What REALLY Killed The Dinosaurs

“The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a SERIOUS FLATULENCE PROBLEM.

Dinosaur wind contained a HIGH PROPORTION of methane gas - powerful enough to damage the ozone layer.

The animals, weighing from 80 to 100 tonnes, would EAT on average between 130 and 260 kilos of food every day. They would fart NON-STOP.

During the dinosaurs' time on Earth, the atmosphere became charged with methane, which finally damaged the OZONE LAYER and brought about GREAT CHANGES in the vegetation.

The changes caused a food shortage that eventually wiped out the GREAT REPTILES.”

“What is with all the Fart threads?! Goodness.. First Boobs, now this. I'm starting to worry.”

“Ok and I thought I was nutz!!!!:0”

“That is hilarious, Violin!”

“I brought up this topic in Seminar class once and everybody got a kick out of it. Seriously though, with the concrete data of the amount of greenhouse gases that are produced by our docile bovines, imagine the amount a dinosaur would produce if in proportionate amounts. Certainly enough to make an impact.

The thought is truely staggering, and is certainly plausible.”

“Could you light a fart that big it would be like a giant flamethrower....:)”

“Believe it or not...it is a fact that 30% of gases that lead to the Greenhouse Effect are from the gases released from animals.”

“I still would like to see the giant flamethrower....:)”

“Those of us who are old enough might remember Ronald Reagan’s quip about 'killer trees' and hydrocarbon emisions.”

“Methane doesn't damage ozone, free radicals do. F., Cl., O., etc.

CH4 is pretty inert (although flammable)”

“wasnt reagan some kind of presedent?”

“Methane is a primary greenhouse gass. The greenhouse effect doesn't have anything to do with the atmospheric ozone layer. Atmospheric ozone blocks UV. Anyway, this is why I believe that Sauron should be regulated by the EPA. He produces more methane than any cow. Anyone who has ever had to tent with him will back me up on that.”

“Greenhouse gases are good. Here's why:

More CO2 in the atmosphere = plants grow bigger and utilize LESS water = more food may be produced = less starvation in the world. Anyway, that is how the USDA has defended taking money from automobile companies to do extensive research on this for the past 30 years.”

“That's not what they said at the Climate and Radiation Branch at Goddard, LOL


Heeeeeeere ya go!

THEIR BRAINS WERE SMALL AND THEY DIED
(Mark Graham)

When I sit in contemplation of the human situation
I often feel a certain sense of pride.
For our achievements are many and mighty
And the evidence cannot be denied.
But my reverie is shaken 'cause my thoughts are always taken
To a tragedy that happened long ago,
When there moved throughout the land
Beings awesome and grand
The fabulous dinosaur.

They were creatures in a manner quite reptilian
In their unique and stylish way,
And their numbers could be reckoned in the millions;
But there are zero of these heroes in the world today.
They had music, art and fashion, there was dinosauric passion
And I think they'd be enraged and mortified
That when they`re mentioned today it's only to say:
Their brains were small and they died.

Perhaps some asteroid that mother earth could not avoid
Became the agent of their premature demise.
Well l understand that these things can happen,
So who are we to criticize?
When we'll spend most any price to have the ultimate device
That insures the perfect global suicide.
Well, l would venture instead that the humanoid head
Is where the tinier brain resides.
And when we're gone our works they'll start to crumble
Until nothing can be found.
In ten million years some other guys may stumble On our fossils
then some #&%!$ will begin to expound, in some scientific study
to his cockroach science buddies How the evidence can never be
denied---They were big dumb and slow, they couldn't go with the flow,
Their brains were small, and they died.”

“Never you mind that layer of iridium at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary...”

“Let's ban the biggest greenhouse gas;

Dihydrogen monoxide!

This thread has been around before, but dihydrogen monoxide is still being produced in large quantities and released into the environment by chemical companies.

Never proven safe by the FDA, but is added to baby formula. A known component of acid rain, dihydrogen monoxide can dissolve granite. A few milliters can cause death to humans. A common ingredient in pesticides and herbicides, but is routinely used in food manufacture.

Ban it now!”

“...and the prevalent tsunmi deposits at the KT boundry.”

“I killed the dinosaurs...

I WAS HUNGRY!”

“Hey what happned to the giant flamethrower??????

LOL....:)”

“Here's that flamethrower for ya Mike. I don't think it's a dinosaur, but he does appear to have a small brain.”

“I think it was big rock from space that hit us and the adaptablity smaller mammal like creatures that did in the dino's.”

“It was the huge glacier from Canada that did in those dinos.”

“The Torino Impact Hazard Scale

The IAU announced Thursday, July 22, that it has endorsed the use of a
new hazard scale to gauge potential impacts with near-Earth objects. It is
named the Torino Impact Hazard Scale for the Italian city in which it was
adopted at a workshop of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in June.

Richard P. Binzel, professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary
Sciences at MIT, created the scale to help scientists, the media and the
public assess the potential danger of asteroids.

Based on the orbit trajectory for a given NEO, the scale takes into
account the object's size and speed as well as the probability that it will come
into contact with the Earth. The scale can be used at different levels of
complexity by scientists, science journalists and the general public.

For a predicted close encounter by an NEO, scale assigns a number
from zero through 10. A zero or one, in the white or green zone, means that
the object has virtually no chance of colliding with the Earth or that the object
is so small it would disintegrate into harmless bits if it passed through the
Earth's atmosphere. A red 10 means that the object will definitely hit the
Earth and have the capability to "cause a global climatic catastrophe."

Close encounters in the yellow and orange zones with "scores" from two
to seven are categorized as "events meriting careful monitoring" to "threatening
events." Certain collisions fall in the red zone, with values of eight, nine or 10,
depending on whether the impact energy is large enough to be capable of
causing local, regional or global devastation.

No asteroid identified to date has ever made it out of zone one. Several
asteroids that had initial hazard scale values of one have been reclassified into
category zero after additional orbit measurements showed that the chances of
impact with the Earth became zero.

The common hope is that the Torino Scale will help scientists in the difficult
task of giving to media and public a quantitative estimate of the hazard
associated with NEOs.”

“(Near Earth Objects)”