Did the Solar System "Bounce" Finish the Dinosaurs?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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See here. And it says we may be due for another one.

Excerpts: "The sun’s movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system – coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a new study claims.

"The Cardiff team found that we pass through the galactic plane every 35 to 40 million years, increasing the chances of a comet collision tenfold. Evidence from craters on Earth also suggests we suffer more collisions approximately 36 million years. Professor William Napier, of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, said: “It’s a beautiful match between what we see on the ground and what is expected from the galactic record.

“The periods of comet bombardment also coincide with mass extinctions, such as that of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Our present position in the galaxy suggests we are now very close to another such period.”

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Figures. Of all the star systems in the galaxy, we had to get the one with the gimpy wheel.

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So, maybe don’t buy green bananas?

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Yeah, but ‘very close’, in a discussion framed in terms of millions of years, may not actually be all that close at all.

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Yeah, assuming 34 million years, wake me up in 3million years… I do hope I won’t be around by then!

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Or to look at it another way… If I am still around in 3 million years, I expect to be able to take a little thing like the complete devastation of the Earth in my stride.

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Well, it’s our star system. So we’d better tighten our grip on it, we certainly don’t want any bad bounces.

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The Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology is widely known as the world’s premier authority on the study of Doctor Who.