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The rantings, views and commentary of a right-winged criminal justice student on current events, politics, law, and even life. The goal of this blog is to allow the writer to vent on articles and experiences that make him angry and to open up discussions in a hostile atmosphere. So please sit back and relax as I convert you to the dark side.

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I'm a single 23 year-old Christian (non-denom) male from an undisclosed location in Kansas. I am in the process of furthering my education and hopefully starting up a career in law enforcement.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Crater found in Sahara

They found a huge crater in the Sahara Desert previously unknown.


Scientists have discovered a huge
crater
in the Saharan desert, the largest one ever found there.
The
crater is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) wide, more than twice as big as the
next largest Saharan crater known. It utterly dwarfs
Meteor
Crater
in Arizona, which is about three-fourths of a mile (1.2 kilometers)
in diameter.
In fact, the newfound crater, in Egypt, was likely carved by a
space rock that was itself roughly 0.75 miles wide in an event that would have
been quite a shock, destroying everything for hundreds of miles. For comparison,
the
Chicxulub
crater
left by a dinosaur-killing asteroid 65 million years ago is estimated
to be 100 to 150 miles (160 to 240 kilometers) wide.
The
crater
was discovered in satellite images by Boston University researchers Farouk
El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim.






Amazing that this stuff has been around forever and even as advanced as we are. We, the human race, are still finding mysteries on The Earth.

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