Finally Confirmed: An Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs

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A hotly contested theory of what actually caused the extinction of the dinosaurs has finally been confirmed by a team of international scientists. The date of the asteroid hitting the Mexican coastline was one of the points of contention which the scientists narrowed the timeline down to an 11K year period, removing speculation. Dinosaurs around the world can now rest easy in their rocky crypts, their killer has been confirmed. :D

European and American scientists have re-tested debris from Chicxulub using state-of-the-art equipment and narrowed the asteroid impact down to a period of 11,000 years, between 66.03 and 66.04 million years ago — almost simultaneous with the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction.
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pretty cool... they narrowed it down quite a bit... 11,000 years is pretty impressive
 
Shenanigans. Everyone knows that Xenu came down to earth in his magic underwear, wrote a book, and ripped out one of his ribs which he then threw into a garden.
 
eh... I have a hard time believe that every dinosaur on the planet was wiped out completely, yet all the mammals, reptiles, birds, & fish managed to survive. While an asteroid probably wiped out most of them, I think they simply fell by the wayside due to evolution. That or paleontologists simply made up some silly rules that differ dinosaurs from reptiles, and some are still around. I mean shit when I was a kid the Brontosaurs was a real dinosaur, dinosaurs were cold blooded not warm, and none of them had feathers.
 
sfsuphysics said:
eh... I have a hard time believe that every dinosaur on the planet was wiped out completely, yet all the mammals, reptiles, birds, & fish managed to survive. While an asteroid probably wiped out most of them, I think they simply fell by the wayside due to evolution. That or paleontologists simply made up some silly rules that differ dinosaurs from reptiles, and some are still around. I mean shit when I was a kid the Brontosaurs was a real dinosaur, dinosaurs were cold blooded not warm, and none of them had feathers.
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The thing was the "nuclear winter" effect. Do you realize how much food it takes to just run a body the size of your standard late model Dinosaur? There was a very limited food supply due to decreased sunlight from the crap the asteroid kicked up, so they had no sustained food source and died, where the smaller creatures were able to find the limited amount of food available.. like dead dinosaur carcases.
 
But this can't be true the Christians and republicans told its dinosaurs didn't exist and we know they never lie. This meteor was clearly planted millions of years ago as phony evidence by liberals and Satan.
 
I'd love to see a christian website refute this. Does anyone have one?

Also, everyone knows the earth is only 6,000 years old. Science. Flawed.
 
Soon after the asteroid hit, the marker went to work.

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sfsuphysics said:
eh... I have a hard time believe that every dinosaur on the planet was wiped out completely, yet all the mammals, reptiles, birds, & fish managed to survive. While an asteroid probably wiped out most of them, I think they simply fell by the wayside due to evolution. That or paleontologists simply made up some silly rules that differ dinosaurs from reptiles, and some are still around. I mean shit when I was a kid the Brontosaurs was a real dinosaur, dinosaurs were cold blooded not warm, and none of them had feathers.
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Actually,some of them did have feathers. There's proof some species were evolving towards becoming bird like before the extinction.I think the main factor that determined what creatures survived was body size,only smaller species made it. If the asteroid hadn't hit,I do think the larger dinosaurs would have eventually gone by the wayside in favor of the smaller,smarter,more adaptable species such as raptors.
 
michael.pa2 said:
Actually,some of them did have feathers. There's proof some species were evolving towards becoming bird like before the extinction.I think the main factor that determined what creatures survived was body size,only smaller species made it. If the asteroid hadn't hit,I do think the larger dinosaurs would have eventually gone by the wayside in favor of the smaller,smarter,more adaptable species such as raptors.
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New research has shown that it is actually likely that MOST dinosaurs had feathers (or at least a short feather-like coat). Sort of ruins your childhood doesn't it? :eek:
 
sinclair-zx81 said:
The thing was the "nuclear winter" effect. Do you realize how much food it takes to just run a body the size of your standard late model Dinosaur? There was a very limited food supply due to decreased sunlight from the crap the asteroid kicked up, so they had no sustained food source and died, where the smaller creatures were able to find the limited amount of food available.. like dead dinosaur carcases.
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michael.pa2 said:
Actually,some of them did have feathers. There's proof some species were evolving towards becoming bird like before the extinction.I think the main factor that determined what creatures survived was body size,only smaller species made it. If the asteroid hadn't hit,I do think the larger dinosaurs would have eventually gone by the wayside in favor of the smaller,smarter,more adaptable species such as raptors.
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Both of you: I get the whole nuclear winter effects, only small things survive, but my point is not all dinosaurs were huge behemoths there were some small ones too.

What happened to crocodiles? They existed hundreds of millions of years ago, the bigger ones surely went extinct but the smaller ones didn't, they re-evolved back into big ones? Ditto with something like sharks.

