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Location is everything, for both homeowners and dinosaurs. When you’re buying a house, it’s better for your long term happiness to find a neighborhood you like that’s close to work instead of having that extra living room. And when you’re a Cretaceous period dinosaur, it’s better for your long term survival to have a giant asteroid hit in the middle of the ocean instead of just off the coast of Mexico.

If that meteor had come just half a minute later, it would have hit somewhere in either the Atlantic or Pacific. Either location would have made some killer waves (literally), but at least it wouldn’t have killed as many dinos. Birds are cool and all, it just might have been nice to have some little raptors running around instead of chickens. They were about the same size anyway, so they couldn’t reach the doorknobs if we put them a little higher.

These new findings came to light in a BBC documentary, The Day the Dinosaurs Died, featuring the scientists who have been drilling into the underwater crater. Back in 2016, geophysicists Jo Morgan from Imperial College London and Sean Gulick from the University of Texas drilled deep into the ocean floor to figure out more about the impact. They’ve been analyzing the samples they brought back ever since. The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March 2017 featured multiple presentations from the team, but surprisingly the news didn’t really spread until their findings hit mainstream TV……..

 
Location is everything, for both homeowners and dinosaurs. When you’re buying a house, it’s better for your long term happiness to find a neighborhood you like that’s close to work instead of having that extra living room. And when you’re a Cretaceous period dinosaur, it’s better for your long term survival to have a giant asteroid hit in the middle of the ocean instead of just off the coast of Mexico.

If that meteor had come just half a minute later, it would have hit somewhere in either the Atlantic or Pacific. Either location would have made some killer waves (literally), but at least it wouldn’t have killed as many dinos. Birds are cool and all, it just might have been nice to have some little raptors running around instead of chickens. They were about the same size anyway, so they couldn’t reach the doorknobs if we put them a little higher.

These new findings came to light in a BBC documentary, The Day the Dinosaurs Died, featuring the scientists who have been drilling into the underwater crater. Back in 2016, geophysicists Jo Morgan from Imperial College London and Sean Gulick from the University of Texas drilled deep into the ocean floor to figure out more about the impact. They’ve been analyzing the samples they brought back ever since. The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March 2017 featured multiple presentations from the team, but surprisingly the news didn’t really spread until their findings hit mainstream TV……..


It's why I actually said "Bull****!" out loud watching Armageddon and Deep Impact when they said that breaking up the killer asteroid wasn't a solution. Yeah, you risk wiping out Moscow, Paris, London and New York, but you don't get the molten rock precipitate and other effects of a strike from a larger, intact meteor.
 
Seeing more and more articles about pulling co2 from the atmosphere. Hoping they aren't just theoretical for much longer.


They aren’t theoretical now. CO2 organization is in practice in many different manners in other industries.

The problem is cost. That $100 per ton until is great until you talk about the need to reorganize 100’s of billions of tons.

Same with desalination plants and ocean hydro-plants. Except, in addition to cost, those would need to be put on beachfront property and they are big, ugly and loud.

That being said, when the climate crises reaches (reached?) a point when those fixes will be put into practice it will be too late I am afraid. Even if we all agreed to begin this today, you are looking at 10-20 years before facilities are built worldwide and it is up and running - in a best case scenario.
 
I can't wait to see what this baby shows us. It's going to be stunning, I'm sure.

Two things…first, I hope they carried the 1 on this one and they don’t have to go refocus it. Second, if they now have a rocket to send it that far out, this means we have one to get back to the moon, finally.
 
Two things…first, I hope they carried the 1 on this one and they don’t have to go refocus it. Second, if they now have a rocket to send it that far out, this means we have one to get back to the moon, finally.
The rocket will only take it into space for 30 minutes. It then ejects it and it will coast out to the final point in space. That will take 30 days.
 

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