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Nasa sets up team to save Earth from asteroids
All advanced life on Earth might have come from one
biological mistake
Life on Earth 'appeared 300 million years earlier than
thought'
Life might have started on Mars and come to Earth on
a meteorite
The force of the impact resulted in early Earth and Theia,
together to form a single planet, with a piece breaking o and
entering its gravitational pull to form the moon.
Researchers studied moon rocks from three Apollo missions and
compared them with volcanic rocks found in Hawaii and
Arizona.
To their surprise, no dierence was found in the oxygen isotopes
and it was established that the rocks from each shared chemical
signatures.
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This is not new. so it took the moon 4.5 billion years to move
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How is this new? It's been common knowledge for some time
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Doesn't say that in the Bible! God made the Earth before
making the universe etc. Next they will say the Adam and Eve
(none of whom had a belly button) story was just BS!
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Potter movie.
"Man is insane; he cannot make a ea, yet
he will be making gods by the dozen."
Montaigne.
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God didn't make cancer though, it's a
manmade disease and yes man is as
cruel as it gets. Oh and I don't
"believe" in stu neither am I
religious. I think you assumed that.
Lessons for today: (1) It is possible to
think about "God" without being
religious (2) Mankind just loves to
blame his f-ckups on "God"
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