Prediction · #ElonMusk was the #Chicxulub #asteroid that #doomed the #socialmedia #dinosaurs. They’re still vertical, but staggering. A few misguided souls are trying to breed new dinosaurs with the hope of owning and monetizing the world’s conversations.

#Mastodon(s) are mammals; unlike mastodons, the players in the Fediverse aren’t huge, they are the little furry mammals scurrying around those unsteady dinosaur feet. #Federation is the only #plausible way forward.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/08/12/Mastodon-Checkin

Living in the Scottish West Highlands I'm not surprised to learn that bracken (well, ferns anyway) was the first plant to recover from #chicxulub ...

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-05-31/the-biggest-extinction-event-in-the-planets-history-is-happening-again-in-santa-cruz

☄️🤿 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/cenotes-yucatan-deep-diving-video

“Fewer people have visited some of these drowned caverns than have stepped on the surface of the Moon. As #divers have explored further, they’ve discovered the #cenotes are actually part of a huge complex of tunnels and #caves. In fact, when viewed from above, hundreds of cenotes can be seen scattered across the landscape.”

#video #mexico #Chicxulub #Yucatán #science #exploration #womeninstem

This is just a #teaser. And it's fuckin' terrifying.
Tried with an #asteroid with the same characteristics as #99942Apophis hitting my hometown #Lisboa. Didn't even tried with something like the #chicxulub one.
Have a go yourself. 👀
https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

#Earth #space #simulator #asteroidlauncher #lisbon

If you do nothing else today, search “chicxulub crater” in google #chicxulub #asteroid #dinosaurs

If you do nothing else today, search “chicxulub crater” in google #chicxulub #asteroid #dinosaurs

This is the place where a massive asteroid impacted the Earth some 66 million years ago. Soon after, dinosaurs went extinct. Also, the ring of cenotes, which comprises thousands of sinkholes filled with crystal clear water, is thought to be a consequence of the collision. #PuertoProgreso #Chicxulub #Yucatan #Mexico 🌴 ☄️ 🦖

Googling Chicxulub comes with a surprise.

This is the place where a massive asteroid impacted the Earth some 66 million years ago. Soon after, dinosaurs went extinct. Also, the ring of cenotes, which comprises thousands of sinkholes filled with crystal clear water, is thought to be a consequence of the collision. #PuertoProgreso #Chicxulub #Yucatan #Mexico 🌴 ☄️ 🦖

Googling Chicxulub comes with a surprise.

I'm too tired to come up with any witty commentary about this. Just sad and disgusted.

Brief summary: paleontologist Robert #DePalma, who shares his cousin Brian's cinematic instincts, made a big spash a few years ago with the discovery of the "Tanis" site, which appears to preserve the day of the #Chicxulub impact. Since then he's milked it in the media for all it's worth. Well, as much as most scientists dislike that kind of behavior, it's how you keep the grant money rolling in. #Dinosaurs are maybe more popular than ever, but they're lousy at paying their own bills.

He's made many dubious claims before about the site, many carefully hedged so he could retract them later. It's a dangerous game. This time, it very much looks like he's done something much worse.

#Tanis is real, and it's a remarkable discovery. DePalma's inability to distinguish between flashy PR and outright fraud will accomplish nothing but tarnishing all the real #paleontology work done at the site, by anyone, for years to come. Good scientists like #During will suffer the consequences.

Yeah. Don't do that.

https://www.science.org/content/article/paleontologist-accused-faking-data-dino-killing-asteroid-paper

RT @Sterne_Weltraum@twitter.com

Die Energie der ausgelösten Tsunamis war 30.000-mal höher als beim verheerenden Weihnachtstsunami 2004 #Chicxulub https://www.spektrum.de/news/naturkatastrophen-chicxulub-tsunami-war-gigantisch-wie-kein-anderer/2078724?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1668952274

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Sterne_Weltraum/status/1594346831039049729

