Post-apocalyptic fossils show rise of mammals after dinosaur demise

Reuters ^ | Will Dunham October 24, 2019 / 1:03 PM

[noiseman]

And none of that was responsive to what I said, just a bunch of ad-homonym rubbish.

[entropy12]

The asteroid did not kill dinosaurs directly. Instead the dust and debris kicked into atmosphere created prolonged blocking out the sun, accompanied by excessive cooling of atmosphere. The cold blooded Dino’s perished but the warm blooded small mammals survived.

[entropy12]

Wrong! Science is precise when current data is available.
Here you are talking about hundreds of millions ago, so scientists must try to put 2 and 2 together by extrapolation of old data such as bones of ancient creatures.

[adorno]

Wrong! Science is precise when current data is available. Here you are talking about hundreds of millions ago, so scientists must try to put 2 and 2 together by extrapolation of old data such as bones of ancient creatures.

There is no such thing as 'precise science' when it comes to investigating data and things from many millions of years ago. A lot of it is extrapolation and guesswork and theories, such as the theory of evolution, which is still unproven and may never be.

[entropy12]

That is pretty much what my post said. Since there are no video’s or photographs or written records from millions of years ago, scientists have to play role of Sherlock Holmes and use available clues to reach conclusions.

But when current data is available, science is extremely precise. For example science can measure your exact blood pressure and accurately predict your chances of having kidney failure.

[adorno]

Current data is not enough to reach verifiable scientific results. Data can be doctored and misinterpreted and lost and messed with, and even ‘made up’. Such as the ‘current’ data in ‘global warming science’.

My previous posts mostly related to data that is old and very skimpy and which requires a lot of guesswork, such as when a single tooth 100 million years old takes ‘scientists’ on a path of a lot of guesswork and speculation.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks RB. Will add to list and ping later.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3788850/posts

[Cedar]

Both of your posts, #13 and #14, were great. Thanks for your knowledgeable posts.

[noiseman]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks all.

[SunkenCiv]

Mammal told me there'd be days like these.

[Grimmy]

Post-apocalyptic fossils show rise of mammals after dinosaur demise

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That’s good. Otherwise, that whole extinction event timing thing becomes real problematical for us.

I mean, it would suck to be us if it was now little Johnny veliciraptor playing with his plastic human toys.

[Red Badger]

That’s what they want you to think............

[BobL]

“then I would expect there to be at least a few viruses or bacteria that would just grow arms and legs (because they “need” to) and walk into the research laboratories and pummel to death the researchers working on new antiviral and antibacterial strategies.”

There is. What do you think Staff Infections are (at least the ones that are drug resistant)?

[gnarledmaw]

Many didn’t. There was a major extinction of many aquatic lifeforms from this event also likely due to acidification.

[gnarledmaw]

oops, sorry. wasn’t meant for you. Too tired I guess.

[gnarledmaw]

Many didn’t. There was a major extinction of many aquatic lifeforms from this event also likely due to acidification.