Comments on: Gerta Keller goes after impact theory again https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/ Thu, 21 May 2009 15:17:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Baja Joes https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535465 Thu, 21 May 2009 15:17:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535465 The Impact Crater that caused KT is:The Gulf Of Mexico! The underwater view is of a crater 1 mile deep and extending from Yucatan to Florida…mentally extend the curve and it becomes visible.
It can be dated from the amount of sediment that has flowed down the Mississippi and indented the curve of the Gulf. Please..someone see what I see! It looks so natural and real to me.

]]> By: Lorax https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535464 Wed, 06 May 2009 07:01:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535464 Actually virgin sacrifices work great in preventing earthquakes, the problem was dinosaurs were really a bunch of reptowhores (don’t believe the mass media reports to the contrary). Our only problem is the location of many fault lines where volcanoes can be/are active don’t bode well for us. California! Bunch of hippie chicks, tough finding virgin hippies. And don’t get me started on Alaska, nothing diminishes a virgin population faster than conservative abstinence-only sex education (ie Bristol).

]]> By: Scott https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535463 Wed, 06 May 2009 01:07:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535463 I recently read in a mass market magazine that mass extinctions can be correlated with the Sun’s wobbling orbit around the Milky Way, that when the Sun/Earth are well above (north) of the plane of the galaxy then there are large extinctions. Does anyone know if there’s any sense in that one? Thanks.

]]> By: José https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535462 Tue, 05 May 2009 21:35:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535462 dammit, first I had to give up a planet, now I’m supposed to give up the giant meteorite?

You can have it both ways. There’s a theory that the Chicxulub impact created a shockwave that traveled around the earth and opened up the Deccan Traps in India. The timing don’t doesn’t quite match up, but it certainly wins on coolness.

]]> By: EricJuve https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535461 Tue, 05 May 2009 19:12:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535461 Wayne,

I totally agree and I hope we eventually get there. Manifest Destiny and all.

]]> By: Kevin https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535460 Tue, 05 May 2009 18:52:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535460 This is how good science gets done. Someone proposes a hypothesis. The evidence is examined. Alternate hypotheses are proposed. At some point in time, the preponderance of the evidence will determine the winner.

]]> By: WIldlifer https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535459 Tue, 05 May 2009 18:43:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535459 A little bit of a leap there, the species she discovered, obviously did not go extinct, but what of the others?

]]> By: Wayne Conrad https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535458 Tue, 05 May 2009 18:28:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535458 Eric J, Maybe I read too much Asimov and Bradbury growing up, but I still cling to the hope that we can get off of this rock, some day. Damn this gravity well.

]]> By: EricJuve https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535457 Tue, 05 May 2009 17:46:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535457 This is the first I’ve heard of this. Thanks for posting. If it was volcanoes and not a large asteroid strike, then we are just a little more helpless. I don’t believe there is much we can do to stop a volcano, sacrificing virgins didn’t seem to work so well.

]]> By: ildi https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535456 Tue, 05 May 2009 17:36:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/05/gerta-keller-goes-after-impact/#comment-535456 dammit, first I had to give up a planet, now I’m supposed to give up the giant meteorite? Science sucks!

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