Society & Culture - 5 September 2007

Could be spelled cerian?

2007-09-05 14:57:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-09-05 14:56:32 · 65 answers · asked by Kidd! 6 in Religion & Spirituality

...this is from a Catholic. "ekporeuomenon" is a word I'm sure you're familiar with. Do you recognize a difference between its meaning and in infamous "procedentum" of the western Creed, or do you see them as being synonymous?

2007-09-05 14:56:03 · 9 answers · asked by delsydebothom 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Distant space collision meant doom for dinosaurs By Will Dunham
Wed Sep 5, 3:36 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A collision 160 million years ago of two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter sent many big rock chunks hurtling toward Earth, including the one that zapped the dinosaurs, scientists said on Wednesday.

Their research offered an explanation for the cause of one of the most momentous events in the history of life on Earth -- a six-mile-wide (10-km-wide) meteorite striking Mexico's Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago.

That catastrophe eliminated the dinosaurs, which had flourished for about 165 million years, and many other life forms, and paved the way for mammals to dominate the Earth and the eventual rise of humankind, many scientists believe.

The impact is thought to have triggered a worldwide environmental cataclysm, expelling vast quantities of rock and dust into the sky, unleashing giant tsunamis, sparking global wildfires and leaving Earth shrouded in darkness for years.

U.S. and Czech researchers used computer simulations to calculate that there was a 90 percent probability that the collision of two asteroids -- one about 105 miles wide and one about 40 miles wide -- was the event that precipitated the Earthly disaster.

The collision occurred in the asteroid belt, a collection of big and small rocks orbiting the sun about 100 million miles from Earth, the researchers report in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

The asteroid Baptistina and rubble associated with it are thought to be leftovers, the scientists said.

Some of the debris from the collision escaped the asteroid belt, tumbled toward the inner solar system and whacked Earth and our moon, along with probably Mars and Venus, said William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, one of the researchers.

DEADLY COLLISION

The collision is believed to have doubled for a while the number of impacts occurring in this part of the solar system.

In fact, while the bombardment of this region of the solar system due to this shower of debris peaked about 100 million years ago, the scientists said the tail end of the shower continues to this day. Bottke said many existing near-Earth asteroids can be traced back to this collision.

"Imagine breaking up a big, big boulder on top of a hill and all the fragments rolling down the hill. And somewhere at the bottom is a village called Earth," Bottke said in a telephone interview.

The dinosaur-destroying meteorite, thought to have measured 6 miles across, plunged into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and blasted out the Chicxulub (pronounced CHIK-shu-loob) crater measuring about 110 miles wide. The researchers looked at evidence on the composition of this meteorite and found it consistent with the stony Baptistina.

The researchers estimated that there also was about a 70 percent probability that the prominent Tycho crater on the Moon, formed 108 million years ago and measuring about 55 miles

across, also was carved out by a remnant of the earlier asteroid collision.

Philippe Claeys of Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, who was not involved in the research, said by e-mail the findings were "clear evidence that the solar system is a violent environment and that collisions taking place in the asteroid belt can have major repercussions for the evolution of life on Earth."

Bottke emphasized that point. "Dinosaurs were around for a very long time. So the likelihood is they would still be around if that event had never taken place," Bottke said.

"Was humanity inevitable? Or is humanity just something that happened to arise because of this sequence of events that took place at just the right time. It's hard to say."

2007-09-05 14:54:12 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-05 14:52:54 · 11 answers · asked by Paperdoll 1 in Religion & Spirituality

If so, should I also tell him which vent the dead fish are in?

2007-09-05 14:52:07 · 9 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Im not afraid of dying and as a Christian, I believe firmly that there just has to be something else beyond this life. I'd like to know (seriously) what you all think about that......

2007-09-05 14:49:45 · 17 answers · asked by knight 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Are they "jealous" of the fun we have when we go on "bran muffin raids"?

2007-09-05 14:45:33 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I loved the history this gentleman shared through his ministry. I learned so much about our country and how it was founded on Godly principles. He was a blessing to me.

Influential conservative leader Dr. D. James Kennedy died Wednesday morning, church officials reported.
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Dr. D. James Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge Ministries, is shown at Bruton Parish, a historic church in Williamsburg, Virginia where George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and others worshiped. Kennedy hosts One Nation Under God, a one-hour television special that offers evidence for the distinctly Christian character of America's founding.
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Kennedy, whose retirement as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Florida was recently announced, died "peacefully in his sleep" at home at approximately 2:15 a.m., according to a released statement. He was 76.

2007-09-05 14:45:18 · 18 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

isnt just to be atheist disrespectful in itself for christianity?

2007-09-05 14:43:39 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-05 14:43:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Would someone be able to translate me the phrase "Morning Star" to latin please. I intend on getting this phrase as a tattoo so i want to make sure that it's !00% right. Thanks all.

