Despite the incredible finds, other experts in the field have concerns about the work, including the lack of access to this specific Hell Creek Formation fossil site for outside scientists.
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This is either one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever, or it’s a fraud. They need to allow access for confirmation.
Cool find, if verified by others.
Now, about that Bible verse written before we knew dinosaurs existed, which claims that birds (dinosaurs) were created before mammals (domestic critters).
And that life began in the seas, before the birds were created. Dang those pesky “dates” though! (It’s hard to get the powers of ten right iffen you don’t have a zero, a ten, much less any “powers of ten” notation ... and a “big number” is “seventy times seven”
I'm fighting a bad chest cold -- that "hot glass in their gills" business makes it seem a little less bad...
For instance, the impact ejecta is shown moving at what appears to be about 1/10 light-speed (unlikely), and the atmospheric shock wave is shown expanding at around 600 miles per second, that is, about a million MPH (also unlikely). But considerably more entertaining than something more realistic. The incredible speed-up makes for a more fascinating image, no doubt about it.
Now if I can just tear my eyes away from it.
It was probably on a Thursday.
I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
Paleontologists can be nasty, jealous folks. I have a friend who found a T-Rex on private land in the Hell Creek Formation. A very nice specimen, since sold for big bucks.
They are serious, but amateur Paleontologists, not affiliated with a University. They are hated by many in Academia because they sell their finds, even though they use professional experts, document their digs, and make their data available to anyone who asks. They have also found a very nice Oviraptor that helped demonstrated that they guarded their own eggs and were not robbers of other nests. Lots of petty argument.
The same thing occurs among professionals, they don’t like people who make big finds like this one. Most land in the West is federally owned, with many restrictions on fossil hunting and digging, most of them imposed by some self appointed major domo scientist. That makes private land a premium, and both amateurs and professional work years to build a relationship with land owners. Most of the land owners want to control who they allow on their land and they are not willing to turn it into a petting zoo for scientists. These guys are publishing their finds, so their jealous colleagues can take a hike.
Hell Creek has been known as a paleontological gold mine for quite some time.
More evidence of Trump-Asteroid collusion.
Video or it didn’t happen...
I’m not going to claim to be psychic but, given the number of her complaints and my own extensive experience with Murphy’s Law, I have a sneaking suspicion that the next big killer asteroid is going to land right on my girlfriend’s foot.
When I was a child we used to laugh at the sky-is-falling types. It was an amusing child's story, that's all. Everyone knew rocks couldn't fall out of the sky. I certainly knew it. I laughed louder than all the other kids at the idea. Even scientists knew craters on the moon and earth were volcanic in origin.
Now look at us, uncovering actual victims and the horrors they experienced... Fish with their gills completely clogged with beads of glass, mouths agape, trying to breathe. Wow, never imagined that one! Hang on, folks. I bet they discover lots of little unexpected horrors like that that fascinate and kind of make you cringe at the same time.
So, the dinosaurs had the technology to make glass? Did the asteroid strike a glass bottle factory?
Bishop James Ussher came up with date October 22nd 4004 BC. He used the begats in the Bible to come up with that date. Nightfall in Ireland is 6PM so that is, according to the Bishop, the date and time of creation.
Most people at the time thought the Earth was of infinite age but our abilities to see into the past have greatly advanced and the most widely accepted age of the Earth is 4.5 billion years. Sorry, no year, no month, no date and no time of day.