It was 430,000 years ago, in the middle of the Pleistocene epoch. Elsewhere, some of the earliest Neanderthals were spreading across Europe, mammoths roamed the Northern Hemisphere, and Earth's ice sheets were growing thicker.
The space rock slammed into the planet's thick atmosphere. Friction tore it apart, and as the disintegrating meteor plummeted toward the Antarctic plateau, it left a flaming, incandescent trail in its wake. As it neared the ice, the meteor exploded in the sky, launching a superheated jet of gas and vaporized cosmic debris straight at the ground.
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Raelians urge U.N.
NEW YORK ,, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On 'ET Embassy Day'— each year slated to take place on the first Saturday of April — Raelians worldwide will, once again, intensify their awareness campaign and invite the public to join and contribute to this unique endeavor sponsored by the International Raelian Movement.
"Our goal is to have the United Nations adopt an addendum to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations entitled 'Optional Protocol concerning Embassies for Extraterrestrials," explained Daniel Turcotte — Raelian Guide and Head of the International Raelian Movement Embassy Project.
Explore the extraterrestrial and extra weird with Rainn Wilson as Terry Carnation |
After the tragic disappearance of his wife, Terry Carnation is back on the airwaves exploring the extraterrestrial and the extra weird with his late-night, call-in radio show Dark Air with Terry Carnation .
"Dark Air with Terry Carnation" is a fictional podcast starring Rainn Wilson of The Office and is an Audioboom Original Podcast available wherever you stream your podcasts. The podcast premieres on April 1.
Local film company Trememdum Pictures is set to premiere their newest thriller titled Held on April 9 at Maya Cinemas Fresno 16 and VOD.
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Four moons huddle near Saturn’s multi-hued disk in this image by the Cassini probe, October 9, 2008. Photo: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
In an article published a year after his demise in 1996, Carl Sagan made a similar argument: “There can be little doubt that civilisations more advanced than Earth’s exist elsewhere in the universe”.
In our present moment, the question “are we alone?” features prominently in our philosophical deliberations about our own presence in the universe, more so than it has in a few centuries.
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Elon vs. the FAA: Space Business, April 2021 — Space Business — Quartz
Aliens move Balanced Rock? | TAPinto
North Salem residents awoke in the wee hours of April 1 to strange noises and lights in the sky over town.
As a new day dawned, the community was stunned to discover that the town’s beloved Balanced Rock had been unseated by an overnight extraterrestrial visit.
“I knew it all along,” says John “Tinfoil Hat” Smith, Westchester resident and host of the “Little Green Men” podcast. “I’ve been saying it for years.”
Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) Seeks Applications for Open Positions |
The Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG, formerly CAPTEM) is seeking applications for open positions starting in April 2021. ExMAG is a community-based, interdisciplinary group providing a forum for discussion and analysis of matters concerning the collection, curation, and analysis of extraterrestrial samples, including planning future sample return missions. Applications for open positions are due March 31, 2021.
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Tiny particles recovered from the summit of a mountain in Antarctica are clues that a meteorite more than 100 yards… https://t.co/c93zwb9pwx CNN Wed Mar 31 20:16:01 +0000 2021
A big space rock blew up over Antarctica 430,000 years ago. https://t.co/Nu2RgAPUiO ScienceNews (from Washington, DC) Thu Apr 01 08:15:00 +0000 2021
430,000 years ago, a meteor exploded over Antarctica with the force of more than a thousand atomic bombs. Scientist… https://t.co/dxQLTpbTlL themadstone (from Philadelphia, PA) Fri Apr 02 01:39:57 +0000 2021
Particles unearthed in Antarctica were produced 'when a meteorite EXPLODED 430,000 years ago' https://t.co/0xw73FcFK6 MailOnline Thu Apr 01 15:45:11 +0000 2021
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