from the I-knew-I-shoulda-taken-that-left-turn-at-Albuquerque dept.
Scientists led by the University of Copenhagen's Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark have found an ancient meteor crater under the Greenland ice cap that's larger than Paris. Discovered using ground-penetrating radar data gathered by NASA, the possibly three-million-year-old impact crater is 19 mi (31 km) in diameter, about 1,000 ft (305 m) deep, and is buried under 3,200 ft (1,000 m) of glacial ice.
Until now, Greenland was thought to be devoid of impact craters. With its permanent shroud of ever-moving glaciers, the giant island was considered too erosive for any craters to survive for long before being ground away. However, the discovery of the crater under the Hiawatha Glacier shows that not only does the region have impact craters, it also has one of the 25 largest impact craters on Earth.
At last we know the source of the parasite that killed Isaiah's father.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @11:52PM (1 child)
Watched a conspiracy video this morning on how the timing of this event could coincide with all of the flood myths and be responsible for Younger Dryas event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday November 17 2018, @04:02PM
Not if it's three million years old, it won't. And at that scale, if it happened within the last 10k years, you'd see impact and tsunami debris all over places like Europe and Iceland.
They also have lots of birth myths. Does that mean that everyone was born at the same time?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @12:00AM (1 child)
WTF is geogenetics? If you cross a stone with a boulder, you get a pebble?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @12:19AM
I guess "geo" comes from the "dirt" DNA one.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @12:39AM
I had this giant burrito with refried beans, and then the fuckers from Boston came down, so had to shovel down plates of baked beans, you know how shit goes like that, right. So ... uhh ... I had to relieve myself ... you know, what goes in, it goes out, except, sometimes, it's bit ... explosive. You know what I am saying, happens to everyone, right?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday November 17 2018, @01:21AM
Asking for a random Bond villain with quick sports cars, tunneling equipment, and reusable rockets.
Also, how's the 4G coverage, for the next 5 years ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @02:09AM
A 19 mile wide, 1,000 foot deep crater only made the top 25? Think about that. There have been so many very large impacts that we know of. And this rock keeps spinning.