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[spaminator]

Dinosaurs might have escaped total extinction had doomsday asteroid struck seconds earlier, later
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First posted: Monday, May 15, 2017 12:19 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, May 15, 2017 12:53 PM EDT
A new BBC Two documentary suggests dinosaurs might have escaped extinction if a doomsday asteroid had struck 30 seconds earlier or later.
Instead, it's believed the massive, 15 km-wide rock smashed into shallow water near the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, ejecting mass amounts of sulfur into Earth’s atmosphere.
"This is where we get to the great irony of the story,” Ben Garrod, who presents The Day The Dinosaurs Died, told the BBC.
“In the end it wasn’t the size of the asteroid, the scale of blast, or even its global reach that made dinosaurs extinct. It was where the impact happened.”
Researchers contend the ensuing blast caused an extended global winter that left dinosaurs with nothing to sustain themselves.
However, had the giant asteroid struck moments earlier or later it might have splashed into deeper waters in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.
Such an open water impact could have resulted in less vaporized particles being ejected into the air, thereby allowing more sunlight to reach Earth’s surface.
Scientists believe the impact that formed Mexico’s Chicxulub Crater resulted in an explosion equal to 10 billion Hiroshima A-bombs, according to the report.
The documentary also speculates that the original impact caused immediate death for dinosaurs roaming as far away as New Jersey.
Dinosaurs might have escaped total extinction had doomsday asteroid struck secon

 

[Ludlow]

Well if they had not died all of us would eventually been one of those big monsters meal.

You don't hear about homo sapiens until after the dinosaurs were done away with I don't think.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Current theory is that many dinosaurs did survive, and later evolved, mostly into birds. The ones who were wiped out were the big ones. That's not surprising. It may seem counter-intuitive, but bigger animals tend to be much less resilient than smaller ones, which is why most of the megafauna of the Pleistocene also didn't make it. Rats and cockroaches, on the other hand, are cookin' right along.

 

[MHz]

That will give the birds a sigh of relief.
Say what???
Scratch that last memo.

 

[darkbeaver]

Gravity offed the dynosores, and recently as well, keep in mind the many stories of jolly green giants. Humans can grow to fit the electrical/gravity fields they find themselves in.

 

[Bar Sinister]

And if they'd only developed space travel. We need equally matched pairs of men and women on the space station.

 

[Curious Cdn]

And if they'd only developed space travel. We need equally matched pairs of men and women on the space station.

They should be small people ... short, skinny lightweights who will function consuming less water, oxygen, protein, calories. 6'6" line backers will be bred out of the human genome when we venture into space in favour of smaller, more efficient body plans.

On the other hand, if we stay on Earth (a real possibility) and the glaciers advance, once more ...

 

[Bar Sinister]

They should be small people ... short, skinny lightweights who will function consuming less water, oxygen, protein, calories. 6'6" line backers will be bred out of the human genome when we venture into space in favour of smaller, more efficient body plans.

On the other hand, if we stay on Earth (a real possibility) and the glaciers advance, once more ...

We can deal with an ice age. In fact we can stop it in its tracks. Global warming, however, is more of a problem.

 

[Jinentonix]

We can deal with an ice age. In fact we can stop it in its tracks.

Actually no, no you can't, depending on the cause. If it starts due to a Heinrich event, then there's not much that can be done about it. What we DO know though is that humanity can survive a major ice age. Well, at least some of it anyway but enough to continue thriving as a species.
Then again, who says we're meant to be the ultimate dominant species on the planet for the rest of time?

 

[Bar Sinister]

Actually no, no you can't, depending on the cause. If it starts due to a Heinrich event, then there's not much that can be done about it. What we DO know though is that humanity can survive a major ice age. Well, at least some of it anyway but enough to continue thriving as a species.
Then again, who says we're meant to be the ultimate dominant species on the planet for the rest of time?

I suspect all it would take would be a few thousand giant mirrors orbiting the Earth and focusing their rays on the oceans to reverse any cooling. And that sort of technology probably exists right now. It might be expensive, but it would be cheaper than an ice age.

 

[Blackleaf]

Some dinosaurs still do exist - birds.

Well if they had not died all of us would eventually been one of those big monsters meal.

You don't hear about homo sapiens until after the dinosaurs were done away with I don't think.

It could well have been the case that if the dinosaurs didn't become extinct homo sapiens may not have evolved at all.

 

[EagleSmack]

Well if they had not died all of us would eventually been one of those big monsters meal.

You don't hear about homo sapiens until after the dinosaurs were done away with I don't think.

Man... you are dumber than a bag of rocks!

 

[MHz]

It could well have been the case that if the dinosaurs didn't become extinct homo sapiens may not have evolved at all.

Define evolved as we don't seem to be any smarter that when we only strayed a few feet from the trees.

 

[selfsame]

Dinosaurs might not have lived on our Earth; their skeletons might have come embedded in the meteorites and mountains which had been pieces of the broken up planets of the previous solar system.

i.e. they might have lived on the previous planets which were inhabited and were destroyed in the previous Doomsday.

http://www.quran-ayat.com/universe/new_page_2.htm#Life_Is_Transmissible
quran-ayat.com/universe/new_page_2.htm#Life_Is_Transmissible

Moreover, God - be glorified - created all kinds of creatures on Earth and the rest of the planets .. initially by creating a male and a female of each species and race

 

[EagleSmack]

 

[selfsame]

God's command comes and is passed in one minute.

Quran 54: 50, which means:
And Our commandment [to anything We want to destroy] is but one [word], as the twinkle of an eye [in its speed.]

http://quran-ayat.com/pret/54.htm#a54_50
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And this is a nice recitation of some ayat of the Quran

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