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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ok, tin foil hats for this one, our universe isn't exactly infinite in the way people traditionally think like numbers. The edges of the universe bend and form a large shape, say a sphere for simplicity. That cover speeds through and circles back eventually, but do to it's speed and travelling along the edges of everything and relativity, when it returns it's not at the same point or even at the same speed. It arrives before it initially left, quite a bit before it left... So much so that it kills off the dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Humanity: did I do that? Hehehe

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One thing that no one ever talks about with this is the massive air resistance on it going Mach 164 through the atmosphere would incur (albeit for a very brief period)...I bet that would knock 25-50 kmph off it easily.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

In Stargate SG1 they do that to destroy and invading alien ship approaching Earth.

[–] treadful 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What are the chances it was blasted into the sun?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the event was near the equatorial near midday then there's a very very (very) slim chance it was pointed directly at the sun.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

So has it been replaced ?

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