Posted 26 September 2005 - 06:21 PM
The generally accepted scientific belief is that it was an asteroidal impact around 65 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs. One of the ways they proved this is that they found the impact crater in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, and dated some of the material (namely, Iridium) to around 65 million years ago.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." -Sir Charles Napier
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." — D.H. Lawrence