Big-ass crater in the Democratic Republic of Congo
According to this article, this crater some 40 km across may have been caused by the impact of a 2km asteroid several tens of millions of years ago. The prevailing thought is that it was mid-Creatceous — that is, sort of in the middle of the Age of Dinosaurs. The scientists that discovered it are planning on going and taking field observations. If it’s what they think, it’s one of 25 known on Earth, so it’s not like it’s wholly unique.
Anyway, what’s neat to me is that I found it on Google Maps.
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Nice one! I saw that this morning and immediately thought, Lost World and then slighlty less convingly, Congo.
I think I just lack the pulp gene or something. I can’t think of how this is good as a fiction seed without being there at the time. And no one was there at the time but dinosaurs.
On the other hand, I’ve often wanted to do an Age of Reptiles kind of thing. But playing the extinction event because it’s important to us ignores the fact that dinosaurs were around for longer than they’ve been gone.
Hmmm.
Well, this has made me think, and I’m grateful.