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Brooke

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   posted 06-13-2006 01:22 AM                       
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Originally posted by Ishtar:
Huge meteor strike that 'gave birth to the dinosaur'
By Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter



SIXTY-FIVE million years ago a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs. Now new evidence suggests an even bigger chunk of rock hurtled from space into the Earth to give birth to them.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2208566,00.html


Hey Huggy may be right, god is throwing rocks at us.
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Great article, Ishtar!
I think this find needs wayyy more discussion than what we're giving it here. I think we should dig up more on this as it is proof of how a global cataclysm tends to drastically reshape all the lifeforms on this world.

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Rate Member   posted 06-13-2006 11:37 PM                       
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Such ignorance is amazing.

No meteor has EVER struck this planet.

Such ignorance is amazing.

 

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Nicole Jimmelson

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   posted 06-14-2006 02:43 AM                       
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Gee, maybe they meant, "asteroid"?

In any event, meteor strikes have happened:


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If a meteoroid survives its transit of the atmosphere to come to rest on the surface, the resulting object is called a meteorite. A meteor striking the Earth or other object may produce an impact crater.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor

Sounds like a hit to me.
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Ishtar was here 777

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  posted 06-14-2006 11:23 AM                       
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New Study Shows Much Of The World Emerged From Last Ice Age Together

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060611101855.htm
The end of the recurring, 100,000-year glacial cycles is one of the most prominent and readily identifiable features in records of the Earth's recent climate history. Yet one of the most puzzling questions in climate science has been why different parts of the world, most notably Greenland, appear to have warmed at different times and at different rates after the end of the last Ice Age.
However, a new study appearing in the upcoming issue of the journal Science suggests that, except for regions of the North Atlantic, most of the Earth did, in fact, begin warming at the same time roughly 17,500 years ago. In addition, scientists suggest that ice core records from Greenland, which show that average temperatures there did not warm appreciably until about 15,000 years ago, may have remained in a hyper-cold state largely as a result of events triggered by warming elsewhere

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  posted 06-14-2006 11:38 AM                       
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http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2006/06/rnai-fundamentals.php

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Rate Member   posted 06-14-2006 06:10 PM                       
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Meteors burn out in the atmosphere.

Only meteorites survive to hit Earth.

Your source is amazingly IGNORANT.

Sigh.

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Nicole Jimmelson

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   posted 06-15-2006 01:21 AM                       
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How is my source, "amazingly ignorant," when it says:


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If a meteoroid survives its transit of the atmosphere to come to rest on the surface, the resulting object is called a meteorite. A meteor striking the Earth or other object may produce an impact crater.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor

Seems like you're getting a little too hung up on terms, while, oddly enough, missing the whole point of the article, which is that an object from space struck the earth, making conditions right for the emergence of the dinosaurs..
(Sigh)

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A meteoroid is matter revolving around the sun or any object in interplanetary space that is too small to be called an asteroid or a comet. A meteor is a bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. A meteor crater is the site left by the impact of a meteoroid, an asteroid or a comet.

The largest crater discovered on earth to date is the 500 km geological feature located in Wilkes Land, Antartica. Based on the size of the ring structure, it suggests an impactor roughly six times larger than the one that created the Chicxulub Crater. The Sudbury Crater, at almost 200 km across, is roughly the size of the much younger Chicxulub Basin, believed to have been caused by an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, along with many other life forms at the K-T boundary. The Sudbury Crater was formed by a comet.

Briwnys

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A meteor striking the Earth or other object may produce an impact crater.
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A meteor cannot produce a crater since by definition it burns up in the atmosphere.

 

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Chicxulub Crater


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0002/chicxulub_sharpton_big.gif

Enjoy.

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  posted 06-16-2006 12:14 PM                       
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060616092642.htm

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Where The Brain Organizes Actions

ScienceDaily (June 16, 2006) — Researchers have discovered that Broca's area in the brain -- best known as the region that evolved to manage speech production -- is a major "executive" center in the brain for organizing hierarchies of behaviors. Such planning ability, from cooking a meal to organizing a space mission, is considered one of the hallmarks of human intelligence.


