Apocalypse
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Are They Going to Be So Angry if They Come Back?
The best current theory is that an asteroid hit the earth. But even so, we think about a great big apocalyptic event like a meteorite which was probably 20 kilometers wide and leaves 110 kilometer diameter crater in the earth. The extinction that it caused lasted up to 40,000 years. So even this apocalypse and the global, the geological timescale is still relatively slow. Four times longer than human history. They've found dinosaurs that were 40,000 year after the point where this meteorite landed. And still looking themselves and going, I'm cross and ridiculous. That's what Dodo's batch would look like if they came back.
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