Quote:Asteroid killed off the Dinosaurs, confirmed.

It's a bit disappointing, this thread.
I'd hoped at last the descendants of the refugee dinosaurs had returned, to tell us how awful it was and invoke guilt in all the mammals who got off so easy.

does it really matter what killed them,they are dead now,so whats the point?

(February 9, 2013 at 8:00 am)Phish Wrote: does it really matter what killed them,they are dead now,so whats the point?

I cannot express in words how much I dislike this comment.

This is equivalent to asking what the point is in learning about history at all. Incredibly ignorant if you ask me.

(February 9, 2013 at 8:18 am)Napoléon Wrote:

(February 9, 2013 at 8:00 am)Phish Wrote: does it really matter what killed them,they are dead now,so whats the point?

I cannot express in words how much I dislike this comment.

This is equivalent to asking what the point is in learning about history at all. Incredibly ignorant if you ask me.

well do you now know more about the dinosaurs when you know how they died.

Its like with jesus crust people focus on how he died and not what he said.
probably the most stupid example but still

(February 9, 2013 at 8:34 am)Phish Wrote: well do you now know more about the dinosaurs when you know how they died.

We know of the impact and devastation that an asteroid impact can have, and we can learn how the dinosaurs were wiped out, we can learn about why the climate deteriorated, there's an inordinate amount we could learn, which could benefit us right now and in the future.

(February 9, 2013 at 8:46 am)Napoléon Wrote:

(February 9, 2013 at 8:34 am)Phish Wrote: well do you now know more about the dinosaurs when you know how they died.

We know of the impact and devastation that an asteroid impact can have, and we can learn how the dinosaurs were wiped out, we can learn about why the climate deteriorated, there's an inordinate amount we could learn, which could benefit us right now and in the future.

yea the climate deteriorates also if a volcano erupts as well.

p.s: there is no future,future is something we made up there is only present

(February 9, 2013 at 10:40 am)Phish Wrote:

(February 9, 2013 at 8:46 am)Napoléon Wrote: We know of the impact and devastation that an asteroid impact can have, and we can learn how the dinosaurs were wiped out, we can learn about why the climate deteriorated, there's an inordinate amount we could learn, which could benefit us right now and in the future.

yea the climate deteriorates also if a volcano erupts as well.

p.s: there is no future,future is something we made up there is only present

(February 9, 2013 at 12:46 pm)apophenia Wrote:

(February 9, 2013 at 10:40 am)Phish Wrote: yea the climate deteriorates also if a volcano erupts as well.

p.s: there is no future,future is something we made up there is only present

sorry had my high moment. I'm back to earth now

(February 9, 2013 at 12:46 pm)apophenia Wrote:

Yeah, don't quite know how to come back to that one.

Darn, beaten by Nap again. No wonder he got the Austrians to surrender at Ulm. Anyway, we know how dangerous our local neighbourhood can be. We also know how fragile our ecosystem is and how tenuous species' grip on existence can be - consider that something like 99% of all species ever to exist have died out as a result of multiple mass extinction events. The KT asteroid was just one of them and we are the first species (presumably) to recognise the connection and to learn from it. To this end, all data is useful. True, we can't eat it, sell it or have sex with it, but knowing the exact circumstances of these sort of events might just come in handy one day.