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To: LibWhacker
Scientists have speculated for more than a decade that the entire surface of the Earth below would have been baked by the equivalent of a global oven set on broil.Sure, and the animals that burrowed underground or sheltered in water survived how? By eating what?
2 posted on
07/08/2004 12:35:00 AM PDT by
freebilly
(Vote Kerry-- A billion Muslims can't be wrong...)
To: LibWhacker
It's all true...it's science. I read it in a book.
(I, too, observed this same thing 65 million yrs ago)
3 posted on
07/08/2004 12:38:50 AM PDT by
harbinger of doom
(Don't be so open minded your brain falls out)
To: LibWhacker
It looks like VELIKOVSKY's "Worlds In Collision" is being revisited!
To: LibWhacker; RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
The "heat pulse" caused by re-entering ejected matter would have reached around the globe, igniting fires and burning up all terrestrial organisms not sheltered in burrows or in water, he said. Hmmmmm...I wanna see their model for this.
RA, you'd have a better grasp of the physics behind this...what do you think? Locally, yes, I can accept this hypothesis, but globally? Musta been one h*lluva bolide, and I'm not convinced that smaller biota would have survived even in well-protected niches...availability of free atmospheric oxygen being a major factor.
Permian, maybe...K/T? Call me very skeptical.
10 posted on
07/08/2004 12:49:15 AM PDT by
Aracelis
To: LibWhacker
Wow this is a scary theory.
Earth may be a small target, but it has been traveling in a repetitive pattern for billions of years; in the field of trajectory of billions of astronomical projectiles...what are the odds of a hit?
15 posted on
07/08/2004 12:56:36 AM PDT by
Positive
(There's nothing sadder than seeing a group of great ideas being murdered by a bunch of brutal facts!)
To: LibWhacker
striking with the energy of 100 million megatons of TNT
Where on earth did he get this figure from? The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were in the 12-20 KILO ton range, meaning this explosion is 5 MILLION times stronger (provided that a megaton = 1000 kilotons).
22 posted on
07/08/2004 1:19:22 AM PDT by
lelio
To: LibWhacker
Bush did it. Dan Rather said so.
;)
27 posted on
07/08/2004 1:33:04 AM PDT by
kb2614
( You have everything to fear, including fear itself. - The new DNC slogan)
To: LibWhacker
Wow. One would almost expect the same reaction when liberals get hit with common sense. They're too akin to cockoraches I guess...
At any rate, if all the dinosaurs died then, how do they explain Helen Thomas?
Seriously, interesting article.
36 posted on
07/08/2004 2:43:37 AM PDT by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: LibWhacker
They know what happened 65 milion years ago?
I can't even find my keys...
38 posted on
07/08/2004 2:45:48 AM PDT by
djf
To: LibWhacker
I thought the Cretaceous extinction took about a million years?
48 posted on
07/08/2004 3:40:44 AM PDT by
mewzilla
To: LibWhacker
49 posted on
07/08/2004 3:48:56 AM PDT by
angkor
To: LibWhacker
It's a popular theory on the internet that the huge crater at Chicxulub in the Yucatan, was caused by a spaceship carrying the
original neanderthal seedlings. Man was supposed to evolve in a terribly harsh, dinosaur-filled environment - survival of the very fittest. Unfortunately, the crash moved human inception back a few million years.
One unforseen effect of this, because of the easier path, has been the early emergence of the "liberal" gene, which ideally would have been suppressed for a long, long time. Also, one can note that humans were to have started in north america rather that africa. Also, this event gave a big boost to cockroaches and rats, both of which were originally planned to exist in much smaller populations.
50 posted on
07/08/2004 4:02:15 AM PDT by
searchandrecovery
(Socialist America - diseased and dysfunctional.)
To: LibWhacker
I understand that scientists wanted to re-create the original event to verify the events. But they decided not to when they realized that re-creation would involve Michael Moore, a bag of beans, and a whole host of ethical issues.
To: LibWhacker
Well, it was 1 hour, forty minutes and thirty-three seconds.
Seriously,
"only those organisms already sheltered in burrows or in water were left alive"
What about Mosasaurs and Ichthyosaurs?
61 posted on
07/08/2004 8:58:55 AM PDT by
ZULU
To: LibWhacker; Victoria Delsoul; PatrickHenry; Quila; Rudder; donh; VadeRetro; RadioAstronomer; ...
To: LibWhacker; hchutch
According to new research led by a University of Colorado at Boulder geophysicist, a giant asteroid that hit the coast of Mexico 65 million years ago probably incinerated all the large dinosaurs that were alive at the time in only a few hours, and only those organisms already sheltered in burrows or in water were left alive.And, of course, Bush and Halliburton did it.
63 posted on
07/08/2004 9:07:45 AM PDT by
Poohbah
("Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" -- President Ronald Reagan, Berlin, 1987)
To: LibWhacker
"......only those organisms already sheltered in burrows or in water were left alive........." This explains why the Creationists are still with us.
64 posted on
07/08/2004 9:11:33 AM PDT by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: LibWhacker
If this is true, then why did the crocodiles, aligators, birds, and other assorted animals traced to that time period survive?
70 posted on
07/08/2004 10:23:02 AM PDT by
Desdemona
("He throws like a girl." - my mom's observation of John Kerry)
To: LibWhacker
I can no more imagine this than I could putting out a charcoal grill with a single ice cube; the deposits of which the author speaks could just as easily been deposited as silt over the course of flux and some several months of time.
79 posted on
07/08/2004 11:10:59 AM PDT by
Old Professer
(Interests in common are commonly abused.)
To: Sabertooth; PatrickHenry
The "heat pulse" caused by re-entering ejected matter would have reached around the globe, igniting fires and burning up all terrestrial organisms not sheltered in burrows or in water, he said. Everything non-burrowing and non-swimming died 65 million years ago? (At least, until such niches were re-occupied by the burrowing/swimming survivors.) That certainly is a potentially falsifiable hypothesis!
86 posted on
07/08/2004 12:25:26 PM PDT by
VadeRetro
("Well, you can just stay out of MY dreams, then!" -- Groucho Marx)
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