Sentences with phrase «asteroid hits»

I mean a newspaper is all well and good, but if future innovations in space travel are prevented because of your idiotic patent system, it doesn't matter how many dollars that they're clutching at when the asteroid hits.

You and a small group of people are seeking shelter in a church after an asteroid hits the Earth.

Every so often we have emergency drills — because of asteroid hits, for example — and the fog comes pouring into the classroom.

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An asteroid hits the earth in the Mexican province of Yucatan in 2007.

Could these double whammies be harder to spot or deflect than single asteroid hits?

Earth is big, so if an asteroid hits, you probably wouldn't be under it.

If an asteroid hits a major city, only 3 per cent of the casualties will be from the crater it forms — most will be from overheated air and high winds

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000 years old, I still live in the tension of unanswered questions about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.

«But what it actually did is it allowed films to do even bigger visual effects and we had to enhance what they did — whether it's an asteroid hitting the ground or blowing 10 cars up in the air.

Getting economists to describe it is a bit like asking an astrophysicist to give you a detailed picture of what would happen if a giant asteroid hit the earth — no one really knows because, thank goodness, it has never happened before.

We know of only one lineage of primates, a little form called purgatorius that lived before this potential asteroid hit.

We know of only one lineage of primates, a little animal called Purgatorius, that lived before this hypothetical asteroid hit.

I have heard the theory of a giant asteroid hitting.

When did all those gigantic asteroids hit the earth (or the moon)?

Then the Padres approached the international free agent market like they were the first ones to the grocery store after the asteroid hit, tossing every toolsy international player into the shopping cart, costs be damned.

On the other hand, if an asteroid hit ever does appear to be in the cards, we will probably need many years to deflect it off course.

A recent drilling expedition to Mexico's dino - killing Chicxulub crater — the only mass extinction conclusively linked to an impact — found the asteroid hit sedimentary rock rich in sulfurs.

Hu likens it to an asteroid hitting a piece of paper: The paper is so light that, rather than getting crushed, it is just pushed aside.

When the asteroid hit, it's estimated that it delivered over a billion times the energy of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and displaced roughly 48,000 cubic miles of sediment.

Following the asteroid hit, most of the plants and animals would have died, so the survivors probably fed on insects eating dead plants and animals.

The scientists analysed the published fossil record from western North America from two million years before the Cretaceous - Paleogene boundary, until 300,000 years after the asteroid hit.

«Things weren't going that great for the ecosystems in general when the asteroid hit,» says Norell.

«Now everybody agrees that an asteroid hit, but its role in the extinctions is being questioned,» he says.

Small asteroids hit our planet's atmosphere with surprising frequency.

We did it because the contingency — the unlikely event of the asteroid hit — got rid of the competition.

That part, where the forams disappear, now seems to represent the time just after an asteroid hit the earth.

New images indicate that most of the cavities are secondary impacts from rocks kicked up when large asteroids hit.

The reason is that the advent of humans easily could have been accelerated or delayed hundreds of millions of years by something as banal as an asteroid hit.

«What's neat about what we found is that when the asteroid hit, it completely flipped how the oceans worked.

If the dinosaurs died after an asteroid hit the Earth, where is this crater?

The fossil record makes clear that birds were the only dinosaurs to survive a mass extinction about 66 million years ago, probably caused by a massive asteroid hitting Earth.

Seconds later, after one asteroid hit too many, your spaceship explodes.

They ran computer simulations of binary asteroids hitting Earth and found that they often form a single crater.

The researchers suggest in the new study that if the asteroid had struck a few million years earlier, when the range of dinosaur species was more diverse with healthier food chains, or later, when new species had had time to evolve, they may have survived the asteroid hit.

Yes, comets and asteroids hit Mars.

«Although our research suggests that dinosaur communities were particularly vulnerable at the time the asteroid hit, there is nothing to suggest that dinosaurs were doomed to extinction,» Richard Butler of the University of Birmingham, said in the statement.

Life had been around for only about 500 million years when these asteroids hit.

All of this could have destabilized ecosystems long before and after the asteroid hit.

Around 3.3 billion years ago, several large asteroids hit Earth.

That means the fish were alive and swimming when the asteroid hit.

Had the asteroid hit the other 87 percent of Earth, Kaiho said, «I think dinosaurs could be alive today.»

The asteroid hit Earth near the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

We have run several exercises where we simulated an asteroid hitting Earth.

Around 66 million years ago the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth with such force that it wiped out around 75 percent of all plant and animal species, including the entire species of dinosaurs that were alive at the time.

Dr. Jack Kruse: A hole when an asteroid hit 65 million years ago.

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