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Re:Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred ... by polarcuke on Thursday November 22, 2012 @11:20PM (#4820959)
Well if this is true I guess there is one more thing for us to be thankful for today!
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Re:Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred ... by Geee on Thursday November 22, 2012 @11:51PM (#4821009)
It doesn't matter because we wouldn't be here thinking about it. On the other hand, the extinction event would have been a gold mine for the future archaeologists that would have evolved on Earth in the next 100 million years.
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Re:Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred ... by monochromatic on Friday November 23, 2012 @10:48AM (#4822543)
You're right, let's NOT be thankful that we're still here.
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Re:Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred ... by Geee on Friday November 23, 2012 @06:34PM (#4824034)
What do you mean? You can't be subjectively thankful of something that you wouldn't otherwise exist to be the subject of. However, I'm thankful that everyone else is here, including you.
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Re:Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred ... by monochromatic on Friday November 23, 2012 @09:34PM (#4824361)
> You can't be subjectively thankful of something that you wouldn't otherwise exist to be the subject of.

Sure you can. You couldn't be disappointed if things had gone the other way, but you can certainly be thankful to have dodged a bullet.

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