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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 24/09/2024 5:54 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> divert an
>> asteroid before it makes us extinct, it will have paid off, big-time.
>>
>> The dinosaurs didn't bother
> 
> At school we heard what happened to the Bronco-sore-arse*, they were all
> wiped out by asteroids.

Not by asteroids. One asteroid did for the lot of them.

"In the late 1970s, geologist Walter Alvarez and his father, Nobel 
Prize-winning scientist Luis Walter Alvarez, put forth their theory that 
the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction was caused by an impact event."

I'd got through graduate school long before their ideas had had much of 
an impact.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney