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Word: noachian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1996-1996
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...escaped a devastating collision with a mountain-size asteroid, but you didn't portray the destruction in terms most people can comprehend. Two-thirds of the large asteroids heading toward Earth would strike oceans, not land. Had asteroid 1996JA1 collided with any of our oceans, a tidal wave of Noachian-flood proportions would have deluged every province of the planet. The survivors, should there have been any, wouldn't know what had happened. Perhaps they would refer to an act of God that cleansed the planet of a sordid past. Thank God there are prudent souls working to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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