containing bits of dark glass, are found surrounding the lake. Some contain coesite, a high pressure mineral diagnostic of impact structures. The suevite is very close in appearance and composition to that described from the Ries impact crater.
and finally,
Vredefort, the largest impact crater on earth.
I actually live in the Sudbury basin. - CATSCEO2, on 07/19/2008, -1/+4Get off Digg. Better yet, get off this planet, you are not welcome here.
- DrJG, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2These are a few in U.S. and Canada and nearby - missed are Lonar and Tungushka, for examples.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2Ever seen the Mythbusters episode where they fire guns into water? The meteor would stop moving downward and break up long before it hit the ocean floor.
- Czechxican, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1I drove by the one in Arizona. It's an incredibly creepy feeling. The soil is all red and you feel like you're on Mars or something.
- rearlgrant, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1I'd digg you down for being unable to read/diagram a sentence, but that'd just be a scapegoat for the state of language education in our schools.
- jamessavik, on 07/19/2008, -1/+2Tidal waves, tremendous amount of steam in the atmosphere...
The crater in Wetumpka, Alabama was under water 83 million years ago. It still left a 7.6 km diameter crater.
I can't say what would happen if the comet hits deep ocean. I think you could bet on there being serious consequences... - rearlgrant, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1It's fun?
- lestyoubejudged, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1Very cool!
- rearlgrant, on 07/19/2008, -1/+2See #1.
I have a friend that coordinates archeology digs in Mayan areas. She's shown me some of the geology related to the Chicxulub meteor, but I haven't asked her if it's had any impact on her work. - sering, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1that's nice
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http://tembol.freehostia.com/ - inactive, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1Missed one. The Chesapeake Bay was formed by an impact crater. It's the largest impact crater in the US.
Wikipedia:
The Chesapeake Bay impact crater was formed by a bolide that impacted the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" or marine impact craters, and the largest impact crater in the U.S. Continued slumping of sediments over the rubble of the crater have helped shape Chesapeake Bay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact ... - HumanRecalled, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1 it's on Eastern shore as well haha just follow done by Nova Scotia :) so i guess Canadians can at least claim half of it due to it's after effects if one ever landed smack dab in the same place today :)
- Blandyman, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1Keanu Reeves said it best in the trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still:
If the Earth dies, you die. But if you die, the Earth survives.
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http://jeniya.info - inactive, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1he blew up. :(
- veveze, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1Someone seriously wants to hurt Canada.
- Macaddict102, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Don't forget about that one on your face.
- hoodmonkey, on 07/19/2008, -0/+1Thank you for the compliment!
- boonesfarm, on 07/19/2008, -1/+1I'm surprised nobody has commented on the favicon that is used.
- JoeBaynham, on 07/19/2008, -1/+1The fifth one looks like a copyright symbol.. ***** THE RIAA!
- MrSlumberjack, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1I was there for the Chicxulub one... wasn't as cool as they say it was. Although a buncha ***** died from it.
- rheaume, on 07/19/2008, -2/+2Its a deep bay in a relatively shallow lake. Drunk much?
- inactive, on 07/19/2008, -4/+4Madonna's vagina is not in the top 10? I call shenanigans.
- mentol, on 07/18/2008, -7/+6look ... the world looks just ok after 200 million years, and we're afraid of a small asteroid that could wipe us out. how come ?
- jamessavik, on 07/19/2008, -2/+1Don't try to figure out Canadians. Just enjoy them. ;)
- mstrozewski, on 07/19/2008, -1/+0awesome to share, makes you wonder what other places might have a crater yet undiscovered!
- hoodmonkey, on 07/19/2008, -2/+1FTA: "Similar asteroid impacts have and will happen on numerous occasions in our earth’s history."
Dugg for predicting something will happen in the past. - duckyinc, on 07/19/2008, -2/+1But there were only 10..
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