itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wat is penis worm pls

"Go look in the mirror", etc

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

xps to Sanpaku

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

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

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

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

Thx

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

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

worm I said

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*not that I know shit, like!

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

*extinction events edit

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

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

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

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

poll, obv

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

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

^ This was totally the correct thread for that post.

some high quality images in this last update

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

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

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

*that's right, haplessly

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

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

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

https://imgur.com/a/FqaAJni

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

would actually buy a poster of the third image itt

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

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

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

…

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

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

mr.steggy otm

trex01, it me

lol at t-rex wandering into that lava flow

auuuughhh whyyyyyy