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   From: Taemon@zonnet.nl   
      
   On 20-8-2015 02:28, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 23:26:30 +0200, Taemon wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On 16-8-2015 19:08, Paul S. Person wrote:   
   >>> Obviously, I agree that something happened to produce the downfall of   
   >>> the Fourth Age society (or successor) and erase the mighty works   
   >>> and/or geography associated with it. But that a Giant Space Rock   
   >>> hitting the Earth in 1 Million Years BC was responsible is, at best,   
   >>> speculative and might even be regarded as whimsical. Other   
   >>> possibilities, no doubt, exist.   
   >> As far as I know, Earth hasn't been hit by a Giant Space Rock one   
   >> million years ago. Matters of fantasy aside.   
   > One word: Tunguska.   
   > Of course, it depends on your definition of "giant", but if I recall   
   > correctly, that rock would have wiped out a major city if it had hit   
   > in the vicinity of one instead of in the wastes of Siberia.   
      
   But it didn't. Sorry, but I just don't buy into these "LOTR was   
   real"-would-be explanations. It wasn't. Let's not try to make it into   
   more than it was. It wouldn't do it justice.   
      
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