ect the
general elation over the find will incline government to
reward the finders. Failure to do so would incline future
finders to loot sites and that's the last thing they want.
On the black market, this find would be evaluated at a
worth of tens of millions.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/24/staffordshire.uk.gold.hoard/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto
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bed with a logarithmic decay law."
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Subject: [me
e over the others.
I was glad to hear Jeff confirm it.
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] CAI and chondrules
All I mean bu "we don't know, er, stuff..."
was that there is no definitive answer to
the puzzle. Proof of double supernovae,
T Tauri firestorms, system-wide lightning
bolts, or demons that like torment human
geophysicists is still unavailable.
S
ggests. Or, maybe it
only rains rocks on hot summer afternoons...
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On Alien World, It Rains Rocks
By Andrea Thompson
On Earth, strange things, i
of lave was unleashed
by the Chicxulub impact.
Of course, on a planet with Earth's apparently unique
tectonics, there's lots of chaotic terrain from all kinds of
causes.
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perhaps as many as 1,000 and cited
some of his own statistics from Kansas finds.
It seems that the more data we get, the faster they fall.
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T
ead,
as the number of vehicles increases, not only in the
US but around the world. I can hardly wait until China
has 150,000,000 cars! By 2109, there should be enough
hits to refine the fall rate by this method to less than
+/- 10% error.
Of course, by then we&#x
lot more. It's a very strange physical specimen.
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To: "Meteorite-list"
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:44 AM
Subject: [meteorite-
Maybe a thousand for every one. Planets are
just a natural outcome of the way the universe is
put together.
Like life...
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To:
Sent: Mon
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To:
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] meteorite tattoo
Steve
Grats on the tat. I have a
r" all point to this origin, even
the linear "slip-slope" striations on the walls. No
explosive event could have caused what we see
in the few photos.
My two cents worth, equal to about 0.01 Latvian
Lat (LVL) at the current exc
there to become a meteorite hunter, researcher,
and scholar.
It would be satisfying to have a McPherson meteorite.
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the record. If we are excluding a potential source
from consideration, naturally enough, it does not
"show up" in the record!
Whether it is possible to "filter out" abrupt events
and demonstrate this thesis of impacts producing
radiocarb
Hi,
The Bloomington, Illinois incident about
the same time was determined to be a
wood chipper blade. The New Jersey Object
was determined to be terrestrial in origin,
but of "unknown provenance." Possibly
they were too embarassed to look further
after bally-hooing it?
Sterli
#x27;s escape velocity and the entry angle
was only 19 degrees above the local horizon.
It beat the odds and reached the ground,
but it paid at least a 99.9% tax to do it!
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t this speed and the result is
the same. Speed kills.]
There are so many possible events that an empirical
general answer can probably only be reached by the
long-term continued operation of fireball tracking
networks. So far, they suggest many meteoroids and
far fewer meteorites.
us) on both sides of a
N-S line through Zamanshin crater at all times when
there were both species in existence. There is no great
East-West divide in populations and never was.
Anyway, Zamanshin is a pothole. You walk around it
without knowing or caring. Even if you're Mr. Homo
heidelbergensis. Like I sa
the
answer, but the expedition he was with doesn't
think it's a crater:
http://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/technology/2006/0804/glass.html
At least one case has been made for the non-
impact origin of LDG (nice pictures):
h
Interestingly enough, the same scientists released
this same news story almost 5 years ago (Jan. 25,
2005) with the same conclusions. It appears to have
been less world-shattering than they think, possibly
because there is a hole in their logic that you could
drive a truck through, or possibly bec
ps, my money's on
the as-yet-undiscovered (?) Great Permian Whacker.
I say "undiscovered" because someday we may have
enough geomagnetic and gravimeteric data on the
Wilkes Land crater in Antarctica to convince.
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e similar to such activity on
parts of Venus.
Because the seamounts are made by basalt, partly
solidified basalt might have the viscosity to create the
flat-top domes, Sakimoto notes..."
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outpact" feature, the place
where the Moon spun off the Earth, leaving what would be
the largest "basin" in the Solar System (if it were true, that is).
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e been
informally accepted into the Meteorite Club,
by the press anyway.
If it's real, how did it get these surface features?
Anyone have any iron similar in its sculpture?
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igh 1.252
TONS. The other report says it weighed 100 pounds.
Why do we even listen to these people?
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To: "Meteorite Mailing
(correctly) surmised that he had stowed away
in a nosewheel well, asphixiated at altitude, frozen quite
solid, and had been released when the landing wheel
was lowered.
