What killed off the dinosaurs.....

[stephen55]

Just when I thought the answer was settled and the blame went to a big asteroid that smacked into what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, 65 million years ago, along comes someone who blames it on...wait for it...climate change.

http://www.aolnews.com/science/arti...lled-dinosaurs-german-scientist-says/19417294

Go figure!! Seeing as how climate change has been totally, completely, absolutely and in every other way discredited in our times, the climate change myth perpetrators, lead by Al Gore had to come up with some new evidence to make us believe their garbage. Too bad it's 65 million years too late. But then, Al Gore is a dinosaur, so what do you expect from these types?

 

[Handley_Page]

Continuous evolution may have accounted for some extinctions (over a long period), but the sudden disappearance of the sun would not have helped.
From what I recall of the programmes I've seen death was a s sudden as switching off the lights.

All thanks to that asteroid.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Plenty of species survived.

 

[rgraham666]

I once wrote a story that figured a species of dinosaur became intelligent like us, and fucked up the ecosystem like us.

Intelligence may be a suicidal thing for a species to evolve.

 

[stephen55]

Plenty of species survived.

This is true. However, not one surviving species was a dinosaur.

 

[LaRocha]

Crocodiles, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs are all archosaurs. Crocodiles survived the other two branches didn't. I blame HIV and Islam.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

This is true. However, not one surviving species was a dinosaur.

Birds.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

This is true. However, not one surviving species was a dinosaur.

On the contrary, plenty of dinosaurs survived. They just lost their teeth and flew away. The order Aves is now discredited. All birds are theropods.

 

[stephen55]

Crocodiles, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs are all archosaurs. Crocodiles survived the other two branches didn't. I blame HIV and Islam.

I'm with you on this. The only reason crocodiles survived was because they stayed away from both Islam and gay crocodiles.

 

[LaRocha]

I'm with you on this. The only reason crocodiles survived was because they stayed away from both Islam and gay crocodiles.

The dinosaurs and pterosaurs were way into the psychedelic soul scene of the 70s and joined the nation of islam and had unprotected sexual contact with many a straight and gay disco queen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W78Kub0KR-I

 

[stephen55]

The dinosaurs and pterosaurs were way into the psychedelic soul scene of the 70s and joined the nation of islam and had unprotected sexual contact with many a straight and gay disco queen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W78Kub0KR-I

And the biggest kick I ever got
Was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock
While the other kids were rocking 'round the clock
We were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

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[Guest]

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Thanks, GA.

I was looking for that Far Side cartoon.

 

[xssve]

Just when I thought the answer was settled and the blame went to a big asteroid that smacked into what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, 65 million years ago, along comes someone who blames it on...wait for it...climate change.

http://www.aolnews.com/science/arti...lled-dinosaurs-german-scientist-says/19417294

Go figure!! Seeing as how climate change has been totally, completely and in every other way discredited in our times, the climate change myth perpetrators, lead by Al Gore had to come up with some new evidence to make us believe their garbage. Too bad it's 65 million years too late. But then, Al Gore is a dinosaur, so what do you expect from these types?

Absolutely, the climate never changes, god promised!

 

[Bobby_3111]

Just when I thought the answer was settled and the blame went to a big asteroid that smacked into what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, 65 million years ago, along comes someone who blames it on...wait for it...climate change.

http://www.aolnews.com/science/arti...lled-dinosaurs-german-scientist-says/19417294

Go figure!! Seeing as how climate change has been totally, completely and in every other way discredited in our times, the climate change myth perpetrators, lead by Al Gore had to come up with some new evidence to make us believe their garbage. Too bad it's 65 million years too late. But then, Al Gore is a dinosaur, so what do you expect from these types?

Personally I liked the Dragon Theory from that movie Reign of Fire

 

[ishtat]

How about this, the Tuatara

http://www.kcc.org.nz/tuatara

 

[amicus]

Actually there are several offshoots concerning the extinction 'theories' concerning the dinosaurs.

The huge critters existed during a very warm and wet period in earth's history and grew to become the largest animals ever to inhabit the planet.

As climate changed slowly, those large beasts, who consumed a half ton of vegative material daily to survive, found less and less food to sustain them. According to some, the large dinosaurs were on the way to extinction long before the Asteroid finished the job.

The changed climate in fact gave an opening for evolution to proceed through smaller, ground boring mammals, which became our ancient ancestors and in fact the ancestors of all animal life on earth.

There are opposing sides however, those who postulate that life continued to evolve in an ocean environment and then migrated slowly onto land and thus into existence and land animals.

Quite the opposite of the apologetic tone concerning man caused climate change, the evidence tends to excuse man's influence as inconsequential in the larger scheme of things.

Amicus

 

[manyeyedhydra]

What is it with North Americans and this obsession with denying climate change? Did they bother to teach you science at school or just crazy make'em ups?

An asteroid impact and resulting nuclear winter is thought to be responsible for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.

There was an even larger extinction event between the Permian and Triassic. When I was studying at university the theory was thought to be excessive volcanic activity triggering acidity changes in the oceans (good enough to wipe out about 90-odd % of marine life) and a greenhouse effect that turned the majority of land into desert (bye-bye about 80-odd % of species on the surface). Science might have moved on since then.

Global catastrophe = climate change = lots of things die

Mankind = global catastrophe?

That's open for debate, but there's a decent argument that we're already in the middle of another mass extinction event (one guess for the cause).

But you still have:

climate change = lots of things die

And it mostly tends to be the big organisms as well and you might want to observe that we're not on the small side when it comes to a species.

But go on sticking your heads in the sand.

While you're at it, you might want to pray there's no heaven as well, as if there is you're going to have a lot of explaining to do when your grandkids start heading up there in droves.

 

[manyeyedhydra]

Quite the opposite of the apologetic tone concerning man caused climate change, the evidence tends to excuse man's influence as inconsequential in the larger scheme of things.

Amicus

Every single nuclear weapon in current working order detonated at roughly the same time across the planet's surface would like further clarification on your definition of the word "inconsequential"...

 

[amicus]

Ah, so now you are talking anti war, anti science and anti progress, eh?

Most are fully aware of the meaning a a 'Nuclear Winter', but it is coal fired power plants, internal combustion engines and my cigarette smoke that you want to eliminate, along with all atomic weapons.

Nice try, but rather lame.

Amicus

 

[manyeyedhydra]

Ah, so now you are talking anti war, anti science and anti progress, eh?

Most are fully aware of the meaning a a 'Nuclear Winter', but it is coal fired power plants, internal combustion engines and my cigarette smoke that you want to eliminate, along with all atomic weapons.

Nice try, but rather lame.

Amicus

Dearie me. You appear to have missed and demolished some tatty old straw man on the other side of the field.

I don't want to eliminate any of those things (kind of tempted by cigarette smoke, but other people seem to enjoy it) and, unlike most of Team 'Heads-in-Sand', I'm most definitely not anti-science. It's not a question of elimination in any case, it's a question of sustainability. Is our current way of life sustainable or are we heading for an almighty crash and horrendous misery in 40-50 years time? Would you accept a 1% drop in your current living standards if it meant your grandchildren avoided that crash?

 

[amicus]

The 'crash' as you call it is indeed on the way but not for the reasons you imply.

Point the first deals with the majority of the US budget being directed towards entitlement programs, social programs that redistribute wealth from those who have to those who do not.

When you diminish the rate of return for business and industry, you destroy progress and growth and stifle innovation and create unemployment.

When you restrict the energy industry from producing and the nation is forced to import, you destroy jobs and raise the cost of living to every single man, woman and child that enjoys a heated and air conditioned home.

When you tax a population to support a burgeoning Federal Government of over two million employees, plus all the State and Local government workers, your force the people to support parasites that add nothing but rules and regulations to the common wealth.

The silliness concerning preserving natural resources for future generations is laughable, subduction of tectonic plates reabsorbs all fossil fuels and recycles them through magma, fire and steam.

Your totally ignorant assumption that government by the use of force can supply the needs of a population has been refuted so many times in other Statist regimes that controlled everything, that it is self evident to everyone but true believers.

You worry unnecessarily about future generations as left free, they will do as past generations have done, find replacement for whale oil, steam engines and typewriters...

LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE! LET fREEDOM RING! UP THE REVOLUTION!

Amicus Veritas

 

[JackLuis]

"Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. "

Recognize the quote, Ami?

Making one friend is better than making a thousand enemies.

 

[amicus]

No, I did not, but Google says Eric Hoffer, so I will go with that.

Truth is a curious and amazing concept and indeed there are volumes written concerning the concept.

Perhaps you will recognize: "We hold these truths to be self evident" Formal philosophy has its own language after a fashion and early philosophers had some agreement that certain truths did exist axiomatically, independent of human perception.

Various fields of mathematics have their own language and certain mathematical assertions are viewed as 'truth' one plus one egual...and so forth.

In logic, A is A, a thing is that which it is, is also generally accepted as a 'truth'.

Not quite sure what you have in mind but I am open to discussion if it is to be a civil one.

Amicus Veritas (A Friend of TRUTH...seems pertinent....)

 

[stephen55]

Gary Larson almost got it right...........

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There is actually a fair amount of truth in this cartoon. While a nasty asteroid may have finished off the dinosaurs, they were well on there way to extinction because of addiction to the nicotine in those cigarettes. Now, had they the sense to smoke a good cigar, they would have been healthy enough to do just fine with a little dust in the air and a slight drop in temperature for a day or two.

The catch is that there was no Cuba back then. It was just another nameless piece of real estate left over after Pangaea split into Gondwana and Laurasia. With no Cuba, the cigars back then were crap. No wonder those dinos smoked cigarettes, and unfiltered at that.

I find it somewhat painful to accept that all those dinosaurs died because that socialist Castro wasn't around to save them. I'm sure that after trying El Producto cigars and heaving, the dinosaurs were doomed.