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Had an interesting conversation with a paleontologist friend

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.
Citrine locus
  05/15/25
Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars
Ruddy unhinged really tough guy
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Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter
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Looking forward to it
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Floppy Up-to-no-good Chapel
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Floppy Up-to-no-good Chapel
  05/15/25
edge of my seat here.
Aquamarine stirring round eye set
  05/15/25
Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱
translucent razzle gaping sweet tailpipe
  05/15/25
Axe him why can't we extract DNA from teeth. No need to poas...
Maize internal respiration
  05/15/25
where are we on this?
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Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter
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Histrionic Bright Puppy Filthpig
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Spectacular Sandwich Dog Poop
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His position--which I also believe and have advocated for, b...
Citrine locus
  05/16/25
Kind of like how XO persists when nearly all bulletin borts ...
sapphire federal ticket booth
  05/16/25
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Citrine locus
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outnumbered bawdyhouse
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180 stag film cuck
  05/17/25
Did you kiss after that?
emerald new version
  05/16/25
100%. In our dinosaur bed.
Citrine locus
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Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter
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Silver mildly autistic state brethren
  05/17/25
is it at all, even theoretically, conceivable that somewhere...
Passionate gay wizard antidepressant drug
  05/16/25
The significance comes in part from the context. For many y...
Citrine locus
  05/16/25
180.
Passionate gay wizard antidepressant drug
  05/17/25
But that’s what he’s saying - it’s trivial
sapphire federal ticket booth
  05/17/25
They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and...
Sinister mentally impaired coffee pot
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Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter
  05/17/25
180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans...
topaz nofapping point double fault
  05/17/25
Board needs more scholarship like this
outnumbered bawdyhouse
  05/17/25
This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you ...
Charismatic ebony macaca step-uncle's house
  05/17/25
Was his name ROSS GELLER?
Ivory Patrolman
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Ocher filthy crackhouse
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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Citrine locus

Will share more tomorrow. Thanks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48932393)



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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:38 AM
Author: Ruddy unhinged really tough guy

Ask how it is that dinosaurs power our cars

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48932698)



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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter



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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:53 AM
Author: emerald new version

Looking forward to it

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Date: May 15th, 2025 12:54 AM
Author: Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:03 AM
Author: Passionate gay wizard antidepressant drug



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Date: May 15th, 2025 5:01 AM
Author: Floppy Up-to-no-good Chapel



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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:29 AM
Author: turquoise associate



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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: godawful mad-dog skullcap



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Date: May 15th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: Floppy Up-to-no-good Chapel



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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:14 AM
Author: Aquamarine stirring round eye set

edge of my seat here.

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Date: May 15th, 2025 6:45 AM
Author: translucent razzle gaping sweet tailpipe

Dinosaurs aren't real 🥱

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Date: May 15th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: Maize internal respiration

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: Passionate gay wizard antidepressant drug

where are we on this?

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Date: May 15th, 2025 9:56 AM
Author: Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Histrionic Bright Puppy Filthpig



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Date: May 15th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Spectacular Sandwich Dog Poop



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:13 PM
Author: Citrine locus

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938321)



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: sapphire federal ticket booth

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938325)



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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: Citrine locus

CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:00 AM
Author: outnumbered bawdyhouse



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: 180 stag film cuck



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:24 PM
Author: emerald new version

Did you kiss after that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938338)



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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: Citrine locus

100%. In our dinosaur bed.

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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Silver mildly autistic state brethren



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Date: May 16th, 2025 10:51 PM
Author: Passionate gay wizard antidepressant drug

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938415)



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Date: May 16th, 2025 11:34 PM
Author: Citrine locus

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=2Elisa#48938470)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:27 AM
Author: Passionate gay wizard antidepressant drug

180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938974)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:21 AM
Author: sapphire federal ticket booth

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938859)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: Sinister mentally impaired coffee pot

They are alive, lurking in the dark spaces of the world, and are very hungry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938871)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 9:53 AM
Author: Out-of-control razzle-dazzle address trump supporter



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:24 AM
Author: topaz nofapping point double fault

180 I always suspected that dinosaurs lived alongside humans but will he say it to his colleagues is the real question

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938970)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: outnumbered bawdyhouse

Board needs more scholarship like this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48938979)



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

This really isn’t very interesting. But happy for you that you are excited by it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48939081)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Ivory Patrolman

Was his name ROSS GELLER?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725236&forum_id=2Elisa#48939098)



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Date: May 17th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: Ocher filthy crackhouse



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