The frequency of such incidents is increasing.
Sterli
epressing; give
me back those canals!)
We are SO invested; we find a new scratch in the side of
a gully where there are thousands of scratches in one gully
among the ten thousand gullies and we want to party all night!
Doesn't mean the gullies haven't looked pretty much the same
for the
," said another American scientist.
Anyone who "valued his reputation for scientific sanity"
would never dare support such a theory, said a major
British geologist.
Clearly, it was a winner.
Wegener was also a meteorologist. He was the first
to describe the process (now cal
without
having a nip?
And, if that doesn't happen, then there won't
be any microbes in the dirt, primitive organisms in
the rocks and nobody living the Good Aquiferian
Life for four billion years.
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e feed never
stopped but just popped up already rolling at the new
site.)
Watch the future, now.
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rance due to the ferrite
having formed along certain crystallographic planes."
What's the likelihood of fake meteorites being made
that way?
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ion to each other. Some adjacent sets
of grooves met at right angles to each other.
There's one double groove that makes an
angled turn!
The Universe is surprising, but for this to
be a real meteorite is too much of a surprise
t
t the as-yet unspoken definitive word.
Or, maybe, we're just grumpy because we can't in Tucson
looking at REAL metorites.
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTE
To modify a great movie line:
Show me the numbers!
Since EL61 has only been observed for 2-3 years of its 285
year orbit (1%) and the earliest prediscovery photo is 1955 (18%
of an orbit ago), just how accurate are those orbital determinations
and the resultant calculations? Inquiring minds want to
ll
the recent missions and recoveries going on. They
do not appear to be the traditional "dirty snowball,"
but much more asteroidal. Conversely, we keep
finding asteroids that may be "comets." Ultimately,
I think all the Small Bodies
times the orbital velocity, with each gram
carrying the equivalent of 27.3 grams of TNT in
kinetic energy. Known in the trade as the Chop
Suey Special.
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;s a start at public consciousness.
You can listen to the program at:
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/02/03/life_of_a_dealer.html
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#x27;s a nasty thought...
Which is why, instead of a news snippet with three sentences
of potential information, you ought to actually publish something
yourself, with, you know, real numbers and real calculations and
real information, Mike. To modify a great movie line: Show me
the numbers!
e is whether the energy event is big
enough to convert the matter carrying the energy from the
solid state, however fractured and fragmented, into the old
"atom free-for-all" extremely dissociated state of plasma.
It's whether you reach that phase transition that distinguishes
t
Hi,
It was widely seen: Missouri, Illinois, Iowa,
and Wisconsin. No indication or mention of
direction so far.
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http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6037565
MILWAUKEE (AP) - From southeastern Wisconsin
to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and
the Illinois River valley. Tonight is
expected to be the coldest night of the year, and one
or more inches of snow is predicted.
Not exactly the ideal recovery zone...
The Nininger tactic of advertising in a multitude of
small town papers comes to mind
Sterling K. W
that it is Fox News, who have most things
backwards...
Below is another news report.
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MILWAUKEE -- Balls of fire streaking across the
sky Sunday night from Wisconsin to
a possibility: one
of the 500-odd large fragments of a certain Chinese
polar satellite which would indeed have a shallow
trajectory and a low entry velocity. Assuming we're
tracking those chunks, we may know before long,
or not.
Sterling K. Webb (story fo
olorado last month, Fox
news called it a "Quadrantid meteor shower from an extinct
constellation".
Chris
*****
Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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1.) very cold weather, and 2.) the distraction of the Superbowl!
Yet, there seem to be no shortages of reports. It was even
called a "flood" of reports in the St. Louis area.
Sterling K. Webb
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/16630902.htm
Aerial sight was a meteor
One
the same thing. Hours after Chicxulub,
on the other side of the planet, sleeping dinosaurs are
rudely awakened by "What the Hell was THAT?"
But the REALLY big news is that a reporter got
a quote right!
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jured my pitchfork hand..."
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From: "Greg Hupe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:03 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NASA TV Commercial
Hi Listees,
I was just
.
Doesn't mean it's a meteorite, though...
Unlikely, but not impossible, I suppose. To
check the location just go to Google Maps
and enter "Bundi Rajasthan India" and you're
there.
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Hi, List,
I think Svend has hit on the most likely explanation
for this incident.
Sterling K. Webb
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To:
Cc: "Sterling K. Webb"
. (Well, all the "nobles."
There is also an excess of neon, but not the other nobles.)
