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Old 03-04-2014, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
After we (maybe) became an snowball planet the boffins conjecture that volcanic activity may have broken that particular cycle (if it ever happened).



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Now Pete, any geologist worth their salt knows that had there been an ice ball like that we would find moraines in Guatemala.

Boffins? Ahh, a limey's derogatory term for the scientifically inclined, eh? Yes, after the Piltdown hoax everyone knows better than to listen to those chaps at Cambridge and Oxford much less those buggerers' at the Naval College.
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