Scientific consensus: Giant asteroid killed dinosaurs [Archive]

Avatard

03-08-2010, 04:36 PM

"It's believed that the impact actually blew down the forests over most of North America from the pressure wave associated with the explosion," Norris said.

fasternyou929

03-08-2010, 05:27 PM

When the topic is about something that exudes massive power, it is best to believe someone with the last name of Norris.:lmao:

"It's believed that the impact actually blew down the forests over most of North America from the pressure wave associated with the explosion," Norris said.

Not to mention: 24 mile deep crater (over 125,000ft. If you jumped in it, you'd be in free fall for ~12 minutes) and 15 million years for life remaining on earth to begin recovery.

WAY beyond comprehension.

Avatard

03-08-2010, 05:39 PM

One of these babies sneaks up on us, and we're toast.

askmrjesus

03-08-2010, 07:21 PM

One of these babies sneaks up on us, and we're toast.

Great, now I'll be up all night, worrying about Ninja Asteroids.

Somewhere in the universe, there are mad scientists designing stealth carbon fiber asteroids, so they can sneak up on us, and kill our dinosaurs.

The bastards.

JC

Papa_Complex

03-09-2010, 06:51 AM

Way to cover for dad's renovation project.

Particle Man

03-09-2010, 07:19 AM

One of these babies sneaks up on us, and we're toast.

I don't think it'll be very sneaky when it slams into the planet :lol:

It's like the old saying: Where does a bear shit in the woods? Anywhere it damn well pleases.

Avatard

03-09-2010, 09:25 AM

Rider

03-09-2010, 09:31 AM

This isn't a new concept. I remember as a kid hearing about how an asteroid killed of the dinosaurs. So just like Hollywood, the news media is out of ideas now, so they reprint old news?

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 09:50 AM

This isn't a new concept. I remember as a kid hearing about how an asteroid killed of the dinosaurs. So just like Hollywood, the news media is out of ideas now, so they reprint old news?

Reading comprehension fail. Color me shocked.

This is the first time the scientific community has agreed that only one asteroid killed them all. It was believed by many before that it would take multiple strikes to cause that kind of catastrophic loss. Or another event all together.

The researchers wanted to settle disputes about what killed off the dinosaurs. Some theories have argued that it would have taken many meteorites to cause such a cataclysmic event. Another rival theory suggested that the mass extinction was a result of a massive volcanic eruption in India that took place around the same time as the impact.

Rider

03-09-2010, 09:52 AM

Reading comprehension fail. Color me shocked.

This is the first time the scientific community has agreed that only one asteroid killed them all. It was believed by many before that it would take multiple strikes to cause that kind of catastrophic loss.

Only one asteroid is what I heard many years ago. Where did I stutter? Assumption FTMFL.

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 09:57 AM

Only one asteroid is what I heard many years ago. Where did I stutter? Assumption FTMFL.

They didn't do this study for you, they did it for the members of the science community that didn't believe the theory. False sense of importance FTMFL.

Rider

03-09-2010, 09:58 AM

They didn't do this study for you, they did it for the members of the science community that didn't believe the theory. False sense of importance FTMFL.

Are you really that fucking retarded? :lol

Dave

03-09-2010, 09:59 AM

One of these babies sneaks up on us, and we're toast.

another excellent reason to get off this rock instead of try to save it.

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 10:05 AM

Are you really that fucking retarded? :lol
You still don't get it. :lol:

If you were sharper than a marble, your opinion might bother me.

Rider

03-09-2010, 10:10 AM

You still don't get it. :lol:

If you were sharper than a marble, your opinion might bother me.

I get it, and I laugh AT you. Have a nice day!

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 10:11 AM

I get it, and I laugh AT you. Have a nice day!

No, you don't. Have a good one buddy.

Avatard

03-09-2010, 10:19 AM

Rider knows just enough to edit your posts. He doesn't understand science. Don't waste his and your time explaining it.

Rider

03-09-2010, 10:25 AM

Rider knows just enough to edit your posts. He doesn't understand science. Don't waste his and your time explaining it.

