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posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 16 2015, @07:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the looking-in-big-holes dept.

Scientists are preparing to drill 5,000 ft. down in the center of the Chicxulub Crater to recover 15 million years of information:

The $10 million mission in collaboration with the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, will offer the researchers an unprecedented view, made possible courtesy of new technology. "The Chicxulub impact crater has been a remarkable scientific opportunity for the 20 years since it's been discovered" researcher with the project and the University of Texas, Austin, Sean Gulick says. And this new opportunity to unearth the core, may provide far more answers than researchers could have ever imagined. "We think that the peak ring is the record of the material that rebounded and splashed outward [after the impact]."
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The researchers believe that their models have created an accurate view of the conditions surrounding the impact and the crater, however, soon they will have rock-hard evidence to back their claims. They believe that aside from providing a view into the death of millions of species that more recent layers of rock could reveal just how long it took for life to return to the area—an important, yet missing, layer to our past.

Project leaders have not commented on whether their headquarters will in fact be Señor Frog's.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @08:36AM (#171475)

    ¿Tienes Unicode?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 16 2015, @02:54PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday April 16 2015, @02:54PM (#171610) Journal

    Answer: too lazy to look up the unicode. But no real harm done. If you got the reference, you know how it's spelled. Also, perhaps Spanish speakers could follow German speakers' lead and provide alternate spellings when German special characters are not available, such as "ss" for esset, or "ae" for a-umlaut, etc. Francophones, however, will probably not out of linguistic pride. ;-)

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