[SunkenCiv]

In a word? No.

[Snickering Hound]

[doc1019]

Couldn’t tread water for 40 days. Just say’n

[captain_dave]

Maybe gravity increased and dinosaurs could no longer survive

[blueunicorn6]

Oh, the neutrinos might have roughed up the dinosaurs a little bit, but kill them?

Naw.

Break a leg maybe.

Throw them down some stairs.

OK.

But they weren’t killers.

Now, black holes? Black holes is killers. They’ll off you just for lookin’ at ‘em wrong.

[BigEdLB]

Trump killed the dinosaurs, except for a Triceratops he gave to son Barron for his 10th birthday as a pet. Neutrino, Schmutrino... Nonsense.

[sima_yi]

Neutrinos, they are very small,
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The Earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass
Like dust maids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
And painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed - you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.

John Updike

[Mount Athos]

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.

[tophat9000]

Did Neutrinos Kill The Dinosaurs?

They seem too small and cute to do that

[Haiku Guy]

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...

[rlmorel]

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.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

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

[Gideon7]

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.

[blam]

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.

[Ken H]

Is such a thing even possible?

Yes it is!

[Brilliant]

Seems very unlikely.