2009-07-02 18:52:51.426879+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Your disaster speculation for the day: Seed Magazine: The Extinction Oscillator.
... It turns out that the biodiversity minima of the 62-million- year cycle happens when the Sun is “bobbed up” on only one side of the galaxy, when the solar system is on the disk’s upper, “north” side. ...
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#Comment Re: made: 2009-07-02 19:20:41.461044+00 by: TheSHAD0W
Scary, isn't it?
...Except the last great extinction, the fall of the dinosaurs, occurred sixty-FIVE million years ago.
Did we miss the bullet?
#Comment Re: Fascinating premise made: 2009-07-02 19:49:47.822802+00 by: jeff
It looks like the "bullet" is at least a few million years out in our future, as our solar system shifts to the "northern plane" of galactic rotation and oscillation.
Fascinating premise.