I never realized that the dinosaurs went extinct mostly just from elevated ambient temperature. Wonder if there’s a lesson there
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Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and museum.
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Die or become a birb?
I'm okay with both.
That's dark...
and so it remained until we started excavating and burning them as fossil fuels, releasing all that CO2
for dinosaurs its climate change II : the fossils strike back
Basically if it gets a little warmer and real humid, and we dint have access to AC, we are FUCKED
when a massive asteroid hits, the energy of the collision is beyond what we can comprehend even with nuclear weapons https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-happened-seconds-hours-weeks-after-dino-killing-asteroid-hit-earth-180960032/
https://www.nsf.gov/science-matters/moment-changed-earth#:~:text=The%20impact%20produced%20as%20much,of%20the%20Hiroshima%20atomic%20bomb. The K-T impact energy is estimated to be 100 teratons (1 x 10^14 tons)
aka 4.5 billion Hiroshima bombs