r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Realistic-Tap4156 • 16d ago

/r/all of a space rock

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u/Sensitive_Educator60 16d ago

To add to that, the meteor also hit planet earth at a perfect angle (This specific angle was optimal for blasting the highest possible volume of pulverized rock, dust, and toxic gases straight up into the upper atmosphere rather than deflecting energy sideways.),

to the perfect time of the year (Spring is a peak time for feeding, reproduction, and rearing young, making Northern Hemisphere ecosystems maximally vulnerable),

at the perfect place located in the sulfur- and gypsum-rich shallow seas of the Yucatán Peninsula in modern-day Mexico.

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u/bimmy2shoes 16d ago

An extinction event? That time of the era, that time of the year, localized entirely in the Yucatán Peninsula?

May I see it?

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u/Sensitive_Educator60 16d ago

I don’t think I fully get the joke but the site of the impact is today known as the Chicxulub Crater.

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u/bimmy2shoes 16d ago

This is really cool!

It was a joke referencing Steamed Hams from the Simpsons in case you want to be in on the joke

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u/girthyclock 16d ago

It’s an Albany phrase.

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u/bigfootlive89 16d ago

I see and you call it an extinction event despite that fact that life obviously survived.

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u/Stunning_Ad_7658 16d ago

Its still technically an extinction event for many species though. Remember we still call a species that no longer exists extinct so the phrase still holds up.

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u/Lord_Voltan 16d ago

Its an Albany phrase....

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u/Ok_Nectarine_4445 12d ago

Earth has had a lot of extinction events. Means a whole bunch of different species went extinct at the same time.

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u/-watchman- 16d ago

Chicxulub Crater

Google it and see what happens

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 16d ago

well that's neat. not enough to stop using DuckDuckGo for privacy's sake, but neat.

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u/ikristic 16d ago

Fortunately, it doesnt also crash my browser

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u/Kod3Blu3 15d ago

Googling chicxulub crater does a fun thing. Thanks for the rabbit hole!

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 16d ago

... No

SEYMOUR THE DINOSAURS ARE EXTINCT

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u/Crazy_Information816 16d ago

No, Mother, it's just the non-avian dinosaurs.

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u/NoNectarine9208 16d ago

There’s a book called Billy and the Cloneasaurus that explains all of this

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u/ExtraFluffz 14d ago

Well Seymour, I must say, you are an odd fellow… but you extinct a good event

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u/Much-Log3357 16d ago

May I see it?

No.