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| Topic Started: Oct 27 2009, 06:10 AM (1,361 Views) | |
| The Dodo | Oct 27 2009, 06:10 AM Post #1 |
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Here is an article on the extinction of dinosaurs Extinction It discusses the possibilty there was a second impact in India. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 27 2009, 06:29 AM Post #2 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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Wow. That's probably overkill for the dinosaurs. |
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| Holben | Oct 27 2009, 10:51 AM Post #3 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Yeah, I read that in the magazine. I'm sceptical though, because after all, they only needed one hagfish in a small brown envelope. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 27 2009, 12:43 PM Post #4 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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To be fair, the hagfish-containing envelope has only destroyed the lives of you and Lamna, Holbenilord... |
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| Carlos | Oct 27 2009, 01:23 PM Post #5 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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This has to be the thousanth time those idiotic anti-asteroid motherfuckers spread propaganda like this. For the record, the indian volcanism is known for eons in the scientific community, and the most recent models suggest it did nothing but climatic changes, which dinosaurs could have easily passed through. The asteroid is really the main cause for the KT event, and thats why these statements aren't to be taken seriously, as they are disproved in a matter of weeks |
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| Holben | Oct 27 2009, 01:38 PM Post #6 |
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Close to what i said? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Iowanic | Oct 27 2009, 01:58 PM Post #7 |
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I'm going to be the odd one out on this, I guess. I agree with Baker on the Kt event: they died of a belly-ache. |
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| Holben | Oct 27 2009, 02:12 PM Post #8 |
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Not alien intervention? ... |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Temporary | Oct 27 2009, 03:44 PM Post #9 |
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There is actually evidecence they were going extinct before the asteroid impact. The asteroid didn't cause it, just finished. |
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| Iowanic | Oct 27 2009, 03:57 PM Post #10 |
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That's also the way I've read it. |
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| Carlos | Nov 1 2009, 06:20 PM Post #11 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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That can be up to interpretation however. All we know about the dinosaur fauna at the very end of the Cretaceous comes from North America, so the decline could had been exclusive to there |
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| lamna | Nov 1 2009, 06:41 PM Post #12 |
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Indeed, if we could only observe Africa today one might assume that Marsupials and Bears were extinct. |
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| Holben | Nov 4 2009, 03:35 PM Post #13 |
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Aren't they? |
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| Paul_de_Vries | Nov 5 2009, 01:37 PM Post #14 |
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The thing I dont like about the "anti-asteroid motherfuckers" is that they pretend the Mexican asteroid impact just didn't happen, or that it wasn't significant. But just think about the harsh periods that follow such an impact. But I actually like this theory. Reason: the premise is bassically that an asteroid even bigger than the Mexican one caused the Indian volcanism, so the anti-asteroid people are going to have to accept that it was indeed all down to asteroids. Imagine the combined effect these two asteroids must have had (if this theory pans out). Wow. |
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| Iowanic | Nov 5 2009, 01:48 PM Post #15 |
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Well, I'm definately of the 'big belly ache' theory, but I certainly believe the astroid strikes took place and that they caused vast damage. I see them as being more 'body-punches' that weakened the target(Dinosaurs and like) then the remnants were finished off by the intermingling of sperate species that'd previous not been intermingling: wide-spread disease that was the finishing blow. Would removing the 'sky-bombs' have changed things? I think it'd changed how long the excintion, but not that it happened. Dinosaurs were already on the way out. |
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