Posted on 10/25/2006 3:33:16 PM PDT by blam
That's a very honest admission.
Vindicating Gore and increasing his chances for a 2nd presidential nomination...
He was right, he was there!
"In other words, they don't know WTF killed the dinos. And the don't really know when they lived, but they're sure they did. They think."
Yup. And after many more decades that will still be the situation because no one was there to see it for themselves.
Perhaps its a fact of life on an ever-changing planet.
Regards, Ivan
I would go with the simple notion that a meteor that large could have created a caldera where it hit. Then, in a relatively short period of time the caldera would have erupted in a supervolcano, wiping out all nearby traces of the meteor hit.
The location of that crater could be narrowed down by the only places on Earth without an Iridium layer attributed to that meteor.
There are lots of things I didn't see for myself. I never saw Thomas Jefferson. I've never seen the pyramids of Egypt, nor heard a single shot fired in the War Between the States. But I have no doubt that those things are/were real.
ML/NJ
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Was the Deccan event an asteroid impact? There was another massive lava event in Siberia. Was that also an asteroid impact?
eh, I should have read further down ... you beat my post (#48).
Growing? I don't think so. It's already grown, The evidence has been overwhelmingly against an impact wiping out the Dinosaurs since day 1
according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts,
More & More Epicycles!!!!
Give it up already, I know the big bad dinosaurs getting wiped out by an asteroid just sounds so cool, but there's no such evidence of an impact or impacts having any kind of significant effect.
massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period.
Makes much more sense
Marine sediments drilled from the Chicxulub crater itself, as well as from a site in Texas along the Brazos River, and from outcrops in northeastern Mexico reveal that Chicxulub hit Earth 300,000 years before the mass extinction. Small marine animal microfossils were left virtually unscathed, says Keller........
What the microfossils are saying is that Chicxulub probably aided the demise of the dinosaurs..........
The second part contradicts the 1st,
Gee, these impact scientist are almost as bad as the flood "scientist"
I have never heard of the second meteor impact. Does anybody know of it and where it was?
Thank you,
LOL. I just KNEW that cartoon was there...but I clicked it anyway!
Thanks
Every ten years or so scientists comes up with a new "Final Answer" on a variety of topics -- this being one of them.
Makes it kinda hard to take them very seriously.
There aren't enough impact scientists to analyze all the satellite remote sensing data. It would take a lot of supercomputer processor time, but an inventory of craters could be developed. As it is they have gone from zero to something like 500 impact craters in the past century. Seems like each discovery takes some kind of inspiration by a geologist familiar with the locality. There could be a systematic approach applied to the entire massive data record or much of it.
But what about the dinasours that inhabited the sea?
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