tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post3684123775805157040..comments2024-03-28T16:31:54.494-04:00Comments on Borepatch: What really killed off the Dinosaurs?Borepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-52826155569881264112012-12-13T01:25:46.959-05:002012-12-13T01:25:46.959-05:00Is Dinosaur Heresies where someone discusses how t...Is Dinosaur Heresies where someone discusses how the dinosaurs became extinct along about the time the continents came together and they were able to travel about easily and spread diseases to each other more easily? A sort of Columbus Exchange without a red-headed Genoese sailor, pumpkins, corn, tomatoes and potatoes.Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-77771577577183207272012-12-12T18:36:52.728-05:002012-12-12T18:36:52.728-05:00Angus, I love that book. Highly recommended. I f...Angus, I love that book. Highly recommended. I find Dr. Baaker's hypothesis of what killed the dinos to be highly plausible.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-23771285579846683462012-12-12T18:18:26.456-05:002012-12-12T18:18:26.456-05:00Gary Larson said that it was cigarettes. Which iro...Gary Larson said that it was cigarettes. Which ironically is sort of close to this theory. <br />Toxic fumes and all. TOTWTYTRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221321904364051792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-62565239560005074242012-12-12T17:38:06.115-05:002012-12-12T17:38:06.115-05:00Check out the Dinosaur Heresies. Excellent book f...Check out the Dinosaur Heresies. Excellent book for skeptics about a single point of failure for the K-T extinction.Angus McThaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09295013525738248801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-83613546971859401162012-12-12T17:34:17.309-05:002012-12-12T17:34:17.309-05:00John Anderson has a point. I've seen a few art...John Anderson has a point. I've seen a few articles and one book pointing out that the Deccan Traps, the Siberian Traps, a hotspot in the Indian Ocean, and the Yellowstone hotspot could easily be the results of asteroid strikes. Which starts the chain reactions that lead to the demise of [insert ecosystem or species here].<br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-26700597852721528102012-12-11T20:17:03.439-05:002012-12-11T20:17:03.439-05:00Don't feel bad. It's a scientific hypothe...Don't feel bad. It's a scientific hypothesis. You're supposed to be skeptical.Roscoenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-39486187207096197482012-12-11T17:52:53.380-05:002012-12-11T17:52:53.380-05:00Well, let's see. Asteroid collision cracked t...Well, let's see. Asteroid collision cracked the earth like an egg. Cataclysmic continental breakage and drift, volcanoes erupting, massive flooding and gee, t-rex and other dinosaurs were at a severe disadvantage when it came to doing the doggy paddle.<br /><br />Tis a funny either/or argument like when at thanksgiving you ask guests if they want pumpkin or apple pie, they usually answer yes.Mrs. S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05303378310653171627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-38987819868588358222012-12-11T17:35:32.738-05:002012-12-11T17:35:32.738-05:00Personally I think the Dinosaurs were stuck in the...Personally I think the Dinosaurs were stuck in the United concourse at Dulles on a long layover. Home on the Rangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03836315423040719919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-28932126837850464282012-12-11T12:57:30.206-05:002012-12-11T12:57:30.206-05:00Meh... Single point failure mechanism AGAIN??? Dam...Meh... Single point failure mechanism AGAIN??? Damn, why can't people get a grip on the fact that it just 'might' have been a combination of issues???Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-81254112422513571902012-12-11T12:26:35.619-05:002012-12-11T12:26:35.619-05:00Want to break people's brains?
Argue that the...Want to break people's brains?<br /><br />Argue that the Chicxulub asteroid was Lucifer falling from Heaven and being cast into Hell. <br /><br />It's fun watching them try to embrace the notion that someone can believe in Creationism and dinosaurs simultaneously. ;)Erin Palettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-9039951616184761712012-12-11T11:27:07.859-05:002012-12-11T11:27:07.859-05:00So do I, DaddyBear. There is a very long list of ...So do I, DaddyBear. There is a <i>very</i> long list of "reasons the dinosaurs went extinct" that have been suggested over the last century or so, from the manifestly ridiculous ("it was time for them to go") to the merely unlikely ("mammals ate all their eggs") to the plausible. But I don't think we'll ever find The Reason The Dinosaurs All Died, because there almost certainly wasn't just <i>one</i> reason they all died. It was probably a combination of factors, and the asteroid impact only finished them off. <br /><br />The fact that the K-T extinction correlates with the Deccan Trap eruptions means little by itself. It could be coincidence, and vague speculation about outgassing and 'ocean acidification' don't change that. But when you add the fact that two other major extinctions (terminal Permian and terminal Triassic) also correlate with huge flood-basalt eruptions (Siberian Traps and Central Atlantic Magmatic Province respectively), for a total of three out of the five great mass extinctions ... that seems more than coincidence. We may not know the mechanism yet, but there definitely seems to be <i>some</i> kind of connection there. <br />wolfwalkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-42848626009518870832012-12-11T11:21:00.618-05:002012-12-11T11:21:00.618-05:00Maybe the asteroid strike caused the Deccan Traps ...Maybe the asteroid strike caused the Deccan Traps outflow? The combined effects of both sufficiently disrupted the climate to trigger the extinction event?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06457631855253517540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-24392554816745631552012-12-11T11:07:29.445-05:002012-12-11T11:07:29.445-05:00I kind of like the theory that the asteroid strike...I kind of like the theory that the asteroid strike and its aftermath were the last straw for the large dinosaurs, and that they had been kind of dwindling off for a long time due to other factors.DaddyBearhttp://daddybearsden.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-29260280135264025242012-12-11T11:06:16.950-05:002012-12-11T11:06:16.950-05:00Personally, I think it was government bureaucracy....Personally, I think it was government bureaucracy. ProudHillbillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14305205710265854978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-75126115687091022342012-12-11T10:56:26.280-05:002012-12-11T10:56:26.280-05:00Mmmmm... global warming. Mmmmm... global warming. bluesunhttp://deadmandance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com