Mayan calendar ping
BiXiden’s fault.
Steven Jay Gould already did this same analysis and came to the same conclusion 35 yeas ago.
And right now, 2020 is the 26,999,999th year
This has been known for awhile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Patterns_in_frequency
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC344925/
It can’t happen soon enough!
Based on their timeline it appears we have another 15 million years before this is a problem.
This is quite understandable.
It takes 26,999,999 years for a civilization to form, for it to have a 5000 year leap to create a Republic, for it to create a Supreme Court... and then in the last year, for it all to collapse, and start over again.
Nonsense. It’s a 12-year cycle!
Well that Settles it for me I’m not paying off my credit cards
Once our cave-dwelling ancestors discovered “sushi”, it was all over for many species of edible animals. And then came the BBQ - Mastodon, Musk Ox, Giant Sloths. Nobody was spared (but they did become spareribs).
These scientists need to talk to the Creator . . .the One responsible for their next breath. God spoke the world and its inhabitants into existence and “He can take us out just like he put us in” this earth. Someone please give these so called global experts Bibles.
“Sixty-six million years ago... Subsequently...”
That little bit of bad writing made me smile.
It should be obvious why Earth experiences mass extinctions. The Solar System takes about 400 million years to complete an orbit around the galactic center.
The Solar System is not standing still. At points during that orbit the Earth and the Solar System encounter meteors.
Re: geologist Michael Rampino
I once arranged for him to speak before an organization I belonged to at the American Museum of Natural History. Got a free dinner out of it at a restaurant with him and other members of the club. They had to pay. Lol.
Anyway, his talk was on the Permian mass extinction event, the largest of all extinctions. As far as I know, they’ve never found evidence for an impact at that time. The mechanism was likely massive volcanism in Siberia. ie, the Siberian Traps. There was also massive volcanism in India around the time of the more famous dinosaur mass extinction. ie, the Deccan Traps.
Prove it. Nonsense.
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Sunday night, 13 December 2020.
What might be lurking in all that dust and pebbles???
I’ve heard this before, but I don’t see the pattern in the numbers at all!
Major extinction events:
542 million years ago
517 million years ago (25 million years later)
502 million years ago (15 million years later) *
488 million years ago (14 million years later) *
440 million years ago (48 million years later)
373 million years ago (67 million years later)
359 million years ago (14 million years later) *
260 million years ago (99 million years later)
252 million years ago (8 million years later)
201 million years ago (51 million years later)
145 million years ago (56 million years later) *
66 million years ago (79 million years later)
34 million years ago (32 million years later)
14 million years ago (20 million years later)
current (of course, 14 million years later) *
Several seem to be some multiple of 14 years apart from the previous one, but there’s no multiple of 14 between such pairs, so it just seems like a byproduct of randomness.