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To: Red Badger

During Jurassic they would have had 2 Foot wingspan (not 2”) to be considered giant.

Air pressures were at least 4 times higher than today, with higher oxygen levels that made huge flying insects possible.


11 posted on 03/03/2023 12:45:28 PM PST by UNGN
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To: UNGN

That, a 2 foot wingspan, is what I was expecting to read about. Even with 2 inches, this man sees a fairly large dead(?) bug stuck to a wall. So he pulls it off with bare hands and just puts it in his pocket? Well, at least it wasn’t one of those furry catepillars with painfully toxic bristles.


19 posted on 03/03/2023 1:13:20 PM PST by lee martell
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To: UNGN
Air pressures were at least 4 times higher than today, with higher oxygen levels that made huge flying insects possible.

Then what happened?

What happens when a 7 mile diameter asteroid hits a shallow sea?

It creates a 120 wide white-hot crater on the sea floor. Sea water pours in from all sides and instantly flashes to steam.

Confined like a rocket nozzle by the crater sides and the wall of incoming seawater, it has only one way to go, straight up to space, sweeping the surrounding air with it.

How long does it take for the waters of the Gulf of Mexico to quench the exposed magma?

Apparently long enough to blow ¾ of the atmosphere out into space...

41 posted on 03/04/2023 6:00:26 AM PST by null and void (TIA - NW)
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