2007-09-05 14:42:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Is that AWESOME or AWFUL ? explain

2007-09-05 14:41:29 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you know?

2007-09-05 14:40:06 · 45 answers · asked by ✡ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

My Father in law took us out on a day trip and I was under the impression that we were going to get breakfast first so I didn't eat breakfast. I get shaky when I don't eat for more than 3-4 hours and incredibly irritable. Well we never got around to breakfast, and then about 11 I commented, where are we going for lunch? He said he would look for a place then 12:30 I said again I really need lunch asap! 30 minutes later we finally got lunch. I like my inlaws but this always happens with them, weather on a day trip, or at their house. Dinner generally doesn't hit the table until 8-9pm even through they plan it to be 5-6. If it happened once, I would understand but they don't seem to get it. I told them that I get shaky if I don't eat often and they said "Oh." I feel like I didn't get my point across. It makes me feel like throwing a hissy next time but I know that is not the right thing to do. Help.

2007-09-05 14:39:08 · 14 answers · asked by TennesseeGirl 2 in Etiquette

My Father in law took us out on a day trip and I was under the impression that we were going to get breakfast first so I didn't eat breakfast. I get shaky when I don't eat for more than 3-4 hours and incredibly irritable. Well we never got around to breakfast, and then about 11 I commented, where are we going for lunch? He said he would look for a place then 12:30 I said again I really need lunch asap! 30 minutes later we finally got lunch. I like my inlaws but this always happens with them, weather on a day trip, or at their house. Dinner generally doesn't hit the table until 8-9pm even through they plan it to be 5-6. If it happened once, I would understand but they don't seem to get it. I told them that I get shaky if I don't eat often and they said "Oh." I feel like I didn't get my point across. It makes me feel like throwing a hissy next time but I know that is not the right thing to do. Help.

2007-09-05 14:38:31 · 25 answers · asked by TennesseeGirl 2 in Etiquette

...to make ONE PERSON gay for 24 hours so they could "walk a mile in our shoes," who would you choose?

2007-09-05 14:37:39 · 9 answers · asked by HMFan 7 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-09-05 14:35:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Since I've already done this, would it be accurate to say that I can do as much sinning as I want from this point on and it won't make any difference?

2007-09-05 14:34:54 · 44 answers · asked by lindsey p 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Almost ever religion I've heard of, with the exception of Judaism, has absolutely no sense of humor, especially sarcasm and self-deprecating irony. If I convert to FSM, will I still be able to practice sarcasm?

Thanks.

2007-09-05 14:34:38 · 16 answers · asked by eV 5 in Religion & Spirituality

For some reason, a lot of people think I'm a girl... but I'm not. I'm a guy. (this guy posted Flirt on my 360)

does this happen to anyone else?

2007-09-05 14:32:23 · 19 answers · asked by Nijg 6 in Religion & Spirituality

and overeating? People think they have free will, but then they go do whatever the advertisers tell them to do.

2007-09-05 14:31:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i don't know how to say Mexico City in Spanish...
can someone tell me the answer? plezzz

2007-09-05 14:31:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I can already speak / am currently learning:

English
Latin
Greek (both ancient and modern)

I will be getting a tutor for the following in a month or so:

Mandarin
Serbian (Yugoslav)

My College Goals are as follows:

Bachelor's in Biology (if time allows, this degree is "just for fun")
Master's In Biochemistry
MD (I plan on becoming a cardiovascular surgeon)

Which language do you think would be best for my career goals?

Thank you in advance for all replies/comments. It always helps to see another perspective. I'm hopeful that someone will mention a language that I have not even considered.

2007-09-05 14:30:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-09-05 14:30:24 · 12 answers · asked by ignoramus_the_great 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Not the Lottery, but stratch-off ticket, $500 bucks? Please answer for my friends and I are unsure. Some say yes, most say no. HELP!

2007-09-05 14:29:50 · 13 answers · asked by jazcy 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I turned down spaghetti, and had fettuccine instead. Does this evoke the wrath of the FSM (pbuh)?

2007-09-05 14:28:55 · 12 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Is there any one of you that has done that sick dance where you twist yourself around other people where it has turned out alright?

Usually it's either same same love, with men knowing other men. Or it's that too early love, with those girls who don't know anything not being given proper leadership by their men.

I'M TIRED OF THIS AND NEED FOR YOU TO BE BETTER, JUST LIKE THE BOOK ASKS OF YOU. PLEASE.

I talked to my assistant Karen for 4 hours about you today. She agrees that you need to improve yourself. It's sick.

That philly is gone, isn't she?

2007-09-05 14:28:18 · 8 answers · asked by Creepy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

if children play doctor
& doctors play god,
what does God play?

2007-09-05 14:28:03 · 2 answers · asked by biodegradable insane asylum 5 in Other - Society & Culture

How uncomfortable was that?

2007-09-05 14:27:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality