New challenges to the impact theory

Until recently most scientists thought they knew what killed off the dinosaurs. A 10km-wide meteorite had smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, causing worldwide forest fires, tsunamis several kilometres high, and an 'impact winter' - in which dust blocked out the sun for months or years. It was thought that the dinosaurs were blasted, roasted and frozen to death, in that order.

But now a small but vociferous group of scientists believes there is increasing evidence that this 'impact' theory could be wrong. That suggestion has generated one of the bitterest scientific rows of recent times.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_prog_summary.shtml

That's what killed the dinosaurs! Hot air from Al Gore.

There is a Far-Side cartoon for this one.

Oh, come on. I've personally seen Al Gore speak and he is indeed a robot. Everybody knows that there were no robots 65 million years ago!

Insert obligatory single-panel cartoon featuring three dinosaurs smoking cigarettes.

Scratches head...

I know I've read this elsewhere that there were several die-offs, so I don't really see why this is a big supposed uproar.

OK!

According to a documentary I recently watched, a small group of people in Colorado discovered that the Dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant underground creature made out of petroleum.

So I read the article, did I miss the part where the new theory was something other than a different impact?

Dynosaurs did not extinc. They hide behind your furniture.
(As per Dilbert.)

They migrated into jobs of being Cobol programmers. (Also Dilbert.)

They changed appearances: Became smaller, learned to fly, and they formed the animal group The Byrds.

There is also a new theory how oil fields came to be. (So far no scientific explanation is extant, and no experimental or theoretical proof exists why they are there. This is actually a fact.)

I think (MY own theory) that the oil fields got formed in old garbage dumps by dynosaur societies, where they shipped their discarded plastic shopping bags and water bottles. The plastic of the bags and bottles, incredibly huge amounts of them, collected, and transformed themselves into several varieties of crude oil.

The dynosaurs became extinct because some enviro fascists or green fanatics or conservationist gurus got their way and all plastic bags got eventually replaced by paper bags.

This caused a decline and fall in the Dynosaur civilization, then a total collapse, then chaos, a war between the mammals and the dynos (as it had been written in the scriptures of the Dynos), a superlative victory for the mammals and an abject defeat for the once mighty dynos, and now all dynos are in heaven, or hell, according to how Jesusour, the sonour of Godour, judged them to go to.

any terrestrial life is just an alien experiment, every moment is good to switch-off the light, and we all even can't say goodbye

So the aliens themselves did not evolve on a terrestrial world?

Water. They were too big to fit on Noah's Ark and they were so wicked they ate meat on Fridays. So, they had to perish with the rest of the wicked.

The meteor thing was just a ruse to keep keep the controversy alive.

-Kerry O.

No, no Kerry, haven't you heard?! There weren't really any dinosaurs at all. Satan just planted big bones to lead us astray!

God did it.

The old theory was that the asteroid blast killed everything locally but wasn't big enough to cause worldwide damage. The dust created by the blast, however, was enough to cause sufficient climate change to kill them off by blocking the sun which killed the plants on which their food chain was based. Some have long speculated that the climate change was well underway and the blast just finished them off. In either case, there isn't much new in this article.

Oddly when people think Great Extinction they only think of Dinosaurs not knowing that not all Dinos were the same. There were several extinction events. One was theorized to have been a massive strike on the earth as life was just getting out of the water and theoretically wiped out all life but bacteria and fungi so life had to "start over." This event is theorized on geological date and dating of rock samples and compared to what we do know as when life began here for as pseudo arbitrary as that may be. The impact sites of some of the oldest and largest impacts are long gone thanks to geological activity but the rock they left behind in scarring remained. But one has to take continental drift into account piecing together these ancient phenomenon. There was an extinction of great insects, great amphibians, the great reptiles, the dinosaurs, and in the extinction of the dinosaurs there were three recognized die offs or extinction events, Lystrasaurus, Trododon, and finally Dinosaurs in general. But people forget the die off pre and post ice age! It is felt Lystrasaurus died from disease and starvation and Trododon died off FROM starvation. Both were the prevailing (dominate) life form of their day. Even the mammoth die off is still a mystery. Man didn't eat them into oblivion.

Then again here is another idea...


They all was eaten!


Lordy!

Maybe. *I* wonder who the beings are behind the "Satan". And if they are even more subtle than most people can imagine. For instance, I think they've already perfected the art of making fake Fakes. :) Imagine the fun they had in the Garden of Eden using ventriloquism to come up with a talking serpent...


-Kerry O.