500 KM Asteroid Hits Earth

in Science, Video - Science | September 3rd, 2008 1 Comment

The Discovery Channel has produced a rather impressive (though certainly bleak) simulation of what would happen:

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acroamatic says:

September 3, 2008 at 6:49 am

Is this really from a Discovery Channel program? There’s a glaring grammatical error in the last caption (“at leasts 6 times” or something similar). Unless the captions were added by someone else.

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