Posted on 05/10/2022 11:02:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Regarding the later K-T extinction:
[snip] Disney’s 1940 animated film Fantasia shows the dinosaurs dying off as the result of an intense drought. The theory of mass extinction as the result of an astroid strike wasn’t proposed until 1980. [/snip]
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/gbkmx0/disneys_1940_animated_film_fantasia_shows_the/
Rapid global warming 250 million years ago... No humans involved.... There goes that theory....
Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming.
This is obviously false and misinformation. The world is only getting hotter (warmer) because of the number of people on the planet and our vehicles, the cows burping and farting, etc. It is NOT a natural phenomena for the planet to go through cycles of extreme heat and cold (ice ages).
/sarc tag needed?
I thought volcanic eruptions caused cooling not warming?🙄
“..252 Million Years ago...was that before, or after, the invention of the Internal Combustion Engine?...”
Well...that depends on which brain-dead, moronic lib one asks. IF you ask pedoJoe, he’d tell exactly that them there, you know...those things, existed well before the invention of time.
Ha Ha!
Both wrong. It was a smoking slant six.
Before the snakes, spiders, crocodiles, sharks and jellyfish and drop bears could kill you in Australia you had watch out for volcanoes.
That land is cursed.
Everything in Australia is still trying to kill you.
Just like their supervolcanoes.
Whatever killed the dinosaurs was QUICK, MASSIVE and LONG LASTING.
In certain areas, massive piles of dinosaur fossils are found all jumbled together in one huge formation, as if they had all been washed away in a catastrophe so powerful that they could not stand or run away from it. And these animals were huge, powerful beasts.
And in other places, dinosaur footprints are embedded in stone, that was once mud. As if the dinosaur footprints were never exposed to weather or any type of erosion immediately after they were made, IOW, the place became frozen in time, for millions of years.
And other places, fossils, large and small, are found intact, as if no scavenger ever touched the rotting carcasses after their death and no weather ever dislodged the skeleton’s bones after the flesh was gone.
So whatever happened, happened in a flash, and caused the entire earth to basically stand still for a million or so years..................
DROP BEARS!
And not for the first time, nor probably the last. Later known large impacts were not as massive as the K-T event, though, apparently.
I have a hard time figuring out why Pompeii & Herculaneum were ‘lost’ for so long.
If they were the popular resorts of their era, wouldn’t there be people outside of the destruction zone that would go and try and recover their properties? Real estate is valuable in any era......................
The Romans probably were a bit gun-shy after the volcano wiped out everything. There were salvage efforts carried out by surviving homeowners (or maybe thieves) who figured out where their homes were buried, and dug down into their former residences, presumably to recover their personal wealth, or maybe in hope of finding survivors.
“..Both wrong. It was a smoking slant six....”
ROTFLMAO!!!
Especially the little nasty ones that ended up in ‘65 Plymouth Valiant StationWagons with a torqueflite, a little 450cfm Holly 4bbl carb, a slightly “hotter” cam and a set of 4.10 gears added to em....nasty, nasty little critters...debilitating mustang and climate haters, for sure. Whatever glaciers the big HEMI didn’t melt with just it’s exhaust song, these little buggers quickly gobbled up “the crumbs”. There was absolutely no climate in the entire universe that was safe with these evil buggers running around.
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