Greenland ice sheet hides huge 'impact crater'

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  1. cerberus

    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    :shock: Wowser, I can't get my head around that; whatever could have caused it? An asteroid, maybe? [​IMG] Anyone got any other explanation, or is it just more fake news? Or no news, according to which way you want to look at it?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46181450
     
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    The article is quite clear on what scientists think may have caused it:

     
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    The YouTube glossed over what happened to the ice that was there. How much of it boiled off? Did this have an impact on the weather? What about the dust that would have been ejected? Did that cause weather changes? The BBC article says it might have caused a blimp in the weather.
     
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    What they think caused it? Do they believe it might have been caused by something else then? :roflol:
     
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    My reading is that the "probably" relates to the timescales, not the method.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your quote distinctly states causal, and is not time-related. Why the hell do you keep defending them ffs? Is it some weird kind of denial?
     
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    Nope, I think you're read it wrongly

    ...can be read to say that there is doubt about the cause, the timing, or both.

    For example if I know that my postman is called Tony (in fact he is), if I were to say:

    I could be querying the time.
     
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    Best bit of squirming I've seen for ages. :mrgreen:
     
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    I took 2 minutes out of my day to find the original paper:

    http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173

    It's clear from the paper that:
    • The cause is in no doubt
    • The timing is in doubt
     
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    But shock horror, it turns out I was right when I found the original paper (see post #11)
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Hey, you're bound to be right now and again aincha? Law of averages init??
     
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    Yep, there is always, always room for doubt in a case like this. I think one of the big questions is what, exactly, impacted the site. Estimating its material and size when you don't even have access to the crater for direct study makes it very tough to be certain. I saw they were sampling deposits carried out from under the ice by a stream.
     
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    I whacked it into
    https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/index.html

    The effects are not global catastrophe, although it would be a bad day lol. Effects are considered to be less than the year without summer volcano.

    It's not really very big.

    Seafloor is also littered with impact craters which we can't confirm due to erosion. Craters don't last long under the sea.
     
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    Greenland's central depression reminds me of descriptions of

    Atlantis


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