Joxephize (@joxephize.bsky.social)

Sure, things are bad now but 3.26 billion years ago an asteroid 50-100 times bigger than the one that killed the dinosaurs hit Earth, vaporized rock that rained down as molten droplets, boiled the ocean's upper layers and killed most microbial life. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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Three Billion Years Ago, a Giant Impact Boiled Away Some of Earth’s Ocean. Then Life Bounced Back A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-earths-early-life-thrived-amid-catastrophic-asteroid-impacts/

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