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| Vineyard Haven, MA ~ September 6, 2016 |
During last year's U.S. presidential election campaign, I spotted a bumper sticker about a giant meteor on the rear bumper of a pickup truck. It carried an apocalyptic message: "Just end it already."
This nihilistic sarcasm about an "extinction level event" being a better option than Trump or Clinton was also on Twitter where it boasted its candidate was the only one
"with a plan that's guaranteed to defeat ISIS."
Giant Meteor 2016 from
jonah oskow on
Vimeo.
For those interested in the real thing, the ongoing research into the 110-mile-wide Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico, formed 66 million years ago, is a good place to start. See The New York Times:
Drilling into the Chicxulub Crater, Ground Zero of the Dinosaur Extinction.
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| Detlev van Ravenswaay ~ Science Source |
I'm not ready to
"Make America a Crater Again," but do appreciate the doomsday humor, including this cartoon from this week's issue of The New Yorker.
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| Will McPhail ~ The New Yorker |
