Dinosaurs
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Is There Still a Cataclysm Act?
We know an asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago. And from that moment onwards, we don't have any dinosaur fossils at all. So to me, that's very, very strong evidence that this one in a billion cataclysmic, you could never predict it, sort event wiped out the dinosaurs. If that's true, i think that's a really sobering story. Because the dinosaurs were around for a long time. They reached sizes unseen before or since. But then very quickly, that came to an end. We've been around for about 200 thousand years, only a small fraction of what the dinosaurs had,. and we'll see what happens.
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