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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

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The Chixalub Impactor

The Chixalub impactor nearly destroyed life on Earth, but it likely spread microbial life across the solar system. Did you research at all when you're looking at the impact of such a great thing that has such mass and speed? And if not, like what would it take to actually move the Earth out of its orbit or to pause its rotation for a second? Yeah, well, as a writer who is not a scholar of this, I was able to use only the articles that I found.

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