itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

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coco vide (pomenitul), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 16:00 (four 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 (four years ago) link

Dang, missed Calzino’s post.

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link

four months pass...
two weeks pass...

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

The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

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

four months pass...

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

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

two months pass...

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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

two months pass...

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

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

one month passes...

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

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

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

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

lol

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 22 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link

four months pass...

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

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/1pbM5oT.jpeg

StanM, Saturday, 12 March 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link


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