Apparently, a meteor really DID kill the dinosaurs

A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs
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I pretty much gave up on these scientific announcements a while ago. Science is extremely weak when it comes to the past, so any theories regarding the past are just that: theories.

As for that specific quote, why would a catastrophic event's explanation need to be plausible? It seems completely sensible that an event like that would make no sense.
 
Lance said:
I pretty much gave up on these scientific announcements a while ago. Science is extremely weak when it comes to the past, so any theories regarding the past are just that: theories.

As for that specific quote, why would a catastrophic event's explanation need to be plausible? It seems completely sensible that an event like that would make no sense.
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Science has an incredible body of evidence when it comes to many events in the past. While it is by no means foolproof or infallible many scientific are rigorously tested again and again and found to hold their weight.

Lance, do you have any evidence to support your claim? While an event of that magnitude is rare on an unimaginable order of millions of years for humans it is by no means something that makes no sense. Stratification of layers, glass formation, craters are all indications that a large scale extinction event occurred.

Just my two cents on the issue anyways.
 
Look, you just need to take everything with a grain of salt. They're saying that with the observed evidence, they've concluded a cosmic collision killed the dinosaurs. Now, these are secondary observations. They didn't see it happen, but what they have seems to indicate an asteroid hit. For all we know though, it could have been some phenomenon that we've never observed before, but there's no reason to suggest that this conclusion is wrong.
 
SPOLIER! ALERT!!!!

The Dinosaurs died because Chuck Norris round house kicked them all!!!
 
Ramp said:
I thought the reapers killed the dinosaurs?
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I don't disagree that an asteroid is the most likely culprit, my problem with the article is that 41 scientists got together and decided that, that was how it happened. What gives them the authority to say, "you're all wrong, we're right." The ignorant hide behind the consensus. Also, the article doesn't point out any new information (that I can see.) What it sounds like is 41 people got together and looked at a bunch of 7-year-old data and decided that it was correct.

Aside from that, I'm glad that scientists have proven what we have been teaching in public school for the past 2 decades.

Sometimes the mystery is best unsolved. First, my beloved Pluto was, for lack of a better term, Pluto-ed. Now this :(
 
The Yeti said:
I don't disagree that an asteroid is the most likely culprit, my problem with the article is that 41 scientists got together and decided that, that was how it happened. What gives them the authority to say, "you're all wrong, we're right." The ignorant hide behind the consensus. Also, the article doesn't point out any new information (that I can see.) What it sounds like is 41 people got together and looked at a bunch of 7-year-old data and decided that it was correct.

Aside from that, I'm glad that scientists have proven what we have been teaching in public school for the past 2 decades.

Sometimes the mystery is best unsolved. First, my beloved Pluto was, for lack of a better term, Pluto-ed. Now this :(
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i have a couple questions about your post. as you said 41 scientists got together and decided it was correct, with no real new information etc. so how did they proof it? in fact you can't PROVE it one way or another...but anyway. also you say you're glad scientists have proven what we have been teaching for the past 2 decades (tho most likely even more)...why was it being taught before it was "proven", or decided, to begin with?
btw the yeti im not asking you these questions etc, im just using your post as a means to surface flaws in the entire thing because it brought up some good points
 
Meh I have trouble thinking this is the last time this will happen. In like 5 years they'll change their mind :/
 
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