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- eclectro, on 01/02/2009, -2/+22They didn't have Bruce Willis.
- Collecto, on 01/02/2009, -1/+20I'm confused.... Is this an AoE expansion?
- watcht, on 01/02/2009, -1/+15Thought it said Counter Strike 13,000 years ago that'd be awesome.
- drlha, on 01/02/2009, -2/+15I would go into a long diatribe about what's wrong with your comment, but instead I just dugg you down.
- emkaysmith, on 01/02/2009, -0/+11You're not paying attention. No one said it "made the earth extinct." And the Big Bang was an event on a somewhat larger scale than a comet strike.
The problem is, a comet strike major enough to form diamonds would have left far more geological evidence than just that, especially in stratigraphy -- and there really isn't any. A strike large enough to halt the global warming cycle in its tracks *would* have left far more evidence worldwide, and not just in Arizona. It's not convincing for scientific reasons. (And god has nothing to do with it.) - Ghorloch, on 01/02/2009, -0/+10Shouldn't that read "We have less than 4 years to live. ;-)" Or, do you have some plan to outlast the rest of us?
- Thud, on 01/02/2009, -0/+9What the hell does that mean, the "sun aligned with the center of our galaxy?" That does not make sense, geometrically speaking. There would have to be a third celestial object involved in order for there to be a conjunction.
- emkaysmith, on 01/02/2009, -0/+7This is actually a pretty recent controversy -- a decade or less. You sure you're not confusing Clovis culture with dinosaurs?
- clickwir, on 01/02/2009, -0/+7RTFA, it said north america, not earth. Big difference.
- armakaryk, on 01/02/2009, -0/+6dugg for stating logic.
- nem3sis, on 01/02/2009, -0/+5to most americans north america IS earth. :D so don't blame him, he just doesnt know better...
- jhourcle, on 01/02/2009, -0/+4The comet strike is just a new theory, not new evidence. If you wanted to work in the clue part, it'd have to be something like "New Clue to Ancient Extinction: 13,000 year old Nanodiamonds"
- mrdirtnap, on 01/02/2009, -0/+4Nostradamus != 2012
seriously, he had nothing to do with this. it annoys me that people try to make it seem like this ass hat predicted anything. Oh wait Hister=Hilter... yeah cause it really helped out alot to ***** up that ONE word that might have tipped us off to try and stop WWII.
the long mayan calandar ends on that day but it only means we move into the 5th cycle. they had hundreds of calandars so why do we care about this one? why can't we say edgar cayce predicted it too? he was pretty amazing as well, he just doesn't wear the right garb to be recognized as a prophet. - oninbonin, on 01/02/2009, -0/+4Mammoths have been found in tar pits in California and other places in N. America..
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+4I keep hearing Earth has gone through numerous ice ages, massive extinctions, etc. Yet life resumes. I'm starting to think evolution is as natural as say... gravity.
- aballrap, on 01/03/2009, -0/+4antidisestablishmenterianism
- saranagati, on 01/02/2009, -0/+4Actually it takes the solar system about 250 million years to orbit the galaxy so we aren't about to repeat anything that has been done before while humans were alive. The interesting thing though is that we're currently (as in the past 10-20,000 years) passing through the more or less, equator of the galaxy which is riddled with an asteroid belt.
The whole 2012 thing comes from two places. The most popular is that the mayan calender ends in 2012 however who cares about one random historical calendar? Well there was also some important guy in india (well before we could sail around the world) that also predicted the end on December 22nd 2012 which is strange because that's only one day off from the mayans. Then there's the whole poles shifting thing which we're long overdue for and we have no idea what will happen when that does.
There's a lot more interesting stuff regarding this in books written by psuedoarchaelogist Graham Hancock such as Fingerprints of the Gods. - digg1520, on 01/02/2009, -1/+5too soon!
- Halsfield, on 01/02/2009, -1/+5how is this new when i saw this on a history channel or discovery channel show on the clovis people about 6months ago? im talking about the "new" evidence, not just the comet theory.
- clickwir, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3Maybe they are taking bets on us right now.
However, I would like to think that a more advanced race has gotten over gambling... - toebitus, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3Does this mean i`m wasting my money on life insurance?
- divinediva, on 01/02/2009, -3/+6This is a big idea
- oninbonin, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3Oh it's from all that History Channel crap. They like to spoon feed that crap to people...and people eat it up! TERROR! END OF THE WORLD! FAMINE! DISEASE! DEATH! DESRTUCTION! WORLDS ALIGNING! People have been spouting the end of the world since people started speaking.
