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The earthquake in Japan moved the island 8 feet closer to the US and shifted the axis of the planet by about 5 inches. Most of us here probably know that there are fossilized palm trees and other tropical species found in the rock of Antartica.
The doctor that Robert Harris keeps using here, Luis Alvarez, along with his son were 2 of the key players in the accidental discovery that it was an asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Luis Alvarez was a Nobel winning Astrophysicist. The true story of how this was discovered is quite interesting, should anyone of you be interested in looking it up. It all started with a seemingly simple question; how long did it take for a fairly small layer of sediment, known as the KT Boundary, found pretty much all across the world, take to form? Below this layer a fossil record exists, above almost none at all. Could this question even be answered at all, so long after the event...
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"you're the cop, you figure it out"
-Lee H. Oswald to Dallas Police detectives, weekend
of 11-22-63.
"Part of the reason why we avoided talking about this thing, because every time you say something, somebody misinterprets what you say."
-James. J. Humes, excerpt of ARRB statement, 2-13-96
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