The day the dinosoars died

**Benny Profane** · 03-30-2019, 07:38 AM

Scary thing is that this event could happen again.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...dinosaurs-died

**frorider** · 03-30-2019, 07:48 AM

Dinosoars were bird precursors, hence the name right?

**iceman** · 03-30-2019, 07:50 AM

I was gonna give you and the guy who put the same article in the Cool Science thread shit for not putting this in the Long-Form Journalism thread but I can't find the damn thing so carry on I guess.

Good article. Maybe a little too long-form. Either I have adult-onset ADD (quite possible) or The New Yorker has gone a little crazy on article lengths in recent years.

**buttahflake** · 03-30-2019, 07:50 AM

That’s the Long Island pronunciation

**Benny Profane** · 03-30-2019, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by iceman

I was gonna give you and the guy who put the same article in the Cool Science thread shit for not putting this in the Long-Form Journalism thread but I can't find the damn thing so carry on I guess.

Good article. Maybe a little too long-form. Either I have adult-onset ADD (quite possible) or The New Yorker has gone a little crazy on article lengths in recent years.

I blame Twitter. And rap music. I blame rap music for pretty much everything, though.

**greasyslope** · 03-30-2019, 09:12 AM

A fascinating read. I highly recommend it.

SB · 03-30-2019, 09:14 AM

RIP dinosoars.

Hard to believe its only been 65 million years.

**The SnowShow** · 03-30-2019, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I blame Twitter. And rap music. I blame rap music for pretty much everything, though.

That article was fire yo!

**SumJongGuy** · 03-30-2019, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Scary thing is that this event WILL happen again.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...dinosaurs-died

Fixed it for you. Only a matter of time, but the Earth will be hit again by something that big.. eventually if not next week.

**bobz** · 03-30-2019, 09:37 AM

This article's shorter, and perhaps closer to the source, if you prefer.

Indeed, pretty remarkable; a snapshot of one of the most consequential days in our planet's history.

**Meathelmet** · 03-30-2019, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by iceman

Good article. Maybe a little too long-form. Either I have adult-onset ADD (quite possible) or The New Yorker has gone a little crazy on article lengths in recent years.

Too long??

Nowadays you youngsters have such short attention span...

**iceman** · 03-30-2019, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by Meathelmet

Too long??

Nowadays you youngsters have such short attention span...

Mainly, I learned more about Robert DePalma than I cared to or will retain. The rest of it was fine.

**Benny Profane** · 03-30-2019, 11:41 AM

Brian DePalma's cousin! Who knew.

**evasive_MT** · 03-30-2019, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

I was gonna give you and the guy who put the same article in the Cool Science thread shit for not putting this in the Long-Form Journalism thread but I can't find the damn thing so carry on I guess.

Good article. Maybe a little too long-form. Either I have adult-onset ADD (quite possible) or The New Yorker has gone a little crazy on article lengths in recent years.

This one’s more single-poop length, if that’s an issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/s...core-ios-share

**hutash** · 03-30-2019, 12:08 PM

You mean the day sometime after A.D. 33, right?

Jesus and his disciples walked with dinosaurs 2000 years ago and the earth and universe are only 10,000 years old.

Independent scientists funded by the Christian Neocon Church of Kentucky have also discovered that Adam and Eve wore fashionable garments given by God. This goes against the grain of the popular belief that they wore leaves over their genitalia in the garden of Eden.

These are just some of the myriad of facts which have now been discovered to be true by the scientists working in tandem with archeologists all over America.

Here's a better link for you blaphemers. https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/most-po...dinosaurs.html

**riser4** · 03-30-2019, 01:02 PM

Seems like a good title for a Don McLean song.

A long long time ago
I can still remember how those dinosaurs made me smile

**Core Shot** · 03-30-2019, 04:07 PM

**summit** · 03-30-2019, 04:22 PM

Fantastic article although a bit long.

This planet has been schwacked by larger impacts than Chicxulub many times if you go farther back. The Earth is good at covering its scars, but not perfect. If you know what you are looking for, you can fire up google earth and see major impact craters without having known they are there. Or simply google the biggest ones: Vredefort, Kara-Kulu (5mya), Subdury, Popigai... we didn't know about a bunch of them until we got into orbit and started looking at imagry from up high.

Earth has been hit by many huge impacts since Chicxulub. It is a major worry for the future. You don't need a 99.999% extinction event sized asteroid or comet to just completely ruin our civilization, or smaller ones to simply cause massive suffering and disruption worse than any war in history.

The smaller the impact event, the more frequently they happen.

Eltanin impactor hit about 2.5mya, triggered an ice age, and also would have wiped away every city on the Pacific with the resulting Tsunami.

Hey, kind of a good argument for investing in the space program, right? Only chance at deflection is early detection and redirecting them in deep space (many AU away, or perhaps several orbits prior to impact).

**muted** · 03-30-2019, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by SB

RIP dinosoars.

Hard to believe its only been 65 million years.

Benny's still going strong though.

**m2711c** · 03-30-2019, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by muted

Benny's still going strong though.

That’s a relief, I thought when I saw this thread title, that this was going to be his obituary.....

I guess that would go in his local paper though.

Wherever the fuck that is.