[decimon]

Sedimental journey ping.

[April Lexington]

WHAT! You mean my college perfesser lied to me!

[Big_Monkey]

This can’t be true. The earth is only 10,000 years old. Dinasours were alive when Adam & Eve rode them out of the Garden of Eden. And, Raquel Welsh fought one while wearing a fur bikini - I’ve seen the video. These scientist are nuts.

[qam1]

but, but, but if Dinosaurs weren't killed by an Asteroid, that means Nuclear winter was also exaggerated and Ronald Reagan wasn't evil????

[americanophile]

"Keller suggests that the massive volcanic eruptions at the Deccan Traps in India may be responsible for the extinction, releasing huge amounts of dust and gases that could have blocked out sunlight and brought about a significant greenhouse effect"

Global warming without people????!

[April Lexington]

Ah, I remember the good old days when the mere mention of dinosaurs would result in the almost immediate posting of a picture of Helen Thomas....

[ontap]

Volcanic eruption or celestial impact! What’s the difference we can avoid either one by switching to solar or wind power!

[theDentist]

Musta been the porcine flu.

[rwfromkansas]

If a 112-mile crater didn’t lead to any extinctions AT ALL, not just dinosaurs (as this nutjob claims at the end of the article), then my name is Al Gore.

Maybe it didn’t kill the dinosaurs due to when it fell (if in fact it didn’t hit at 65 million years, which frankly is in doubt because of the statement saying it wouldn’t have killed any animal off), but something went extinct because of it.

This crater is huge! I have never heard anyone claim before a crater this size would not result in extinctions because frankly, that is a preposterous claim. The rock that hit was massive.

[Signalman]

I knew it, I knew it...Dinosaurs were living 6000 years ago!

[PapaBear3625]

Keller suggests that the massive volcanic eruptions at the Deccan Traps in India may be responsible for the extinction, releasing huge amounts of dust and gases that could have blocked out sunlight and brought about a significant greenhouse effect.

There have been some speculations that the shockwave propagating from the Chicxulub impact may have triggered volcanic eruptions on the other side of the world in India

[snarks_when_bored]

...no other large craters are known to have caused a significant extinction event.

No significant extinction events known to have been caused by other large craters? Interesting. Still, it's probably a good idea to keep a wary eye on those large craters...they could turn into killers at any moment.

[JustDoItAlways]

This researcher has been on a crusade to disprove the asteroid impact theory and won’t share her evidence when asked so this should be viewed as a personal vendetta or something of the like.

[JimRed]

300,000 years is still only the blink of an eye geologically speaking. So, the mass extinction took more than a few years, or a few hundred. It was still very rapid.

The impact theory will have to do until proof of something else is discovered.

[diamond6]

To read later.

[RobRoy]

>>However, a number of scientists have since disagreed with this interpretation.<<

They are just a bunch of deniers.

Haven’t they heard, “the debate is over”.

[dfwgator]

I thought they all died from smoking.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The newest research, led by Gerta Keller of Princeton University in New Jersey, and Thierry Adatte of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, uses evidence from Mexico to suggest that the Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary by as much as 300,000 years.

Maybe they didn't die out right away, but started to decline with the decline in air quality after the asteroid strike.

[Larry Lucido]

Well, something got 'em, thank God.

[SunkenCiv]

The story here is, Gerta Kelly has been peddling this for years, has been wrong about it, and tries to push it through with press releases.

Bang goes that theory:
Dinosaur extinction ‘occurred 300,000 years AFTER asteroid impact’
dailymail.co.uk | April 27, 2009 | Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 04/27/2009 4:35:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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