It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

Reuters ^ | March 4, 2010

[count-your-change]

Let's see...big asteroid hits...fireball circles the earth killing most dinosaurs......burning vegetation so there's no food for the dinosaurs....big question...how did the birds survive? What of all the flying insects?

[samtheman]

This seems to be the new scientific method. Theories are no longer proven, they are agreed upon by a panel and declared to be fact. This is the way the old theologians did it, so I suppose we have not advanced as much as we think we have.

Sadly true.

[SunkenCiv]

A bunch of Deccan Traps Deniers!!! Probably in the employ of the asteroid industry!

A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet. The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit.

But seriously -- hey, about d@##ed time. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.

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[SunkenCiv]

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[sodpoodle]

***how did the birds survive? What of all the flying insects?***

They hunkered down until the smoke cleared.

[Little Bill]

I have a book next to me that was published in 1986 that said the same damned thing, that was about three cases of beer in those days.

[txhurl]

Is it Planet Earth? The book?

[Cheburashka]

[pfflier]

Both true.

[Little Bill]

“The Great Great Dying”, Kenneth J. Hsu, Harcout, Brace, Jovanovich, ISBN-15-136904-6, don't play games.

[Sopater]

The only plausible explanation?

[txhurl]

The book I had, Planet Earth, covered the Alvarez’s story in depth and had other separate great dyings research corroborating the asteroid theory.

Oort cloud stuff, very interesting.

[TheOldLady]

Lotsa dinosaur carrion lying around, I’d say.

[TheOldLady]

Is that the Arc on top of Ararat?

[TheOldLady]

ArK ArK!!

[LiteKeeper]

Not!

[LiteKeeper]

There is one other plausible explanation: a global flood. Is actually a better explanation of the fossil fields than a giant asteroid.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“We need one one to land on the Dim side of Congress.”

Why a half way measure...?

[count-your-change]

That brings up another question....In the KT layer should be a layer of dino bones similar to the way a body would be covered by snow. Is that the case? Or are most bones found under the KT layer?