was having a discussion with my granddaughter, a HS Senior. We were talking about the extinction of the dinosaurs. She said it was because of global warming that killed all the plants and they died. I asked about the asteroid that collide with the Earth causing a Nuclear Winter freezing vegetation and killing them. She said no, it was global warming. I asked about the thin layer of Iridium, and mineral usually found in asteroids, that circles the globe that’s buried under about 60 million year of detritus. She had never heard of that. I said that support my position on the extinction, I asked what supported her. Her answer: my teacher.
That reminds me of the Far Side Cartoon of “the real reason dinosaurs became extinct.”
https://twitter.com/cogdog/status/668822715801841665
What was a joke with Larsen has become both farce and tragedy
(gundog—I sent a link to the article to Mr. K among others)