Is extinction of dinosaurs the most significant event in Earth's history?

[robreynolds1234]

Since people didn't exist back then, so we will never know what exactly bought the extinction (asteroids just being the best guess) or what the purpose or the contribution of the dinosaur population was to this planet. We can only keep guessing by bone remains.

I wouldn't count out world wars, natural disasters, inventions, but extinction of dinosuars wins by some margin.

[akferd]

Since people didn't exist back then, so we will never know what exactly bought the extinction (asteroids just being the best guess) or what the purpose or the contribution of the dinosaur population was to this planet. We can only keep guessing by bone remains.

I wouldn't count out world wars, natural disasters, inventions, but extinction of dinosuars wins by some margin.

There were almost a dozen mass extinction events on the planet since life formed. Earth doesnt give a chit, but these changes allowed the next gen of animals to be able to exist.

For example, mammals would not have evolved past rodents if the dinos didn't die off. So for us mammals, it's the most important thing to have occured in half a billion years. But Earth dgaf. Eventually we'll be wiped out by the next extinction event too, and the entire planet will be changed again. And Earth still wont gaf.

[Travis99]

Cambrian explosion

[kingmanaverage]

Probs the first form of life is the most significant events.

[MrQuint]

There were almost a dozen mass extinction events on the planet since life formed. Earth doesnt give a chit, but these changes allowed the next gen of animals to be able to exist.

For example, mammals would not have evolved past rodents if the dinos didn't die off. So for us mammals, it's the most important thing to have occured in half a billion years. But Earth dgaf. Eventually we'll be wiped out by the next extinction event too, and the entire planet will be changed again. And Earth still wont gaf.

It's pretty amazing stuff. The Great Dying wiped out something like 90% of all life and took 10 million years to recover from.

[Sakeoe]

I would say cyanobacteria evolving to produce oxygen and almost kill all life was pretty significant.

[NitrogenWidget]

There were almost a dozen mass extinction events on the planet since life formed. Earth doesnt give a chit, but these changes allowed the next gen of animals to be able to exist.

For example, mammals would not have evolved past rodents if the dinos didn't die off. So for us mammals, it's the most important thing to have occured in half a billion years. But Earth dgaf. Eventually we'll be wiped out by the next extinction event too, and the entire planet will be changed again. And Earth still wont gaf.

while i don't really believe it, i think it's fun to read the theories of a somewhat advanced civilization existing before ours.

[AlfBundy]

What's up with your autistic threads. Negged

[frankdtank20]

OP swallowing my load was far more significant.

[Smob3]

Are you forgetting Jan 6th?

not srs

[dakensta]

I wouldn't count out world wars, natural disasters, inventions, but extinction of dinosuars wins by some margin.

yah brah, if the dinosaurs hadn't died out, the planet would probaby be being run by lizard people..

[Deathstroke]

None of us were there so who knows how accurate carbon dating is and how much we can know from that prehistoric event *shrugs*

Animals were here first. From a biblical and scientific standpoint fwiw

Old earth. Man didn’t come until way later. Way after animals.

[engj]

There were almost a dozen mass extinction events on the planet since life formed. Earth doesnt give a chit, but these changes allowed the next gen of animals to be able to exist.

For example, mammals would not have evolved past rodents if the dinos didn't die off. So for us mammals, it's the most important thing to have occured in half a billion years. But Earth dgaf. Eventually we'll be wiped out by the next extinction event too, and the entire planet will be changed again. And Earth still wont gaf.

Radiolab has an interesting presentation on the Dinopocalypse theory of the K-T Event. Current accepted theory was atmospheric blockage causing collapse of photosynthesis killing off plant eaters killing off meat eaters and a slow recovery.

There is a case to be made that everything on the surface was torched in a few hrs, and if you werent a shark in deep water or a vole living in some cave you were immediately fried.



This is a 1 hr cut of a 2-3 hr presentation, there are summary versions online somewhere.

[Deathstroke]

Christ crucified was the most significant event in earths history btw

[Dude.Jon]

Whatever cloud of gas and dust the pre-Sun protostar formed out of had to have some kind of initial energy, perhaps a supernovae shockwave, to impart enough energy for the cloud to begin rotating, condensing and eventually form what would become the solar system.

It could have been an alien spaceship ejecting garbage or unrecyclable waste due to fecal excretion after a bad alien taco. That garbage may have provided the final mass, one taco worth of mass, reaching 8 solar masses +1 alien taco (in fecal form encapsulated within a disposable metal capsule).

The ejected mass followed a predetermined trajectory into an otherwise stable star. Once the taco poop was absorbed by the star, the game was over. That final mass would now provide the energy required to collapse the star in on itself, causing a supernova.

That supernova shockwave could have been the shockwave which imparted the initial energy to the otherwise futureless cloud of gas and dust.

An alien eating a really nasty taco and ejecting the waste out of its ship could have been the most significant event in Earths history.

[numberguy12]

None of us were there so who knows how accurate carbon dating is and how much we can know from that prehistoric event *shrugs*

Animals were here first. From a biblical and scientific standpoint fwiw

Old earth. Man didn’t come until way later. Way after animals.

Carbon dating isnt used to date the K-Pg extinction event....

Half-life of C-14 is 5730 years....

Also, the creation story in Genesis 1 is not the way to go about understanding any of this. The best way to learn about the earth's history is not from some ancient text, rather it is to merely.....observe it. Accumulate the evidence. The evidence, as always, will be the guide. The Genesis creation myth is, in fact, incorrect in various details, including the chronology of life (it has birds too early, plants way too early, and mentions livestock, which are super recent on an earth-time scale- thousands of years old, casually being created in the same sentence as animals going back hundreds of millions of years). None of this makes sense...even the language doesnt make sense, as species werent created after kinds, they arise gradually from natural evolution. God didnt create the cattle...man did, through artificial selection, which unsurprisingly the ancient Hebrews didnt seem to understand

Christ crucified was the most significant event in earths history btw

And yet there's that pesky issue of evidence. While there is vast evidence for an extinction event approximately 66 mya, there isnt evidence of the above (especially of a resurrection), just hearsay awhile after and words in texts (which of course arent in themselves evidence of some local event like this, anymore than Star Wars novels are evidence of those events happening in a galaxy far, far away).

[GaloisTheory]

That’s a good one, but it’s a far second to Obama becoming President.

[saltypits]

I would say cyanobacteria evolving to produce oxygen and almost kill all life was pretty significant.

This right here. Damned bacteria literally mogged every other life form lol.

[akferd]

I would say cyanobacteria evolving to produce oxygen and almost kill all life was pretty significant.

This right here. Damned bacteria literally mogged every other life form lol.

The OG climate changers.

Changed the entire trajectory of life on Earth with their oxygen farts.

[GuineaDago585]

As far as fukin bears are concerned, I say, get rid of them all. They had their turn, and now we got ours. That's why dinosaurs don't exist no more.