http://www.rtfa.net/2008/12/09/nsfgov-volcanoes-not-asteroid-may-have-taken-out-the-dinosaurs read the fucking article Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:08:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.rtfa.net/2008/12/09/nsfgov-volcanoes-not-asteroid-may-have-taken-out-the-dinosaurs/comment-page-1#comment-1909 Oakley Goggles Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:36:41 +0000 http://www.rtfa.net/?p=1084#comment-1909 I don't care if what is the real reason why dinosaurs are extinct now.. I'm glad and thankful that there is no dinosaur today.. I don't care if what is the real reason why dinosaurs are extinct now.. I'm glad and thankful that there is no dinosaur today..

]]> http://www.rtfa.net/2008/12/09/nsfgov-volcanoes-not-asteroid-may-have-taken-out-the-dinosaurs/comment-page-1#comment-1605 placidwater Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:52:06 +0000 http://www.rtfa.net/?p=1084#comment-1605 Dickson -> RTFA. If you read the article from nsf.gov, you will find that they carbon dated the layers of melted glass associated with the Chicxulub impact to be ~300,000 years prior and many layers of earth below the fossilized remains of the dinosaurs. Who knows about the volcanoes (although a layer of magma coincides with the dinosaur remains), but it seems the asteroids simply came too much earlier. If it had been an event triggered by the asteroid, then the remains of the asteroid would be at the same level in the earth's surface as the dinosaur bones. Alternate theories are great, but they have to fit the data. That's a fundamental constraint. RTFA. Dickson -> RTFA. If you read the article from nsf.gov, you will find that they carbon dated the layers of melted glass associated with the Chicxulub impact to be ~300,000 years prior and many layers of earth below the fossilized remains of the dinosaurs. Who knows about the volcanoes (although a layer of magma coincides with the dinosaur remains), but it seems the asteroids simply came too much earlier. If it had been an event triggered by the asteroid, then the remains of the asteroid would be at the same level in the earth's surface as the dinosaur bones. Alternate theories are great, but they have to fit the data. That's a fundamental constraint. RTFA.

]]> http://www.rtfa.net/2008/12/09/nsfgov-volcanoes-not-asteroid-may-have-taken-out-the-dinosaurs/comment-page-1#comment-1129 placidwater Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:52:06 +0000 http://www.rtfa.net/?p=1084#comment-1129 Dickson -> RTFA. If you read the article from nsf.gov, you will find that they carbon dated the layers of melted glass associated with the Chicxulub impact to be ~300,000 years prior and many layers of earth below the fossilized remains of the dinosaurs. Who knows about the volcanoes (although a layer of magma coincides with the dinosaur remains), but it seems the asteroids simply came too much earlier. If it had been an event triggered by the asteroid, then the remains of the asteroid would be at the same level in the earth's surface as the dinosaur bones. Alternate theories are great, but they have to fit the data. That's a fundamental constraint. RTFA. Dickson -> RTFA. If you read the article from nsf.gov, you will find that they carbon dated the layers of melted glass associated with the Chicxulub impact to be ~300,000 years prior and many layers of earth below the fossilized remains of the dinosaurs. Who knows about the volcanoes (although a layer of magma coincides with the dinosaur remains), but it seems the asteroids simply came too much earlier. If it had been an event triggered by the asteroid, then the remains of the asteroid would be at the same level in the earth's surface as the dinosaur bones. Alternate theories are great, but they have to fit the data. That's a fundamental constraint. RTFA.

]]> http://www.rtfa.net/2008/12/09/nsfgov-volcanoes-not-asteroid-may-have-taken-out-the-dinosaurs/comment-page-1#comment-1127 Rick Dickson Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:42:02 +0000 http://www.rtfa.net/?p=1084#comment-1127 They can't be sure of the dates between the extinction event and the KT impact. It's pure speculation. However, using deductive reasoning, I would venture that the asteroid caused the volcanic eruptions, and both events finished the dinosaurs. The earth is a closed geospheric system. All that pressure and force from the asteroid could have forced up magma near the surface in massive eruptions like the Deccan Traps. The Deccan Traps are not volcanoes, the magma came pouring out in huge quantities from fissures in the weak crust. I believe this to be the case based on other circumstantial evidence involving the Siberian Trap eruptions (also not volcanoes) right after the PT (Permian Triassic) impact event about 250 million years ago off the coast of Australia. Again it's simple physics: pressure and force exerted on a sphere at a given point with a crust and partially semi-liquid interior will cause that liquid to erupt at weak points in the crust. You can prove this theory by firing a BB gun at a rotten tomato. Tomato juice will erupt from fractures in the rotten skin elsewhere than at the BB entry point. They can't be sure of the dates between the extinction event and the KT impact. It's pure speculation. However, using deductive reasoning, I would venture that the asteroid caused the volcanic eruptions, and both events finished the dinosaurs. The earth is a closed geospheric system. All that pressure and force from the asteroid could have forced up magma near the surface in massive eruptions like the Deccan Traps. The Deccan Traps are not volcanoes, the magma came pouring out in huge quantities from fissures in the weak crust. I believe this to be the case based on other circumstantial evidence involving the Siberian Trap eruptions (also not volcanoes) right after the PT (Permian Triassic) impact event about 250 million years ago off the coast of Australia. Again it's simple physics: pressure and force exerted on a sphere at a given point with a crust and partially semi-liquid interior will cause that liquid to erupt at weak points in the crust. You can prove this theory by firing a BB gun at a rotten tomato. Tomato juice will erupt from fractures in the rotten skin elsewhere than at the BB entry point.

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