EH S3 E13: special Halloween Eve issue
*we never liked this candy
from The Beaverton:
Study: average household onto third box of Halloween candy by now
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs: case closed
Scientists found the smoking gun. Asteroid dust trapped inside the Chicxulub crater in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula matches exactly with the extinction event 66 million years ago. The 10-to-15-kilometer-wide asteroid vaporized on impact, creating a 125-mile-wide crater. It unleashed catastrophic environmental effects that killed 75% of Earth’s species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. The impact threw billions of tons of debris into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight for months. Photosynthesis stopped. Temperatures plummeted. The food chain collapsed.
Recent fossil discoveries capture the immediate aftermath. Some preserve moments from minutes to hours after impact, showing the sudden violence that ended the age of reptiles. Fine particles and iridium-rich dust deposited worldwide provide a geological timestamp linking the impact to the extinction. New research shows that dinosaurs thrived until the asteroid struck, refuting theories of gradual decline.
This was Earth’s fifth mass extinction. It fundamentally reshaped life by eliminating dominant reptilian species and allowing mammals to rise. The event that ended the dinosaurs’ 165-million-year reign created the opportunity for our own existence. Without that cosmic collision, intelligent life on Earth might have evolved very differently. Or perhaps not at all. The Chicxulub impact stands as a confirmed fact, supported by crater geology, global dust layers, fossil records, and radiometric dating. The case is closed. An asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and that violent ending became our beginning. This event's importance rivals the Kraft family reaching the acme of a billion dollars in assets back in 2005.
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