Posted on 07/19/2016 3:00:57 PM PDT by bananaman22
What killed the dinosaurs? It’s a question as old as – well the dinosaurs themselves, and one that everyone from school children to scientists have been asking for decades. Movies like Jurassic Park and the Land Before Time only heighten that sense of wonder and raise the stakes behind that question. Now according to a new scientific study, it seems that black gold may have been the source of the dinos’ demise.
Japanese researchers at Tohuku University and the Meteorological Research Institute authored a recent study in the research journal Scientific Reports suggesting that a meteor impact 66 million years ago on an oil rich region of Yucatan Peninsula led to the death of the dinosaurs. When the asteroid hit the vast oil deposits of Mexico, it sent thick black smoke into the atmosphere, changing the climate around the world. That soot blocked out the sun leading to a significant cooling of the planet. Equally importantly, it also led to a substantial drought around the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
Isn’t the oil supposed to be dinosaurs?
That’s what the government wants you to believe.
Did Oil Kill The Dinosaurs?
No, next question.
WHAT?!!
Oil IS dinosaurs!
don’t forget the big wind turbines that the dinsaurs ran into.
I just saw your post and was about to write the same thing! LOL! :)
LOL, I’m pretty sure oil is not made from Dinosaurs.
Robin Williams in one of my favorite movies, Mrs. Doubtfire.
LOL!!!
Shoulda checked their smart phones. ;)
I always thought that dinos were the source of black gold!
I always thought that dinos were the source of black gold!
#23: So, is it “Oil’s well that ends well” or not?
And “Oyvazmir ImaSoreass” is not a species of dinosaur (or dinosorous).
However, it was Sorous (bad luck) as to how a dinosaur got sore. Got bitten by a Velociraptor in the tuchas.
New species of dinosaur - a Tuchasorous Rex (”royal pain in the ass” for laymen).
Better stop while I’m behind (no pun intended but it might work).
LOL
“Soylent Green is people.”
10,000 Megaton-—soot from oil??? It would ignite everything in the line of sight from the top of the plasma plume-—easily an 800 mile radius. The ejecta from the impact crater would come down worldwide-—the impacts would start secondary fires-—worldwide firestorms erupt. A coincidental eruption of the Deccan Traps may even be a consequence of the impact.
I simply cannot even consider this as even a remote possibility.
Remembering Mt St Helen popping her lid and spitting dust into the air would be a similar event as compared to some asteroid hitting Earth, only on a smaller scale.
But such dust settled out very soon.
So smoke from the oil caused it? Severe forest fires create smoke that travel for miles. But settle out soon.
Smoke, or dust from a single source will not cover the earth. It will move with the currents and settle out accordingly.
This theory is mindlessly stupid.
Now several asteroids in succession, also getting vulcanos to pop, over a period of months, maybe.
But one, no way, globull warming makes more sense, there’s more evidence of UFO’s and bigfoot.
Smoke from oil fires is dense and does not go very high before blowing sideways.
I thought dinosaurs were oil?!
wives tale
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.