itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160227134730-dinosaurs-asteroid---stock-super-169.jpg

consider this my gift to all ilxors before i go under the knife* tomorrow to sort my heart out

*not actually a knife, more like humming electric paddles

http://i2.esmas.com/2014/04/10/636820/caminando-con-dinosaurios-610x350.jpg

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/5715fd321600002b0031c04c.jpeg

http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/151/590x/Dino-Asteroid-605540.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/19/article-1221388-04244A1B0000044D-339_634x338.jpg

https://newsonia.com/media/upload/images/2016/11/12/sBzeDfphBLBwzf0BhTXqDojNYr37dZgj_598x414.jpg

"God I can't even take a swim without some bullshit."

http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/microsites/dino/images/02/17-DinosaursDieOut_small.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5wvgvRfgD8w/hqdefault.jpg

https://kevbrockschmidt.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/starlog193_dinosaursmeteor.jpg

good thread, good luck

https://blogs-images.forbes.com/christinecomaford/files/2014/02/mass-extinction_1077_600x450.jpg

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/1-parasaurolophus-meteor-strike-phil-wilson.jpg

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6555841.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/DINO.jpg

lol this one^^^

http://www.stormthecastle.com/diorama/dinosaur-diorama/images/dinosaur-diorama2.jpg

xp is he blaming his son for it

http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dinosaur-disney-2000-aladar-comets-600x300.jpg

http://marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Yucatan-meteor-that-destroyed-the-dinosaur.jpg

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/images/062.jpg

http://digfieldschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dino-watching-asteroid.jpg

http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MAC32_DINOSAUR_CAROUSEL.jpg

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/images/kaboom.jpg

https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2014/dinosaursdoi.jpg

https://3citynewswire.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/background-extintion1.jpg

http://www.mediacircus.net/dinosaur___3.jpg

http://www.oftwominds.com/photos2015/dinosaurs-meteor1.jpg

Was tempted to post a picture of Donald Trump's inauguration because political humour, but I like this thread so won't ruin the flow.

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1533509/dinosaur-extinction-asteroid.jpg

http://www.unmuseum.org/dinodeadcrash.jpg

dinodeadcrash.jpg

the pictures are all trenchant social commentary whether they mean to be or no

"this is the one thing we didn't want to happen" -dinosaurs

http://i.imgur.com/ouZzey3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ijJhlJa.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GxPpSx12pnA/maxresdefault.jpg

this artist really bringing out the slapstick potential of this scenario

http://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PBF055-Dinosaur_Meteors.jpg

http://palgrave.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v313/n6/images/scientificamerican1215-54-I2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/e0t5nTT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/f4r9aMP.jpg

Now, everysaurus -

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2013/3-9/BxsDAghgQA-2.png

https://pdmipublishing.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/one-more.jpg

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/EBMM4E/asteroid-meteorites-hitting-the-earthduring-the-late-cretaceous-period-EBMM4E.jpg

I thought at first that one dinosaur was so horrified it was vomiting blood.

the pictures are all trenchant social commentary whether they mean to be or no

it is always easy to look back and say they should have tapped Michael Bay to go back in time and build an asteroid-killing dinosaur spaceship

"Changing Nature" Tom Trbovich Kirk Thatcher July 20, 1994 D365
The family prepares to celebrate the return of the Bunch Beetles, who arrive back on Pangaea every May 14th to eat the rapidly growing Cider Poppies. This year, however, they fail to arrive and it soon emerges that WESAYSO built a wax fruit factory on top of their mating ground and killed the species. Without the Bunch Beetles to eat them, the Cider Poppies quickly begin to overrun the continent. More concerned with bad publicity than any threat to the ecosystem, B.P. Richfield chooses Earl to take care of the problem. Earl, eager to quickly get rid of the poppies instead of looking for a long-term solution, chooses to spray everywhere with defoliant. Although this succeeds in getting rid of the Cider Poppies, it also manages to destroy all plant life on the entire planet. Deciding that rain is needed to bring back the plants, Richfield decides to drop bombs in every volcano, reasoning that the clouds they produce will bring the rain. Instead the volcanoes produce thick black clouds, blocking out the sun and plunging the planet into an ice age. Earl finally realizes what a mistake he made by tampering with nature and taking it for granted, however it is too late. He apologizes to his family for ending the world, but promises that dinosaurs won't just disappear. The Sinclairs agree that they'll remain a family no matter what happens, as the house begins to be buried by snow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dinosaurs_episodes#Season_4_.281994.29

thread of the year

http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/images/gap/gap_dinos.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NVrKT.jpg

quality thread

hope you're doing well mark s

may we never bump glans

http://a401.idata.over-blog.com/4/03/04/08/svt-2/svt-3/svt-4/svt-5/svt-6/a-ast99-90026.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N7MLKY_hXUE/VmTJY2V9-mI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/VYAdD45rZUQ/s1600/Bulgaria_Bronto_Meteorite.jpg

Sweet.

a+ thread

didn't know this genre went that deep tbh thank u

Dinosaurs are the new Paul Weller.

http://images.spaceref.com/news/ooimpact.2.jpg

That's almost like a Thomas Kinkade painting of this topic.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51f%2BcNHRVOL._SY346_.jpg

Pounded in the Butt by the Very Real Possibility That Humans Will Suffer the Same Fate as the Dinosaurs

thread of the year

― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague)

cosign

This is how Jurassic World 2 should end.

Good luck with the heart thing!

http://i.imgur.com/Zs2oJ9U.jpg

^epic

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pXX_mbmfz4w/VuptvQ0_XKI/AAAAAAAACjQ/hQT-OIBv09QBrZYAk4u6qUA_iBV35h3gg/s1600/14.1-parasaurolophus-meteor-strike-phil-wilson.jpg

oh, already been posted. sorry

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/dinosaur-extinction-19517500.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Orrin_Hatch%2C_Official_Photograph.jpg/440px-Orrin_Hatch%2C_Official_Photograph.jpg

http://www.icr.org/i/articles/af/did_dinos_die_impact_wide.jpg

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/sites/default/files/2017/01/main/articles/860_main_dino_doomsday.png

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3a/36/bf/3a36bfae10a0d9f63273739e83a71b8b.jpg

https://johnthetoyshopguy.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/111220131632.jpg

A handful you missed:

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/palaeofiles/fossilgroups/pterosaurs/Extinction.jpg

https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/08/76808-050-0B37F4BC.jpg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/photos/000/641/64137.jpg

https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/last_days_of_the_dinosaurs_183a1h_by_maspix-d5pskyz.jpg

Neanderthal xp A+

omg what a wonderful wonderful thread

https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bummer-876x420.jpg

http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/noworries.jpg

who's the asshole who drew a dimetrodon at the extinction event

i'm already handwavey about these styracosaurus, parasaurolophus etc and then someone shows up with a dimetrodon????? like motherfucker get out of here with this permian period bullshit. what else you got at your fucking meteor party, dumb artist? a stagonlepis? FOH IMO

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/asteroid-strike-dinosaur-cartoon-cute-prehistoric-extinction-event-vector-illustration-77413129.jpg

i don't even WANNA know what that ones supposed to be, if it's an apatosaurus i will straight up fight someone

http://almostmakessense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2012-10-29-meatier-meteor.jpg

http://pre09.deviantart.net/ca7b/th/pre/i/2010/197/d/a/beer_bong_dinosaur_rockin_hxc_by_keytoafterlife.jpg

http://www.evilontwolegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/twilight33.jpg

xpost Thinkin Baout Things thread
http://i.imgur.com/lPK3TFT.jpg

Thumbs up at this thread.

Good vibes, mark.

http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1416080621l/23566249.jpg

god i've seen more versions of this story than anything, our kid always wants to watch dinosaur documentaries on youtube, usually something from Nova or Discovery Channel, and no matter the subject they have to have their own version of this. usually ends with dinosaurs running away, screaming and consumed by fire.

https://i1.wp.com/www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dinosaur_asteroid.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1

loool Neanderthal

https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/2287357/size/sk-2017_04_article_main_mobile;jpeg_quality=20.jpg

Dinosaurs cannot put aside their differences, even now.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/t2gifs/toobigtofail2.GIF

i'm already handwavey about these styracosaurus, parasaurolophus etc and then someone shows up with a dimetrodon????? like motherfucker get out of here with this permian period bullshit. what else you got at your fucking meteor party, dumb artist? a stagonlepis? FOH IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSY_rB928c

this thread restores my faith in ilx

really excellent and typically mark s type thread. get well soon dude.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--LJ4fCw9qfk/TqSE1-UajmI/AAAAAAAABWI/_8hxgNmBHcY/s400/dinosaur+asteroid.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fe/94/3e/fe943e97d21686bcaeefaa04b52624a1.jpg

http://news.yale.edu/sites/default/files/imce/lizard-interior.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/animals-dinosaur-asteroid-wiped_out-keeping_busy-cartoons-nki0043_low.jpg

https://archosaurmusings.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/asteroid-tylosaur.jpg

oops sorry for the repeat

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bzmhIk_VKpo/UPTMZj2tqPI/AAAAAAAAemA/tosHwZIJk-I/s1600/Dinosaur+meteors.jpg

http://img08.deviantart.net/a997/i/2013/040/3/b/the_cretaceous_paleogene_extinction_by_daizua123-d5uanwx.jpg

I feel like, without much effort, we could make this thread x-rated while remaining completely on topic. That's the kind of world we live in.

http://pre10.deviantart.net/5e66/th/pre/f/2011/223/6/4/dinosaurs_by_donjapy2011-d469a1z.jpg

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e15/11379734_1434658553507845_1429864677_n.jpg

(that was intended as a warning to old lunch btw)

https://fiddletwix.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/dkep1screen1.png

http://img01.deviantart.net/27d8/i/2013/048/e/9/horns14__triceratops_by_tuomaskoivurinne-d2svi59.png

triceratops showing off the rarely-discussed fourth horn there amirite

http://easyscienceforkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/why_dinosaurs_extinct.jpg

Whyyyyyy

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/4-21/TQfC55MEcf-5.png

Can't believe this hasn't shown up yet.

https://thethirdhelix.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/dinosaurs-extinction-150-dpi.jpg

https://panelborders.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/pope_meteorite.jpg

Maurizio Cattelan

everyone knows the dinosaurs died in a car accident

this thread restores my faith in ilx

― mookieproof, Thursday, May 18, 2017 5:49 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/newsimage//NewsImage/2013/2013-02/2013-02-19/20130219_524033_01.jpg

Not a picture, but a thing i read recently about what the impact was like. It boggled my mind, so I thought I'd share:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8iaDsyXUAAzcWh.jpg

Also: Ace thread!

here's a way ordinary people can grasp it better involving the exact cruising altitude of a 747 which as you all know wait no we don't

(tbf when he stops talking abt 747s it is bogglingly graspable)

terrifyingly

http://www.spessalvi.com/images/books/61--j9J6KPL._SS550.jpg

not convinced this book is entirely OTM re how dinosaurs live tbr

This is more accurate! :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08r3xhf

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wia2EgfVL.jpghttp://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1417011609i/22678049._UY404_SS404_.jpg

choosing to believe these are the same book

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61tkV3-DkoL.jpghttp://st1.thehealthsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dinosaurs-divorce.jpg

this is santa-level lying

https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/top5massiveextinction_r2_v1.jpg

here for this^^^ picture readably >:(

https://futurism.com/images/the-worlds-worst-mass-extinctions/

http://ichigen-san.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2016/06/23/photo_7.png

http://i.gzn.jp/img/2016/01/28/next-mass-extinction/snap00016.png

^^^feat.godzilla!

http://www.bi-plane.co.jp/BP808/fushigi/images/inseki_kyoryu910.jpg

"Set in one gloomy afternoon at the end of the Cretaceous, the hatchling Poharex is watched by the loving eyes of his mother. Meanwhile, his father, the king, watches in terror as the wheels of a great prophecy set in motion, and the greatest trial for his family and his kind looms ahead."

http://orig15.deviantart.net/0e0a/f/2011/161/8/4/young_poharex_by_poharex-d3ik2x6.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_xxkdL7_KTY/TwQQ3_dG0WI/AAAAAAAAJRY/gh0QflIjLkA/s1600/2012kyouryuu001.GIF

http://yuripoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/%E7%B5%B6%E6%BB%85%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%9A%E3%82%81.jpg

http://img10.deviantart.net/f4cc/i/2010/222/7/b/tattoo_leg_sleeve_panorama_by_livingdeadboys.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvVFR4rn5vU

narration a must

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKsV24Mas0Y

^^^the lyrical take (kinda)

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/29/books/review/29POPOVA/1129-BKS-Popova-master768.jpg

https://i1.wp.com/www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/evolution_kilpelinen5.jpg

http://writingbubble.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/image-13.jpeg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQg5mBG7VRc/U-Q8g5xjMzI/AAAAAAAALgk/eFPgyBLxVRI/s1600/handprint+dino+(6).JPG

http://www.sjgames.com/dinohunt/img/rawart/AsteroidStrike.gif

https://www.wholesalehalloweencostumes.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/the_look-777x1024.jpghttps://images.halloweencostumes.com/products/7988/2-1-76809/kids-dinosaur-costume.jpg

https://media.giphy.com/media/3jbA22JWJPHcQ/giphy.gif

http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/scifindr/articles/image4s/000/002/753/large/extinction2.jpg?1475472339
sneaked one in from the Permian Extinction, cos it is my fave of the big die-offs.

http://orig01.deviantart.net/0523/f/2010/125/1/8/a_peaceful_day____by_viart.jpg

http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/YfsTrcvpou-K1tzMusw0Yg34691/GW650H142

^^^A+ meme-combo (but what is the final silhouette and what is it carrying?)

http://img03.deviantart.net/690e/i/2014/353/2/f/extinction_by_moderndavinci-d8afrwt.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1985/1101850506_400.jpg

imo it's a pity that Time stopped doing the little corner picture with a second cover story - "and if dinosaurs don't grab you, we've got some stuff about Reagan too"

http://img15.deviantart.net/a6dc/i/2010/090/9/6/asteroid_splash_by_lexlothor.jpg

Another genre that is close to this is dinosaurs and volcanic eruptions.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/12/23FFBF2B00000578-2871421-image-a-21_1418387066045.jpg

http://assets3.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/57293/size_1024/dinosaur_volcano.jpg?1418393900

GiS of "dinosaurs comets" produces exact same series of pix as "dinosaurs meteors" or "dinosaurs asteroids", poor show the internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-alv5ybolFE

^^^disneyfied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fIqXqYw7Ok

excellent goofy title: "Extinction Of Dinosaurs - Requiem For A Dream"

http://evolution-of-prehistoric-life.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/2/3/30232129/9726077.jpg?954

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sNaO6aWPdOM/TdwKCEYMZ-I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/Jz5iZm4lf2U/s640/DinoEND.jpg

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/172602/530wm/E4460294-Tyrannosaurus_rex_and_asteroid_strike-SPL.jpg

http://img10.deviantart.net/1a3a/i/2013/127/d/4/the_end__by_astralview-d64hwwz.jpg

"welp, I'm not really in the mood for broiled meat, but..."

(xpost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvQY2cX-Zvw

excellent goofy title: "Extinction Of Dinosaurs - Requiem For A Dream"

The dream is over. :(

It's a tragedy to me to see the dream is over
And I never will forget the day we met
Dinosaurs I'm gonna miss you

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/4-1/kxPYGhfkzz-6.png

^^^smart brachiosaurus is a problem-solver imo

http://grebelspeaks.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/2/11729594/_9846841.jpg

http://grebelspeaks.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/2/11729594/_4322651.jpg

this children's book is p much all Dinosaurs dying horribly:

http://grebelspeaks.weebly.com/dinosaur-book-review.html

https://simotron.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/tumblr_mn41mm89ns1r38ji3o1_1280.jpg

low key

Is that book shaming the T-Rex for not noticing that it's about to die?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/71/c1/34/71c134218da003e7d9b84098723453f5.jpg

no-drama sneak-attack asteroid seems to be a thing

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Your-Last-Meal-575879442

watermark and foreshadow

http://pre02.deviantart.net/c289/th/pre/f/2015/336/7/f/there_s_more_important_matters_than_lunch_by_xstreamchaosofficial-d9iv3f6.jpg

Is that book shaming the T-Rex for not noticing that it's about to die?

― jmm, Friday, May 19, 2017 2:14 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are more pages from the book at that link, it takes an attitude to the dinosaurs' extinction that I can only describe as 'gleeful'

thread keeps on delivering. that text JM posted is wild!

T-Rex has the right idea. keep eating. go with what you know.

I think I prefer the pictures where the dinosaurs are all like "oh shit WTF"

Lilo and Stitch teaches children that “family means no one gets left behind”. This book teaches kids that this rule simply cannot apply in an apocalyptic situation which is an important exception for kindergarteners to become aware of.

book at link looks great BUT usual pro-mammal erasure lies are promulgated:

a: big lizardy dinosaurs likely took several thousand years to die off
b: many dinosaurs aka BIRDS survive to this day perhaps by eating RATS

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/12/Velociraptor.jpg

http://pre11.deviantart.net/674d/th/pre/f/2008/174/7/f/7facec6a155058131ae28e2fa1f7b4a6.jpg

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---oL1N5XV--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/813266302148042132.jpg

no meteors in pix of feathered tyrannosaurs, i call shenanigans

I am genuinely quite surprised by how many different pictures there are.

xxp the dinosaurs died of meteor-induced trypophobia

pinefox i suspect we have not scratched the surface: this is just eng-lang google searches (and some japanese)

http://imgc-cn.artprintimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/100/10013/DHYW500Z/posters/will-mcphail-asteroid-in-armchair-has-dinosaur-head-over-mantelpiece-a-play-on-a-hunte-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg

http://www.dinosauria.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fig1.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/42/68/fc/4268fc75b6b8be65f5b450db5250667b.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517V7TqkFRL.jpg

http://img11.deviantart.net/e6a4/i/2008/170/6/1/extinction_by_raptorbarry.jpg

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/1-13/Nm3Rz5O2LO-7.png

http://anopusperdiem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160517_130058_crop.jpg

sappy

http://orig14.deviantart.net/5892/f/2007/261/6/2/prehistoric_guitarist_by_antmanthemagnif.jpg

crying

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/8e/b8/268eb89af0753a3201b9480ec516f7b2.jpg

been avoiding posting this but i think i have to

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxpXkTniETw/U-Q8hPCsH3I/AAAAAAAALgQ/cnRfKl1gHbY/s1600/handprint+dino+(7).JPG

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-2/GeH2rRZTNf-6.png

aw

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AU-KR14KvUU/VHNq4FN-J2I/AAAAAAAAGPs/OR5v22iw9f0/s1600/PTDC0150.JPG

http://img06.deviantart.net/bed9/i/2009/331/6/0/the_end_by_kitchen_face.jpg

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/247c11_0954bf1c00b849648c075234084f878e.jpg_srz_500_330_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz

https://www.images-booknode.com/book_cover/66/full/les-cometes-ont-elles-tue-les-dinosaures---65708.jpg

i am not being allowed post a picture of a flaming asteroid falling on two dinosaurs doing it on a giant ocean-bound cheese

http://pre00.deviantart.net/08cb/th/pre/f/2016/138/5/0/duiarn_by_chiiaros-da2zf4o.png

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-4/fmXZZMs6ON-6.png

https://demonsresume.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/night-of-the-comet.jpg

http://t03.deviantart.net/mI78Zg5CpZvx-3xmYqu5n5EooYo=/fit-in/700x350/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin()/pre13/c7b2/th/pre/i/2011/288/4/2/three_dinosaurs_and_a_meteor_by_duderoth-d4cxij0.png

CGI ones are all dud

Kid-drawn ones all classic

excellent thread mark

http://cdn.nlgeek-bogatovka.savviihq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/extinction_dino.jpg.61a6d06296e91a206a3de57c7617e206-620x315.jpg

http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/wavepic.jpeghttp://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/K-TCLOSE.jpg

http://www.history.com/s3static/video-thumbnails/AETN-History_VMS/806/291/History_Ask_History_Dinosaurs_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9.jpg

face-hugger an intriguing addition there

could be dreads

dinodreads

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.

http://www.popsci.com/

I don't think this one's appeared yet

http://yucatanexpatlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/crateristock700.jpg

kind of a "Houses of the Holy" vibe to it imo

CGI ones are all dud

― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:32 (one hour ago)

sorry you feel that way. imho CGI stock images have an eerie, hyperreal quality that perfectly suits the subject matter

http://i.imgur.com/9VMDZfp.jpg

For sheer verisimilitude, I prefer the photos taken at the time. Unfortunately the resolution tends to be poor because camera technology was very rudimentary.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9e/5f/f5/9e5ff561d13d23704544abb2ea9580ee.jpg

What were the dominant theories of dino extinction before the asteroid version took hold? Apparently it was first posited in the 50s but hard evidence didn't turn up til 1980? It's what I grew up with... just was wondering if generic dino picture books from 1955 (with, one imagines, great hand-painted illustrations) would have gone with the meteor or something more boring.

https://preview.ibb.co/gYhrFv/asteroids.jpg

inspired by my parents recent unironic trip to the creation museum, where apparently this (minus the poster) is a real exhibit

i have mine and my dad's (and one of my grandad's) dinosaur books in storage -- they all have great pictures but no big theories of extinction that i remember, it wasn't really an issue (catastrophism only came back in fashion in the 1980s)

i should post some photos from them

there isn't a meteor in the dinosaur sequence from Fantasia iirc? It just gets really hot and dry, then they all die.

iirc one of the theories in the 70's was "the mammals ate all the eggs"

some earlier theories here

http://www.history.com/topics/why-did-the-dinosaurs-die-out

going off by what i learnt over 15 years ago but wasn't it a meteor and climate change that caused their extinction?

oh pre-that i think one was flatulance wasn't it?

shouldn't rely on comedy skits to teach me stuff tho

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/843180/530wm/F0181247-End_of_cretaceous_KT_event%2C_illustration-SPL.jpg

https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/802/508/508802.jpg

http://www.doodydoodles.com/sitebuilder/images/EPOCH_FAIL-585x462.jpg

the very early theories of what created fossils tended to be semi-bibilical: that they were bones of creatures that hadn't survived the flood (or perhaps more than one flood, or some kind of catastrophic upheaval, there were various ideas)

dinosaurs were named as a species a couple of decades before darwin's published the origin of species and by the time they were being sought and taxonomised in number, the darwinist orthodoxy was gradualism rather than catastrophes (stephen jay gould wrote several interesting essays on this, not least bcz he thought that "punctuated equilibrium" was the process: in other words not a pure gradualism)

the alvarez thesis was a big deal, in 1980 -- not least bcz it got caught up by the anti-nuclear movement, who extrapolated the idea of nuclear winter from the alvarez proposal, that vast clouds of dust kicked up by the comet/asteroid had blotted out sunlight for decades, shifting the climate

shifting the climate

― mark s, Friday, May 19, 2017 1:24 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

read this as shitting the climate

so what i remember from dad's books that he had as a kid is just that people handwaved the vanishing of the dinosaurs as ordinary evolution over a very long time and climate shifts maybe caused by varitions in the sun's brightness or whatever

(they also often had maps of the landmasses in various eras -- pangeaa and gondwanaland etc -- but continental drift wasn't established as the general scientific consensus until the mid-60s, so they handwaved how prehistoric animals had crossed large oceans with "vegetable mats", and draw in the likely routes the mats must have taken, across from africa to south america and so on: dad was a naturalist, more focused on plants than animals, but he said the conference where the consensus changed was a huge deal, lots of ppl went to it thinking they were the only ones who really believed in continental drift, and then they all realised everyone else had started believing it also, and the episteme changed overnight, and a lot of older naturalists basically retired as the embittered old school… he may have been dramatising a bit, but it was a very fast shift)

(the key new evidence came from sonar, invented in ww2, being used to map the ocean beds in the 50s and all the volcanic rifts which are the motor of the movement)

http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/2012/addamskindle/addams12.jpg

and that's how unicorns were born

according to Mr. Freeze in "Batman and Robin", it was the ice age that killed the dinosaurs

the permian was a much slower event than the cretaceous wipeout, but for some reason it's imagery scares me more. The anoxic oceans where 95% of life was wiped out and the bacteria dense pondwater giving the planet a sickly pink glow from space. And just the idea of choking to death in a nightmare hothouse world.

Yeah some of the CGI ones are alright but still prefer kid-drawn and lovingly hand-painted

I remember 'mammals ate the eggs' and flatulence - also pictures of large predatory dinosaurs always stood up on two legs roaring into the air

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

currently popular theory is this crater's time of impact lines up well with the major extinction period

(they also often had maps of the landmasses in various eras -- pangeaa and gondwanaland etc -- but continental drift wasn't established as the general scientific consensus until the mid-60s,

Did not know this - but they were aware of the landmasses having been in different place from I suppose sea-creature fossils found on land?

wegener had proposed continental drift back in 1912 -- based on the way africa so obviously fits into south america, and many other less obvious tesselations and geological similarities between jigsawed pieces -- but no one could think of a mechanism for the plates to move, as the whole crust was assumed to be solid, and the idea wasn't taken up

http://pre09.deviantart.net/f64d/th/pre/i/2015/117/9/9/dinosaur_extinction_by_sriramgubbi-d8r97qa.jpg

http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/CKTEvent.jpg

http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/CWetumpkaNo2Giclee16x20.jpg

Always has to be at least two animal species on display

haha otm

long detailed essay in the rise of interest in exploring reasons why dinosaurs became extinct: http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Essays/Dino90.html

author puts the turning point at the start of the 1970s

wait what happened in the 1970s that killed dinos

Glam rock.

prog rock dude

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2016/06/tarkus.jpeg?w=600&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89

no meteor, no credibility

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/10/tim-and-eric-mind-blown.gif

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/dore/rhin/37.jpg

gustav doré engraving of fossil of hapless dinosaur caught watching incoming meteor (not pictured)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/24/84/18/2484183fe64d3babad5b3dd10b44cd82.jpg

From that link, 'A Survey of Theories for the Death of the Dinosaurs' could make a good poll

This thread is not only great to look at but great to read, the same is not true of the, superficially similar, Paul Weller thread. Paul Weller not being anywhere near as interesting as dinosaurs, or with their enduring appeal (who knows though, eh?)

The asteroid theory is clearly being financed by kindergarten teacher special interest groups, who dread having to assign students to illustrate the rise of angiosperms.

kids still love dinosaurs, right? I remember being into them really young and practicing drawing brontosaurus necks

They have Dinosaur World near Lakeland here. The kids dig it

Thanks, y'all, for filling in so much backstory! Yeah, I now remember egg-eating mammals mixed in with death comet, in my childhood.

mark s, hope your lengthy and engaging posts are signs that all is well.

http://i.imgur.com/1UYKHy1.png

only dino video game I really acknowledge is primal rage

um, bubble bobble?!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/3801892004_ab85c209c6.jpg

https://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/3009806/622124582/stock-vector-stegosaurus-tattoo-art-comet-has-destroyed-dinosaurs-symbol-of-prehistoric-paleontology-622124582.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/27/54/3e/27543e5f928d26e8b26606328a8e7f18.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/09/article-2276154-1774995E000005DC-205_634x722.jpg

subject's best angle

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee68/tbricker/TouringPlans%20DinosaurIndy/051210096.jpg

https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ateroid-660x280.jpg

i like the atmospheric make-u-ponder ones best i think

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/3/31/JurracMeteor-HA04-EN-ScR-1E.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20120225063955

when this card is Synchro Summoned, destroy all cards on the field

http://pssreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/How-Deep-Sea-Creatures-Survived-Dinosaur-Killing-Asteroid.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eU7yYZz7vaw/Uxz5FTEZjKI/AAAAAAAAM9c/TKCsZ_6Rec4/s1600/dino.jpg

https://68.media.tumblr.com/de799a766b20210d6deaee7d08251f2c/tumblr_ol9luknwU11sqn3dxo1_500.jpg

http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MAC32_DINOSAUR_CAROUSEL.jpg

http://blog.capterra.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/giphy-1.gif

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/meteor-soaring-overhead-of-inflatable-dinosaur-picture-id200171962-001?s=170667a

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a7/49/5f/a7495f68a375558e37d132f43b91947a.jpg

https://68.media.tumblr.com/e4b249215754bb68c095c6814404dc6a/tumblr_nl5n09PslU1u1ofgwo1_500.jpg

loving this

http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/periods/mesozoic/d_end.jpg

http://garysanis.com/Pics/Animals/DinosaurRunningFromComet_Big.gif

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2012/4-14/e3bdpfR6QS-4.png

http://www.sushi-x.com/gallery/3d/chicxulub2.jpg

http://image.dhgate.com/0x0/f2/albu/g4/M01/29/71/rBVaEVgSzTeAewGtAAPd-i4fXtE621.jpg

dinosaur eye 3D wall sticker (feat.v subtle meteor)

http://static2.mangainn.net/mangas/936/70675/003_12_17_2011_18_56_28.jpg

https://img.rt.com/files/news/26/f9/00/00/dinosaur-giant-argentina-discovery.jpg

the ambiguous "is it the sun is it a meteor" artshot

https://images.gutefrage.net/media/fragen-antworten/bilder/9909061/2_big.jpg?v=1263677308000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKbfdUAa3Y

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/4-17/WY3hYSCaRD-12.png

more good drawception solutions to a bad problem

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/5-21/qhkRCepEpW-12.png

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sEFjuNkY0yw/0.jpg

http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/meteor_hits_antarctica_big.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/education-teaching-meteor-age_of_the_dinosaurs-dinos-dinosaurs-asteroid-bwhn859_low.jpg

^^^thread trenchancy award-winner

I like the ones where the dinosaurs are turning to look behind them and it seems like they're doing that Tim Allen "AEUUUGGHH??" noise

https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2014/dinosaursdoi.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnsiZOJjfUg

http://media.istockphoto.com/photos/tyrannosaurus-dinosaur-exctinction-3d-render-picture-id185694867

https://thumb1.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/3933845/421790557/stock-vector-cute-dinosaur-in-the-jungle-vector-illustration-meteor-421790557.jpg

https://68.media.tumblr.com/1531d00ab1ae247a5f8fb83dc7ed9956/tumblr_o5bxg5mBxh1rno5r3o1_r1_1280.jpg

https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/797371/212821015/stock-vector-dinosaur-icons-mono-vector-symbols-212821015.jpg

post-alvarez semiotics 101

x-post: the KT meatball extinction event

http://media.istockphoto.com/photos/dinosaurs-doomsday-picture-id97492410

https://ak3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/6872623/preview/stock-footage-dinosaur-in-an-extinction-event.mp4

^^^

https://ak3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/6872623/preview/stock-footage-dinosaur-in-an-extinction-event.mp4

https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/55599/55599,1325581091,1/stock-photo-dinosaur-doomsday-diceratops-91851533.jpg

^^^stock image title: doomsday diceratops

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/6f51342a910046e0a6aba11a90c9966a/dinosaur-doomsday-eh3e12.jpg

so much unusable stock imagery

http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Ward/pics/pic_05.jpg

http://p7.storage.canalblog.com/73/07/166420/45690128.jpg

https://67d860664f4b00793cde-967809c7cbb0f14b111df13fc72409e5.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/fiona/films/thumb/19ee9b99-81bc-4d1a-8ec3-f81d9e6bc33b.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b9aoINXzk

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/3f5216a96a224253a51ff73bc8ac76fe/dinosaur-extinction-because-meteorite-explosion-c9758m.jpg

"dinosaur extinction because meteorite explosion"

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/ed9d01041a444b43bd0485144c6df29f/disney-s-animal-kingdom-dinoland-usa-a80ax2.jpg

http://www.guide-to-disney.com/animal-kingdom/dinoland-usa/photos/triceratops-spin5-big.jpg

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/velociraptors-view-an-asteroid-strike-picture-id123758928?s=170667a

There's something suspiciously specific about insisting that "There's nothing prehistoric about our accommodations"

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/172603/530wm/E4460295-Titanosaurus_watching_an_approaching_tsunami-SPL.jpg

meteor is behind the tsunami

http://media.gettyimages.com/videos/tsunami-crashes-over-a-shoreline-and-kills-several-dinosaurs-in-a-video-id574240291

http://img01.deviantart.net/16cf/a/large/wallpaper/w3d/tsunami_tidal_wave.jpg

worn out, more anon

http://img05.deviantart.net/8b42/i/2013/018/8/e/death_of_the_dinosaurs_by_magic_gerbil-d5rurg9.jpg

lol jmm i was about to post basically the same thing

This one is great:

http://p7.storage.canalblog.com/73/07/166420/45690128.jpg

You've got the indeterminate species, weirdly human posture, and abstracted impact

https://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-dinosaur-doomsday-91889522.jpg

lots like stock this googleable via "dinosaur doomsday" or "dino doosmday" -- ^^^this is the LOLest

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/styles/960x400/public/doomsday_1_rotator.jpg?itok=sy6ynRYo

https://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/55599/582619582/stock-photo-dinosaurs-jurassic-prehistoric-scene-dinosaur-fighting-with-snake-d-rendering-582619582.jpg

off-topic must-see: "dinosaurs jurassic prehistoric scene dinosaur fighting with snake 3d rendering"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/nintchdbpict000278419520.jpg?strip=all&w=960

^^^we probably already had this but i really like the moody composition (wildings, the fancy decor and bookshop in shrewsbury when i was a kid, sold of a lot of prints with this feel, tho not this exact subject matter, which wouldn't go wide for another two decades)

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/tyrannosaurus-shouting-3d-render-29153759.jpg

general shouty TRex angst at sunset (sunset of the species dys)

http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/Images/Issues/2016/October/doomsday.jpg

unusual undersea doomsday angle

http://photoshopcontest.com/images/large/oiz9hzx77xg9s54m1820hiq43zchq7y0fddh.jpg

titled "photoshop contest: win real prizes"

I like that woodblock print-style one

This thread is vintage ILX

to be fair so am i

get the feeling mark is crowdsourcing material for his next anthology

I love this thread but. There were actually comparatively few dinosaurs near enough to see the Chicxulub impact (and even fewer who would have had time to gaze at it haplessly). The vast majority that died out would have done so in the ensuing weeks/months due to associated climate changes. "It's been cold and dark for so long and OMG where is all the food" isn't a dramatic picture, though.

Illustrating the K-T extinction purely by "dinosaurs look up at giant ball of fire in the sky" is a bit like if everyone illustrated the American Revolution with a painting in which people in Lexington perk up their ears at hearing musket fire. Sure, that must have happened, shot heard round the world and all that, but most of the consequential stuff unspooled in different ways.

/buzzkill

http://gb.fotolibra.com/images/previews/1275645-bayeux-tapestry-halleys-comet.jpeg

I really like the Matisse vibe in this one

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/files/2016/03/Chicxulub_ArtistConcept-copy.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/22/24F0FBE600000578-2921547-image-a-2_1421926822526.jpg I don't know if this one has appeared yet, it's kinda meh

http://orig10.deviantart.net/a8e3/f/2016/065/1/d/make_a_wish__by_japanesegodzilla1954-d9u4hul.jpg

http://pre07.deviantart.net/7ee0/th/pre/i/2016/029/0/8/end_of_an_era_by_americandreaming-d9lbpfu.jpg

http://pre00.deviantart.net/b15d/th/pre/f/2015/126/2/c/overlook_the_stars_by_agent_ladue-d8seico.png

http://pre03.deviantart.net/980f/th/pre/f/2014/157/6/3/killer_by_julianaroad7-d7la8hm.png

http://img09.deviantart.net/d480/i/2014/271/c/5/we_ll_be_okay__by_hidetheknives-d80xeu0.jpg

http://www.zdnet.com/i/story/61/45/011167/stallracasaur2.jpg

https://offthebroiler.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/zdnet-stallman.jpg

He must have found that p upsetting

http://68.media.tumblr.com/9a6cef25d523d05df7d71c0fa9d74b5d/tumblr_oqbqlsqS1t1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

the alt-theory of dino-demise is of course by water rather than fire: but it comes in various flavours

google: dinosaur deluge -- and you get lots of excellent pix from louis figuier's "the world before the deluge" (1867)
google: dinosaur antidiluvian -- and you get lots of pix from 19th century schollarly works plus cartoons from e.g. punch ("antidiluvian" suggests a belief in the bibilical flood but had actually more or less become a fancy word for "prehistoric", so plenty of ppl used it who probably weren't xtian believers especially)
google: dinosaur flood -- and you get a fvckton of creationist nonsense, treating noah as a historical figure and the old testament simultaneously taken literally and carelessly read

Genesis, King James Bible
1: And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

"long detailed essay" at link above is good on a similarly problematic element tainting otherwise so-called scientific thought abt dinosaurs and extinction viz the notion of RACIAL SENILITY

the science of this was that dinosaurs had to go because they'd been around way too long and had inevitably become lumbering and clumsy and needed sweeping away: it is alt-right garbage -- and hence anyone who uses the term dinosaur to mean "lumbering and clumsy and needs sweeping away" is as bad as a creationist IMO

dinosaurs were excellent and fit and non-at-all lumbering and they were swept away by an asteroid that wasn't even their fault plus not all of them* were swept away anyway bcz lots of them are still here they are called BIRDS they are pretty

i am a crank abt this yes but if you disagree you are wrong so shut up

*(this is kind of the megatherium-in-the-room of this whole thread tbh: all the species not destroyed in the fireball/earthquake/nuclear winter)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvJJmn0CQAAJ1z6.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512N5XSVQ9L._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61fkyUtL-dL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

"long detailed essay" at link above is good on a similarly problematic element tainting otherwise so-called scientific thought abt dinosaurs and extinction viz the notion of RACIAL SENILITY

the science of this was that dinosaurs had to go because they'd been around way too long and had inevitably become lumbering and clumsy and needed sweeping away: it is alt-right garbage -- and hence anyone who uses the term dinosaur to mean "lumbering and clumsy and needs sweeping away" is as bad as a creationist IMO

And the idea that all the horns and frills were just pointless, last-gasp mutations, or weird aberrant growths

Ahhh - this one. Didn't know it was Louis Figuier

http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/utils/ajaxhelper/?CISOROOT=dino&CISOPTR=464&action=2&DMSCALE=35&DMWIDTH=512&DMHEIGHT=512&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMROTATE=0

there was also the secret society of dinosaurs that would congregate in an underground cave, nicknamed 45/113, after its longitudinal and latitudinal location. it was initially excavated by oryctodromeus dinos but were later helped by styrakkies and stegies, no less. i think it was in the 1800s that paleontologists first posited the theory that stegies actually ate oryctos but about ten years ago, i believe, a group of archaeologists found more fossils in the US that indicated something else was at play

anyway, they surmised that stegies were not hunting oryctos but were, as it were, playing a primitive game, for lack of a better word. they brought in a team of anthropologists who had researched indigenous tribes of north america and some of their "oral histories" revealed a bit of a pandora's box. these folk tales, originally stories, are more like some of the first observational analysis of what dinos did as a group on what would be their leisure time. to put it bluntly, some of these tribes observed a game of hide and seek that both oryctos and stegies played. but this was no innocent game. oryctos had tricked the stegies into running into dense dirt walls to later use as shelter and this is how the first cave was formed

as the caves became deeper and longer, hundreds of dinos, based on survival instincts, would seek refuge underground during extreme weather. oryctos, it's now known, were highly sophisticated creatures that had their own way of communicating with stones. these dinos were exceptionally susceptible to earth vibrations, think dogs and cats nowadays, so felt the first tremors that caused one of the first devastating earthquakes in pre-historic times. they learnt from this and had it's estimated about 5 minutes before the comet hit earth to essentially "duck and cover." these creatures were actually very fast, and went underground where they had planned how to defeat the bigger dinos, notably t-rexes, because these were eating up plants that were growing scarce day by day. the oryctos are believed to have formed some type of "societal" hierarchy and roamed in wolf-pack style groups. there were attempts at takedowns of famous t-rexes by these wolf packs, but they were just too small. in large part, and this could be seen as darwinism at play, they became smarter and more conscious of their surroundings, often seen gazing at each other by river streams and made a "cough, cough" sound that indigenous tribes identified as a "snickering laugh." obviously there was some type of communication going on that was far superior to what other dinos were capable of

i don't know if you guys are familiar with the "first great plot." it's in reference to an actual plot of land above the first cave excavated by them, but it is also in reference to the plot to destroy t-rexes and overthrow the kingdom of dinos.

i need to get back to work so i must cut it short, but i wanted to share this as it is something not discussed often and something worth looking into

^^^very much the kind of direction i was hoping aliens movies would move in

The recent BBC2 programme THE DAY THE DINOSAURS DIED explains how the rest of the Earth was covered in a dust cloud which killed them off. I couldn't actually make sense of this or see how the cloud would be so extensive.

re: animals that survived, an interesting one is the crocodile / alligator - I believe it is one of the oldest animals? - escaped into the oceans and hence endured?

Otherwise all the mammals at the time were very small, is that correct?

here you go, pinefox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_winter

the closest thing in (relatively) recent recorded history would be the eruption of Krakatoa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

Average global temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the year following the eruption. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.

now, imagine an event a whole lot bigger than that

I remember Mt. St. Helens putting ash miles up into atmosphere - enough so that was present (albeit in trace amounts) clear across the continent. I have no trouble believing that Chicxulub debris could have _severely_ inconvenienced land creatures everywhere.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/2c/a6/e72ca6f2a602c8c344c5821e936639a8.jpg

So you know the big sea reptiles, Predator X and all them? Anyone know anything about the process by which the meteor kill them off? Was it like: dust blocks sunlight to ocean plants, thus knocking out the bottom of the food chain they were on top of?

http://i65.tinypic.com/98c8s6.png

the meteor split into billions of pieces that each struck the dino i the face!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/19/e6/3e/19e63e88948065095ae82f5401968460.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/netgalley-covers/cover115030-large.png

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/concerned.png

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18952685_1941707042522053_1735837215554110337_n.jpg?oh=dea9e4809973426d2edb3d1e4e3846d9&oe=59A0D8B4

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCNIpQPUQAAmaDU.jpg

bcz i don't make the rules

is "ISIS" cheering the right-wing meteors?

Ben Garrison go on chapo

why does the ISIS dinosaur look so happy?

He's got back scales made of scimitars and an AR-15. You'd be happy, too.

also, he is the only one that gets to wear cool shoes

The ISIS dinosaur looks happy because they're trying to create the conditions they believe will trigger the apocalypse. It's maybe the only accurate thing Ben Garrison had ever drawn

The news orgs will be made extinct by this oncoming barrage of meteors and also a coffee mug.

i mean i literally don't care so don't tell me who they are but are those faces all well known and recognisable?

JP is a transphobe from Canada, and Infowars is the Infowars guy. I don't know the others.

http://i.imgur.com/tFyWwdz.jpg

xps Ya basic sympathy of american far-right for Isis showing thru a bit here

Um, there are people online who recreate the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event using Bernard Matthews Turkey Dinosaurs and it's amazing. pic.twitter.com/18Mobs4983

— Fergus Butler-Gallie (@_F_B_G_) July 23, 2017

https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20994286_10214029028830423_4697947309006296355_n.jpg?oh=9a43194e71009ff5f4b3c559e8fb455b&oe=5A21B114

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxkLSbUAAAfhG-.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJY7EC8WAAAMXtt.jpg

damn, rip dinosaurs exposed to the inky vastness of space

I imagine they've set up shop on some other planet they landed on

i for one welcome the return of our hyper-evolved dinosaur overlords

https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaucers/images/7/72/Allo-family.png

yessssss

what if the dinosaurs

are us

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/francis-gooding/feathered-furred-or-coloured

good thread eh

(did the now-vanished ben garrison cartoon include the first mention of j0rdan p3t3rson on ilx?)

pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor = cultural marxist propaganda pushed by lib professors

https://jackchick.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/dinosaur41.jpg?w=470

http://l7.alamy.com/comp/X565HB/artwork-showing-dinosaurs-caught-in-the-aftermath-of-an-asteroid-impact-the-dinosaurs-were-wiped-out-65-million-years-ago-an-event-provoked-by-the-impact-of-a-large-asteroid-or-comet-with-the-earth-the-impact-of-such-an-object-some-10km-across-threw-up-an-enormous-amount-of-debris-blocking-out-the-sun-for-months-or-years-in-this-depiction-a-blast-wave-moving-outwards-from-the-impact-site-incinerates-everything-in-its-path-carrying-with-it-superheated-and-charred-debris-these-ankylosaurid-dinosaurs-euoplocephalus-weighing-several-tons-each-do-not-stand-a-chance-against-this-X565HB.jpg

kinda pushing the definition of 'photo' there, alamy

nah it's a photo of a picture

omg that url

actually, that is originally my image and you're all under arrest

https://i.imgur.com/2AFIchU.jpg

lol

shit, he's got us dead to rights

did you choose that name for the jpg file as well

artwork-showing-dinosaurs-caught-in-the-aftermath-of-an-asteroid-impact-the-dinosaurs-were-wiped-out-65-million-years-ago-an-event-provoked-by-the-impact-of-a-large-asteroid-or-comet-with-the-earth-the-impact-of-such-an-object-some-10km-across-threw-up-an-enormous-amount-of-debris-blocking-out-the-sun-for-months-or-years-in-this-depiction-a-blast-wave-moving-outwards-from-the-impact-site-incinerates-everything-in-its-path-carrying-with-it-superheated-and-charred-debris-these-ankylosaurid-dinosaurs-euoplocephalus-weighing-several-tons-each-do-not-stand-a-chance-against-this-X565HB.jpg

ha! i didn't see that until now. it's a good name!

as someone who has suffered through the tortuous process of uploading images to sell on alamy, i def recognise the tortured syntax that comes from trying to squeeze as many keywords as possible into a caption

Next Fiona Apple album title?

the filename is SEO-friendly (uses dashes) so u got to give them props on that

dang

I can hardly believe he's this barefaced about it. It's absolutely outrageous. pic.twitter.com/SPpUrLDsDG

— Archie Woodrow (@Archimbaldo) June 21, 2018

shit lol wrong thing

Every now and then I reread this astonishing and terrifying description of the end of the dinosaurs, via @PeterBrannen1's 'The Ends of the World': pic.twitter.com/Z7EvFbPFOY

— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) June 20, 2018

can’t believe dinosaurs won the space race tens of millions of years before it even officially began, the bastards

I love reading non-fic science descriptions of monumental calamity like that, wonderful.

oh yeah, that's a great passage. there's a bit in Red Mars (which is full of meteor geology history) where they mention it's possible they might be stepping over a piece of the Yucatan somewhere over by Olympus Mons or whatever. wild.

now I know what book I'm reading next

the paul mason thing is bad also

if we're lucky he gets hit by a meteor

if we're lucky we all do

red mars is terrific in so many ways. sometimes kinda sucks on women and people of color. and yet it has so many interesting and really pressing things on its mind, really delves into terraforming as not only a question of how but of why and for whom. but yes: endless stuff on martian canyons and meteorite ejecta and the weight of ice affecting the regolith and the difficulties of navigating cross-cutting crater systems. some of it kinda washed over me cause i was more interested in the political struggle over what mars would be, and, in the sequels, what kind of values people would have if they actually born into a physically different kind of humanity on another planet. but it's really cool imho.

i found red mars really frustrating, mainly because keeping character continuity over the lonnnng timespan of terraforming mars meant handwaving a magical life-extension potion into existence, which rubbed really awkwardly against the determinedly hard-science approach of the rest of it

i sorrrrrt of agree but i also think it's of a piece with other things that happen in the series, making it less of a deus ex machina and more an exhibit towards a (debateable!) claim about how history and innovation work. some things are really slow and percolate around as people share the kernel of the idea and it rubs here, rubs there, and then two books later it finally comes to fruition. very STS. other ideas seem to congeal all of a sudden, like the conventional history of the edison bulb, and promulgate very rapid change. in this column you could put the gerontological treatments in book 1, the pusher-plate spacecraft in book 3, and probably something in book 2 that i'm forgetting. given the shift back and forth between human and geological time scales i think this is all deliberate though it may not be a given reader's cup of tea. and of course there are several semi-miraculous technologies that we have to accept from the get-go - mainly the reliable and easily programmed robot factories for manufacturing materials and equipment. so it goes.

anyway, imho he really does want to take on the life extension as a theme and a subject: how do people think about life when they could live that long, what kind of political issues would it raise, would it change your individual way of thinking about your actions, change the way you externalize problems onto "future generations," change the way you make sense of your own lifetime as a comprehensible biography as opposed to things so distant they could have been different people, etc.? i think the one bit of connective tissue necessary would be to really play up the idea that the labs are focused on the tumor problem because of radiation levels on the voyage and on mars, and that this specifically leads them into genetic repair. as written it feels like they just kinda picked this project out of a hat. the other thing that now seems incredibly goofy is that sea-level rise on earth turns out to not be a long-term result of greenhouse gases, but one of the quick abrupt changes, caused by a volcano erupting underneath antarctica. but there again i think he's trying to make parallels between earth and mars, similar to the kind of crazy "asteroid hitting the yucatan" type events that reshape everything in the blink of an eye. on a cosmic time scale, compressed into a few pages summarizing the geological history of mars, such events are extremely frequent. but we take for granted a somewhat stable planet because humans have been around for such a short time.

woah dude that's my twitter

PS Kim Stanley Robinson has a new book coming out soon called Red Moon, but afaict it's about Chinese on the Moon, rather than terraforming

Chinese on the moon, la la la la la
Chinese on the moon, la la la la la la

KSR's 2312 has much more on psychological effects of life extension, as well as gender mutability becoming standard. Iirc the main protagonist has two children, one she fathered and one she mothered (neither if whom she is in contact with or appears to gaf about lol)

good post doc c - i do need to get back to reading the mars series soon cuz i did enjoy the first one despite my reservations

lol james, also you posted an extract from that same passage further upthread

(i remember bcz i made a weedy joke abt it explaining things in terms of everyday stuff we all know and understand, like the cruising altitude of a 747)

It was here! I thought I'd put it on twitter before, bt could not find it for the life of me, so I posted it again. At least I know I am not going mad.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/6f234a82980ada06b9c82f7c82b3d3de/tumblr_pasgt4jmk91rvzucio1_400.jpg

https://i1.wp.com/dinosaurworld.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/why-did-the-dinosaurs-die-dinosaurs-for-kids.jpg?fit=1280%2C720

[This academic paper](http://uahost.uantwerpen.be/funmorph/raoul/macroevolutie/robertson2004.pdf) offers some great color on how the Chicxulub impact affected life on the other side of the globe.

For several hours following the Chicxulub impact, the entire Earth was bathed with intense infrared radiation from ballistically reentering ejecta.

This was stressful enough to kill all individual nonmarine macroscopic organisms except those protected in soils, underground, under rocks, or in water, in dense aquatic vegetation, or as sequestered eggs, pupae, spores, seeds, or roots.

The normal zenith solar flux reaching Earth’s surface is 1.4 kW/sq m, (which can be) compared to the estimate by Melosh et al. of global flux of thermal radiation reaching Earth’s surface of the order of 10 kW/sq m over periods ranging from one to several hours after the impact. These power levels are comparable to those obtained in a domestic oven set at ‘broil.’ Thermal energy at the Earth’s surface would have been concentrated within 6000 km of the impact and concentrated again at its antipode. The amount of overhead thermal radiation everywhere, however, would have been sufficient to ignite terrestrial
fuel except where Earth’s surface was shielded by very dense cloud cover. Normal cloud cover would not have provided sufficient protection; such cloud cover
"is readily evaporated and may not [have provided] much protection to the forests beneath:

The air temperature at ground level at points distant from the impact (and lacking fuel for combustion-related, local temperature rise) would have been elevated by only 10 K. Vertebrates at or near the surface of the ground or water would have been able to breathe without searing their respiratory membranes. But unless they were sheltered from direct surface (skin) exposure to the IR pulse, they would have perished quickly from absorption by their surficial tissues of intense thermal radiation coming from the entire visible sky. This absorbed heat would have been transported to the nervous system with lethal results. The worldwide fire or likely subsequent reignition of dead trees by lightning would have been secondary effects.

same in dublin today tbh

the first rule of chicxulub is…

wat is the first rool of chicxulub

It was here! I thought I'd put it on twitter before, bt could not find it for the life of me, so I posted it again. At least I know I am not going mad.

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, June 22, 2018 6:35 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're not going crazy. itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36047705_10155884648862261_442946926493564928_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=f941383a0ff352eeda935332876e66a2&oe=5BA226B7

Day 5 of Wakarusa

https://i.imgur.com/HVA3ZuI.jpg

from sanpaku's big quote:

This was stressful enough to kill all individual nonmarine macroscopic organisms

i know it goes on to say "except" etc, but don't we know that, while it was indeed a Very Big Die-Off, it was nevertheless also Quite a Big Survive-Off. Plenty of non-bird dinosaurs (and other nonmarine macroscopic organisms) survived the meteor. Were all the survivors swimming or down a hole, or are proto-feathers a good shield against radiation?

The long incubation periods needed for bigger egg laying dinosaurs and the ability for small mammals to rapidly breed like rats didn't suit the former and paved the way for the latter, during the post Chicxulub fun era. Well this is something I remember Elizabeth Kolbert saying in the 6th Extinction. I'd imagine if you were in a zone where super-heated matter was raining down on you from orbit - big or small wouldn't make much difference to how toast you are!

what puzzles me really is the conflict between claim 1 = "asteroid as total wipeout" vs claim 2 = "asteroid tipping the balance betwen two ecological orders"

dino-world didn't vanish overnight! fossils suggest there were still largish land dinosaurs (eg hadrosaurs) around half a million years later -- which is a bit more than a blink even in geological time. claim 2 seems much the more plausible, whatever the mechanism -- but the impact is so often described as if it were entirely unsurvivable bar very good individual fortune (but claim 2 requires good *species* fortune, surely?)

I've read these 2 contradictory accounts in the past: 1 the Deccan Trap eruptions were already causing much S02 related global warming problems for these big bastards! And 2 The Deccan traps eruptions might have actually been caused by the Chicxulub impact.

the first rule of chicxulub is don't resolve the contradictory chicxulub theories

free the chicxulub 7

https://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/996350/178928552/stock-vector-seven-cute-colorful-cartoon-dinosaurs-178928552.jpg

A couple years ago, I saw a YouTube lecture by the lead author of this paper where he talks about looking at Google Earth satellite imagery of eroded Deccan traps deposits. Topologically below the putative Chicxulub horizon, the traps are crossed by numerous huge fault lines, while above, the lava layercake has been largely unmolested.

So, all surface life spent a few hours under an oven broiler, and almost simultaneously, experienced a magnitude 9+ earthquake which liquified sediments and caused numerous surface fractures. Then, survivors faced several years of nuclear winter from all the ash injected by global forest fires into the stratosphere. Then, for a few hundred thousand years thereafter, the peak of Deccan traps volcanism caused a global hothouse and oceanic anoxic/euxinic event, with sulfur dioxide damaging the ozone layer. It was a rough time.

it's enough to make one proud of complex terrestrial life forms for managing to survive and breed under terrible conditions.

so does this lead author have a theory why any complex species *did* survive the rough time?

they just wanted it more iirc

what if chicxulub, but too much

the idea of extinction-level events being specific incidents that alter the planet such that a species’ extinction is guaranteed over time, not wiped out instantly or in a short period, is going to give me something to ponder

you could have multiple extinction-level events that occur, with each hastening the clock or not really having a noticeable effect because a larger one already occurred

there have probably already been extinction-level events for humans, it’s just on such a large timescale we can’t necessarily perceive it. the best possible conditions for the rise of a species occur once, negative conditions occur constantly

the only true indicator that you will be extinct some day is existing at all

in other news, I saw the new dinosaur movie. not really that good.

all jurassic movies are bad not good, they are like james bond with very short arms

there’s a volcano, though. that’s probably the best part, and due to all of the dinos being right next to it, extinction event

mh was talking about book club i think

b-but the first rule of book club is…

"so then i tell the guy, look, I don't care if you already replaced the compressor, the fact is – ... whoa, hold up, what's going on?"

https://i.imgur.com/16V5in2.jpg

The Toba eruption 75k years ago ya may have reduced the population of *Homo sapiens* to 3000 individuals. This sort of *near* extinction event is also a major driver of natural selection. Neurologist William Calvin wrote a handful of books in the 1990s on how the ice ages brought us from *Homo habilis* to Lascaux.

have just started reading the Brannen book this aft. He reckons on the geologic timescale humans are about as equally influential as penis worms. So we'd have to do a lot more existing to catch up with these dinosaurs!

calzino: you might enjoy The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?, by Jan Zalasiewicz as a companion piece.

I'd accumulated some research on past extinction episodes, so as I listened to Brannen's audiobook on its day of release, there were few surprises.

^By which I mean that Brennan is presenting the current consensus. Most mass extinctions are associated with volcanism and a global warming episode.

Well, my tweeting that Brennan quote has lead to M John Harrison reading and enjoying the book, so expect some wild geological SF in a few years.

Wat is penis worm pls

"Go look in the mirror", etc

apparently they taste like clams and eaten raw in some places.

xps to Sanpaku

I have that book on my kindle, just never got round to reading it.

Oh wait, is it a candiru, the little fella with a brief but memorable cameo in Naked Lunch?

the candiru is a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ...

Nope - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapulida

Thx

apparently they taste like clams and eaten raw in some places.

― calzino, Sunday, July 1, 2018 10:37 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worm I said

I've got to admit that eating some poor creature that looks like a prosthetic cock, just stone cold raw off a plate seems like a scene from a Hieronymus Bosch themed restaurant!

...temperature estimates for the End-Permian mass extinction and its aftermath strain belief. In the Karoo Desert, as rivers stopped winding, insects stopped buzzing, and mass death swept over the land, the temperature might have jumped as much as 16 degrees Celsius. On Pangea, 140-degree-Fahrenheit heat waves wouldn't have been unusual. In the tropics, ocean temperatures skyrocketed from 25 degrees Celsius-similar to today's oceans- to perhaps upwards of 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the temperature of a hot tub, or as End-Permian expert Paul Wignall puts it, that of "very hot soup." Multi-cellular life simply can't exist in this sort of globe-spanning Jacuzzi. The complex proteins of life denature-that is, they cook. The language of academic papers is typically measured and sober, but even the peer-reviewed science literature describes the early Triassic period that followed this worst mass extinction ever as a "post-apocalyptic greenhouse."

https://scontent-ort2-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/b75d6fc77e1d18b28caa461da8c7e23c/5BC1FCA9/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/33376572_387621541725441_8535239759738437632_n.jpg

Pictures of Chris Pratt gazing haplessly at dinosaurs:
http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/41/320x320/square-1476288011-jurassic-world-chris-pratt.jpg
http://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200x1200/public/2018/04/screen_shot_2018-04-18_at_2.16.37_pm.png?itok=tGorBM6l×tamp=1524075466
https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2018/06/08/Pictures/_674af80c-6aea-11e8-af35-5e950c6035ab.PNG

what if it wasn't the asteroid:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/

"Before the asteroid hypothesis took hold, researchers had proposed other, similarly bizarre explanations for the dinosaurs’ demise: gluttony, protracted food poisoning, terminal chastity, acute stupidity, even Paleo-weltschmerz—death by boredom (…) She* argues that the mass extinction was caused not by a wrong-place-wrong-time asteroid collision but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions in a part of western India known as the Deccan Traps—a theory that was first proposed in 1978 and then abandoned by all but a small number of scientists."

* = Gerta Keller of Princeton, who "says she’s been called a 'bitch' and 'the most dangerous woman in the world,' who 'should be stoned and burned at the stake.'" lol rational academic debate eh

I think she might be right about the Deccan Traps playing a bigger role in their extinction than the Chicxulub jobbie. All the other major extinction were during hothouse or cooling earth periods, why should this one have been any different?*

*not that I know shit, like!

I heard something the other about reverse engineering ancient DNA traces with supercomputers, and yeah they are birds!"

*extinction events edit

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/05/24/15/dinosaur-asteroid.jpg?w968

new and correct haplessness begins here:
https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/160705-dino-630x487.jpg

Dinasaurs going off their tits on mcat, while the world is turned into a post apocalyptic hothouse!

gluttony, protracted food poisoning, terminal chastity, acute stupidity, even Paleo-weltschmerz—death by boredom

poll, obv

https://assets1.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/57293/size_1024/dinosaur_volcano.jpg?1418393900

Paleo Weltschmerz, currently playing for Schalke 04's second team, hoping to break through to the first team in the coming season, has represented Germany at Under 19 level.

^ This was totally the correct thread for that post.

some high quality images in this last update

i like the evil ones where the dinosaurs seem to be thrilled about what's happening

yes, yes!! destroy it all! burn it all down!! raaawwwrr

music to watch the end of the world to*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yXJZe6_ug

*that's right, haplessly

pplains, I disagree. In my opinion, any pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at erupting volcanoes should go in the "pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at erupting volcanoes" thread.

My kid has a pack of dinosaur fact cards and I was pleased that it contained this one:

https://i.imgur.com/OlPLlQ8.jpg

https://imgur.com/a/FqaAJni

I think the dinosaurs actually died the same way as I am dying right now, over Tom D.’s Paleo Weltschmerz post

I am so glad I read that now instead of when it was posted because I would have been inconsolable in front of other people in an official setting and there would be no way to explain any of it

http://e.cinescape.americadigital.pe/ima/0/0/1/9/4/194563.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/Terryclothstiletto/photos/a.1190012354349761/2464286980255619/?type=3

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41283125_2464286986922285_702965444889280512_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=38f91b65fede95abd0e768470e2290a2&oe=5C21F38A

https://i.imgur.com/UgX8r1g.gif

reposting bcz TREX01 is clearly ilxor bizarro gazzara, will we never be rid

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/e6/3e/19e63e88948065095ae82f5401968460.jpg

would actually buy a poster of the third image itt

https://kmrciugjeu-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/dinosaurs-noahs-ark.jpg

https://cdns.yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dino-asteroid-cancer-cure-678x381.jpg

'University Study: Metal From Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs DESTROYS Cancer Cells'

…

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVvg6UkAnig/maxresdefault.jpg

https://i.gifer.com/R7ep.gif

mr.steggy otm

trex01, it me

lol at t-rex wandering into that lava flow

auuuughhh whyyyyyy

https://solutionsreview.com/data-integration/files/2015/06/oie_LhZh9OxR73dE.png

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/86/1f/81861fec587eda5cf51f8d91f0974ed9.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2755/4169813311_1d665d0446_z.jpg
https://rodneymackay.com/fun2017/Golden%20spiral/doomsday2images/ktevent1.jpg

first one is a little too real imo

these are really nice additions

i like that last one because imagine getting murdered, and then just by chance it happens to be the real End of the World at the same moment

or imagine being murderer (aka predator animal trying to survive) and it's the end of the world right after you kill the other dino friend. you'd be like "is god punishing the world for what i did? how important am i?"

I'm having trouble fitting some of these clauses into the John Lennon song

It's easy if you try.

the clauses are correct, it is j. lennon who was wrong

65.6 millin years ago

I like the asshole mammals in the first one. Also I regret not arranging them in story order - brontos, then "millin", then death eternal.

"I like the asshole mammals in the first one."

just celebrating the end of the 100 million years war!

this thread is a blessing

"I like the asshole mammals in the first one."

Proto-mellivora capensis don't care.

or imagine being murderer (aka predator animal trying to survive) and it's the end of the world right after you kill the other dino friend. you'd be like "is god punishing the world for what i did? how important am i?"

― Karl Malone, Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:50 (yesterday) Permalink

I think that one is probably more like "Damnit! I was just about to eat!"

the last one is very "For all my powers, I could not save _____": An image thread

:( :(

saddest thing I’ve drawn pic.twitter.com/gm9TVa2dye

— Nathan W. Pyle (@nathanwpyle) November 27, 2018

lol, that's good. very Perry Bible Fellowship.

the whole thread there is good

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds-38kTXgAAbdwc.jpg:small

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/47394697_10212855693010333_4886203998522048512_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=06a2a85be427b25bf4de34c7f471b4ae&oe=5C69E391

i've been thinking about the atlantic article upthread about the 'bad weekend' theory and the deccan volcanoes and the 72-year-old woman at princeton every day since i read it two weeks ago.

readable (subs only) LRB piece abt the event, complete with nice pictures: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n01/francis-gooding/what-lives-and-what-dies

https://cdn.lrb.co.uk/assets/edillus/good08_4101_04.jpg

feathered microraptor^^^ (or more correctly "chinese dragon") from liaoning fossil beds in north-eastern china

v fancy lad

Was just at the museum of natural history earlier last week and clearly I don’t know much about dinos because I was amazed that some had feathers!

that t-rex was basically a hu-u-uge hen with teeth makes the mother much more scarier imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOQ1Igy6Do

(if you hang a tail of the right weight on a chicken, it walks like a T. rex)

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Perfect for dinosaur lovers.

Man, what kind of art do they have available for dog lovers?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/be/8f/4fbe8ff135f948261fcce1bfac097c54.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1a/e2/e9/1ae2e9c1e8f1df6433ed8db1f7240276.jpg

this Painting features single or multiple panels displaying a beautiful Meteorite falling on the earth at dinosaurs age killing them. Perfect for dinosaur lovers.

That's pretty fucking insensitive IMO. Tone-deaf at best.

Imagine "This Painting of John Wilkes Booth is the perfect gift for Abraham Lincoln fans."

"Japanophiles adore our Mushroom Cloud Lithographs."

"Baby seal lovers are raving about our Bloody Club Replicas."

it's better to burn out than to fade away

I bought one of these the other day, have not consumed yet:
https://untappd.akamaized.net/site/beer_logos_hd/beer-2663756_229a8_hd.jpeg

inevitable and (inevitably) bad:

https://i.redd.it/2kwjhz8odlp11.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfKKsQ4XUAAr2rE.jpg

good morning pic.twitter.com/zAMIRwHMX1

— Nathan W. Pyle (@nathanwpyle) April 1, 2019

big mood tbh

kind of lol, mostly sad

In every artist's depiction of a meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, there's always one T-Rex looking up at it like "That can’t be good." pic.twitter.com/AoOZYe0hzc

— Jake Vig (@Jake_Vig) March 31, 2019

This recent (great) New Yorker piece made me think of this thread:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died

Those opening paragraphs are a real eye-opener.

this thread is better and jake vig can bug-off

https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/inundation750.jpg

It's morning in dino-America.

Those opening paragraphs are a real eye-opener.

― ryan

oh boy, the scientific community is very much all aflutter about that guy

xp Triceratops-y-turvy

https://i.imgur.com/aLcrrf8.gif

wow ok

wow, just like that new yorker article

meteor w/o the dinosaurs, world of science having a normal one:

This is what it would look like if the biggest asteroid in the Solar System collided with Earth.

Credit: Discovery Channel pic.twitter.com/Yoy9AxO2Gz

— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 9, 2019

one in the face for the "meh, it was the Deccan mega-eruptions that took out the dinosaurs" crew. Even though that fucker there was obv much bigger than the chicxulub impact.

rip big man, heaven needed the planet that invented churros

if you really want to experience it like the dinosaurs did, you need the simulated audio track. nice work discovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1QPtOZQZU

http://www.nikkei-science.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/24eb4731f277dd3424e6383e77c8b88d.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pCYi96djruY/hqdefault.jpg

http://www.jplnet.com/art/univers/dinosau.jpg

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/264338363605_/INCOMING-ASTEROID-Raw-Folk-Art-Brut-Painting-Outsider.jpg

The video with the Pink Floyd soundtrack is strangely moving and soothing !

https://i.imgur.com/jUBEhes.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/illustrations/the-extinction-of-the-dinosaurs-illustration-id737370965

xp disco inferno killed the dinosaurs?

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-09/12/11/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-01/sub-buzz-13197-1505231830-3.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto

now it can be told

Teach the Controversy

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/80378238_586326008829865_8879491936952516608_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ohc=IUqKSH-ZDW0AQkhaCPiKFPlSIi5zjW6w7VaHFTqnDZ6MDvIHv7x7OpfaQ&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=3606c7afafa70ad53a18b17d8b60e078&oe=5E67E22E

https://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/book-review-the-dinosaurs-rediscovered-how-a-scientific-revolution-is-rewriting-history/

apparently if you want to have a better understanding of all the recent scientific advances in palaeontology then Micheal J. Benton's The Dinosaurs Rediscovered is your book.

Now it all makes sense

Who is this chode talking about #FlatEarth pic.twitter.com/RNoDDhxmJD

— JR Ward🦖 (@AnnoyedRaptor) February 11, 2020

Beat you to it. The bonus animation is sweet though.

I should really scroll up more

in fairness pom it was also posted by merdeyeux itt more than two years earlier: itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

yrs, the thread police

Only still-active posters count tbf.

the first rule of chicxulub is…

― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 00:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://utopiabalcanica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/punint355_dinozaurivirus.jpg

That's ridiculous, how would a t-rex even use toilet paper

the tail wasn't used for the purpose of balancing, some researchers are saying

well obviously they just had to click their talons and a stressed looking edmontosaurus or some other from the precariat/lunch class of dinos would dutifully scamper to the local shitpit to wipe their arse for them with some 2 ply leaves!

Another one.

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/90349802_576760356382988_8123211027203489792_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_eui2=AeFOVMWNRN9PgvEdjQiAySRsHkqhWjmSqtec0ur3v6TnENGQoT25k6I6hnVGx1QhYJC7VhpkLddN3S3LsBlO-bD6t-bxF4GTbHRGlY30wufjRQ&_nc_ohc=V9lbSOZYi48AX9Z0SRn&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=f964b859e41d0ace9e28cefeeaa58d75&oe=5E98D71C

ok lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUYy6udX0AARjJ4?format=jpg&name=medium

more liek
https://i.imgur.com/Qk6hTUh.jpg

trenchasaurs assemble

Icasaurus

Good use of first picture in this thread.

pic.twitter.com/FhM9xsKsk2

— David Olusoga (@DavidOlusoga) March 30, 2020

Dang, missed Calzino’s post.

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/110583835_3173096292744486_305366353145830955_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=cdxjccWSct4AX9m4oia&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=6aba19cdf60bd8a9e1eb3fc82c522579&oe=5F4E3CE6

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WQ7xNU51Hjj_Xh7KUnP2mkpeN_s=/0x47:2700x1453/960x500/media/img/mt/2017/08/AP_17233688604864/original.jpg

Bears are going extinct in the stock market's impressive $13 trillion rally https://t.co/eZPodglANc pic.twitter.com/PPjfIP2T8d

— Businessweek (@BW) August 22, 2020

wait, they escaped into outer space first?

may i be the first to offer my sincere, heartfelt congratulations to these space bears

they need to evolve into sub-micron sized ugly bassas with faces like anuses before harbouring ambitions to go into space ffs!

it's true, wait yr turn bears!

i still luv ya though

https://theconversation.com/newly-discovered-mass-extinction-event-triggered-the-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs-146248

Carnian Pluvial Episode might be a new one to add to the big five, or six if you count the current one playing out in our brutish and short human timeline.

Probably not one of the "big 5" (or 6_). More of a "dwarf" mass extinction, like the end-Edicarian (541 Mya), Capitanian (260 Mya), or Paleocene-Eocene (55 Mya). Since the marine fossil record is so much more complete, that's generally used to plot extinction intensity, and there no real signal of the Carnian-Pluvial above the noise in that data set.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Extinction_intensity.svg/1200px-Extinction_intensity.svg.png

Still, the first 17 My of the Triassic were possibly the worst extended period for life since the Snowball earths of Cryogenian. First the two great extinction pulses of the Great Dying (end-Permian), then another 9 My where life is scarce and gains little traction, and in another 8 million years, the Carnian Pluvial.

🦖 @Arsenal have let go of Gunnersaurus, who has been a loyal servant of the club for 27 years as part of cost cutting measures.

💔 Not the start to deadline day @Arsenal fans wanted. pic.twitter.com/T55GdKPECy

— SPORF (@Sporf) October 5, 2020

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/154154884_2882473028705280_3275213080949254904_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=H4jT6gdcAXAAX_bysIb&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=074342b968ac7e1eb383f087c037c916&oe=605B67B5

it looks like everything will be alright. T-rex on the left will try and bat away all the meteors with the tennis racquet

https://64.media.tumblr.com/cb4f825f1eaa9d32e59e9f6df0aa4909/5d385b19267ff873-f1/s400x600/2598785bf11dcd7c6d784f7a46e7558c3c6e7751.gifv

that dino must have felt invincible for that brief period

i thought that was a sbnation infographic at first

https://i.postimg.cc/q7PxHQbd/20210601-130923.jpg

https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/4/2020/06/An-asteroid-not-volcanoes-made-the-Earth-uninhabitable-for-dinosaurs-%E2%80%93-study-Fabio-ManucciPNAS-be2c3c6.jpg?quality=90&resize=940,1008

balearic vibes extinction event

https://cdn-images.threadless.com/threadless-media/artist_shops/shops/threadless/products/1851449/shirt-1606923387-e256e1a91af342000acf0886e25cf016.png?v=3&d=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

"One last dab?" Man, how old was that dinosaur?

My wife is currently doing this cross-stitch

https://i.etsystatic.com/9908524/r/il/0505a2/3027250333/il_794xN.3027250333_fsez.jpg

A+

Thread!

Did you know: dinosaurs had precisely six different reactions* to their mass extinction 66 million years ago! Let's take a look at them...

(*stock photography doesn't lie about such things) pic.twitter.com/7ofC8Y2kia

— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) August 27, 2021

https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F143777245%2F492505023171%2F1%2Foriginal.20210806-100644?w=1000&auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&rect=0%2C0%2C2160%2C1080&s=e76e70df07b867e231e62d1c990ea686

return of the hornéd trenchasaur

also: lesser beasts be stealin from ilxor classics (this is actually how the world ends ppl)

@pulplibrarian is ok but come on man

some of the captions would get an fp

hah I consider myself told then