Re: Join the NASA design challenge: win 15,000 dollars

On 24/09/2024 5:54 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
 [...]

divert an
asteroid before it makes us extinct, it will have paid off, big-time.
>
The dinosaurs didn't bother

 At school we heard what happened to the Bronco-sore-arse*, they were all
wiped out by asteroids.

Not by asteroids. One asteroid did for the lot of them.
"In the late 1970s, geologist Walter Alvarez and his father, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Luis Walter Alvarez, put forth their theory that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction was caused by an impact event."
I'd got through graduate school long before their ideas had had much of an impact.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney