itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:39 (nine years ago)

CGI ones are all dud

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

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

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

― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Friday, 19 May 2017 16:19 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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

― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 May 2017 16:58 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

some earlier theories here

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

― new noise, Friday, 19 May 2017 18:03 (nine years ago)

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 (nine years ago)

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