New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Were Wiped Out by Two Meteor Strikes, Not One

Well, if you’re going to go F’up a planet, you might as well bring a friend.

No serious geologist or paleontologist would ever consider one or even two meteors what wiped out the dinosaurs. Their genera were shrinking long before the supposed extinction event. What a large enough impact could have done, however, is give the Earth something it never had before–a tilt, which would also lead to winters and at the extremes ice ages.

Meanwhile, I think the pic is gross.

Vonskippy, you pick your fights wisely.

Does anyone ‘get’ sarcasm anymore?

@archibot – science does tell us that things are true to high degrees of probability. In a different context you would emphasize this. Your rhetorical move (where the tentativeness of inquiry is pitched as its defining virtue) is only wheeled out when responding to lulu’s good point – which is just that despite lip-service paid to this tentativeness, at any given moment the vonskippys of the world don’t let the open-endedness of inquiry temper their habit of badmouthing folk who believe things which don’t match the present state of inquiry. Lulu is right, vonskippies believes what they’re told and then take undue intellectual credit for having done so. Their ontology is welded to research trajectories and funding councils. Their self-image as “smart” is achieved by comparing themselves to fortune tellers, flat-earthers, astrologers, creationists, Kirlian photographers and (probably) Alan Sokal’s impressions of postmodernists.

That being said, the real vonskippy (not the generic vonskippy I’m talking about above) is one of the funniest and wittiest posters on Neatorama, and I’m a fan.