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Had an interesting conversation with a paleontologist friend

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.
Stubborn Library
  05/15/25
Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars
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Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱
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Axe him why can't we extract DNA from teeth. No need to poas...
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where are we on this?
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His position--which I also believe and have advocated for, b...
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Did you kiss after that?
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100%. In our dinosaur bed.
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is it at all, even theoretically, conceivable that somewhere...
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The significance comes in part from the context. For many y...
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180.
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But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial
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180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans...
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Was his name ROSS GELLER?
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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Stubborn Library

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:38 AM
Author: 180 pale garrison

Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Jet-lagged wrinkle



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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:53 AM
Author: clear flirting parlor

Looking forward to it

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: Jet-lagged wrinkle



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:03 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 5:01 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:55 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:14 AM
Author: Vivacious Wine Background Story Station

edge of my seat here.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:45 AM
Author: Titillating Burgundy Mental Disorder Giraffe

Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱

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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: fantasy-prone potus

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: razzmatazz famous landscape painting

where are we on this?

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:56 AM
Author: Jet-lagged wrinkle



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: Stubborn Library

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: Supple bat-shit-crazy spot antidepressant drug

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: Stubborn Library

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:00 AM
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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:06 AM
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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: clear flirting parlor

Did you kiss after that?

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: Stubborn Library

100%. In our dinosaur bed.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Jet-lagged wrinkle



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:04 AM
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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: razzmatazz famous landscape painting

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: Stubborn Library

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: razzmatazz famous landscape painting

180.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:21 AM
Author: Supple bat-shit-crazy spot antidepressant drug

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

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: Snowy dingle berry personal credit line

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: Jet-lagged wrinkle



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: Laughsome chapel

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: Arousing space

Board needs more scholarship like this

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: Spectacular transparent sex offender institution

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: aggressive gaming laptop

Was his name ROSS GELLER?

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: Disturbing High-end Stage International Law Enforcement Agency



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