It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

[Hot Mega]

LONDON (Reuters) – A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.

A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet.

Scientific opinion was split over whether the extinction was caused by an asteroid or by volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in what is now India, where there were a series of super volcanic eruptions that lasted around 1.5 million years.

The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit.

"We now have great confidence that an asteroid was the cause of the KT extinction. This triggered large-scale fires, earthquakes measuring more than 10 on the Richter scale, and continental landslides, which created tsunamis," said Joanna Morgan of Imperial College London, a co-author of the review.
The asteroid is thought to have hit Earth with a force a billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

Morgan said the "final nail in the coffin for the dinosaurs" came when blasted material flew into the atmosphere, shrouding the planet in darkness, causing a global winter and "killing off many species that couldn't adapt to this hellish environment."

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[mrtrebus]

But who threw the asteroid?!?

 

[GregCentauro]

But who threw the asteroid?!?

Keith Richards

 

[Will E Worm]

A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.

Sure because we were there.

 

[BlueBalls]

But who threw the asteroid?!?

Space Ants.

 

[mrtrebus]

Space Ants.

Space ants want their ball back?

 

[BlueBalls]

Space ants want their ball back?

No! They can't have it back, it has been thrown in our garden on too many times already.

It'll teach them some damn responsibility. :cussing:

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Apparently none of you have ever watched the documentary Starship Troopers!

Uneducated dimwits!!!!

 

[Wizard Sleeves]

Apparently none of you have ever watched the documentary Starship Troopers!

Uneducated dimwits!!!!

What he's trying to say is it came from the planet Klendathu and sent by large fucking bugs, the only logical explanation.

 

[BlueBalls]

Apparently none of you have ever watched the documentary Starship Troopers!

Uneducated dimwits!!!!

You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?

 

[Baill Inneraora]

You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?

2/3 of that, I would believe!

:tongue:

 

[Hot Mega]

But who threw the asteroid?!?

I know....stupid dinosaurs should have "fought them there".:o

 

[~~whimsy~~]

What he's trying to say is it came from the planet Klendathu and sent by large fucking bugs, the only logical explanation.

It is THE explanation! What we now need to do is gather together on this planet, learn space travel, go to the far reach of our galaxy and fuck these sons of bitch bugs up!

Allow not my forewarning to go unheeded! Or you will all be doomed by the mindless drone bugs, who are only good for killing!

THE ONLY GOOD BUG, IS A DEAD BUG!

You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?

I, sir, find a bug that thinks to be highly offensive!!!!

 

[mrtrebus]

If the asteroid had missed. . .

 

[Wizard Sleeves]

Plus if you're a starship trooper you get to shower naked together with the females!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/104171/starship_troopers_shower_scene/

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Plus if you're a starship trooper you get to shower naked together with the females!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/104171/starship_troopers_shower_scene/

This is true. I get Dina Meyer!!!

 

[Hot Mega]

If the asteroid had missed. . .

Good grief!! What a motley crew...

Worse yet...those fuckers look asexual. I guess though with mugs like those guys....fucking would probably fall victim to "natural selection".:dunno:

 

[Baill Inneraora]

^^ Fuck em, I like having a John Thomas

 

[BlueBalls]

Good grief!! What a motley crew...

Worse yet...those fuckers look asexual. I guess though with mugs like those guys....fucking would probably fall victim to "natural selection".:dunno:

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

 

[Lust]

hmmmm....i had always subscribed to the Larson Theory on dino's extinction

http://s4.hubimg.com/u/209795_f520.jpg