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Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit
University of Colorado News Center ^
| May 24, 2004
Posted on 07/08/2004 12:29:19 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Scientists have speculated for more than a decade that the entire surface of the Earth below would have been baked by the equivalent of a global oven set on broil.Sure, and the animals that burrowed underground or sheltered in water survived how? By eating what?
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:35:00 AM PDT
by
freebilly
(Vote Kerry-- A billion Muslims can't be wrong...)
To: LibWhacker
It's all true...it's science. I read it in a book.
(I, too, observed this same thing 65 million yrs ago)
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:38:50 AM PDT
by
harbinger of doom
(Don't be so open minded your brain falls out)
To: freebilly
Burnt and rotting plant and animal matter, each other, etc. They survived it so obviously there was some food for them.
To: LibWhacker
It looks like VELIKOVSKY's "Worlds In Collision" is being revisited!
To: harbinger of doom
There are two kinds of college students: science students and liberal arts imbeciles who can't make the grade.
To: freebilly
And wouldn't that have killed every land plant?
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:42:18 AM PDT
by
swilhelm73
(We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.")
To: the_Watchman
No, we don't need Velikovsky to see there are comets and asteroids out there.
To: swilhelm73
You'd think so, but not necessarily.
To: LibWhacker; RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
The "heat pulse" caused by re-entering ejected matter would have reached around the globe, igniting fires and burning up all terrestrial organisms not sheltered in burrows or in water, he said. Hmmmmm...I wanna see their model for this.
RA, you'd have a better grasp of the physics behind this...what do you think? Locally, yes, I can accept this hypothesis, but globally? Musta been one h*lluva bolide, and I'm not convinced that smaller biota would have survived even in well-protected niches...availability of free atmospheric oxygen being a major factor.
Permian, maybe...K/T? Call me very skeptical.
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:49:15 AM PDT
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Aracelis
To: swilhelm73
Perhaps deep roots survived, and I'm sure seeds did. And, other animals were carrying around seeds. Those would produce new, adapted plants and underground plant matter and insects would provide food and water.
To: the_Watchman
It looks like VELIKOVSKY's "Worlds In Collision" is being revisited! Velikovsky was a dolt.
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:52:26 AM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: lonewacko_dot_com
Must have been a lot of rain after that much evaporation.
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:54:17 AM PDT
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Free Trapper
(Because we ate the green mammals first!)
To: swilhelm73
And wouldn't that have killed every land plant? Probably, but not all their seeds.
I'd also think that creatures and plants nearer the poles would have had an advantage.
If I recall correctly, species that were exclusively shallow-water-dwelling had a hard time pulling through as well.
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:55:43 AM PDT
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Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: LibWhacker
Wow this is a scary theory.
Earth may be a small target, but it has been traveling in a repetitive pattern for billions of years; in the field of trajectory of billions of astronomical projectiles...what are the odds of a hit?
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:56:36 AM PDT
by
Positive
(There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
To: Free Trapper
"Must have been a lot of rain after that much evaporation." Yes, and the mineral content of the astroid may have been very beneficial to plant growth and animal development.
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posted on
07/08/2004 1:01:02 AM PDT
by
Positive
(There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
To: Positive
A big hit like that one? I've heard something like once every 100 million years or so.
To: Positive
That's the way I was thinking.
Fast destruction and everything set for a quick rebirth?of life.
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posted on
07/08/2004 1:09:39 AM PDT
by
Free Trapper
(Because we ate the green mammals first!)
To: LibWhacker
Trust me, I'm no Art Bell...but asteroids come in many shapes and sizes and material content, do they not.
If they do...it must be one heck of a mathematical computation to figure out the probablity...then of course there's the differences of consequences of a direct hit, a negative rotation hit or a positive rotation hit...is it in the Northern Hemisphere during which season or the Southern?
I bought a Lotto ticket today...odds 41,600,000 to one...hundreds of people have "beat the odds."
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posted on
07/08/2004 1:10:26 AM PDT
by
Positive
(There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
To: Free Trapper
The problem involves quite a number of factors, not the least of which would be rapid and efficient carbon sequestration. Rain would accelerate the process, but where's the sink? We have found a fine clay lamina in various places globally the defines the K/T, but I do not recall that this was being investigated for carbon.
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posted on
07/08/2004 1:10:47 AM PDT
by
Aracelis
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