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John Byrne
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Been thinking about the dinosaurs. Always a favorite subject. But today thinking about the day the asteroid hit. Perfectly ordinary day. Just like millions before it. No hint, no warning that anything terrible was about to occur. Then… To be technical, this wasn’t a one day event. The asteroid struck, and unleashed its fury, but the aftershocks went on for years. Some of the dinosaur species may have taken a thousand years to die off. Maybe more. But my point here is that first moment. The cataclysm that most living things were not even immediately aware was happening. Like so many native Americans who did not know for years that the Europeans had arrived. We’re all so fragile.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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It’s fascinating to consider how ill prepared we are to deal with the kind of natural event that wiped them all out. After all this time, and all the “building” we’ve done, the safety nets we’ve created, and we are still as vulnerable to cataclysm as any species in the history of our planet.
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Bill Collins
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I suspect our cataclysmic event may be man made. Either
A.I. or viral.
Edited by Bill Collins on 12 May 2026 at 6:32am
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Evan S. Kurtz
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We're already in the middle of a human-driven mass extinction/global-climate-changing event. All we need to do is continue allowing our oligarch overlords to profit wildly while convincing us it's not actually happening, and things will be resolved neatly in just a few more decades.
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John Byrne
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Briefly, around the time I did OMAC, I was offered a run on KAMANDI. I played with the idea that the Great Disaster that spawned his world was a result of the Earth consciously striking back at us for all the grief we’ve given her.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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JB, I don't think that would be too far from reality, apart from it being a conscious response. Humanity acts like it's above the cycle of nature, as though we are the masters of this world, but we are as much a part of the cycle as anything else and if we keep pushing against the "natural" order, nature will respond in accordance with our efforts.
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Peter Hicks
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One of the things the movie Armageddon did very well was the cold opening with narration by Charleton Heston about the asteroid impact 65 million years ago:
https://youtu.be/N3nyn_yZQ98?si=EXUNgv9QvYd2L5YY
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Joe Murray
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Such a day to talk about. But of the gazillions of things I wish we knew, I mostly wanna know did it happen to be a Tuesday in March, maybe round tea time? And, I think it deserves a hypothetical Dinosaur Day.
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Joe Murray
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Yep, easy to look up, June 1st - Dinosaur Day. Just in time to celebrate! 🦖🎉
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John Byrne
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I’d not given any thought to the exact moment of the event; hour, day, month. “65 million years ago” seems precise enough over such a gulf of time. It occurs to me now that we don’t really even know if it happened in daylight.
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John Byrne
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Remembering a comment I encountered a while back. Someone asked why the dinosaurs had been wiped out, but the cavemen survived. Answer: because they practiced social distancing and stayed 65 million years apart.
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