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Had an interesting conversation with a paleontologist friend

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.
drab boyish gas station
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Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars
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edge of my seat here.
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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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Kind of like how XO persists when nearly all bulletin borts ...
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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...
drab boyish gas station
  05/16/25
180.
trip library internal respiration
  05/17/25
But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial
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They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and...
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180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans...
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Board needs more scholarship like this
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  05/17/25
This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you ...
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  05/17/25
Was his name ROSS GELLER?
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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: drab boyish gas station

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:38 AM
Author: Iridescent Blathering Stead

Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:53 AM
Author: Vibrant main people field

Looking forward to it

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:54 AM
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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: mustard kitty cat

edge of my seat here.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:45 AM
Author: sadistic apoplectic legend cruise ship

Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱

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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: fluffy scourge upon the earth plaza

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 library internal respiration

where are we on this?

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:56 AM
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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: drab boyish gas station

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: erotic disrespectful stag film boiling water

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: drab boyish gas station

CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:00 AM
Author: Racy foreskin patrolman



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:06 AM
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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: Vibrant main people field

Did you kiss after that?

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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: drab boyish gas station

100%. In our dinosaur bed.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: talented digit ratio bbw



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



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: trip library internal respiration

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: drab boyish gas station

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2#48938470)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:27 AM
Author: trip library internal respiration

180.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:21 AM
Author: erotic disrespectful stag film boiling water

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

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: Comical Brindle Coffee Pot

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: talented digit ratio bbw



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: exhilarant community account coldplay fan

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: Racy foreskin patrolman

Board needs more scholarship like this

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: Ruddy hyperventilating site corn cake

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: Cream Thirsty Striped Hyena Box Office

Was his name ROSS GELLER?

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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: curious hospital



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