Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Dinosaur fossil from asteroid strike that caused extinction found, scientists claim - BBC News" video.

  1.  @norman4628  How do you explain dinosaur drawings and film today? Are dinosaurs alive today? Your logic suggests they are.
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  2.  @charlesmadison1384  Not sure where you get that it refers to a flood. By definition, it refers to any natural, large-scale, violent event.
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  3.  @asherloat8570  That’s false.
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  4. It’s difficult to find a fossil that correlates to any one quick event in Earth’s history.
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  5.  @deadboy3646  The Hiawatha crater’s age is still completely unknown. It’s thought that it possibly could have happened within the last 100,000 years, possibly as recently as 12,500 years ago, but also possibly much, much earlier. There is an issue of faulty scientific thinking at play the team of geologists that found it were looking to find why there was a sudden climatic change about 13,000 years ago (Younger Dryas), so there’s a bit of a confirmation bias involved. The evidence collected was inconclusive and it’s a difficult place to do research as the area is cold, extremely remote, and the crater is below a moving glacier. Jay Melosh, an impact crater expert from Purdue Univ. believes the crater dates back much further. The LC-130 ANG unit in Scotia, NY has been flying over it with various ice-penetrating radars, trying to map it at least, but what they need to date it is soil core samples, which are just too deep under the ice for us to obtain right now.
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  6. I think it’s funny how unintelligent you are. I guess we’re both amused.
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  7. Birds are dinosaurs, so we know for a fact that many species weren’t wiped out. Many reptile, fish, invertebrates and mammals didn’t die out either.
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  8. No one said it was.
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  9. Was it formed in one day? We don’t even know how it was formed yet. There are multiple theories still at play.
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  10. Eh… I would claim that physicists and mathematicians hold that title.
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  11. Crocodiles are only 55 million years old as a species.
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  12. We don’t know that for sure yet, and one might argue that our planet wasn’t formed before that impact anyway (if it did occur).
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  13.  @asherloat8570  Nothing is definite… until it’s proven. That is a huge condition.
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  14. Oh yeah? Two asteroids and two volcanic eruptions? Would love to read about that! You want to give us the source of that info?
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  15. Are you serious? Have you never studied any science at all?
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  16. It’s a fossil, not actual skin.
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  17. It’s literally prehistoric.
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  18. They didn’t all die, period. Birds are dinosaurs.
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  19. Is death a solution?
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  20. It’s all one story. You can’t rip out pages out of a book and know what happened.
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  21.  @norman4628  Jay… those pictographs have been proven to be hoaxes by countless scientists. Stop spreading bullshit.
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  22.  @user-kk6ht1id5e  What drugs are you on? I didn’t compare anyone. The drawings have been proven to be hoaxes.
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  23.  @keenfire8151  I have been saying that birds are dinosaurs…
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  24.  @norman4628  The drawings claimed to have been of dinosaurs have been SCIENTIFICALLY debunked. You can Google for all the proof you can handle, from actual archaeological and anthropological studies from universities, not that facts matter to you.
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  25.  @norman4628  EVERY SINGLE comment from you is a question, not a statement, but every one is posed as a rhetorical question (because you don’t seek answers) and exists SOLELY to be a troll. Your whole participation in this thread is seemingly to undermine facts and the scientific method, process, and scientists themselves. You pathetic, to state it mildly.
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  26.  @jjww30  When something is unequivocally proven it is called a FACT, not a theory. You need to grasp that concept. A theory doesn’t need to be proven to be a theory. Most aren’t. What makes something a theory versus a hypothesis is supporting evidence. Hypotheses are ideas, thoughts. Hypotheses are not supported by any evidence. Once some evidentiary support for a hypothesis exists, it becomes a theory. Once you have enough evidence for it to be evident (through the scientific method), it becomes a scientific fact. You think you’re the best-educated person here… I assure you, given your arguments and suppositions, that you are far from that, especially in physical sciences. The scientific method dictates this: Hypothesis -> Theory -> Fact/Fallacy There is, at this time, more than sufficient evidence for the hypothesis of this mass extinction event for it to be a theory. It is actually the leading theory among many, and for quite a while. Evidence from multiple disciplines supports this (geology, biology, paleontology, oceanography, physics and chemistry to start). In fact, once the data from this latest finding is verified by peers and published, it will likely make this a scientific fact.
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  27. No. There were no months or weeks yet.
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  28. How does history help or how does science?
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  29.  @aarons6935  Actually, the moon’s formation was before the Earth’s formation, technically.
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  30.  @ethandalton6480  Not a flash flood, but okay.
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  31. That’s what happens when you lack basic education!
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  32.  @1A.....  I’m just going to leave it here… For you, it is clearly “hard to think”, as you’re clearly demonstrating.
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  33.  @Schnitzel_23  Crocodilians, Tuataras and snakes DID NOT come from dinosaurs, but crocodilians and dinosaurs/birds do share a common crown group Archosaurs (diapsids). Modern day birds are actual descendants of feathered dinosaurs. Tuataras and snakes, while both reptiles, came from other diapsids and lived alongside dinosaurs.
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  34. Stellar object collisions are constant, but if we’re discussing our planet as we know it, then it only formed after that collision. The planet it was before it was quite different.
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  35. Dinosaurs were thousands of species that constantly died out. We are just one species of mammals. Mammals have been around longer than dinosaurs.
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  36.  @sosoapy8154  Birds are dinosaurs. Many species of flying dinos survived.
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  37. You THINK that? Are you sure… that you think? From your comment it seems that you don’t bother to.
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  38. Yeah… that one in a billion turns out accurate.
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  39. Dinosaurs hurt each other too.
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  40.  @TheSpenceFencer  Not just you… I agree.
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  41. First off, they’re EXACTLY the same age. Second, the Earth hasn’t been hit nearly as many times because our thick atmosphere protects us from most impacts.
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  42. It likely was though.
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  43. There are major flaws with your reasoning. First off, flooded beings most often break down, not fossilize. Second, the impact of the asteroid would have created atmospheric temperatures so high that most beings on the surface would have baked into oblivion, leaving nothing, but carbon dust behind.
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  44.  @josephnebeker7976  The oldest humanoid (not even human) fossil has been dated to between 5-7 million years old and was extremely ape-like. The oldest human (h. sapiens) remains found were dated to about 200,000 years ago.
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  45.  @josephnebeker7976  You’re a moron. You have NO clue of how carbon dating (or science) works. Did you even graduate high school?
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  46.  @josephnebeker7976  Fossilization happens by hard minerals replacing the space occupied by organic matter, through time, as the organic molecules break down. I’ve forgotten more on the subject than you’ll EVER know.
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  47.  @Zed9659  It works EXACTLY like that.
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  48. Why not?
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  49.  @davidf2244  I have met quite a few. You don’t know what the word “nerd” means, do you? Stop trolling. Tharp, Hess, Wager, Naldrett, Alexander, Glicken, Stewart… shall I go on?
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  50.  @davidf2244  They are in my household, but “nerd” doesn’t mean “cool”. You get that, right? In fact, it means the complete opposite. Nerds are anti-social, excessively studious and technical. Also, Neumann and Tao aren’t household names either. The VAST majority of physicists and mathematicians are completely unknown, but being famous isn’t a matter of being a nerd or not. Hawking was a gigantic nerd despite being famous. The whole science of physics and math (they’re basically one field) is anti-social. It rests primarily on individuals, working problems out in their heads and in writing. That’s it. Not geology. Geology is about teamwork, getting out there, digging, sampling, comparing… Geologists never work by themselves. They simply aren’t that nerdy.
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