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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Join the NASA design challenge: win 15,000 dollars Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:32:30 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <vcuii1$37s46$1@dont-email.me> References: <vcrpqk$kvq4$1@solani.org> <k0n3fjt704as4rgfd0611m3aus89jvllmv@4ax.com> <vctabs$32blk$1@dont-email.me> <1r0dsi4.15kn6oywmhp5cN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:32:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bca4e006ac190288667d75377eeb4c16"; logging-data="3403910"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+SBziE8CxuLJ6NB2XtkT0/WnWCdeRq/fE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:1dDgl6cZ1kAFHKgDLt8xmYsyEM8= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 240924-0, 24/9/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: <1r0dsi4.15kn6oywmhp5cN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2032 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