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The researchers found that Broca's area -- which lies on the left side of the brain about in the temple region -- and its counterpart on the right side activate when people are asked to organize plans of action. They said their finding of the general executive function of Broca's area could explain its key role in language production.

Importantly, the researchers found that this executive function of these cortical regions was distinct from the organization of temporal sequences of actions.

The researchers, Etienne Koechlin and Thomas Jubault of Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Ecole Normale Supérieure, described their experiments in the June 15, 2006, issue of Neuron.

In their experiments, the researchers asked volunteers to execute a sequence of button presses when they saw colored squares or letters on a screen. Koechlin and Jubault designed their experiment so that they could precisely distinguish hierarchical planning of tasks from the temporal organization of tasks. The subjects were asked to perform both simple sequences of button presses in response to a stimulus, "simple action chunks," and "superordinate action chunks." Simple action chucks were single motor acts that required sequential action. Superordinate action chunks included "a sequence of categorization tasks, like sorting a deck of playing cards first by color, then by suit, then by rank."

While they performed the tasks, the subjects were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging. This scanning technique involves using harmless magnetic fields and radio waves to measure blood flow in brain regions, which reflects brain activity.

Koechlin and Jubault found that Broca's area and its right-brain counterpart were clearly responsible for hierarchical processing.

"Our results provide evidence that Broca's area and its right homolog implement a specialized executive system controlling the selection and nesting of action segments comprising the hierarchical structure of behavioral plans, regardless of their temporal structure," wrote the researchers. "This finding suggests a basic segregation between prefrontal executive systems involved in the hierarchical and temporal organization of goal-directed behaviors, highlighting the specific contribution of Broca's area and its right homolog to executive control.

"Interestingly, Broca's area is mostly known to be critically involved in human language, especially in processing hierarchical structures of human language and in organizing linguistic segments that compose speech," they wrote. They concluded that "our results support the view that Broca's area implements an executive function specialized for processing hierarchical structures in multiple domains of human cognition. We speculate that the modular executive system of hierarchical control we describe possibly captures key functional components that may explain the critical contribution of Broca's area to human language."

The researchers include Etienne Koechlin and Thomas Jubault of INSERM at Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France.

The work was supported by the French Ministry of Research (ACI no. 22-2002-350) and the European Young Investigator Award to E.K.


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A meteor cannot produce a crater since by definition it burns up in the atmosphere.

 


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yeah thats really smart Cat

a void of nothing to show
sevens

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On Tuesday Hawking said the human race should reach for the stars to survive as the Earth is at risk of being wiped out by a disaster.
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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/15/060615121526.oz37mqn8.html

I think I will put this here since I think mankind has already done this numerous times,

Hawking says humans close to finding answers to origin of universe
Jun 15 8:15 AM US/Eastern


Acclaimed British physicist Stephen Hawking has said that humanity is finally getting close to understanding the origin of the universe.

Speaking at a lecture in Hong Kong, Hawking said that despite some theoretical advances in the past years, there are still mysteries as to how the universe began.



"Despite having had some great successes, not everything is solved. We do not yet have good theoretical understanding of the observation of the expansion of the universe," he told an audience of 2,500 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Thursday.

"Without such understanding, we cannot be sure of the future of the universe.

"New observational results and theoretical advances are coming in rapidly; cosmology is a very exciting subject. We are getting close to answering these old questions: why are we here, where did we come from?"

The 64-year-old also said his unfulfilled ambitions, among many, were to find out what happens inside black holes, how the universe began and how the human race can survive in the next 100 years.

Above all, he joked, he wants to understand women.

On Tuesday Hawking said the human race should reach for the stars to survive as the Earth is at risk of being wiped out by a disaster.

He believes humans should settle in space, predicting a lunar settlement within 20 years and a Martian colony in 40.

Hawking, a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, speaks with a voice synthesiser and has been in a wheelchair since developing motor neurone disease.

During his Hong Kong visit he also revealed he is writing a children's book with his daughter about theoretical physics.

Hawking is the author of international best seller "A Brief History of Time", which attempted to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and superstring theory.

He is on a six-day visit to Hong Kong and will meet Chief Executive Donald Tsang Friday before heading to Beijing Saturday where he will give a lecture on string theory.

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