The impact threw up masses of dust and soot to high altitude, resulting in less than two hours a 100 percent overcast which blocked out all sunlight and lasted for months or years. IOW, no, it didn't. Thanks Olog-hai.
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Posted on 05/26/2020 11:45:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago crashed into Earth at “the deadliest possible angle”, researchers have concluded.
The giant impacter struck what is today Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula at around 60 degrees — maximizing the production of climate-altering greenhouse gases.
The global disaster caused by the space rock — which was bigger than Mount Everest — was far worse than once thought, Imperial College London experts said.
Previous studies had suggested the asteroid came in at an angle of around 30 degrees, while others concluded that it crashed almost straight down.
However, the team’s computer simulation found that the gradient was bang in the middle of these two values — a fact that was more the worse for ancient life. […]
The asteroid left a 120-mile-wide crater at the disaster zone, vaporizing rock and sending billions of tons of sulfur and carbon dioxide into the prehistoric skies.
All living things within hundreds of miles of the impact site would have been incinerated within minutes.
Meanwhile, the dust cloud generated by the impact would have blocked out the sun — likely triggering a “nuclear winter” and seeing temperatures plunge, acid rain falling from the skies and 75 percent of living species wiped out. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A Democrat dream scenario.
Why? Was it populated with SUVs?
See what happens when you don’t angle the deflector shields?
For something this big, I think we’d need some random frequency modulations too!
The impact threw up masses of dust and soot to high altitude, resulting in less than two hours a 100 percent overcast which blocked out all sunlight and lasted for months or years. IOW, no, it didn't. Thanks Olog-hai.
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Imperial College. Computer Model. Ummmmmm.
No, Wuhan flu.
I've heard of them.
I think that God said it was time for the dinosaurs to go and thus made it so. It’s all part of the master plan. Nothing more. ...and it’s nothing that mankind can stop. ...just a thought. ...nothing more. ...
Trump’s fault!
God would not do such a thing to His own creation. Think of a different entity.
“The deadliest possible angle”, it's what the party of destruction lives for.
A day without negative waves is like a day without sunshine.
Meanwhile, the dust cloud generated by the impact would have blocked out the sun — likely triggering a “nuclear winter” and seeing temperatures plunge, acid rain falling from the skies and 75 percent of living species wiped out. …
So who won, the warming or the cooling?
Sounds like that old Steven Wright bit: "I bought a humidifier and a de-humidifier. So I kept them both on overnight and let them fight it out."
Little known fact...One of the dinosaurs was named "Hillary", and Hillary Clinton was named after her...
Imperial College of London is a very well respected research university in the geology field. I know this as a professional geoscientist myself they have 14 Nobel laureate from when Nobel prize meant actual science not politics.
An impact of a astronomical body of this size would throw billions of tons of molten material into not only the stratosphere but a good portion would have orbital velocity and enter low earth orbit. Over the next weeks that material would reenter and burn up adding further particulates to the upper atmosphere blocking sunlight for years leading to massive curtailment of photosynthesis and the collapse of every global food web. An impact of this size would also create materials with escape velocity and put matter into solar orbit especially at a glancing blow. Just for reference there are meteorites found on Earth that have been traced to Mars blasted here by impacts on Mars in the past into solar orbit and then captured by earth’s gravity well. Fascinating stuff as it’s the only direct sampling of Martian material humans have until a sample return mission is conducted....come on falcon heavy! Which has more than enough throw weight to put a sample return mission to the C3 delta V needed.
God would not do such a thing to His own creation. Think of a different entity.
I didn’t think they had protractors in the Cretaceous.
Their work in the medical field has been in the news recently.
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