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Had an interesting conversation with a paleontologist friend

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.
harsh hateful site
  05/15/25
Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars
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Looking forward to it
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edge of my seat here.
Disgusting fragrant kitchen
  05/15/25
Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱
Honey-headed field son of senegal
  05/15/25
Axe him why can't we extract DNA from teeth. No need to poas...
Stirring stag film weed whacker
  05/15/25
where are we on this?
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His position--which I also believe and have advocated for, b...
harsh hateful site
  05/16/25
Kind of like how XO persists when nearly all bulletin borts ...
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  05/16/25
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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  05/17/25
Did you kiss after that?
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  05/16/25
100%. In our dinosaur bed.
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is it at all, even theoretically, conceivable that somewhere...
Hairraiser bawdyhouse queen of the night
  05/16/25
The significance comes in part from the context. For many y...
harsh hateful site
  05/16/25
180.
Hairraiser bawdyhouse queen of the night
  05/17/25
But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial
thirsty cruise ship roommate
  05/17/25
They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and...
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Rusted chest-beating mood office
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180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans...
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  05/17/25
Board needs more scholarship like this
aphrodisiac scarlet idiot
  05/17/25
This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you ...
trip dull stock car
  05/17/25
Was his name ROSS GELLER?
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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: harsh hateful site

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2E#48932393)



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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:38 AM
Author: gay fortuitous meteor

Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Rusted chest-beating mood office



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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:53 AM
Author: Duck-like at-the-ready parlour

Looking forward to it

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: Rusted chest-beating mood office



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:03 AM
Author: Hairraiser bawdyhouse queen of the night



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Date: May 15th, 2025 5:01 AM
Author: Cracking station hairy legs



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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:29 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Marvelous bbw sanctuary



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: Cracking station hairy legs



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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:14 AM
Author: Disgusting fragrant kitchen

edge of my seat here.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:45 AM
Author: Honey-headed field son of senegal

Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱

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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: Stirring stag film weed whacker

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: Hairraiser bawdyhouse queen of the night

where are we on this?

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:56 AM
Author: Rusted chest-beating mood office



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: dashing violet toaster



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Maroon Wagecucks Principal's Office



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: harsh hateful site

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: thirsty cruise ship roommate

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: harsh hateful site

CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:00 AM
Author: aphrodisiac scarlet idiot



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: massive tantric whorehouse jewess



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: Duck-like at-the-ready parlour

Did you kiss after that?

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: harsh hateful site

100%. In our dinosaur bed.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Rusted chest-beating mood office



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: opaque point regret



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: Hairraiser bawdyhouse queen of the night

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2E#48938415)



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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: harsh hateful site

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2E#48938470)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:27 AM
Author: Hairraiser bawdyhouse queen of the night

180.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:21 AM
Author: thirsty cruise ship roommate

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

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: jet-lagged shitlib

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: Rusted chest-beating mood office



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: concupiscible water buffalo

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2E#48938970)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: aphrodisiac scarlet idiot

Board needs more scholarship like this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2E#48938979)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: trip dull stock car

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: curious sapphire selfie

Was his name ROSS GELLER?

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: snowy bull headed keepsake machete



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