Recent large meteorite crash?

[Weather-history]

A group of researchers believe that a large meteorite or comet crashed into the Earth as recent as 4800 years ago producing a tsunami more than 180m high and a crater 29kms in diameter in the Indian Ocean 1600km to the SE of Madagascar

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/big-splas...3266554476.html

180m high?

The Washington monument is 169m high

So imagine that wall of water heading towards you

Edited November 15, 2006 by Mr_Data

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Hasn't this happened more recently? I saw a documentary about it and this meteorite crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and wiped the eastern seaboard of the US off the map and this lad and his girlfriend only survived because they got on a motorbike and scrambled up a hill.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Shut up.....did you see it? And what about the other one which was saved by astronauts drilling into it? That was moving too.

Sooner or later we're going to get hit again.

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

180m high?

The Washington monument is 169m high

So imagine that wall of water heading towards you

Just a quick photoshop job, gives an idea of what a 180m high wave would look like.

Hope you like it

[Rustynailer]

i think i live in the right place not to survive

Tunguska in 1908 was an exploding something (comet or solid rock) that if it made the ground instead would have left a big hole.

[BARRY]

SURFS UP DUDE

[Dazza]

Crrrrrrikey

[crimsone]

Think less of a series of waves in that photo, and imagine it was more of a solid wall of water about to break over the monument.

Edited November 15, 2006 by crimsone

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Think less of a series of waves in that photo, and imagine it was more of a solid wall of water about to break over the monument.

I couldn't find a good frontal picture of a huge wave, that was the best I could find.

Just thinking a 180m wave would be fine by me, i'm at 190m :o

[crimsone]

LOL! I've just realised that if you look closely at that image, there's a tiny little boat at the bottom of the wave :o

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

LOL! I've just realised that if you look closely at that image, there's a tiny little boat at the bottom of the wave :lol:

:blink: Can't see it :blink:

I can just see a seagull