The best White House petitions that probably won’t make it to the White House

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:24:00 +0000

The White House is tired of responding to petitions, and it's no surprise why. After raising the bar on what merits a response, the White House still had to entertain the notion of building a Death Star (which was summarily rejected). That hasn't discouraged these people from trying to get their important issues heard, though, and that's the beautiful thing about democracy. Here are some of the best (worst) petitions to the White House from the month of March:

The petition to release the Declaration of Independence to Nic Cage

Scientists release most precise date of dinosaur extinction

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000

An international team of scientists has come up with the most precise date yet for the extinction of the dinosaurs, BBC News reported. Their radiometric dating analysis of rock and ash samples indicates that the dinosaurs died out 66,038,000 years ago, plus or minus 11,000 years.

The findings of the researchers, from the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California at Berkeley in the US, Glasgow University in the UK and Vrije University Amsterdam in the Netherlands, appear in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal Science.

The new extinction date supports the theory that the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which killed off all dinosaurs except the birds, was caused by an asteroid or comet slamming into what is now Mexico, BBC News reported. The revised date is no more than 33,000 years after an asteroid collision created a 110-mile-wide crater near the Mexican town of Chicxulub.

According to LiveScience:

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The best White House petitions that probably won’t make it to the White House

Scientists release most precise date of dinosaur extinction