What do the Space Program and the Chixculub Crater have in common?
In the sequel to the Yucatan Travel Movie, we will visit the location where the Chixculub Crater on the Yucatan Peninsula.
We are almost certain that we know what killed the dinosaurs. Sixty-five million years ago, an object 10-15 kilometers in size impacted the Earth near the present-day town of Chixculub on the Yucatan Peninsula. . . .The Chixculub collision was more powerful than one billion Hiroshima bombs and left a crater more than 100 miles in diameter, now mostly covered by the Gulf of Mexico.
Why explore space? [Part I of II]
You may be wondering what space exploration has to do with the Chixculub Crater. As I understand J Klugler, the author of the above excerpt in the Houston Chronicle, since an asteroid once caused mass devastation on earth and the extinction of the dinosaurs, we need to have colonies in space so that should another asteroid collision wipe out most life on earth, human beings can continue on another planet.
Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman
