{"id":13531,"date":"2024-11-16T17:59:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T00:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13531"},"modified":"2024-12-07T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T01:02:55","slug":"life-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/16\/life-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/22\/science\/ancient-meteorite-s2-impact-early-earth-life\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A giant meteorite boiled the oceans 3.2 billion years ago. Scientists say it was a \u2018fertilizer bomb\u2019 for life<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/ashley-strickland-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashley Strickland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1110\" height=\"1551\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13532\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>This graphic shows the sequence of events following the S2 giant meteorite impact \/ James Zaccaria<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A massive space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago \u2014 and the impact could have been unexpectedly beneficial for the earliest forms of life on our planet, according to new research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, when a large space rock crashes into Earth, the impacts are associated with catastrophic devastation, as in the case of the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, when a roughly 6.2-mile-wide (10-kilometer)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/30\/americas\/asteroid-dust-dinosaur-extinction-photosynthesis-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asteroid crashed<\/a>\u00a0off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what\u2019s now Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Earth was young and a very different place when the S2 meteorite, estimated to have 50 to 200 times more mass than the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/23\/world\/mass-extinctions-explained-scn-climate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dinosaur extinction-triggering Chicxulub<\/a>\u00a0asteroid, collided with the planet 3.26 billion years ago, according to Nadja Drabon, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/22\/science\/ancient-meteorite-s2-impact-early-earth-life\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN A giant meteorite boiled the oceans 3.2 billion years ago. Scientists say it was a \u2018fertilizer bomb\u2019 for life By\u00a0Ashley Strickland A massive space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago \u2014 and the impact could have been unexpectedly beneficial for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}