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Had an interesting conversation with a paleontologist friend

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.
maroon painfully honest stage azn
  05/15/25
Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars
Insanely creepy offensive spot goal in life
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cyan shaky university
  05/15/25
Looking forward to it
Vigorous volcanic crater native
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cyan shaky university
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Glassy vibrant meetinghouse
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Olive hilarious masturbator
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flickering arousing house
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Olive hilarious masturbator
  05/15/25
edge of my seat here.
cocky cerebral set selfie
  05/15/25
Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱
razzle frozen lay
  05/15/25
Axe him why can't we extract DNA from teeth. No need to poas...
Bronze library circlehead
  05/15/25
where are we on this?
Glassy vibrant meetinghouse
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cyan shaky university
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Flushed sound barrier
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Talking school cafeteria
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His position--which I also believe and have advocated for, b...
maroon painfully honest stage azn
  05/16/25
Kind of like how XO persists when nearly all bulletin borts ...
Fuchsia cuckold church
  05/16/25
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
maroon painfully honest stage azn
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Glittery pearl tank
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Sapphire rehab clown
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Did you kiss after that?
Vigorous volcanic crater native
  05/16/25
100%. In our dinosaur bed.
maroon painfully honest stage azn
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cyan shaky university
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Galvanic athletic conference heaven
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is it at all, even theoretically, conceivable that somewhere...
Glassy vibrant meetinghouse
  05/16/25
The significance comes in part from the context. For many y...
maroon painfully honest stage azn
  05/16/25
180.
Glassy vibrant meetinghouse
  05/17/25
But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial
Fuchsia cuckold church
  05/17/25
They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and...
Purple boyish french chef knife
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cyan shaky university
  05/17/25
180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans...
At-the-ready mahogany mood school
  05/17/25
Board needs more scholarship like this
Glittery pearl tank
  05/17/25
This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you ...
Metal step-uncle's house
  05/17/25
Was his name ROSS GELLER?
Gold charismatic church building cuck
  05/17/25
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Provocative forum
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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: maroon painfully honest stage azn

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:38 AM
Author: Insanely creepy offensive spot goal in life

Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: cyan shaky university



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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:53 AM
Author: Vigorous volcanic crater native

Looking forward to it

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: cyan shaky university



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:03 AM
Author: Glassy vibrant meetinghouse



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Date: May 15th, 2025 5:01 AM
Author: Olive hilarious masturbator



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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:29 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: flickering arousing house



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: Olive hilarious masturbator



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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:14 AM
Author: cocky cerebral set selfie

edge of my seat here.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:45 AM
Author: razzle frozen lay

Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱

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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: Bronze library circlehead

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: Glassy vibrant meetinghouse

where are we on this?

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:56 AM
Author: cyan shaky university



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Flushed sound barrier



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Talking school cafeteria



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: maroon painfully honest stage azn

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: Fuchsia cuckold church

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: maroon painfully honest stage azn

CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:00 AM
Author: Glittery pearl tank



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: Sapphire rehab clown



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: Vigorous volcanic crater native

Did you kiss after that?

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: maroon painfully honest stage azn

100%. In our dinosaur bed.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: cyan shaky university



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Galvanic athletic conference heaven



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: Glassy vibrant meetinghouse

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: maroon painfully honest stage azn

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: Glassy vibrant meetinghouse

180.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:21 AM
Author: Fuchsia cuckold church

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

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: Purple boyish french chef knife

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: cyan shaky university



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: At-the-ready mahogany mood school

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: Glittery pearl tank

Board needs more scholarship like this

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: Metal step-uncle's house

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: Gold charismatic church building cuck

Was his name ROSS GELLER?

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: Provocative forum



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