Because I said this wasn't a new concept? You're name is fitting. :lol

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 10:28 AM

Because I said this wasn't a new concept? You're name is fitting. :lol

It wasn't printed as a new concept. Man, you really don't get it! :lmao:

Rider

03-09-2010, 10:29 AM

It wasn't printed as a new concept. Man, you really don't get it! :lmao:

It's not new if I heard it 30+ years ago. What part are you not understanding?

Papa_Complex

03-09-2010, 10:39 AM

Actually YOU are misunderstanding that they have new proof, for an old theory.

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 10:41 AM

It's not new if I heard it 30+ years ago. What part are you not understanding?

That article wasn't printed as a new theory, but to announce the first time the scientific community agreed that's what happened. One asteroid. Not multiple, not a volcanic eruption, not a combination of events. One cataclysmic one.

If you get that, your posts in this thread don't make sense.

Avatard

03-09-2010, 10:43 AM

Consensus. It was even in the fucking title. Reading Is Fundamental.

Trip

03-09-2010, 11:37 AM

I don't believe it, I think they evolved and developed the technology to put human looking skins over themselves and will use humans as a food source.

Dave

03-09-2010, 11:41 AM

i think xenu pushed them into a volcano

Trip

03-09-2010, 11:43 AM

i think xenu pushed them into a volcano

nah, if you are going that route, when xenu blew up the volcanos, filled with aliens brought here on DC-8s, with hydrogen bombs; I am guessing the dinosaurs died in all the fallout.

Dave

03-09-2010, 11:47 AM

thetan overload. Well that or they all had heart attacks from doing atkins

Avatard

03-09-2010, 12:18 PM

Xenu stopped by and picked up all the Dinosaurs before the asteroid hit.

They've been chilling out in a nearby solar system plotting their return.

Trip is right about one thing. They've been waiting until there is enough food here to warrant their return. There's nearly enough of us, they ougtta be here soon.

Homeslice

03-09-2010, 01:42 PM

another excellent reason to get off this rock instead of try to save it.

Good luck with any permanent colonies getting established until maybe 2300

Dave

03-09-2010, 01:58 PM

Good luck with any permanent colonies getting established until maybe 2300

good luck with anything once the shuttles retire. I love burt rutan but i dont see him raising the capital for anything that big

Papa_Complex

03-09-2010, 02:39 PM

another excellent reason to get off this rock instead of try to save it.

Actually a reason to get off this rock IN ORDER TO save it.

Homeslice

03-09-2010, 02:48 PM

good luck with anything once the shuttles retire. I love burt rutan but i dont see him raising the capital for anything that big

good luck getting anyone interested in anything besides porn and video games

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 03:05 PM

Where'd Rider go? :lol

Dave

03-09-2010, 03:09 PM

good luck getting anyone interested in anything besides porn and video games

yer right, back to 4chan lol

Avatard

03-09-2010, 03:09 PM

Where'd Rider go? :lol

:runaway:

Homeslice

03-09-2010, 03:12 PM

Where'd Rider go? :lol

:zowned:

Rider

03-09-2010, 03:24 PM

Where'd Rider go? :lol

I'm here I just don't care enough.

Dave

03-09-2010, 03:30 PM

fapfapfap

Avatard

03-09-2010, 03:53 PM

good luck with anything once the shuttles retire. I love burt rutan but i dont see him raising the capital for anything that big

...Unless he partners with Trump.

They could paint it gold, and call it the "Trump Shuttle".

fasternyou929

03-09-2010, 03:58 PM

I'm here I just don't care enough.

I guess that's easier to say than "my bad. Guess it was me that's 'fucking retarded'".

P.S. I'm laughing AT you. Have a nice day!

Dave

03-09-2010, 04:12 PM

...Unless he partners with Trump.

They could paint it gold, and call it the "Trump Shuttle".

omg dude. Trump moon and resorts. Thats a scary fucking thought

Particle Man

03-09-2010, 05:10 PM

Couldn't "sneak up" on us, you say?

Don't make me list all the scenarios where something like this could "surprise" us. Just because we have telescopes and math doesn't mean we couldn't be caught almost as unaware as the Dinosaurs.

so very true I suppose. We spent a ton of the development time for early warning systems aiming large bombs at our own planet rather than "out there" where we should have been looking.