xkcd #3265: Asteroid Threat

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Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.

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Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.

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[–] 45 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about dinosaurs or asteroids to dispute it.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I saw a superman movie once and read the x-men comics. This is how it works.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago*

    When reached for comment, preteen boys agreed it was "kick ass", after looking around to see if any adults were in earshot.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Will this kill all the birds?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Based purely on the thumbnail and title, I thought this was going to be a joke about a tiny clone of Earth being the asteroid and wondered how the heck that would work as set-up and punchline.

    And even though that's not actually what's going on in the image, I still kind of want someone to make the wrong interpretation work.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Does that mean we get to drive kickass Cadillacs?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Speaking of the antipode of Chicxulub, the Deccan Traps formed at about the same time.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    That would be wild…an asteroid returning fossils (surely fossils were blasted into space, not that I’m suggesting anything balsted into space can fossilize.)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Then for 40 days and 40 nights, chickens danced.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Retvrn to pangea

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