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Did Neutrinos Kill The Dinosaurs?
American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News [PDF] ^ | January 11, 1996 | Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

Posted on 03/25/2016 6:02:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: blueunicorn6

Which pirate ship? Give me space time coordinates and me and my merry band of time traveling midgets will go and try and save her. Might have to leave Grumpy behind. If we go save her will you babysit Grumpy. Won’t be a second. Heck we can even be back before we leave. If we aren’t back before you expect us, Grumpy is your problem.


21 posted on 03/25/2016 6:39:16 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: Snickering Hound; Pelham; blueunicorn6; SunkenCiv

Not neutrinos, it was El Caminos what kilt them. They died from eating the Astroturf out of the beds.


22 posted on 03/25/2016 6:40:28 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

“Don’t ever ever look into a black hole. If you do the dinosaurs they killed will rush out and eat you.”

That would make the most awesome sci-fi movie!


23 posted on 03/25/2016 6:44:25 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I see a big problem with this theory.

Wouldn’t Neutrinos wipe out all species equally?

But many species survived this time frame.

The theory would have to explain why many species survived, while others didn’t.


24 posted on 03/25/2016 6:45:05 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: SunkenCiv
Did Neutrinos Kill The Dinosaurs?

They seem too small and cute to do that

25 posted on 03/25/2016 6:45:55 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: SunkenCiv

Time for my Neutrino joke:

And the Bartender says, “We don’t serve faster-than-light Neutrinos in here!”...

So a faster-than-light Neutrino walks into a bar...


26 posted on 03/25/2016 6:46:33 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Admit you were conned / This means you are good and honest / There's no shame in this)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

“Grumpy is your problem”

Oh, you’ve talked to my neighbors.

My Grandma’s pirate ship was the SS Lutefisk.


27 posted on 03/25/2016 6:47:24 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: CodeToad

One word reply:

ZomBeavers

Better than Sharknado in campyness with 99% less production value.

A truly awesome horrible movie. A cult classic without a cult yet.


28 posted on 03/25/2016 6:50:06 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: EEGator
We need to find a label for black holes that does not sound racist.

I went to the Wikipedia entry for "black hole" and then checked out some other languages to see if anything sounded better.

In French it would be "trou noir."

In Indonesian it would be "Lubang hitam."

In Basque it would be "Zulo beltz."

In Turkish it would be "Kara delik."

I kind of like Kara delik. Someone who goes crazy thinking about black holes would be psycho delik.

29 posted on 03/25/2016 6:53:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: blueunicorn6

Hey now, it was a serious offer. My merry band of midgets need the X Y Z and T locations based on the center of the big bang to locate this ship. Everything moves you know. If you can not provide them, I am sending them to a fetishists house that wants them to clean his house in lederhosen. His name is Tod.


30 posted on 03/25/2016 6:57:28 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I kind of like theories that have some kind of non-kinetic kill-off of dinosaurs, such as a massive burst of radiation or a massive C02 release like the one from the Lake Nyos but on an even huger scale.

I always imagined that if a huge meteorite hit, there would be lots of completely crushed and dismembered dinosaurs instead of ones that got buried slowly in falling particulates, dying of cold and hunger.

Just kind of interesting to consider the alternatives.

But I will say this: A large asteroid strike has to be near the top on the drama scale.


31 posted on 03/25/2016 7:02:32 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

OK.....OK.....

Just a minute......doing the computations.......six carry the three.....the sum of the interior angles.....15% discount for senior citizens......

She’s in the bingo parlor again.


32 posted on 03/25/2016 7:05:03 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv

It was taxes by those damned DINOS (Dinosaurs in name only) politicians.


33 posted on 03/25/2016 7:07:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Verginius Rufus
In French it would be "trou noir." In Indonesian it would be "Lubang hitam." In Basque it would be "Zulo beltz." In Turkish it would be "Kara delik."

I believe in yer Asiarean their known as "gangnam style."

A course, those guys don't get along with yer ebonicites, so ya might wanna keep lookin'.

34 posted on 03/25/2016 7:11:12 PM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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To: blueunicorn6

Hey! I know her!

Red hat and coat, long curly hair, great mustache, never puts her right foot down....

Yeah, we go WAAAAY back!


35 posted on 03/25/2016 7:16:56 PM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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To: SunkenCiv
The link points to an APS News Supplement that was written in 1996, twenty years ago.

Neither the article title nor the excerpted text appear in the 1996 link.

The excerpt actually refers to an old physics paper by Juan Collar that was mentioned in a January 1996 NYT science news story. In the NYT article Collar admits the idea is "purely speculative", and it included the following quote: "As long as we don't take our theories of extinction too seriously they are fun and perhaps even instructive."

The paper was soon criticized for errors and there was no followup.

36 posted on 03/25/2016 7:18:38 PM PDT by Gideon7
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My Grandma’s pirate ship was the SS Lutefisk.

Ahhhh!!! Codfish soaked in Liquid Plumber.....That stinky tradition ended with my generation in our family.

37 posted on 03/25/2016 7:20:57 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Reactor Data Hint At Existence Of Fourth Neutrino

"Neutrinos, electrically neutral particles that sense only gravity and the weak nuclear force, interact so feebly with matter that 100 trillion zip unimpeded through your body every second. They come in three known types: electron, muon and tau.

38 posted on 03/25/2016 7:26:09 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: SunkenCiv
Is such a thing even possible?

Yes it is!

39 posted on 03/25/2016 7:45:51 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: SunkenCiv

Seems very unlikely.


40 posted on 03/25/2016 8:00:06 PM PDT by Brilliant
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