Google News Comments: Dinosaur-killing Asteroids, Steve Fossett, Apes Smarter Than Kids, Teen Suicide, Accidental Nukes

While everyone is talking abut the comments in Google News, I’d like to talk about five that came across my RSS reader today:
On a story about a dinosaur-killing asteroid that supposedly arrived 160 million years ago, Professor Gerta Keller, Department of Geosciences at Princeton University notes that the assumptions in the theory are predicted on a series of events happening, one after the other, leading up to the evidence in the article. Keller presents a reasoned look at the facts and says that the assumptions don’t have enough evidence to back them up, and that we need to rethink this popular theory that asteroids are responsible for extinction.
There’s a big hunt going on for Steve Fossett, an adventurer who dissapeared last week, with searchers using tools from Amazon and Google Earth. Captain Ross Aimer, CEO of Aviation Experts, provides a comment where he explains the frequencies and transmitters […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg