http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160227134730-dinosaurs-asteroid---stock-super-169.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
http://i2.esmas.com/2014/04/10/636820/caminando-con-dinosaurios-610x350.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/5715fd321600002b0031c04c.jpeg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
https://newsonia.com/media/upload/images/2016/11/12/sBzeDfphBLBwzf0BhTXqDojNYr37dZgj_598x414.jpg
"God I can't even take a swim without some bullshit."
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/microsites/dino/images/02/17-DinosaursDieOut_small.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5wvgvRfgD8w/hqdefault.jpg
https://kevbrockschmidt.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/starlog193_dinosaursmeteor.jpg
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
good thread, good luck
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
https://blogs-images.forbes.com/christinecomaford/files/2014/02/mass-extinction_1077_600x450.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/1-parasaurolophus-meteor-strike-phil-wilson.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
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
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
xp is he blaming his son for it
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dinosaur-disney-2000-aladar-comets-600x300.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
http://marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Yucatan-meteor-that-destroyed-the-dinosaur.jpg
― devvvine, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/images/062.jpg
http://digfieldschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dino-watching-asteroid.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MAC32_DINOSAUR_CAROUSEL.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/images/kaboom.jpg
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2014/dinosaursdoi.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
https://3citynewswire.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/background-extintion1.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
http://www.mediacircus.net/dinosaur___3.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
http://www.oftwominds.com/photos2015/dinosaurs-meteor1.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1533509/dinosaur-extinction-asteroid.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
http://www.unmuseum.org/dinodeadcrash.jpg
dinodeadcrash.jpg
― devvvine, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
the pictures are all trenchant social commentary whether they mean to be or no
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
"this is the one thing we didn't want to happen" -dinosaurs
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ouZzey3.jpg
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ijJhlJa.jpg
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GxPpSx12pnA/maxresdefault.jpg
this artist really bringing out the slapstick potential of this scenario
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
http://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PBF055-Dinosaur_Meteors.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
http://palgrave.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v313/n6/images/scientificamerican1215-54-I2.jpg
― devvvine, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/e0t5nTT.jpg
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/f4r9aMP.jpg
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Now, everysaurus -
― imago, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2013/3-9/BxsDAghgQA-2.png
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
https://pdmipublishing.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/one-more.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/EBMM4E/asteroid-meteorites-hitting-the-earthduring-the-late-cretaceous-period-EBMM4E.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
I thought at first that one dinosaur was so horrified it was vomiting blood.
― Evan, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
"Changing Nature" Tom Trbovich Kirk Thatcher July 20, 1994 D365The 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dinosaurs_episodes#Season_4_.281994.29
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
thread of the year
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/images/gap/gap_dinos.jpg
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NVrKT.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
quality thread
hope you're doing well mark s
may we never bump glans
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
http://a401.idata.over-blog.com/4/03/04/08/svt-2/svt-3/svt-4/svt-5/svt-6/a-ast99-90026.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N7MLKY_hXUE/VmTJY2V9-mI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/VYAdD45rZUQ/s1600/Bulgaria_Bronto_Meteorite.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Sweet.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
a+ thread
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
didn't know this genre went that deep tbh thank u
Dinosaurs are the new Paul Weller.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
http://images.spaceref.com/news/ooimpact.2.jpg
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
That's almost like a Thomas Kinkade painting of this topic.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51f%2BcNHRVOL._SY346_.jpg
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Pounded in the Butt by the Very Real Possibility That Humans Will Suffer the Same Fate as the Dinosaurs
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague)
cosign
― HONOR THE FYRE (sleeve), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
This is how Jurassic World 2 should end.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
Good luck with the heart thing!
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Zs2oJ9U.jpg
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
^epic
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pXX_mbmfz4w/VuptvQ0_XKI/AAAAAAAACjQ/hQT-OIBv09QBrZYAk4u6qUA_iBV35h3gg/s1600/14.1-parasaurolophus-meteor-strike-phil-wilson.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
oh, already been posted. sorry
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/dinosaur-extinction-19517500.jpg
― devvvine, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:53 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Orrin_Hatch%2C_Official_Photograph.jpg/440px-Orrin_Hatch%2C_Official_Photograph.jpg
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
http://www.icr.org/i/articles/af/did_dinos_die_impact_wide.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/sites/default/files/2017/01/main/articles/860_main_dino_doomsday.png
― soref, Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3a/36/bf/3a36bfae10a0d9f63273739e83a71b8b.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
https://johnthetoyshopguy.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/111220131632.jpg
― devvvine, Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
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
― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Thursday, 18 May 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
Neanderthal xp A+
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
omg what a wonderful wonderful thread
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/bummer-876x420.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link
http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/noworries.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
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
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/asteroid-strike-dinosaur-cartoon-cute-prehistoric-extinction-event-vector-illustration-77413129.jpg
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
i don't even WANNA know what that ones supposed to be, if it's an apatosaurus i will straight up fight someone
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
http://almostmakessense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2012-10-29-meatier-meteor.jpg
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
http://pre09.deviantart.net/ca7b/th/pre/i/2010/197/d/a/beer_bong_dinosaur_rockin_hxc_by_keytoafterlife.jpg
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
http://www.evilontwolegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/twilight33.jpg
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 05:06 (six years ago) link
xpost Thinkin Baout Things threadhttp://i.imgur.com/lPK3TFT.jpg
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 18 May 2017 05:08 (six years ago) link
Thumbs up at this thread.
Good vibes, mark.
― the ghost of markers, Thursday, 18 May 2017 05:11 (six years ago) link
http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1416080621l/23566249.jpg
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 05:12 (six years ago) link
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
― nomar, Thursday, 18 May 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
loool Neanderthal
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Thursday, 18 May 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/t2gifs/toobigtofail2.GIF
― devvvine, Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSY_rB928c
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
this thread restores my faith in ilx
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
really excellent and typically mark s type thread. get well soon dude.
― calzino, Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
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
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
oops sorry for the repeat
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bzmhIk_VKpo/UPTMZj2tqPI/AAAAAAAAemA/tosHwZIJk-I/s1600/Dinosaur+meteors.jpg
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
http://img08.deviantart.net/a997/i/2013/040/3/b/the_cretaceous_paleogene_extinction_by_daizua123-d5uanwx.jpg
― devvvine, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
http://pre10.deviantart.net/5e66/th/pre/f/2011/223/6/4/dinosaurs_by_donjapy2011-d469a1z.jpg
― devvvine, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e15/11379734_1434658553507845_1429864677_n.jpg
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
(that was intended as a warning to old lunch btw)
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
https://fiddletwix.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/dkep1screen1.png
― jmm, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
http://img01.deviantart.net/27d8/i/2013/048/e/9/horns14__triceratops_by_tuomaskoivurinne-d2svi59.png
― devvvine, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
triceratops showing off the rarely-discussed fourth horn there amirite
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
http://easyscienceforkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/why_dinosaurs_extinct.jpg
― jmm, Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
Whyyyyyy
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/4-21/TQfC55MEcf-5.png
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
Can't believe this hasn't shown up yet.
https://thethirdhelix.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/dinosaurs-extinction-150-dpi.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
https://panelborders.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/pope_meteorite.jpg
Maurizio Cattelan
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 19 May 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
everyone knows the dinosaurs died in a car accident
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 May 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
― mookieproof, Thursday, May 18, 2017 5:49 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― softie (silby), Friday, 19 May 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/newsimage//NewsImage/2013/2013-02/2013-02-19/20130219_524033_01.jpg
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 05:45 (six years ago) link
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
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 19 May 2017 06:20 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 08:09 (six years ago) link
terrifyingly
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 May 2017 08:26 (six years ago) link
http://www.spessalvi.com/images/books/61--j9J6KPL._SS550.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 08:59 (six years ago) link
not convinced this book is entirely OTM re how dinosaurs live tbr
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 09:00 (six years ago) link
This is more accurate! :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08r3xhf
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 May 2017 09:02 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 09:04 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 09:08 (six years ago) link
https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/top5massiveextinction_r2_v1.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 09:58 (six years ago) link
here for this^^^ picture readably >:(
https://futurism.com/images/the-worlds-worst-mass-extinctions/
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 09:59 (six years ago) link
http://ichigen-san.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2016/06/23/photo_7.png
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:04 (six years ago) link
http://i.gzn.jp/img/2016/01/28/next-mass-extinction/snap00016.png
^^^feat.godzilla!
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
http://www.bi-plane.co.jp/BP808/fushigi/images/inseki_kyoryu910.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
"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
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:10 (six years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_xxkdL7_KTY/TwQQ3_dG0WI/AAAAAAAAJRY/gh0QflIjLkA/s1600/2012kyouryuu001.GIF
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:12 (six years ago) link
http://yuripoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/%E7%B5%B6%E6%BB%85%E3%81%AE%E5%AE%9A%E3%82%81.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
http://img10.deviantart.net/f4cc/i/2010/222/7/b/tattoo_leg_sleeve_panorama_by_livingdeadboys.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvVFR4rn5vU
narration a must
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKsV24Mas0Y
^^^the lyrical take (kinda)
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:28 (six years ago) link
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/29/books/review/29POPOVA/1129-BKS-Popova-master768.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:38 (six years ago) link
https://i1.wp.com/www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/evolution_kilpelinen5.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
http://writingbubble.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/image-13.jpeg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:15 (six years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQg5mBG7VRc/U-Q8g5xjMzI/AAAAAAAALgk/eFPgyBLxVRI/s1600/handprint+dino+(6).JPG
http://www.sjgames.com/dinohunt/img/rawart/AsteroidStrike.gif
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:19 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/3jbA22JWJPHcQ/giphy.gif
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link
http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/scifindr/articles/image4s/000/002/753/large/extinction2.jpg?1475472339sneaked one in from the Permian Extinction, cos it is my fave of the big die-offs.
― calzino, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
http://orig01.deviantart.net/0523/f/2010/125/1/8/a_peaceful_day____by_viart.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/YfsTrcvpou-K1tzMusw0Yg34691/GW650H142
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:42 (six years ago) link
^^^A+ meme-combo (but what is the final silhouette and what is it carrying?)
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:43 (six years ago) link
http://img03.deviantart.net/690e/i/2014/353/2/f/extinction_by_moderndavinci-d8afrwt.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:43 (six years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1985/1101850506_400.jpg
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
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"
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
http://img15.deviantart.net/a6dc/i/2010/090/9/6/asteroid_splash_by_lexlothor.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link
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
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
GiS of "dinosaurs comets" produces exact same series of pix as "dinosaurs meteors" or "dinosaurs asteroids", poor show the internet
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
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"
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
http://evolution-of-prehistoric-life.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/2/3/30232129/9726077.jpg?954
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
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
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
http://img10.deviantart.net/1a3a/i/2013/127/d/4/the_end__by_astralview-d64hwwz.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
"welp, I'm not really in the mood for broiled meat, but..."
(xpost)
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Friday, 19 May 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvQY2cX-Zvw
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
The dream is over. :(
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
It's a tragedy to me to see the dream is overAnd I never will forget the day we metDinosaurs I'm gonna miss you
― how's life, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/4-1/kxPYGhfkzz-6.png
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
^^^smart brachiosaurus is a problem-solver imo
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
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
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
https://simotron.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/tumblr_mn41mm89ns1r38ji3o1_1280.jpg
low key
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
Is that book shaming the T-Rex for not noticing that it's about to die?
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/71/c1/34/71c134218da003e7d9b84098723453f5.jpg
no-drama sneak-attack asteroid seems to be a thing
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Your-Last-Meal-575879442
watermark and foreshadow
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
http://pre02.deviantart.net/c289/th/pre/f/2015/336/7/f/there_s_more_important_matters_than_lunch_by_xstreamchaosofficial-d9iv3f6.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
― 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'
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
thread keeps on delivering. that text JM posted is wild!
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 May 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
T-Rex has the right idea. keep eating. go with what you know.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
I think I prefer the pictures where the dinosaurs are all like "oh shit WTF"
― Neil S, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
http://pre11.deviantart.net/674d/th/pre/f/2008/174/7/f/7facec6a155058131ae28e2fa1f7b4a6.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
I am genuinely quite surprised by how many different pictures there are.
― the pinefox, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
xxp the dinosaurs died of meteor-induced trypophobia
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link
pinefox i suspect we have not scratched the surface: this is just eng-lang google searches (and some japanese)
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
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
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
http://www.dinosauria.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fig1.jpg
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/42/68/fc/4268fc75b6b8be65f5b450db5250667b.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517V7TqkFRL.jpg
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
http://img11.deviantart.net/e6a4/i/2008/170/6/1/extinction_by_raptorbarry.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/1-13/Nm3Rz5O2LO-7.png
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
http://anopusperdiem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160517_130058_crop.jpg
sappy
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
http://orig14.deviantart.net/5892/f/2007/261/6/2/prehistoric_guitarist_by_antmanthemagnif.jpg
crying
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/8e/b8/268eb89af0753a3201b9480ec516f7b2.jpg
been avoiding posting this but i think i have to
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AU-KR14KvUU/VHNq4FN-J2I/AAAAAAAAGPs/OR5v22iw9f0/s1600/PTDC0150.JPG
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
http://img06.deviantart.net/bed9/i/2009/331/6/0/the_end_by_kitchen_face.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
http://static.wixstatic.com/media/247c11_0954bf1c00b849648c075234084f878e.jpg_srz_500_330_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.images-booknode.com/book_cover/66/full/les-cometes-ont-elles-tue-les-dinosaures---65708.jpg
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
i am not being allowed post a picture of a flaming asteroid falling on two dinosaurs doing it on a giant ocean-bound cheese
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
http://pre00.deviantart.net/08cb/th/pre/f/2016/138/5/0/duiarn_by_chiiaros-da2zf4o.png
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-4/fmXZZMs6ON-6.png
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
https://demonsresume.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/night-of-the-comet.jpg
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
CGI ones are all dud
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
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
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/wavepic.jpeghttp://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/K-TCLOSE.jpg
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
http://www.history.com/s3static/video-thumbnails/AETN-History_VMS/806/291/History_Ask_History_Dinosaurs_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
face-hugger an intriguing addition there
― Neil S, Friday, 19 May 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
could be dreads
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
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/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 May 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
I don't think this one's appeared yet
http://yucatanexpatlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/crateristock700.jpg
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
kind of a "Houses of the Holy" vibe to it imo
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
― 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
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Friday, 19 May 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
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
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 May 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
https://preview.ibb.co/gYhrFv/asteroids.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 May 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
inspired by my parents recent unironic trip to the creation museum, where apparently this (minus the poster) is a real exhibit
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 May 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
there isn't a meteor in the dinosaur sequence from Fantasia iirc? It just gets really hot and dry, then they all die.
― soref, Friday, 19 May 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
iirc one of the theories in the 70's was "the mammals ate all the eggs"
― HONOR THE FYRE (sleeve), Friday, 19 May 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
some earlier theories here
http://www.history.com/topics/why-did-the-dinosaurs-die-out
― new noise, Friday, 19 May 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
going off by what i learnt over 15 years ago but wasn't it a meteor and climate change that caused their extinction?
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 19 May 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
oh pre-that i think one was flatulance wasn't it?
shouldn't rely on comedy skits to teach me stuff tho
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 19 May 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/843180/530wm/F0181247-End_of_cretaceous_KT_event%2C_illustration-SPL.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/802/508/508802.jpg
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 19 May 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
http://www.doodydoodles.com/sitebuilder/images/EPOCH_FAIL-585x462.jpg
― calzino, Friday, 19 May 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
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
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 19 May 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/2012/addamskindle/addams12.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
and that's how unicorns were born
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 19 May 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
according to Mr. Freeze in "Batman and Robin", it was the ice age that killed the dinosaurs
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah some of the CGI ones are alright but still prefer kid-drawn and lovingly hand-painted
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
I remember 'mammals ate the eggs' and flatulence - also pictures of large predatory dinosaurs always stood up on two legs roaring into the air
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
(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?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
http://pre09.deviantart.net/f64d/th/pre/i/2015/117/9/9/dinosaur_extinction_by_sriramgubbi-d8r97qa.jpg
― new noise, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/CKTEvent.jpg
― new noise, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/CWetumpkaNo2Giclee16x20.jpg
― new noise, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
Always has to be at least two animal species on display
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
haha otm
― HONOR THE FYRE (sleeve), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
wait what happened in the 1970s that killed dinos
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
Glam rock.
― nickn, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
prog rock dude
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2016/06/tarkus.jpeg?w=600&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
no meteor, no credibility
― HONOR THE FYRE (sleeve), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/10/tim-and-eric-mind-blown.gif
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/dore/rhin/37.jpg
gustav doré engraving of fossil of hapless dinosaur caught watching incoming meteor (not pictured)
― mark s, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/24/84/18/2484183fe64d3babad5b3dd10b44cd82.jpg
― devvvine, Friday, 19 May 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
From that link, 'A Survey of Theories for the Death of the Dinosaurs' could make a good poll
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
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?)
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 19 May 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Friday, 19 May 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
kids still love dinosaurs, right? I remember being into them really young and practicing drawing brontosaurus necks
― mh, Friday, 19 May 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
They have Dinosaur World near Lakeland here. The kids dig it
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
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.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 May 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1UYKHy1.png
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Saturday, 20 May 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link
only dino video game I really acknowledge is primal rage
― mh, Saturday, 20 May 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
um, bubble bobble?!
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 May 2017 05:18 (six years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/3801892004_ab85c209c6.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 20 May 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/27/54/3e/27543e5f928d26e8b26606328a8e7f18.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ateroid-660x280.jpg
i like the atmospheric make-u-ponder ones best i think
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:42 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
http://pssreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/How-Deep-Sea-Creatures-Survived-Dinosaur-Killing-Asteroid.jpg
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eU7yYZz7vaw/Uxz5FTEZjKI/AAAAAAAAM9c/TKCsZ_6Rec4/s1600/dino.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/de799a766b20210d6deaee7d08251f2c/tumblr_ol9luknwU11sqn3dxo1_500.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
http://blog.capterra.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/giphy-1.gif
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/meteor-soaring-overhead-of-inflatable-dinosaur-picture-id200171962-001?s=170667a
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a7/49/5f/a7495f68a375558e37d132f43b91947a.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/e4b249215754bb68c095c6814404dc6a/tumblr_nl5n09PslU1u1ofgwo1_500.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
loving this
― Treeship, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/pl%20new/periods/mesozoic/d_end.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
http://garysanis.com/Pics/Animals/DinosaurRunningFromComet_Big.gif
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2012/4-14/e3bdpfR6QS-4.png
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
http://www.sushi-x.com/gallery/3d/chicxulub2.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
http://image.dhgate.com/0x0/f2/albu/g4/M01/29/71/rBVaEVgSzTeAewGtAAPd-i4fXtE621.jpg
dinosaur eye 3D wall sticker (feat.v subtle meteor)
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
http://static2.mangainn.net/mangas/936/70675/003_12_17_2011_18_56_28.jpg
― jmm, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
https://images.gutefrage.net/media/fragen-antworten/bilder/9909061/2_big.jpg?v=1263677308000
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKbfdUAa3Y
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/4-17/WY3hYSCaRD-12.png
more good drawception solutions to a bad problem
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/5-21/qhkRCepEpW-12.png
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sEFjuNkY0yw/0.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/meteor_hits_antarctica_big.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/education-teaching-meteor-age_of_the_dinosaurs-dinos-dinosaurs-asteroid-bwhn859_low.jpg
^^^thread trenchancy award-winner
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnsiZOJjfUg
― soref, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
http://media.istockphoto.com/photos/tyrannosaurus-dinosaur-exctinction-3d-render-picture-id185694867
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
https://thumb1.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/3933845/421790557/stock-vector-cute-dinosaur-in-the-jungle-vector-illustration-meteor-421790557.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/1531d00ab1ae247a5f8fb83dc7ed9956/tumblr_o5bxg5mBxh1rno5r3o1_r1_1280.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link
https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/797371/212821015/stock-vector-dinosaur-icons-mono-vector-symbols-212821015.jpg
post-alvarez semiotics 101
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
x-post: the KT meatball extinction event
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
http://media.istockphoto.com/photos/dinosaurs-doomsday-picture-id97492410
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
https://ak3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/6872623/preview/stock-footage-dinosaur-in-an-extinction-event.mp4
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
^^^
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/55599/55599,1325581091,1/stock-photo-dinosaur-doomsday-diceratops-91851533.jpg
^^^stock image title: doomsday diceratops
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/6f51342a910046e0a6aba11a90c9966a/dinosaur-doomsday-eh3e12.jpg
so much unusable stock imagery
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Ward/pics/pic_05.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
http://p7.storage.canalblog.com/73/07/166420/45690128.jpg
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
https://67d860664f4b00793cde-967809c7cbb0f14b111df13fc72409e5.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/fiona/films/thumb/19ee9b99-81bc-4d1a-8ec3-f81d9e6bc33b.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b9aoINXzk
― jmm, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/3f5216a96a224253a51ff73bc8ac76fe/dinosaur-extinction-because-meteorite-explosion-c9758m.jpg
"dinosaur extinction because meteorite explosion"
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/ed9d01041a444b43bd0485144c6df29f/disney-s-animal-kingdom-dinoland-usa-a80ax2.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
http://www.guide-to-disney.com/animal-kingdom/dinoland-usa/photos/triceratops-spin5-big.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/velociraptors-view-an-asteroid-strike-picture-id123758928?s=170667a
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
There's something suspiciously specific about insisting that "There's nothing prehistoric about our accommodations"
― jmm, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/172603/530wm/E4460295-Titanosaurus_watching_an_approaching_tsunami-SPL.jpg
meteor is behind the tsunami
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
http://media.gettyimages.com/videos/tsunami-crashes-over-a-shoreline-and-kills-several-dinosaurs-in-a-video-id574240291
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
http://img01.deviantart.net/16cf/a/large/wallpaper/w3d/tsunami_tidal_wave.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:35 (six years ago) link
worn out, more anon
http://img05.deviantart.net/8b42/i/2013/018/8/e/death_of_the_dinosaurs_by_magic_gerbil-d5rurg9.jpg
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
lol jmm i was about to post basically the same thing
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
This one is great:
You've got the indeterminate species, weirdly human posture, and abstracted impact
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 21 May 2017 09:17 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/styles/960x400/public/doomsday_1_rotator.jpg?itok=sy6ynRYo
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
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"
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/tyrannosaurus-shouting-3d-render-29153759.jpg
general shouty TRex angst at sunset (sunset of the species dys)
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/Images/Issues/2016/October/doomsday.jpg
unusual undersea doomsday angle
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
http://photoshopcontest.com/images/large/oiz9hzx77xg9s54m1820hiq43zchq7y0fddh.jpg
titled "photoshop contest: win real prizes"
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
I like that woodblock print-style one
― jmm, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
This thread is vintage ILX
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Sunday, 21 May 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
to be fair so am i
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
get the feeling mark is crowdsourcing material for his next anthology
― mh, Sunday, 21 May 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
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
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 May 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
http://gb.fotolibra.com/images/previews/1275645-bayeux-tapestry-halleys-comet.jpeg
― mark s, Sunday, 21 May 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
I really like the Matisse vibe in this one
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/files/2016/03/Chicxulub_ArtistConcept-copy.jpg
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 May 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
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
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 May 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
http://orig10.deviantart.net/a8e3/f/2016/065/1/d/make_a_wish__by_japanesegodzilla1954-d9u4hul.jpg
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 21 May 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
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
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 21 May 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
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
― jmm, Sunday, 21 May 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
He must have found that p upsetting
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 21 May 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
http://68.media.tumblr.com/9a6cef25d523d05df7d71c0fa9d74b5d/tumblr_oqbqlsqS1t1qdmmiqo2_500.gif
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 May 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― mark s, Monday, 22 May 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
"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)
― mark s, Monday, 22 May 2017 10:24 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvJJmn0CQAAJ1z6.jpg
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 22 May 2017 11:43 (six years ago) link
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
― jmm, Monday, 22 May 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
"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 SENILITYthe 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
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
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
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
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
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 22 May 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
^^^very much the kind of direction i was hoping aliens movies would move in
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 09:19 (six years ago) link
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?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/2c/a6/e72ca6f2a602c8c344c5821e936639a8.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
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?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
http://i65.tinypic.com/98c8s6.png
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
the meteor split into billions of pieces that each struck the dino i the face!
― Violet Jynx, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/19/e6/3e/19e63e88948065095ae82f5401968460.jpg
― soref, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/netgalley-covers/cover115030-large.png
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/concerned.png
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 3 June 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18952685_1941707042522053_1735837215554110337_n.jpg?oh=dea9e4809973426d2edb3d1e4e3846d9&oe=59A0D8B4
― nickn, Thursday, 8 June 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCNIpQPUQAAmaDU.jpg
bcz i don't make the rules
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
is "ISIS" cheering the right-wing meteors?
― silverfish, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
Ben Garrison go on chapo
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
why does the ISIS dinosaur look so happy?
― soref, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
He's got back scales made of scimitars and an AR-15. You'd be happy, too.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
also, he is the only one that gets to wear cool shoes
― soref, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
The news orgs will be made extinct by this oncoming barrage of meteors and also a coffee mug.
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
i mean i literally don't care so don't tell me who they are but are those faces all well known and recognisable?
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
JP is a transphobe from Canada, and Infowars is the Infowars guy. I don't know the others.
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tFyWwdz.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
xps Ya basic sympathy of american far-right for Isis showing thru a bit here
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
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
― Stevie T, Monday, 24 July 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20994286_10214029028830423_4697947309006296355_n.jpg?oh=9a43194e71009ff5f4b3c559e8fb455b&oe=5A21B114
― nickn, Monday, 21 August 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxkLSbUAAAfhG-.jpg
― Gravy Zebra (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 August 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJY7EC8WAAAMXtt.jpg
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 11 September 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
damn, rip dinosaurs exposed to the inky vastness of space
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 September 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
I imagine they've set up shop on some other planet they landed on
― ogmor, Monday, 11 September 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
i for one welcome the return of our hyper-evolved dinosaur overlords
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 September 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaucers/images/7/72/Allo-family.png
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 08:08 (six years ago) link
yessssss
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
what if the dinosaurs
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Sunday, 24 September 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
are us
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/francis-gooding/feathered-furred-or-coloured
― the pinefox, Friday, 16 February 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
good thread eh
(did the now-vanished ben garrison cartoon include the first mention of j0rdan p3t3rson on ilx?)
― mark s, Friday, 16 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
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
― soref, Saturday, 17 February 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
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
― devvvine, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
kinda pushing the definition of 'photo' there, alamy
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
nah it's a photo of a picture
― tsrobodo, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
omg that url
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
actually, that is originally my image and you're all under arrest
https://i.imgur.com/2AFIchU.jpg
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
lol
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
shit, he's got us dead to rights
― #TheBeatlesIn5Words Both surviving members are Vegan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
did you choose that name for the jpg file as well
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
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
― #TheBeatlesIn5Words Both surviving members are Vegan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
Next Fiona Apple album title?
― nickn, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
the filename is SEO-friendly (uses dashes) so u got to give them props on that
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
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
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link
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
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
can’t believe dinosaurs won the space race tens of millions of years before it even officially began, the bastards
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
I love reading non-fic science descriptions of monumental calamity like that, wonderful.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
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.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
now I know what book I'm reading next
― mh, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
the paul mason thing is bad also
― mark s, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
if we're lucky he gets hit by a meteor
― mh, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
if we're lucky we all do
― mark s, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
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.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
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
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
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.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
woah dude that's my twitter
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
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
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 22 June 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
Chinese on the moon, la la la la laChinese on the moon, la la la la la la
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 22 June 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
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)
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 22 June 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
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
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 June 2018 08:15 (five years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Friday, 22 June 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
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, 22 June 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/6f234a82980ada06b9c82f7c82b3d3de/tumblr_pasgt4jmk91rvzucio1_400.jpg
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
https://i1.wp.com/dinosaurworld.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/why-did-the-dinosaurs-die-dinosaurs-for-kids.jpg?fit=1280%2C720
― soref, Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
[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 terrestrialfuel 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.
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 terrestrialfuel 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.
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 23 June 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
same in dublin today tbh
― tired culché (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
the first rule of chicxulub is…
― mark s, Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
wat is the first rool of chicxulub
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 24 June 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
― 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
― pplains, Sunday, 24 June 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36047705_10155884648862261_442946926493564928_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=f941383a0ff352eeda935332876e66a2&oe=5BA226B7
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 24 June 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
Day 5 of Wakarusa
https://i.imgur.com/HVA3ZuI.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 24 June 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
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?
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
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?)
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 June 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
the first rule of chicxulub is don't resolve the contradictory chicxulub theories
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
free the chicxulub 7
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 June 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
https://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/996350/178928552/stock-vector-seven-cute-colorful-cartoon-dinosaurs-178928552.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 24 June 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
it's enough to make one proud of complex terrestrial life forms for managing to survive and breed under terrible conditions.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 24 June 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
so does this lead author have a theory why any complex species *did* survive the rough time?
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
they just wanted it more iirc
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 June 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
what if chicxulub, but too much
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
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 occurredthere 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
― mh, Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
in other news, I saw the new dinosaur movie. not really that good.
― mh, Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
all jurassic movies are bad not good, they are like james bond with very short arms
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
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, Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
mh was talking about book club i think
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
b-but the first rule of book club is…
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
"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
― pplains, Sunday, 24 June 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― Roomba with an attitude (Sanpaku), Sunday, 24 June 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
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, Monday, 25 June 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― Roomba with an attitude (Sanpaku), Friday, 29 June 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
^By which I mean that Brennan is presenting the current consensus. Most mass extinctions are associated with volcanism and a global warming episode.
― Roomba with an attitude (Sanpaku), Friday, 29 June 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 1 July 2018 08:45 (five years ago) link
Wat is penis worm pls
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link
"Go look in the mirror", etc
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
apparently they taste like clams and eaten raw in some places.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
xps to Sanpaku
I have that book on my kindle, just never got round to reading it.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:41 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, is it a candiru, the little fella with a brief but memorable cameo in Naked Lunch?
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:47 (five years ago) link
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...
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
Nope - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapulida
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
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
― calzino, Sunday, July 1, 2018 10:37 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
worm I said
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Monday, 2 July 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
...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."
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-ort2-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/b75d6fc77e1d18b28caa461da8c7e23c/5BC1FCA9/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/33376572_387621541725441_8535239759738437632_n.jpg
― soref, Friday, 20 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Pictures of Chris Pratt gazing haplessly at dinosaurs:http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/41/320x320/square-1476288011-jurassic-world-chris-pratt.jpghttp://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=1524075466https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2018/06/08/Pictures/_674af80c-6aea-11e8-af35-5e950c6035ab.PNG
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 10 August 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
I heard something the other about reverse engineering ancient DNA traces with supercomputers, and yeah they are birds!"
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
*extinction events edit
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/05/24/15/dinosaur-asteroid.jpg?w968
― devvvine, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
new and correct haplessness begins here: https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/160705-dino-630x487.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
Dinasaurs going off their tits on mcat, while the world is turned into a post apocalyptic hothouse!
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:51 (five years ago) link
gluttony, protracted food poisoning, terminal chastity, acute stupidity, even Paleo-weltschmerz—death by boredom
poll, obv
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
https://assets1.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/57293/size_1024/dinosaur_volcano.jpg?1418393900
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
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.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
^ This was totally the correct thread for that post.
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
some high quality images in this last update
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
i like the evil ones where the dinosaurs seem to be thrilled about what's happening
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― Moves like Javert (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
My kid has a pack of dinosaur fact cards and I was pleased that it contained this one:
https://i.imgur.com/OlPLlQ8.jpg
― joygoat, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/FqaAJni
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
I think the dinosaurs actually died the same way as I am dying right now, over Tom D.’s Paleo Weltschmerz post
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
http://e.cinescape.americadigital.pe/ima/0/0/1/9/4/194563.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/Terryclothstiletto/photos/a.1190012354349761/2464286980255619/?type=3
― nickn, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41283125_2464286986922285_702965444889280512_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=38f91b65fede95abd0e768470e2290a2&oe=5C21F38A
― nickn, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UgX8r1g.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
reposting bcz TREX01 is clearly ilxor bizarro gazzara, will we never be rid
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/e6/3e/19e63e88948065095ae82f5401968460.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
would actually buy a poster of the third image itt
― nashwan, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
https://kmrciugjeu-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/dinosaurs-noahs-ark.jpg
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
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'
…
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVvg6UkAnig/maxresdefault.jpg
― devvvine, Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
https://i.gifer.com/R7ep.gif
― soref, Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
mr.steggy otm
― jmm, Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
trex01, it me
― shrek and han solo kinda dress the same (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 October 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
lol at t-rex wandering into that lava flowauuuughhh whyyyyyy
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
https://solutionsreview.com/data-integration/files/2015/06/oie_LhZh9OxR73dE.png
― jmm, Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/86/1f/81861fec587eda5cf51f8d91f0974ed9.jpghttps://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2755/4169813311_1d665d0446_z.jpghttps://rodneymackay.com/fun2017/Golden%20spiral/doomsday2images/ktevent1.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
first one is a little too real imo
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
I'm having trouble fitting some of these clauses into the John Lennon song
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
It's easy if you try.
― nickn, Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
the clauses are correct, it is j. lennon who was wrong
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
65.6 millin years ago
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
I like the asshole mammals in the first one. Also I regret not arranging them in story order - brontos, then "millin", then death eternal.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 19 November 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
"I like the asshole mammals in the first one."
just celebrating the end of the 100 million years war!
― calzino, Monday, 19 November 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
this thread is a blessing
― macropuente (map), Monday, 19 November 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
Proto-mellivora capensis don't care.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 19 November 2018 04:25 (five years ago) link
― 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!"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 19 November 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
the last one is very "For all my powers, I could not save _____": An image thread
― soref, Monday, 19 November 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
:( :(
saddest thing I’ve drawn pic.twitter.com/gm9TVa2dye— Nathan W. Pyle (@nathanwpyle) November 27, 2018
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link
lol, that's good. very Perry Bible Fellowship.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
the whole thread there is good
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds-38kTXgAAbdwc.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
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
― nickn, Saturday, 8 December 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
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.
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 8 December 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 5 January 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
feathered microraptor^^^ (or more correctly "chinese dragon") from liaoning fossil beds in north-eastern china
― mark s, Saturday, 5 January 2019 11:00 (five years ago) link
v fancy lad
― an erotic picnic with Ming (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 5 January 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
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!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
that t-rex was basically a hu-u-uge hen with teeth makes the mother much more scarier imo.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOQ1Igy6Do
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
(if you hang a tail of the right weight on a chicken, it walks like a T. rex)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1548/4921/products/meteorite-falling-on-the-earth-at-dinosaurs-age-killing-multi-panel-canvas-wall-art-tiaracle-5894128795728_900x.jpg?v=1546087130
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on sale at £144.97, reduced from £409.97, if anyone's interested
― soref, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
Perfect for dinosaur lovers.
Man, what kind of art do they have available for dog lovers?
― pplains, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/be/8f/4fbe8ff135f948261fcce1bfac097c54.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1a/e2/e9/1ae2e9c1e8f1df6433ed8db1f7240276.jpg
― soref, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
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."
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
it's better to burn out than to fade away
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
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
― joygoat, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
inevitable and (inevitably) bad:
https://i.redd.it/2kwjhz8odlp11.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 24 March 2019 12:41 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfKKsQ4XUAAr2rE.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 24 March 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
good morning pic.twitter.com/zAMIRwHMX1— Nathan W. Pyle (@nathanwpyle) April 1, 2019
― Neil S, Monday, 1 April 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
big mood tbh
― mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 April 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
kind of lol, mostly sad
― Neil S, Monday, 1 April 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
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
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
this thread is better and jake vig can bug-off
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/inundation750.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
It's morning in dino-America.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
― ryan
oh boy, the scientific community is very much all aflutter about that guy
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
xp Triceratops-y-turvy
― Neil S, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/aLcrrf8.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
wow ok
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 13 April 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
wow, just like that new yorker article
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 April 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed the planet that invented churros
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
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
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 May 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
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
― soref, Friday, 28 June 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
The video with the Pink Floyd soundtrack is strangely moving and soothing !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 28 June 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jUBEhes.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
https://media.gettyimages.com/illustrations/the-extinction-of-the-dinosaurs-illustration-id737370965
― devvvine, Monday, 2 September 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
xp disco inferno killed the dinosaurs?
― mookieproof, Monday, 2 September 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
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
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 November 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
now it can be told
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
Teach the Controversy
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Friday, 29 November 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
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
― nickn, Friday, 27 December 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Friday, 27 December 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
Now it all makes sense
Who is this chode talking about #FlatEarth pic.twitter.com/RNoDDhxmJD— JR Ward🦖 (@AnnoyedRaptor) February 11, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
Beat you to it. The bonus animation is sweet though.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
I should really scroll up more
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
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
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
Only still-active posters count tbf.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 24 June 2018 00:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
https://utopiabalcanica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/punint355_dinozaurivirus.jpg
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
That's ridiculous, how would a t-rex even use toilet paper
― cat, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
the tail wasn't used for the purpose of balancing, some researchers are saying
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
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
― nickn, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
ok lol
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUYy6udX0AARjJ4?format=jpg&name=medium
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
more liekhttps://i.imgur.com/Qk6hTUh.jpg
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
trenchasaurs assemble
― mark s, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
Icasaurus
― coco vide (pomenitul), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
Good use of first picture in this thread.
pic.twitter.com/FhM9xsKsk2— David Olusoga (@DavidOlusoga) March 30, 2020
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
Dang, missed Calzino’s post.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
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
― nickn, Monday, 3 August 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WQ7xNU51Hjj_Xh7KUnP2mkpeN_s=/0x47:2700x1453/960x500/media/img/mt/2017/08/AP_17233688604864/original.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 August 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 August 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
wait, they escaped into outer space first?
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 August 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
may i be the first to offer my sincere, heartfelt congratulations to these space bears
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
they need to evolve into sub-micron sized ugly bassas with faces like anuses before harbouring ambitions to go into space ffs!
― calzino, Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
it's true, wait yr turn bears!
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 07:49 (three years ago) link
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.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Monday, 28 September 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
🦖 @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
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 October 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
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
― nickn, Thursday, 25 February 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
it looks like everything will be alright. T-rex on the left will try and bat away all the meteors with the tennis racquet
― calzino, Thursday, 25 February 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/cb4f825f1eaa9d32e59e9f6df0aa4909/5d385b19267ff873-f1/s400x600/2598785bf11dcd7c6d784f7a46e7558c3c6e7751.gifv
― pplains, Monday, 8 March 2021 02:18 (three years ago) link
that dino must have felt invincible for that brief period
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 March 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
i thought that was a sbnation infographic at first
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 15 March 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/q7PxHQbd/20210601-130923.jpg
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
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
― devvvine, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
https://cdn-images.threadless.com/threadless-media/artist_shops/shops/threadless/products/1851449/shirt-1606923387-e256e1a91af342000acf0886e25cf016.png?v=3&d=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
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
"One last dab?" Man, how old was that dinosaur?
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
My wife is currently doing this cross-stitch
https://i.etsystatic.com/9908524/r/il/0505a2/3027250333/il_794xN.3027250333_fsez.jpg
― I like big bunnies and I cannot lie (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 13 June 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
A+
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 13 June 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
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
― Neil S, Friday, 27 August 2021 10:24 (two years ago) link
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
― since you are a big fan of adult websites (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 27 August 2021 10:49 (two years ago) link
return of the hornéd trenchasaur
― mark s, Friday, 27 August 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link
also: lesser beasts be stealin from ilxor classics (this is actually how the world ends ppl)
@pulplibrarian is ok but come on man
― mark s, Friday, 27 August 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
some of the captions would get an fp
― calzino, Friday, 27 August 2021 11:14 (two years ago) link
hah I consider myself told then
― Neil S, Friday, 27 August 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
I hope mark s is going to enter this contest.
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/contest
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
"Let's play the last track from The Doors debut."
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
This next one's for all the titanosaurs in the audience.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link
"As soon as Stipeasaurus gets here we can run through this one."
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
Haha I read the thread title and my first thought was “Does KM have anything to contribute to this topic?” 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…And there it is. I was just reading history of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 in relation to the rise of atheism. The thought processes were very similar, but with a lot more god blaming.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
hahaha!
yeah, i mean in many ways the world makes a lot more sense if you think of it as god punishing people for one thing or another. especially if you think that god is flawed and constantly makes mistakes!
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
Trenchantsaurus Rexhttps://i.postimg.cc/XYMp0V75/FB-IMG-1633776377789.jpg
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 October 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Omg that “thinking t-Rex” panel is killing me
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Ever so hapless:
https://pocket-syndicated-images.s3.amazonaws.com/5f285f3615917.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
ooooh, high-rez dino horror!
https://i.imgur.com/d8hSK4E.png
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
is there a VR experience for the dinosaur meteor extinction event? i would love to walk around in that world, as a dinosaur
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
Indonesian castle dwelling dinosaur
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/ff0403b8-c9ee-4da2-8cde-e7412b955585/den48bf-4380b3de-f6a0-43ea-9d95-5ba2f4afb22d.jpg/v1/fill/w_1095,h_730,q_70,strp/majungasaurus_by_parto24_den48bf-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9ODUzIiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvZmYwNDAzYjgtYzllZS00ZGEyLThjZGUtZTc0MTJiOTU1NTg1XC9kZW40OGJmLTQzODBiM2RlLWY2YTAtNDNlYS05ZDk1LTViYTJmNGFmYjIyZC5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.SLAMcSZJ2mm-QsfdL5XL7tzXRqDQT1vOLNLYqsrEz5I
― soref, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/247878269_434963224652630_2995065213214860198_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=FUrzb7Mi9hQAX-qQl2C&tn=7HG6GdVuSFzWQM4W&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=74f5be238f29c5b9c18967fbf9bf9934&oe=61996949
― nickn, Friday, 22 October 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
You know you're ripping off The Far Side when even your dinosaurs wear cat-eye glasses.
― pplains, Friday, 22 October 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 22 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Earth was forever changed after an enormous asteroid smashed into our planet at the end of the Cretaceous period. Scientists have pinpointed the season of the disaster and linked it to springtime in the Northern Hemisphere. https://t.co/v7u5w5u1ro— Scientific American (@sciam) February 24, 2022
― mark s, Thursday, 24 February 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
very poor quality picture imo, scientific american do better
(the article is mildly interesting, adding heft to the question i asked sanpaku upthread that was never answered)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 February 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1569759111l/49933340._SX318_SY475_.jpg
― jmm, Thursday, 24 February 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1pbM5oT.jpeg
― StanM, Saturday, 12 March 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
i love the quality of the image, excellent
― the world's undisputed #1 fan of 'Spud Infinity' (Karl Malone), Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/z7TzG4j.jpg(thomas woodruff)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
that one is less gazing haplessly and more having a kickass acid trip tbh
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
it's true, the dinosaur has separated from its ego and is just accepting what is happening as something unique and unrepeatable
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
Unfortunate how most of these pictures neglect to include the full white and red moons.
― jmm, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FODMPEk.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 April 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
https://spectrumculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/lou-reed-ectasy1.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
Post-meteor, damn
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022-03/processed/DinosaurSulfurWinterSnow_1024.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Attenborough seems pretty calm though.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTUzODlmNGYtOTEyOC00MzAyLWI1Y2ItZDJkNjZjYzFiNDUyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTA2MDI4MA@@._V1_.jpg
― Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
A must see for devotees of this thread:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016djt
― Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
Recently seen on ye webz
The meteor that killed the dinosaurs has the biggest ratio of birds killed with one stone.
Attributed to https://www.facebook.com/WeirdThou/ but I am not sure that's the original thought-thinker
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
meanwhile we just cant catch a break
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQJ3C-SXEAcEl_d?format=jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
If there's an extinction-level meteor impact in our lifetimes, I really think the best use of our last moments would be to reenact hapless dinosaur pictures.
― jmm, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile, 66 million years and thirty seconds later:
Scientists claim to have found a fossil of a dinosaur killed on the day an extinction asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago.
Scientists say that the perfectly preserved leg of a Thescelosaurus dinosaur, complete with scaly skin, can be dated back to the mass extinction event because of the presence of debris from the impact, the BBC said.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
pics or it didn't happen
and i'm talking photographs of the extinction event. release the photos!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
it was wearing a "and all I got was this t-shirt"
― StanM, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
just want to check: we covered all 4 of these, right?
this thread is one of the leading sources of dinosaur/meteor images
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
nice -- the very first one in Vig's tweet is the OP of this thread, by Mark S
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
This thread has barely scratched the surface of all the incredibly lazy single-panel comics out there
https://www.deccanherald.com/sites/dh/files/styles/article_detail/public/articleimages/2021/02/15/istock-dinosaur-talk-joke-comet-fire-sky-951597-1613404129.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
God, I am such a billy, even down to being a stegosaurus (always my fave)
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
I'm confused about the coconuts. Are they coconuts? Is the dinosaur on the left standing on some coconuts? That detail looks as if it's supposed to be part of the joke, but it's not.
Why does the Stegosaurus' head look like a hand holding a bowling ball with spines on it? Is it the mescaline, or something else?
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
I think the artist can’t draw feet.
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
Rob Liefeld: The Early Years
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/290679415_10223014435244158_5877369307180644347_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=8ZQo5Yar2bMAX9bGkK2&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT961NO-YM2KAqztDm3A7JzK5ep1sUhUBFy_EMp7A_g4QQ&oe=62C4E9A4
― nickn, Friday, 1 July 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
t-rex was the accelerationist of the last extinction event (before the current one we're living in)
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 July 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/297505347_10160975668516554_6335493039143891142_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=PWGG88ouAosAX_sDVe1&tn=trgXPOBaEZV0ORCK&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT-7Ujl43xFKJE77MpYiU-nMR9yPI4SadaIw-6PiBPgUqQ&oe=62F08426
― nickn, Thursday, 4 August 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
No, he's not a dinosaur, but you know what? I'm not crazy about his gazing either.
https://i.imgur.com/ETqNrec.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
pplains, you knew it wasn't right, but you posted it anyway. and the image link above that, a month ago, is fukken broken. and then i made a threadkilling bad joke, a month before that. what the fuck is happening???
i am going to look for fresh dino metero/extinction content. and the way things are going, i bet it will have been posted sometime before, because you know what? i'm not scrolling through that again, and you know why? because i've done it at least ten times before. ok, be back
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 September 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
treat my lovely thread nice plz
― mark s, Thursday, 1 September 2022 09:19 (one year ago) link
mark s gazing haplessly at me posting in his dinosaur thread
― pplains, Thursday, 1 September 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
*goes extinct looking for more fun pics
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 September 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a3/37/69/a33769bb6355bc343a553290b41f1b37.jpg
― jmm, Thursday, 1 September 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/304269425_8550634951628374_1079532082391053205_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=rWPxrYXsLJ8AX9Aq6xs&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=00_AT8yU64wMHm0gR0WkceDWlUh_JKbryNeCgqWeOjT6FX5KQ&oe=63228F35
― nickn, Saturday, 10 September 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ImlWJ4i.jpeg
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 31 October 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/slamasaurus/
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
From Punch magazine in 1861
https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/c0088202/800wm/C0088202-1861_Punch_Dinosaurs_Comet_cartoon.jpg
― jmm, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 04:04 (ten months ago) link
probably a repeat, but worth revisiting imo
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/tyrannosaurus-rex-fleeing-from-an-asteroid-strike-d-van-ravenswaay.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 04:13 (ten months ago) link
We're all dinosaurs, in the end.
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/355699283_673925687941291_4231214638246880807_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=qk551RTJ6qcAX91uEDd&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AfAb6XTN8LVAmbCOusMyf4NzMsuAkwJ0SEahHIhrmtsFkw&oe=64A1094D
― nickn, Thursday, 29 June 2023 04:23 (eight months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YFnWduK.png
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Thursday, 29 June 2023 05:08 (eight months ago) link
if you need to kill a couple hours here's an arguably not-terrible video about why we all think a asteroid dunnit (answers: 1. because it did and 2. carl sagan was scared of getting nuclear bombed and 3. brains love simple story structure [although science, ideally, does not] and and and and)
(also the video creator was forced to visit swindon and he seems to have been scarred by the experience, which has left me perversely intrigued. "swindon." it sounds ominous, like an evil place made up by a children's author)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHgkMYgp7w
― Marina Punky Chow (cat), Saturday, 8 July 2023 16:19 (eight months ago) link
Imagine dinosaurs posing with an asteroid pic.twitter.com/0Df7wf3rRS— Mt. St. Helens (@MtStHelensWA) July 22, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 July 2023 01:08 (eight months ago) link
yup
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 22 July 2023 01:09 (eight months ago) link
seen that going around, with good reason
https://web.archive.org/web/20231030201254im_/https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2301315/dinosaurs-extinction.webp?w=790&f=aec23f04bf1ea27c36c4f0fe5995cce0
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 30 October 2023 20:22 (four months ago) link
Weird, I thought of this thread a few hours ago.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 30 October 2023 20:23 (four months ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/01b91d33489d790a7222421bbed2f5f0/4472c97e7cfeb4c8-50/s640x960/8d75523ed66681aa85c198417932ce78683b208f.jpg
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 December 2023 21:12 (three months ago) link
we got there
― mark s, Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:28 (three months ago) link
itt: pictures of dinosaurs shitposting haplessly about the arriving meteor
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 11 December 2023 16:43 (three months ago) link
borad description :(
― mark s, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:55 (three months ago) link
how'd it go
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:27 (three months ago) link
It’s kinda nutty to think that if something like that would happen there’d be a short minute window or whatever where people would be able to watch TikTok, instagram live feeds, etc. of idiot’s live posting moments before they’re vaporized (and soon to be the person viewing the post).
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:43 (three months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH_8f1yWoAAwiqf?format=jpg&name=small
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:10 (three weeks ago) link