[Rockhounds] Iridium in undersea crater confirms asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

[Tim Fisher]

If you want to spend $100 learning why food cooks get a copy of Myhrvold's
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. I refuse to pay but I
read online articles about some of his stuff, and when the books came out
they were all over the food shows lol. Insanely fascinating stuff for a
foodie, makes me wish I had could have gone from Microsoft CTO to playing
with liquid nitrogen and gas chromatography. Skipping the Microsoft part
lol. Check out his website, he's moved on to snowflakes now and has a truly
mad scientist approach to photographing them in incredible detail. 

Tim Fisher
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Email nospam at orerockon.com

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out the dinosaurs

Axel,

Admittedly, that particular concept is difficult for even educated people to
grasp, after all, even a tiny droplet of scalding hot water would burn you
(albeit a tiny bit). Nevertheless, I would think that the fact that we have
geostationary satellites would prove that we can go through the thermosphere
without melting. To be honest, it is amazing that they choose such a nerdy
reason not to believe that we could get to the moon. I would think that that
kind of person wouldn’t believe in the thermosphere in the first place
because it is outside their understanding, and if they don’t understand it,
they don’t believe in it. 

But in the case of plate tectonics, we are talking about geology
professionals writing a book on geology, yet refusing to see all the
evidence for plate tectonics that was available by that time, and still
refusing to believe it because they did not understand the mechanism for it
to happen. I don’t understand how food cooks, but I have seen it cooking,
and don’t deny that it happens just because I don’t know why it happens. 

Doug

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 5:17 AM, Axel Emmermann <axel.emmermann at telenet.be>
wrote:
> 
> Doug & all,
> 
> My boss at work started a discussion with me since I was known to dabble
in science. The guy was a civil engineer!
> He said that there was no way that people could have landed on the moon,
because they couldn't traverse the thermosphere... One of the outer layers
of our atmosphere where all kinds of radiation get absorbed. It's too hot
there, rockets would melt.
> It IS hot there... up to 2.000 °c. But the guy didn't think it through. He
didn't grasp the concept of kinetic temperature... Sure, the air molecules
are that hot and subsequently move at very high velocities, but there are
not enough of those to harm a space ship!
> People aren't really stubborn but rather stupid, ignorant, misinformed,
undereducated, or all of the above.
> 
> Axel
> 
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> Van: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> Namens 
> Doug Bank
> Verzonden: donderdag 25 februari 2021 0:03
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> collectors <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Iridium in undersea crater confirms 
> asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
> 
> I have found geology texts from the 1970s that still did not accept plate
tectonics! People are stubborn. 
> 
>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 4:37 PM, J Bryan Kramer <codeburner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I watched a lecture about the Washington flood basalts a week ago and 
>> was interested to observe that the lecturer pinned the dinosaur 
>> extinction on those volcanos with not one word about Chicxulub. I 
>> knew some geologist were skeptical when the asteroid theory was 
>> announced by some physicists but I'm surprised to see the resistance
still exists this many years later.
>> 
>> BK
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 4:25 PM Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> 
>>> Strong evidence that the dinosaurs were killed-off 66 million years 
>>> ago by an asteroid hitting Earth has been found in Chicxulub crater 
>>> under the Gulf of Mexico. An international team has measured an 
>>> abundance of the rare element iridium in the crater and similarly 
>>> high concentrations of the element are known to occur in sediments 
>>> laid down at the time of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg) 
>>> extinction event, which saw many species on Earth vanish.
>>> 
>>> Measuring 200 km across, the Chicxulub crater is believed to have 
>>> been created by an 11 km-wide asteroid crashing into Earth. The 
>>> impact would have sent vast amounts of vaporized rock into the 
>>> atmosphere, blocking out the Sun and creating a winter that could 
>>> have lasted lasted several decades. The result, scientists believe, 
>>> was the mass extinction of 75% of species on Earth including the
non-flying dinosaurs.
>>> 
>>> https://physicsworld.com/a/iridium-in-undersea-crater-confirms-aster
>>> o
>>> id-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs/

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