- Ttech2, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3Actually, on your searches, it happens every 26,000 years.
- mitzuzake, on 01/02/2009, -0/+3The Clovis people were replaced by the Cletus people. Thanks, meteor.
- bigsteve, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2mitzuzake++;
- ShadowofAres, on 01/03/2009, -0/+2If you're going to mock creationists, at least get the numbers right.
- groo68, on 01/03/2009, -0/+2by the end of the year it will be 1000.
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2This was before the Europeans and colonies came, so it wouldn't have wiped out millions of people or caused our population to become extinct.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -0/+2so how does jesus fit in with all of this. 13,000 years ago? your would be vice president wont be having this, IT'S LIES, ALL LIES!!!
- GeezerD, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2You're gonna piss off Xenu really bad, you foul incubator of Thetans.
- pandikukka, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2Damn! I wouldn't want to stand in the path a shock wave that can compress carbon to diamonds
- apackofmonkeys, on 01/02/2009, -2/+4Do you always take other people's quotes and try to make them look like your own?
- jsffive, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2This ought to tell you just how good a newspaper the Washington Post is: I've already seen the History Channel version of this story TWICE in the past year!
Way to stay on top of current events Washington Post. - diggydougie, on 01/03/2009, -0/+2Nope. All diamonds are at the site of ancient volcanoes. Another documentary I saw was about this guy who found diamonds in Canada and everyone thought he was nuts. He knew there would be diamonds there because there was an ancient volcano.
- Jhiaxuz, on 01/02/2009, -1/+3We at Nerzod Productions started twenty billion years ago with one philosophy: the best universal television isn't scripted, it's real. We started with great shows like, "Who Wants To Marry A Gelgamek?" and "Antares 6 Millionaire". And then we had a big hit with "Get Me Outta Here, I'm a Klingnanian". But then of course, there's our signature show. The greatest universal reality show of all time.
- musntSurfatWork, on 01/02/2009, -0/+2yes, yes you are.
- Number23, on 01/02/2009, -3/+5I thought it was 6,000.
- askantik, on 01/03/2009, -0/+2I wasn't aware that Clovis people (the article refers to them as if they didn't live across the entire continent of North America-- that in fact they were all one group) disappeared overnight. Pleistocene megafauna disappeared, but the people didn't "disappear overnight." I'm not a professional archaeologist, but in my studies I've never seen any kind of evidence that the distribution of Clovis points (the only recognizable artifact of the so-called "Clovis people") disappeared any more abruptly than any other cultural period.
- diggydougie, on 01/03/2009, -0/+2What about Yellowstone? I've seen some documentaries about how Yellowstone is a megavolcano and how the effects of an eruption would blanked the entire country. Kind of like the article describes. Also diamonds are formed in volcanoes as well which fits the theory.
- DirtyMo, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1The yoots in da world will believe anything and then think they thought it up! Adults never heard of this before...like all those idiots that sold everything thinking the world would end as predicted in 1800 no no 1812 no no 1814....damn wont anyone believe in Earth ending predictions anymore!
- yhzfridays, on 01/03/2009, -0/+1Another problem could be this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
- Wyodiver, on 01/02/2009, -2/+3L. Ron Hubbard alert! He's talking about Battlefield Earth. No Scientology here, please. Save it for your "church."
- nem3sis, on 01/04/2009, -0/+1why? they just make them up as they go along. i could say 19090 years, and it would make as much sense as 6000,4000 or 1000.
- apackofmonkeys, on 01/02/2009, -1/+2No. Do you always mock people?
- pln2bz, on 01/02/2009, -1/+2This offers two pieces of supporting evidence for the Electric Universe Theory: that comets tend to explode when they hit the magnetosphere (this is due to plasma physics principles), and that diamonds can form terrestrially. It is a good step in the right direction, and inches us one step further away from this deductive technique that's unfortunately taken hold of astrophysics for the time being.
- Revyloution, on 01/03/2009, -0/+1I think your thinking of peridot. Thats the gem that forms in volcanoes (and incoming asteroids).
- DeceitfulNinja, on 01/02/2009, -1/+2Well after that comet almost destroyed all life as we know it, it was enough to leave behind a crap load of diamonds as restitution.
- DirtyMo, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1What happened to the theory of evil humans wiping out the once beautiful mammoths! You mean science can change its theories? Tell me it aint so! The last ice aged ended with a barrage of meteors? not coal mines and copper mines that date back to the same time frame?!?
- elhaf, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1You mean it wasn't guns, germs, and steel?
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