World's oldest crater found?

[Loren Pechtel]

World’s oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth’s ancient history | News at Curtin

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the ...

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Why in the world should I believe this? It's Australia, why hasn't something come along and killed the crater by now???

 

[bilby]

Because Australia doesn't exist.

I should know, I live here. When I look out of the window, all I see is a formless void.

Though that could be just because it's night.

 

[Bomb#20]

I should know, I live here. When I look out of the window, all I see is a formless void.

Though that could be just because it's night.

The plot thickens. IIDB tells me you wrote that at 2:42 AM PST -- i.e., it was night here too. But as any world map shows, Australia is in the Eastern Hemisphere; America is in the Western Hemisphere. So it's nighttime in both hemispheres at the same time, which proves both hemispheres are on the same side of the planet! Explain that, Round-Earthers!

 

[bilby]

Duh. I am south of the equator, so day and night are reversed.

Or was that summer and winter? No, that would be crazy, heat rises, so if it's summer in the southern hemisphere, obviously the northern hemisphere will be warmer too.

 

[Bomb#20]

Heat rises, true; but how fast? Six months, evidently.

 

[bilby]

Heat rises, true; but how fast? Six months, evidently.

That wouldn't work; It's cold again by then.

 

[Bomb#20]

Heat rises, true; but how fast? Six months, evidently.

That wouldn't work; It's cold again by then.

Well, duh! That's what happens when the heat goes somewhere else. It's conservation of energy, man!

 

[Elixir]

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped.

This is not the first or second time the world's oldest known impact crater has been discovered. There was the previous one, the one before that, the one before that - they're just recycling news.

 

[Elixir]

I should know, I live here. When I look out of the window, all I see is a formless void.

Though that could be just because it's night.

The plot thickens. IIDB tells me you wrote that at 2:42 AM PST -- i.e., it was night here too. But as any world map shows, Australia is in the Eastern Hemisphere; America is in the Western Hemisphere. So it's nighttime in both hemispheres at the same time, which proves both hemispheres are on the same side of the planet! Explain that, Round-Earthers!

Everything is upside down in Au, including day/night cycles.
It's another hemisphere, that southern thing.

 

[steve_bank]

Australia has little to brag about. Let them have their oldest crater.

 

[thebeave]

Australia has little to brag about. Let them have their oldest crater.

 

[steve_bank]

They also have a big rock called Uluru. A tourist site.

Uluru - Wikipedia

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