The Day the Dinosaurs Died
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Apparently, sea turtles are closely related to dinosaurs.
[Insert Mitch McConnell joke here]
I know, I know, no turtle shaming.
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@klaus said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
What I don't quite understand is how the asteroid hypothesis fits to the data which indicates that it took millions of years for the dinosaurs to die out.
I am of the ilk that thinks they never did die out completely. They evolved into modern birds. Yep. I am one of those.
@mark said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
@klaus said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
What I don't quite understand is how the asteroid hypothesis fits to the data which indicates that it took millions of years for the dinosaurs to die out.
I am of the ilk that thinks they never did die out completely. They evolved into modern birds. Yep. I am one of those.
As am I. Especially when I watch crows and ravens.
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I agree that birds are the closest relatives (or maybe even) dinosaurs.
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I agree that birds are the closest relatives (or maybe even) dinosaurs.
@taiwan_girl said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
I agree that birds are the closest relatives (or maybe even) dinosaurs.
Proven by DNA testing. I am reading a book right now regarding evolution and bipedalism and it notes that crocodiles and birds diverged kind of together from dinosaurs and then diverged from each other.
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I wonder, if we'd die out today, how much of who we were and how we lived could be reproduced from evidence in 100 million years from now? I assume the space probes, such as Voyager 1 and 2, could theoretically still be largely intact (unless they crash into a planet or star). But what other man-made thing would survive 100 million years? What might a city like NYC look like if left alone for that long?
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I wonder, if we'd die out today, how much of who we were and how we lived could be reproduced from evidence in 100 million years from now? I assume the space probes, such as Voyager 1 and 2, could theoretically still be largely intact (unless they crash into a planet or star). But what other man-made thing would survive 100 million years? What might a city like NYC look like if left alone for that long?
@klaus said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
theoretically still be largely intact
Watch out for the Oort Cloud
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I wonder, if we'd die out today, how much of who we were and how we lived could be reproduced from evidence in 100 million years from now? I assume the space probes, such as Voyager 1 and 2, could theoretically still be largely intact (unless they crash into a planet or star). But what other man-made thing would survive 100 million years? What might a city like NYC look like if left alone for that long?
@klaus said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
What might a city like NYC look like if left alone for that long?
Probably much the same as it looked in the 80's.
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@klaus said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
What might a city like NYC look like if left alone for that long?
Probably much the same as it looked in the 80's.
@doctor-phibes said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
@klaus said in The Day the Dinosaurs Died:
What might a city like NYC look like if left alone for that long?
Probably much the same as it looked in the 80's.
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