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Why did the dino's get wiped off

stebesplace

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One wants to be live it was caused my a very large rock smashing into earth. I belive that it might have been a collision of two black holes in the center of the milky way, which, expanded for quite some time over 100 million years, and finally hit earth, completly destroying everything. Disrupting the moon cycles and all. I also believe this could be the cause of the disrotation of uranus and neptune. I wish i was smart. . .

-Steve
 
Originally posted by: stebesplace
One wants to be live it was caused my a very large rock smashing into earth. I belive that it might have been a collision of two black holes in the center of the milky way, which, expanded for quite some time over 100 million years, and finally hit earth, completly destroying everything. Disrupting the moon cycles and all. I also believe this could be the cause of the disrotation of uranus and neptune. I wish i was smart. . .

-Steve

If this was the case and it destroyed everything, then why did small mammals (<50lbs) survive? I have never read of this theaory, do you have a link?
 
You know that scientist are reforming the way they believed dinosaurs looked?

They may have had feathers, fur and the like. Not the lizard skin appearance at all.
 
Thats intresting. . .

I wouldn't mind seeing things in the crustation time. . .back in the good simple days . . .wake up. . .

In all seriousness though, i was reading that in 100,000,000 years or something, a black hole rupture, that aparently just happeend now, will hit the earth, 'bringing it to its knees'

well, wake me up at that point so i can experiance it. .

-Steve
 
Originally posted by: stebesplace
Thats intresting. . .

I wouldn't mind seeing things in the crustation time. . .back in the good simple days . . .wake up. . .

In all seriousness though, i was reading that in 100,000,000 years or something, a black hole rupture, that aparently just happeend now, will hit the earth, 'bringing it to its knees'

well, wake me up at that point so i can experiance it. .

-Steve

no, not quite. there is a black hole headed this way, that will pass within 10,000 light years in a few hundered million years. IIRC.
 
I read just the other day that Earth has twice suffered cataclysmic events involving being struck by a very large meteor or asteroid. Both resulted in major climate disruptions that killed off a lot of animal and plant species.
 
You'll remember that the asteroid theory gained a lot of credinility when they found that crater off the Yucataan that dated back to the time of the dinosaur extinction. I recently read that scientists have recently discovered and dated two other craters to this same time. The obvious theory now is that the extinction might have been triggered by a swarm of impacts,
 
Well, since gravitational waves (apparently) travel at the speed of light, any report you hear about a blackhole collision that will bring us to our knees in 100,000 years is pure bullshit. We have no way of knowing two blackholes have collided until the gravitational waves hit us.
 
agreed, Since light is (for now) the fastest speed in the univerise, it is kindof hard to see somthing before the message about it arives.
 
Originally posted by: Kiyup
You know that scientist are reforming the way they believed dinosaurs looked?

They may have had feathers, fur and the like. Not the lizard skin appearance at all.

Scientists in Australia discovered a layer of rocks that were filled with the fossil remains of millions of feathers. The layer of rock predated birds by a few million years.
 
Thats intresting. . .

question is now, where are we headin? Its already closing on 2k2, lots happenin, so when are we just going to become a matrix style world and grow babies in large fields for consumption of the machines. . .ehh, excuse me while i bach my head into a wall.

-Steve
 
Actually, there isn't necessarily such a thing as "gravitational waves" - they've never been detected, although theoretically they should exist. But it's not true that it would take 100,000 for a black hole's gravity to affect us because it's 100,000 ly away - gravity affects all bodies in the universe - you're pulling on that black hole an infintesimal amount right now, but it has little effect because it's so far away and you're so much lighter. Gamma rays, on the other hand, are a form of light, and if by "black hole rupture" you mean a black hole exploding in Gamma rays, that could be, but if it's 100,000 ly away, it's very unlikely to have any significant effect on us, and as Shalmanese said, we wouldn't know about the Gamma rays until they hit us. But that assumes that black holes are the source of Gamma ray bursts, and there's no definite evidence that that's the case.

As for the actual question of what killed the dinosaurs, most of the scientific community believes the meteor story - PowerEngineer mentioned the Yucatan crater, and there's also the fact that most geological evidence shows a layer of dust (with a little bit of stuff that appears to be made of the same stuff that's in meteorites) that settled all over the world around the same time. And it's happened before in the Cambrian (I think) - an asteroid impacted and around half of all life was wiped out, and maybe more times.

And yes, if you've seen the movie Jurassic Park, you know that dinosaurs may be related to birds 🙂 but there's really no way to be sure if Dinosaurs had feathers - the last article I read on the topic seemed to suggest that some of the later dinosaurs had feathers, and the rest were more lizard-like.
 
If you're at all interested in how the impact theory came up, read T. rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez -> this guy came up with the theory
 
It seems like there is an alvarez all over the place. . .alvarez and gnoman, alverez for this book. . .seems every venue i've been to there is one. . .HA, but i'll check out the book at my local library some hour here. . .

-Steve
 
There was an article on msnbc I read yesterday about 2 black hole which will collide with each other in a few million years (hundred million?). Nobody "really" knows what would happen in such an occurance, but I bet it would be very interesting.
 
Typically two black holes colliding would do nothing more than create a larger (more dense) black hole. Even though they are nothing they still have a clear and determinable mass. Black holes range from about the mass of four suns to millions of suns. So two small to moderate black holes (the roamers) were most likely created from minor supernova events and as such hold only as much mass as their parent stars. Even the largest stars max out at about 200 x the solar mass - anything larger is quite rare.

It is theorized and has been strongly hinted at recently that the center of most galaxies contain supermassive black holes. Since there cannot be stars large enough to form a black hole with millions of time the solar mass they must have formed from collision events. As the young and large stars grew near the center of the universe they expand very quickly and the largest collapsed in massive supernova events. This both creates black holes (sometimes) and seeds the surrounding space for the development of the second generation of stars (sun like). In the tight confines of the galactic center black holes merged at amazing rates due to the density of the region. So as you see black holes can merge with little consequences. It really would be no different than a black hole eating a moderately large star - except that most of the star gets ripped apart and shot back out into the galaxy.

Also black holes create energy in the highly energetic X-Ray spectrum not Gamma rays. Most have been found by looking for the X-Ray signature created by the event horizon where tidal forces are superheating any mass that is near and in the jets of material that is being ejected. And black holes do not have an infinite life cycle. It is theorized that they have a lifespan of nearly 20 billion years - after that the oldest one will start popping in massive and extremely energetic X-Ray blasts that could rival the Big bang itself.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the emission of energy from a black hole extremely low? That is, below the ~3 Kelvin that the background microwave radiation would give the black hole. So in reality, black holes aren't dying (yet). They will begin to die as soon as the universe expands enough so that the microwave background radiation becomes low enough so that the emissions of energy from a black hole is greater than the energy supplied to it by the background radiation.
 
Do you think all this sh*t is true? Or rather just humans trying to place answers in where questions once were, to fill the gaps. I mean how the heck can we really tell this stuff. Its so massive, and so intense, albeit quite facinating.

-Steve
 
Originally posted by: stebesplace
Do you think all this sh*t is true? Or rather just humans trying to place answers in where questions once were, to fill the gaps. I mean how the heck can we really tell this stuff. Its so massive, and so intense, albeit quite facinating.

-Steve

ive always wondered that same thing just never put it into words like you have...

blackholes are amazing to me...i wish i knew a lot more about it
 
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