Scientist: ONE IMPACT ONLY (Yucatan) Killed Off Dinosaurs

Red Orbit ^ | 11/28/2006 | Staff Writer

[Al Simmons]

Read this and it might change your mind:

http://www.exodus2006.com/fires.htm

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[stormer]

"When I was in college there were still articles suggesting volcanic activity caused the dinosaur extinction."

Oh yeah? Well, when I was in college there were articles suggesting that dragon remains could be found sticking out of the ground in certain places and that the world wasn't flat. So I've got you beat.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, ConservativeMind!

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[akorahil]

...no I mean it was Dino's for not buying insurance....yeah that's it

Frank, Peter, Joey, and Sammy hardest hit...

[RetiredArmy]

THIS IS PURE B.S. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE KNOWS that an impact did not kill off all the TRex's. It waz THEM SUV'S!!! SUV'S I TELL YOU. SUV'S DID IT. The Dims said so.

[SmartAZ]

Dinosaurs were extincted, but frogs were not. Frogs were there, and we still have them. The impact theory does not explain why dinosaurs died and frogs didn't. It also doesn't explain why most plants before that time were gymnosperms and most plants since then are angiosperms.

[VeniVidiVici]

ONE IMPACT ONLY

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I love that one.

[SunkenCiv]

Al Simmons: Further confirmation of what all the evidence pointed to anyhow....

and

Lunatic Fringe: The possibility of two earth-shaking meteors that close are pretty remote, and if it did happen it was probably a split rock.

and

blam: Yup. I never paid much attention to the other arguments

Well put. Okay, actually, I have paid attention to other arguments, but none of them held water, and were really just shrieks on the retreat. The impact denial camp has been getting a bit more publicity lately, and will be around for a while yet because they're tied in with the global warming crap, and because sudden extinction by deux ex machina (okay, used that phrase twice in a week) screws up diehard gradualists. I don't mind that they're diehards, just as long as they actually die. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

Welcome to FR.

[wodinoneeye]

Now thats 'Climate Change'.....


But then like everything else :

ITS BUSH'S FAULT *shriek* *shriek* !!!!!

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

"...It also doesn't explain why most plants before that time were gymnosperms and most plants since then are angiosperms...."

Hey Hey, keep it clean, you potty mouth!

I understand that the meteor impact site is near or at the location of the present day Mexican state of Quintana Roo.

Nothing to add, I just wanted to say "Quintana Roo".

[Al Simmons]

This might help you to understand why some critters survived K-T and most did not.

http://www.exodus2006.com/fires.htm

[null and void]

The ozone hole grew to an enormous size, and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and water vapor were introduced into the atmosphere without any regulatory oversight. HIV/AIDS and other diseases of the immune system may have been rampant as well. Homelessness was widespread, as was a lack of affordable health insurance.

Ah. So this was during a Republican administration, was it?

[null and void]

Clickable link:
http://www.exodus2006.com/fires.htm

[null and void]

VERY interesting. India and the Dekkan traps were not antipodal to the Chicxulub strike.

This is why Luis and Walter Alvarez ruled out a connection between the impact and the basaltic flow.

Could the combination of trajectory and earth's rotation dropped enough crap on the Indian Continent to cause multiple fractures for the magma to start weeping out?

[Al Simmons]

Not a scientist, but believe Deccan traps dated about 300,000 years before Chixculub impact...

[Al Simmons]

Basically, any critter small enough to hide in a burrow (mammals, birds) or to hibernate through the catastrophe (snakes, crocs, lizards, amphibians) survived the initial firestorms and subsequent 3-4 month global winter (and global cooling that followed, acid rain, etc.)

If you were big and warmblooded (dinosaurs) you had nowhere to hide and even if you somehow survived the initial fiery cataclysm would have frozen/starved to death.

If you were small and warmblooded (mammals) you survived the fire and freeze underground, undoubtedly feasting on the carrion littering the entire face of the earth. Ditto for small birds....

[Wiseghy]

Makes sense. I always thought that all the theories about complex reasons for Dino extinction ignored the basic simplicity of Occam's razor, i.e.; big meteor=dead Dino's. Why make it complicated?