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Had an interesting conversation with a paleontologist friend

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.
Demanding university boistinker
  05/15/25
Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars
Tripping theater stage
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Low-t orchid parlor
  05/15/25
Looking forward to it
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Yapping Floppy Theatre
  05/15/25
edge of my seat here.
Appetizing headpube
  05/15/25
Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱
Light startled point ceo
  05/15/25
Axe him why can't we extract DNA from teeth. No need to poas...
crawly school
  05/15/25
where are we on this?
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Low-t orchid parlor
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His position--which I also believe and have advocated for, b...
Demanding university boistinker
  05/16/25
Kind of like how XO persists when nearly all bulletin borts ...
racy institution
  05/16/25
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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sickened lascivious love of her life codepig
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Comical office hissy fit
  05/17/25
Did you kiss after that?
domesticated insanely creepy windowlicker step-uncle's house
  05/16/25
100%. In our dinosaur bed.
Demanding university boistinker
  05/16/25
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  05/17/25
is it at all, even theoretically, conceivable that somewhere...
Trip site
  05/16/25
The significance comes in part from the context. For many y...
Demanding university boistinker
  05/16/25
180.
Trip site
  05/17/25
But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial
racy institution
  05/17/25
They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and...
Laughsome Indian Lodge Gaping
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Low-t orchid parlor
  05/17/25
180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans...
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  05/17/25
Board needs more scholarship like this
sickened lascivious love of her life codepig
  05/17/25
This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you ...
kink-friendly buck-toothed meetinghouse new version
  05/17/25
Was his name ROSS GELLER?
stubborn french chef
  05/17/25
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Emerald soggy cruise ship
  05/17/25


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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Demanding university boistinker

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:38 AM
Author: Tripping theater stage

Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Low-t orchid parlor



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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:53 AM
Author: domesticated insanely creepy windowlicker step-uncle's house

Looking forward to it

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: Low-t orchid parlor



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:03 AM
Author: Trip site



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Date: May 15th, 2025 5:01 AM
Author: Yapping Floppy Theatre



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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:29 AM
Author: grizzly center sex offender



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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:55 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:12 PM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:14 AM
Author: Appetizing headpube

edge of my seat here.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:45 AM
Author: Light startled point ceo

Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱

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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: crawly school

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: Trip site

where are we on this?

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:56 AM
Author: Low-t orchid parlor



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: bateful pearl internal respiration clown



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: claret stag film



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: Demanding university boistinker

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: racy institution

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: Demanding university boistinker

CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:00 AM
Author: sickened lascivious love of her life codepig



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: Comical office hissy fit



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: domesticated insanely creepy windowlicker step-uncle's house

Did you kiss after that?

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: Demanding university boistinker

100%. In our dinosaur bed.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Low-t orchid parlor



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: startling electric furnace



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: Trip site

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: Demanding university boistinker

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: Trip site

180.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:21 AM
Author: racy institution

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

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: Laughsome Indian Lodge Gaping

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: Low-t orchid parlor



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: passionate gaped fanboi

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: sickened lascivious love of her life codepig

Board needs more scholarship like this

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: kink-friendly buck-toothed meetinghouse new version

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: stubborn french chef

Was his name ROSS GELLER?

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: Emerald soggy cruise ship



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