#Chicxulub-Tsunami vor 66 Millionen Jahren: Seine Energie war 30.000-mal höher als beim verheerenden Weihnachtstsunami 2004 (Spektrum)
#Meteorit #Dinosaurier #Yucatan #dasneueuniuversum

https://www.spektrum.de/news/naturkatastrophen-chicxulub-tsunami-war-gigantisch-wie-kein-anderer/2078724?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1668773615

#Chicxulub-Tsunami vor 66 Millionen Jahren: Seine Energie war 30.000-mal höher als beim verheerenden Weihnachtstsunami 2004
#Meteorit #Dinosaurier #Yucatan #dasneueuniuversum

https://www.spektrum.de/news/naturkatastrophen-chicxulub-tsunami-war-gigantisch-wie-kein-anderer/2078724?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1668773615

Der #Chicxulub-#Einschlag erzeugte gigantische globale #Tsunamis

https://www.astropage.eu/2022/10/06/der-chicxulub-einschlag-erzeugte-gigantische-globale-tsunamis/

#Yucatan, #Krater, #Asteroid, #Dinosaurier, #Tsunami, #Sedimente, #Kreidezeit

Chicxulub: la verità sull’asteroide che ha sterminato i dinosauri #05Ottobre #News #ScienzaeTecnologia #asteroide #Chicxulub #dinosauri #tsunami https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjbm9hbmRyb2lkLml0LzIwMjIvMTAvMDUvY2hpY3h1bHViLWxhLXZlcml0YS1zdWxsYXN0ZXJvaWRlLWNoZS1oYS1zdGVybWluYXRvLWktZGlub3NhdXJpLTExMjI2OTM=.html

From 23 Feb: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring—which might explain why mammals survived - An international team of scientists used synchrotron radiation to image and analyze fossilized fish... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/fish-fossils-show-asteroid-that-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs-struck-in-the-spring/ #asteroids #chicxulub #cretaceous #dinosaurs #fossils #k-pg-mass-extinction #mesozoic #science #stable-carbon-isotopes #synchrotron-radiation

Chicxulub... wer kennt ihn nicht... :blobcathappy:

Fischknochen geben Aufschluss: Dinosaurier starben im Frühling aus
https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Dinosaurier-starben-im-Fruehling-aus-article23147517.html

#Chicxulub #Dinosaurier #Frühling

#MineralMonth

(I assume "Ma" means "mega-agoes".)

(Yes, I looked it up, but my answer is funnier.)
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RT @jdwitts
This is #Zumaia in the Basque region of Spain feat. the K-Pg boundary! Stunning outcrops of 'flysch' in @geoparkea are deep water sediments, with 'rhythmic bedding' caused by orbital cyclicity. The boundary here contains fallout from the #Chicxulub impact event 66 Ma. https://twitter.com/SpagnaInItalia/status/135111037526208…
https://twitter.com/jdwitts/status/1351141091538575361

Musings on the new paper on the #Chicxulub impact trajectory, and on how improbable is our current world. #extinction #science

http://dda.devicerandom.org/2020/05/28/improbable-ashes/

[#Actu] « Le dernier jour des dinosaures sur Terre » https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actualites/dinosaure-dernier-jour-dinosaures-terre-22922/#xtor=RSS-8 #wholeatmospherecommunityclimatemodel #communityearthsystemmodel #crisecrétacé-tertiaire #disparitiondinosaures #extinctiondemasse #paléontologie #photosynthèse #joannamorgan #gertakeller #dinosaure #météorite #chicxulub #géologie #incendie #crisekt #science #yucatan #deccan #suies #waccm #cesm

It was a very bad day when the asteroid hit the Earth at Chicxulub and ended the age of the dinosaurs.

"When the asteroid struck, it temporarily carved a hole 60 miles across and 20 miles deep. The impact triggered a tsunami moving away from the crater. It also catapulted rock into the upper atmosphere and beyond."

#Space #Asteroids #Dinosaurs #Geology #Impacts #Chicxulub

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/science/chicxulub-asteroid-impact-dinosaurs.html