It was, after all, how we recognized that those odd SNC
meteorites were from Mars: their unique noble gas ratios matched
ful of Swedish field stones.
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 7:16 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Ebay auction question
Was th
Hi,
Nice eyewitness account of the Holbrook fall.
Sterling K. Webb
TEMPE RESIDENT REMEMBERS METEOR'S PLUNGE 86 YEARS AGO
30 May 1998
MESA, Ariz. (AP) _ Pauline McCleve of Tempe doesn't nee
mbedded six
inches or more in the soil and all the smaller pieces were
found on the surface of the ground.
Perhaps the really BIG Holbrooks are still down there?
Sterling K. Webb
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AHNIGHITO The Tent (as well
as The Dog and The Woman. Now, THAT'S
a piece of heavy lifting!
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:31 A
e amount of power needed
> to light a 100-watt bulb for one hour)
Either that, or teach me the calculation so I can
persuade my local power utility that their bills are
100 times too high...
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or has
> ever has come into the inner solar system before.
After 4+ billion years in the same orbit, I think it's
pretty unlikely too. That's a good thing...
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down before too long.
There's a very colorful photo of the explosive trail,
visible for 35 minutes, as the Astronomy Picture of the
Day for today (02-22-07):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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down before too long.
There's a very colorful photo of the explosive trail,
visible for 35 minutes, as the Astronomy Picture of the
Day for today (02-22-07):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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, drag a supermagnet through it, and Voila! Star
Dust.
There's a long list of natural occurances that can punch
holes in new-iced ponds. But one of them is... Meteorite!
My problem is that I can't find any rendition of a meteorite
having been found that way.
Sterling K. Webb
think of it as ground up meteorites,
all kinds together.
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From: "Gary K. Foote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Thurs
they are un-Earthly. The Earth
still keeps a few little secrets of her own. How
did "josephinite" form and why is it on the surface
of the Earth instead of in the mantle? It's a mystery
to me, and yet, you can buy it on eBay.
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi, List,
> discovery may involve finding biologically
> formed structures in old sedimentary deposits...
> like stromatolites found here on Earth.
I say we get up a kitty to send Dave Freeman!
Mars is a lot like Wyoming, Dave, only redder.
Sterlin
Meteorite Falls," found on pp. 176-182.
The Hammer List Deluxe...
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From: "Michael L Blood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite List"
Sent: Saturday, February
t's in
front of them; they DO SEE what they "know" to be true.
They "know" meteorites are fiery objects, so they're "hot."
Reality has nothing to do with it.
A great many genuine in-the-book historical falls come
with witness descriptions of "hot rocks.&qu
ails" that sound "fake." So, if REAL falls produce partially
unbelievable accounts, why should a reasonably sober account
be dismissed out of hand?
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Hi, All Pisco Fans,
For those who cannot find Pisco at their
corner store, or who never get to travel to the
High Desert but are stuck in the Great Bottoms,
there is the Internet Safari to the PiscoMall:
http://www.piscomall.com/
They sell 50 different kinds of Pisco.
Sterling K. Webb
quit worrying about manganese
neteorites and stake a mining claim -- pronto! Unless he
was "claim-jumping..." In that case, he might need that
AK-47.
Sterling K. Webb
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adarSat2
survey in 2002.
And speaking of Mystery Rocks... What ever
happened to The New Jersey Iron?!
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To: "Meteorite Mailin
er.
Jason would be "right" in that it is counter-intuitive
and does not follow the "usual" course of events for the
many Holbrooks and the Venus Stone to be part of the
same mass, but there are many indications that this may
be an unusual fragmentatio
ou get some thin sections cut and examined
by a petrologist. The expense wouldn't be outrageous and
I would guess you'd find some willing talent with experience
of meteorite thin sections right here in the List. Did you ever
do that?
Sterling K. Webb
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sual" course of events for the
many Holbrooks and the Venus Stone to be part of the
same mass, but there are many indications that this may
be an unusual fragmentation event, in which case all the
usual bets are off.
Theory is one thing, but the proof is always on the
ground (or in it, sometime
sman and break it.
d.) Don't quarrel with your Doppelganger.
e.) Don't send messages like this, that only re-iterate...
Whoops!
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To: "Meteorite List"
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:45 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin Impact Pits - Int
://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/03/05/news/doc45ec957f7da1f395589287.txt
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:34 P
Hi,
I take it all back; it DOESN'T look anything like
a meteorite. (Where'd you find the additional pictures?)
Very few irons fall pre-rusted... Ignore my prior post.
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ulation
booster, perhaps?
