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Researchers find 3,600-year-old evidence that ancient city of Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by 'cosmic airburst,' which may have inspired Bible story of destruction of Sodom
2021-09-21
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Heh, Mercutio!

Others suggested the space-object may instead have been a comet, made up of ice rather than rock, meaning it would have evaporated as it entered Earth's atmosphere.

If by 'evaporated', you mean "vaporized explosively in a faction of a second due to its extreme velocity as it enters the atmosphere, then yes, it evaporated.



Posted by: SteveS   2021-09-21 11:14  

#2  Maybe target acquisition settings were saved from back when it used to be a testing range for Angels. So some overzealous, Custer type jumped the gun on some coneheads in the chalcolithic, so what?
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-09-21 11:05  

#1  old news.
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-09-21 08:46  

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