itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

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

Imagine dinosaurs posing with an asteroid pic.twitter.com/0Df7wf3rRS

— Mt. St. Helens (@MtStHelensWA) July 22, 2023

yup

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20231030201254im_/https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2301315/dinosaurs-extinction.webp?w=790&f=aec23f04bf1ea27c36c4f0fe5995cce0

Weird, I thought of this thread a few hours ago.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/01b91d33489d790a7222421bbed2f5f0/4472c97e7cfeb4c8-50/s640x960/8d75523ed66681aa85c198417932ce78683b208f.jpg

we got there

itt: pictures of dinosaurs shitposting haplessly about the arriving meteor

borad description :(

how'd it go

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).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH_8f1yWoAAwiqf?format=jpg&name=small

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1793054170251194837

ducks? but awesome

new new yorker cartoon caption just dropped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukang_meteorite

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2G6CAPP/christies-london-uk-5-july-2021-preview-of-christies-classic-week-is-a-marquee-series-of-9-auctions-featuring-art-from-antiquity-to-the-20th-century-image-christies-the-exceptional-sale-image-a-monolithic-slice-of-the-fukang-meteorite-pallasite-pal-fukang-xinjiang-province-estimate-350000-550000-credit-malcolm-parkalamy-live-news-2G6CAPP.jpg

(meteor worth gazing haplessly at tbrr)

(but was there even life on earth 4.5 billion years ago? well! interesting story there… )