The Day the Dinosaurs Died
New Yorker,
by
Douglas Preston
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
3/31/2019 6:52:48 AM
If, on a certain evening about sixty-six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared to be a star. If you watched for an hour or two, the star would have seemed to grow in brightness, although it barely moved. That’s because it was not a star but an asteroid, and it was headed directly for Earth at about forty-five thousand miles an hour. Sixty hours later, the asteroid hit. The air in front was compressed and violently heated,
And if the birds are descendants from Dinosaurs, they shouldn´t be here if they all died out. We can also look at Dinosaur graveyards. They have found many that the young are in the middle and the adults are on the exterior of the circle. A huge shock wave doesn´t explain this. There is a book that has a different explanation. Not of Fire but of Ice. Dr. Robert Felix. It also explains the Global warming hoax. Easy and interesting read.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 3/31/2019 8:23:39 AM (No. 18734)
OP, thanks for posting this. Very long but absolutely interesting article.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
franq 3/31/2019 8:27:55 AM (No. 18727)
Anything not in recorded history (~6000yrs), no matter how "scientific", I regard with complete skepticism. I´m not necessarily a Young Earther, but don´t try to tell me what happened a million or more years ago
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 3/31/2019 8:57:09 AM (No. 18740)
Fascinating article! The New Yorker couldn´t help itself but insert a blurb or two about carbon dioxide and climate change, but this is on track to be the most important paleontological discovery since the Alvarz crater itself.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 3/31/2019 8:58:07 AM (No. 18724)
Aside from DePalma´s credibility issues, the debates in the paleontology community on both the effect of the asteroid hit and the demise of the dinosaurs (big ones died off while smaller dinos as well as early mammals survived), all the claims in the article are based on a computer model and we know how accurate computer models are.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 3/31/2019 9:23:36 AM (No. 18737)
At last the truth comes out. The dinosaurs were killed by two white dudes wearing MAGA hats.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cThree 3/31/2019 9:29:26 AM (No. 18733)
This is a fascinating and typically long article (it´s the New Yorker...), and I´d like to believe the essentially discoveries are authentic. Like #2 I immediately wondered where modern birds came from; I suppose I´m compelled to say "99.9999%" of all life getting wiped out, is not all.
And so what if the claims here are dispute?
What matters most is that the fossils are being carefully extracting and preserved.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
plomke 3/31/2019 9:31:19 AM (No. 18730)
Looking forward to the sequel to be published in 2021.
The Day The RINOs Died,Election 2020...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FunOne 3/31/2019 10:08:54 AM (No. 18728)
Yes, #7, and with 30 round magazine assault rifles.
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This is an imaginative little narrative, worthy of an A in creative writing, but not science. I´ll stick with the account that has been in writing for much much longer, and is compatible with the fossil record.
I´ve always been intrigued by the areas with massive numbers of dinosaur bones. Surely they don´t think that dinosaurs had cemeteries. Surely they don´t think they traveled to a sentimental place to die when they were old. Obviously, they died together. It seems logical that they were seeking high ground together. This article even says, "The flood had entombed everything immediately, so specimens were exquisitely preserved."
For those who are not afraid of new information, try watching the PhDs describing how the Biblical account matches the fossil record in "Is Genesis History".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 3/31/2019 10:40:32 AM (No. 18732)
´Computer models´???? Sorry, but I don´t trust computer models....I especially don´t trust the people who input the computer rules...a ´plume of flame´ reaching 1/2 way to the moon??? Bahaha...this guy ought to hang out with Flake, they both are...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 3/31/2019 10:43:43 AM (No. 18731)
Very old news, both in the original event and the modern understanding of it. I think I first read about this about 15-20 years ago.
Seems to be reasonably well written, but I stopped after a while, I have heard this story a number of times before.
And....molten rock blasted to the other planets "still harboring living microbes"? Gee, seems pretty unlikely that they survived the temperatures "several times hotter than the surface of the sun". Sounds pretty iffy to me, but who knows?
Are the New Yorker´s readers just so out of touch with science so that this is new? I guess if you buy the whole MMGW fable, you are pretty ignorant about Earth Science, and maybe never heard of this before.
It is an amazing event, and the report seems well written, at least the first part that I read. If this is new to you, it´s an interesting story.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snakeoil 3/31/2019 11:37:39 AM (No. 18736)
Interesting read. Thanks for posting OP. FTA: "A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth." Not for me. The most significant event was the beginning of life. Scientists say it was 3.8 billion years ago. Members of various religions put more recent dates. Not taking sides. Don´t have a time machine and can´t find out. If you believe in God it´s simple: God created life from nonlife. If you don´t believe in God then explain how life emerged from nonlife. No one in human history has every witnessed life emerging from nonlife. We´ve had lots of Frankensteins but never a monster. My favorite astronomer Fred Hoyle who coined the term Big Bang said that the probability that life began randomly on Earth was roughly equivalent to a tornado going through a junkyard and assembling a fully functional Boeing 747. There are questions that don´t have answers and this is one of them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jacksin5 3/31/2019 11:44:33 AM (No. 18738)
Until Mr. Peabody and Sherman return in the Wayback Machine to corroborate These theories, that´s all they are, theories.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 3/31/2019 1:18:45 PM (No. 18725)
This article is factually incorrect . . .
A few dinosaurs did survive this disaster: Sanders, Pelosi, Feinstein, Biden, Schumer, etc.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dino Sayer 3/31/2019 2:18:24 PM (No. 18729)
The environment of 66 million years ago included an atmosphere with oxygen levels near 40%.
When the asteroid hit, it cracked the crust of the earth and released massive amounts of methane, which reduced to Co2 and water.
This reduced the oxygen percentage to our present reading of 22%.
The dinosaurs were adapted to the higher oxygen level and immediately died out.
Mammals evolved in the mountains where it got cold and the air was thinner. That’s why mammals have cold adaptation - live birth, hair.,warm blooded ness, suckling of the young.
Meanwhile birds with teeth all died, and birds without teeth lived. Birds without teeth were also adapted to thinner air.
Animals adapted to lower oxygen levels lived, those dependent on higher oxygen levels died.
See the book “Into Thin Air” by Brad Jensen
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
john56 3/31/2019 2:23:31 PM (No. 18726)
Musta sucked to be the last dinosaur left.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/31/2019 2:36:38 PM (No. 18735)
I personally enjoyed the article. Science isn´t flash-bang! It can take generations to properly examine and curate a field like this. And understand, some of the rude comments are cautionary in nature. Every Paleontology student goes through a phase of, "Look at this! Look at this!!" Its like a newly ´born´ Christian. They are so amazed by the new world they shove it in everyone´s face.
And they did not hide issues they spoke against his theories. This is a good example of GOOD science. They reach suppositions, but not conclusions, at this stage. They aren´t running around calling people out for not believing them.
I feel it was an excellent article.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
John Farson 3/31/2019 4:31:51 PM (No. 18742)
Enjoyed the read. Read all scientific articles with a grain of salt. But it was interesting.
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