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Had an interesting conversation with a paleontologist friend

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violent hominid dysfunction
  05/15/25
Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars
black mind-boggling fanboi
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Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth
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Looking forward to it
Aromatic abnormal rehab dingle berry
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Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth
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odious mediation forum
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flushed twinkling uncleanness
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navy university
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unhinged senate pisswyrm
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flushed twinkling uncleanness
  05/15/25
edge of my seat here.
razzle area turdskin
  05/15/25
Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱
Mahogany irradiated dilemma idea he suggested
  05/15/25
Axe him why can't we extract DNA from teeth. No need to poas...
demanding azure trust fund
  05/15/25
where are we on this?
odious mediation forum
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Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth
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Alcoholic telephone people who are hurt
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Soggy house mad-dog skullcap
  05/15/25
His position--which I also believe and have advocated for, b...
violent hominid dysfunction
  05/16/25
Kind of like how XO persists when nearly all bulletin borts ...
sticky stimulating foreskin
  05/16/25
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
violent hominid dysfunction
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180 multi-billionaire location
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Fragrant Arrogant Shitlib Windowlicker
  05/17/25
Did you kiss after that?
Aromatic abnormal rehab dingle berry
  05/16/25
100%. In our dinosaur bed.
violent hominid dysfunction
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Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth
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Well-lubricated impressive locale sweet tailpipe
  05/17/25
is it at all, even theoretically, conceivable that somewhere...
odious mediation forum
  05/16/25
The significance comes in part from the context. For many y...
violent hominid dysfunction
  05/16/25
180.
odious mediation forum
  05/17/25
But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial
sticky stimulating foreskin
  05/17/25
They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and...
passionate startled legend resort
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Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth
  05/17/25
180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans...
vibrant incel immigrant
  05/17/25
Board needs more scholarship like this
180 multi-billionaire location
  05/17/25
This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you ...
Hyperactive Trip Coffee Pot School
  05/17/25
Was his name ROSS GELLER?
flirting center cuckold
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tantric blood rage
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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: violent hominid dysfunction

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:38 AM
Author: black mind-boggling fanboi

Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth



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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:53 AM
Author: Aromatic abnormal rehab dingle berry

Looking forward to it

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:03 AM
Author: odious mediation forum



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Date: May 15th, 2025 5:01 AM
Author: flushed twinkling uncleanness



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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:29 AM
Author: navy university



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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: unhinged senate pisswyrm



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: flushed twinkling uncleanness



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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:14 AM
Author: razzle area turdskin

edge of my seat here.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:45 AM
Author: Mahogany irradiated dilemma idea he suggested

Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱

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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: demanding azure trust fund

Axe him why can't we extract DNA from teeth. No need to poast the answer we already know it's junk

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: odious mediation forum

where are we on this?

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:56 AM
Author: Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Alcoholic telephone people who are hurt



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Soggy house mad-dog skullcap



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: violent hominid dysfunction

His position--which I also believe and have advocated for, but it was reassuring to hear it voiced from someone else in the field--is that it is essentially trivial that some species of dinosaurs (and not meaning birds, but popularly conceived dinosaurs--t. rex; triceratops; velociraptor, mosasaurus etc.) survived beyond the K-Pg boundary--"100 years, 100,000 years, 10 million years--all of it is likely." His position further is that the Earth is complex and a complex set of environments, the Chicxulub impact did not have uniform effects although we may model them as such for purposes of scientific understanding, life at a microscale can be remarkably adaptable, and so it is in a sense trivial for there to have been some area of the Earth where some dinosaur populations did survived and maintained a functioning ecosystem for xxxx years post impact, and we're potentially talking at the level of geologic timescales here, not just 10/100/1000 years. This doesn't mean, unfortunately, that we are destined or likely to encounter fossilization evidence, precisely because of the relatively microscale of such survivorship--we would need to be looking in precisely the right place and have the benefit of a specific period of fossilization surviving, which isn't at all guaranteed (although it is possible and we should keep looking). But just the idea of it is tantalizing, that e.g., a few million years after the impact, somewhere in the neighborhood of northern Montana, tyrannosaurs were still stalking the Earth, still straining their heads up to the night sky to join in a night chorus that would soon enough disappear, but not that one night.

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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: sticky stimulating foreskin

Kind of like how XO persists when nearly all bulletin borts are det, but ultimately our fate will be the same. The fact that we survived to the rise AI means our ideas will live forever.

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: violent hominid dysfunction

CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:00 AM
Author: 180 multi-billionaire location



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: Fragrant Arrogant Shitlib Windowlicker



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: Aromatic abnormal rehab dingle berry

Did you kiss after that?

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: violent hominid dysfunction

100%. In our dinosaur bed.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Well-lubricated impressive locale sweet tailpipe



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: odious mediation forum

is it at all, even theoretically, conceivable that somewhere—on top of some mountain in south america or in borneo or wherever—that some still live today? otherwise, while not trying to kill your buzz, i personally don’t find it awe-inspiring that some tiny pocket of dinosaurs died out 63M years ago instead of 65.

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: violent hominid dysfunction

The significance comes in part from the context. For many years many "serious" paleontologists held a strict line about the K-Pg boundary being The End, full stop. I think part of their aggressiveness was in reaction to competing alternatives to the Chicxulub impact--they felt they needed to hold this line at ~66m years ago because any wavering could be read as supporting an alternative hypothesis. So the idea of no survival beyond the boundary became almost like a dogma in many paleontological circle, lest you be viewed as supporting some crackpot theory of out-of-order fossils or Deccan Traps or extinction by flowers or any other number of wacky ideas. So hearing a highly credible, globally published paleontologist say effectively "fuck yeah, there likely were dinosaurs alive and thriving say 60m years ago--somewhere at least" is refreshing and tantalizing—they survived afterward! And against that dogmatic context, it brings them at least a little closer to our modern day.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:27 AM
Author: odious mediation forum

180.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:21 AM
Author: sticky stimulating foreskin

But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: passionate startled legend resort

They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and are very hungry

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Charismatic claret volcanic crater scourge upon the earth



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: vibrant incel immigrant

180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans but will he say it to his colleagues is the real question

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: 180 multi-billionaire location

Board needs more scholarship like this

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: Hyperactive Trip Coffee Pot School

This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you that you are excited by it.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: flirting center cuckold

Was his name ROSS GELLER?

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: tantric blood rage



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