Maybe they're jealous of the New Concord
meteorite in the next county over.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2
source of a hoaxed
snow picture just this year, February, 2007). Or it
could be an independent hoax inspired by Oswego.
But certainly your clipping belongs in the archive
of great old time meteor hoaxes.
Sterling K. Webb
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in the flatness and the appearance
of an "attachment ridge" on the other side, which collided
with other fragments (which then burned up) to make
the impact pit on the edge... You can rationalize almost
anything.
Sterling K. Webb
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Con-Agra, antique and built of stone, not
sheet metal. It's surrounded by the downtown
business district on two sides, and has never
flang a pseudometeorite in a vertical arc, to
my knowledge. (Occasional dust explosion
is fun, though, but not e
s junk.
Thanks. Mark, for finding this. Now I can
totally forget about the Bloomington Object.
Hey! They already HAVE one (real) meteorite.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "MARK BOSTICK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
space telescope.
Of course, IF the B-2 could fly to and destroy an incoming
asteroid, it would be worth $22 billion, or $22 trillion ---
name your price.
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tion. No "cooling" is needed,
just a weakening of an ocean current, an oscillation in
the warming process caused by the warming itself.
Global warming -- ya gotta love it.
Sterling K. Webb
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erase it from disc (on a PC) and a scan.
I believe that the material in the message had likely
been disabled before I got, but I don't trust that it was.
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y reports of "booms"
or "explosions" suggests it never made it
down to subsonic speeds.
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To: "Meteorite Mailing List&quo
him; he bled to death outta that bullet hole,"
says the Rock Mob; "You ain't a thing on me, copper."
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From: "tracy latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Why don't
you wait a century or so, Mike? Then we'll know what
its orbit really is.
Tomorrow, those with access to the journal Nature
will get to see the actual data. Leaves me out. For now,
this piece has more
almost anything. No,
make that anything. Period.
In a word, nobody cares.
Besides, Saint PADRIC was a Welshman, anyway...
Sterling K. Webb,
Who has a great long Gaelic name all his owen, which
he nivier uses except as his password for things like
banks, credit cards, and PayPal, because that way
is.
Where can I obtain a copy of this totally
authoritative but mystically known-only-
to-you list of offenses? Can I find it on
the internet, write off for it, or do I have to
consult the nearest flaming shrubbery?
Sterling K. Webb
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ure and simple.
You can get a SpamAssassin filter to block bogus
virus warnings (if you use SpamAssassin) or just
Shift+Delete to permanently erase them.
Burn'em.
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From: "Darren
ace. Get a bulk composition
analysis. Step by step...
Three irons in a row: the New Jersey Object,
Bloomington (Illinois) Object, Illinois (Illinois)
Object. Odd when you consider how rare
the fall of an Iron is.
I can't get the photos to show in their full
original size, so can't say much
s
a sucker born every minute," Even that is only
525,960 new suckers a year, which sounds a
little on the shy side to me. But I'll take old
Phineas' word for it; he knew his suckers.
Sterling K. Webb
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move
the "herd" 50 kilometers away to start in on the ground
for the Lunar Base Two and assign some of them
to strengthen the soil where the Mag-Lev train
between the two bases will run... By 2237, Luna
City will post a bounty for rogue Rove
ady for the beaurocratic axe to fall.
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in every form of Show Business, but he
certainly didn't invent Show Business.
No, he did something better: he invented
The Audience.
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From: "batkol" <[EMAIL
Illinois,
the Marengo L6. Says the NHM Catalogue:
"One stone of 68g was found among rock piles on the
side of a cultivated farm field by James A. Wotal and his
son, Alex."
One thing I (who has never found a meteorite) can say
for certain is that the VERY BEST way to find a m
s as powerful
as the author's penetrate the stratosphere and escape into
outer space, instead of being reflected back to reinforce the
Powerful Brain that emitted them, thus slowly draining its
IQ away to nothing.
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s one seems to have sat in the lake bottom for
a long time, though, for all those changes. Still, I
doubt it's more than 20,000 years old, tops, and
it could be much younger. Chondrites don't last
that long in water!
Sterling K. Webb
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Hi,
The seller's mistake. It's a postcard of the
famous Greensburg KANSAS Pallasite:
http://www.bigwell.org/meteor.html
The photo on the page indicated above
has the same individual pictured on the
postcard in the recovery effort.
Sterli
changes, the duration
of events, the depth of a future glaciation, how cold? We could
possibly adapt to a gradual enough shift, assuming we're willing
to give up the use of a portion of the planet, double or triple or
more our
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