The comment about the feathers is that our view of what a dinosaur was has changed considerably since I was a child, and I'm not even in my 40s yet. I wouldn't be surprised if dinosaurs still exist today, or some ancestral form of them, we just may not recognize them as dinosaurs.
 
sfsuphysics said:
What happened to crocodiles? They existed hundreds of millions of years ago, the bigger ones surely went extinct but the smaller ones didn't, they re-evolved back into big ones? Ditto with something like sharks.

The comment about the feathers is that our view of what a dinosaur was has changed considerably since I was a child, and I'm not even in my 40s yet. I wouldn't be surprised if dinosaurs still exist today, or some ancestral form of them, we just may not recognize them as dinosaurs.
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Animals evolve into smaller or larger "relatively" quickly, whether shark or croc, and birds are direct dinosaur descendents.

Sounds like you have some dino catching up to do :p
 
bpizzle1 said:
New research has shown that it is actually likely that MOST dinosaurs had feathers (or at least a short feather-like coat). Sort of ruins your childhood doesn't it? :eek:
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No, but I was always told we didn't know exactly what they looked like anyways. If anything, this makes me more interested in dinosaurs. Still, I have almost no interest. Now, if they figured out that they looked like poodles, I'd be satisfied, only because I know a ton of people will be depressed over it :D
 
Matthew Kane said:
Like's to name all there".......why oh why isn't there an edit button. :mad:
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So this way no one can go and try to retract what they say later on or rush to post something without thinking it through. Not to mention it's suppose to make you think and look at your post before you post to make sure you got it right.
 
Sometimes I wonder if people know what the word "confirmed" means. "Improved/supported theory" and "confirmed" are two different things. This is the former.

Don't get me wrong, it's great that they've discovered this, I just hate the misuse of language in science.
 
Matthew Kane said:
Like's to name all there".......why oh why isn't there an edit button. :mad:
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Don't worry, I understood what you meant and you're still wrong anyway, you meant "all their products", not "all there products". :D
 
LIES ... we all know that the Dinos wasted away right after they invented the amazing and addictive new sensation Snoutbook ... it was surely their addiction to Mammalville that killed them, not a bad game of Asteroids :D :p

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I want another astroid to hit and kill 95% of human population but I wish to be the 5% left :)
 
As long as it leaves Canada where all the nice people live alone (except Newfoundland because...well, you know why) I'd be okay with asteroid destroys the Earth round two.
 
sfsuphysics said:
eh... I have a hard time believe that every dinosaur on the planet was wiped out completely, yet all the mammals, reptiles, birds, & fish managed to survive. While an asteroid probably wiped out most of them, I think they simply fell by the wayside due to evolution. That or paleontologists simply made up some silly rules that differ dinosaurs from reptiles, and some are still around. I mean shit when I was a kid the Brontosaurs was a real dinosaur, dinosaurs were cold blooded not warm, and none of them had feathers.
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Well, when an asteroid hits Earth, it doesn't cause extinction by physically killing all living being, setting the planet on fire or anything like that. What it does is it shakes up the food chain, and when you are at the top, you're the first to go extinct. The other species at the bottom don't need to go extinct to kill off those at the top, they just need a huge drop in their population.
 
Disposed said:
But this can't be true the Christians and republicans told its dinosaurs didn't exist and we know they never lie. This meteor was clearly planted millions of years ago as phony evidence by liberals and Satan.
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I really would like to know your actual source that shows that "Christians and republicans" say that dinosaurs didn't exist.

I have never heard that before.
 
sfsuphysics said:
eh... I have a hard time believe that every dinosaur on the planet was wiped out completely, yet all the mammals, reptiles, birds, & fish managed to survive.
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Of course you have a hard time believing that, because that's not how it worked. Only an idiot would think it worked that way. Almost all of the mammals, reptiles, birds and fish that existed then were wiped out too.

Only one kind of placental mammal made it through after the great dying period: Protungulatum donnae.
 
Danny Bui said:
So this way no one can go and try to retract what they say later on or rush to post something without thinking it through. Not to mention it's suppose to make you think and look at your post before you post to make sure you got it right.
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Yeh kind of hard posting via mobile.
 
sfsuphysics said:
What happened to crocodiles? They existed hundreds of millions of years ago, the bigger ones surely went extinct but the smaller ones didn't, they re-evolved back into big ones? Ditto with something like sharks.
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The time has long since passed where oxygen levels were high enough to support such huge animals. A large crocodile or shark by today's standards would be dwarfed by their ancestors. Look at Sarcosuchus or Megalodon star of the 2010 smash hit Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjgET1gPDNI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcosuchus
 
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