[Yucatan penninsula impact site. Chixulub crater. Positively identified in the mid 1990s
Not "believed" so much as "accepted"
Why?]
The Bible says it only took a week, so I'm not arguing.
That must be some crater over Yucatan way. Wonder why it doesn't cover half of Mexico. Apart from the fact that all the dinosaurs didn't live in Mexico.
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didn't this man ever watch armageddon? as action-y as that movie was, it gave a a fairly accurate description of an asteroid impact, iirc. all the dinosaurs didn't need to live in mexico to be wiped out by a meteor or asteroid impact.
Sigh, why bother, but...
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Chicxulub, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
This three-dimensional map of local gravity and magnetic field variations shows a multiringed structure called Chicxulub named after a village located near its center. The impact basin is buried by several hundred meters of sediment, hiding it from view. This image shows the basin viewed obliquely from approximately 60° above the surface looking north, with artificial lighting from the south. The image covers 88 to 90.5° west longitude and 19.5 to 22.5° north latitude. NASA scientists believe that an asteroid 10 to 20 kilometers (6 to 12 miles) in diameter produced this impact basin. The asteroid hit a geologically unique, sulfur-rich region of the Yucatan Peninsula and kicked up billions of tons of sulfur and other materials into the atmosphere. Darkness prevailed for about half a year after the collision. This caused global temperatures to plunge near freezing. Half of the species on Earth became extinct including the dinosaurs.
"Not "believed" so much as "accepted" "
Not "accepted" so much as "photographed"
"Wonder why it doesn't cover half of Mexico."
Because Mexico is more than twice as big
"Apart from the fact that all the dinosaurs didn't live in Mexico."
Or the fact that all the people killed in Hiroshima were not in the building under the bomb. Really, you people are stupid.
Not "believed" so much as "accepted"
So, you reserve the word, "believe" for irrational, unscientific, and unprovable assertions then?
The Bible says it only took a week, so I'm not arguing.
The Bibble-babble also says if you're a man, you should not cut your hair, but you should not wear it long like a woman. How's that working out for you? Do you use a blowtorch on your head?
That must be some crater over Yucatan way. Wonder why it doesn't cover half of Mexico.
Um... because it's smaller than Mexico yet bigger than a breadbox?
Apart from the fact that all the dinosaurs didn't live in Mexico.
Apart from the fact that you have an incomplete sentence there, you're wrong. All the dinosaurs did live in Mexico at the time. They saw the oncoming meteor in space and mistook it for a god. They started a whole religion around the idea and were all on hand for the momentous occasion when God landed on Earth. Dinosaurs were stupid. It's written down now, so it must be the literal truth, right?
Apart from the fact that all the dinosaurs didn't live in Mexico.
No, but all the Gila monsters do (at least as Mexico existed prior to the Mexican-American War). How'd they get there after the Flood? Trudge all the way across North Africa and swim 4,000 miles across the Atlantic?
Good grief. Okay. Let me explain it to you.
Asteroid = impact = boom = death
Now:
FUCKING HUGE asteroid = FUCKING HUGE crater = FUCKING HUGE boom = no dinosaurs
Any questions?
Drkildare IGNORES the fact that an asteroid hitting the earth would send up over a trillion tons of dirt & rock into the atmosphere, blacking out the sun for decades if not centuries. The rock that hit the Yucatan was only a few miles wide. This asshole needs to get his head out of the Bible and into a current science textbook.
The "Not "believed" so much as "accepted" " part was my attempting to explain to him the difference between his way of thinking, and reality.
The Bible says it only took a week, so I'm not arguing.
"The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it." is not the mark of an intelligent individual capable of critical thinking.
Insisting that an asteroid impact in the Yucatan would have NO impact on the rest of the world is like saying tsunamis didn't result from the infamous eruption of Krakatoa.
Anything that causes the earth to shake is NOT going to be a localized event!
Ys, drkildare, the United States would never let something as dangerous across their southern boarder, so the blast was contained in Mexico
"Ys, drkildare, the United States would never let something as dangerous across their southern boarder, so the blast was contained in Mexico"
Actually, that's pretty much how the French administration of the time handled the Tchernobyl radioactive cloud: we used to joke that as far as the government was concerned, the cloud stopped at the Swiss/German-French border (which is right where I was living back then)
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Oh right! You don't know how big the crater is.
OBSERVE!
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If we took all the nuclear weapons we got and blew them up simultaneously it would not put a hole that size in the world... That is the Yucatan crater is a fragment of what hit the earth then. This is "what killed the Dinosaurs".
Drive from Florida to Mexico to realise the amount of soil that was taken and just thrown into the air creating a weather system the dinosaurs could not cope with.
It's "accepted" because every piece of evidence we can collect points to a massive extinction due to a very large impact. It wasn't the first one the earth has experienced, either.
It may blow your tiny mind, but at least 98% of every species that has ever existed on the planet earth has gone extinct. Again, there's evidence to support all of this. And it's credible!
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Climb THIS tree, Doctor Dumbass
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