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Where Did the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Come From?

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While initial reports point towards it coming from space, I have managed to traced the origin back to the big bang. That's right, it was rigged to happen from the start.

It was a bug meteor from the asteroid ring around Klendathu.

The ascent of mammals as unintended side effect.

Not to get off topic but (some myth busting is in order) the updated theory is excessive volcanic activity had already been killing off the dinosaurs. The asteroid wasn't the primary killer, but more like the last straw.

According to today's www.farsidecomic.com/comic-collections/792/science-and-scientists-sept2024 there's the "Professor Ferrington and his controversial theory that dinosaurs were actually the discarded "chicken" bones of giant, alien picknickers." theory, that disproves [once and for all. Finally!!] that 'the' dinosaurs didn't exist.

There were several asteroid impacts at around the same time. For example, the Shiva impact off the west coast of India:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_crater

The Deccan Traps basaltic flows also happened at 'the same' time, in the same place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps

It's not clear if the Shiva impact caused the volcanic activity, or it's just a remarkable coincidence.

This article I believe says otherwise.

What's also great about this article is how it gives the rest of us a peek behind the curtain of science (and how emotional and unscientific it actually is).

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180816030039/https://www.theat...

> Shiva impact caused the volcanic activity

Heh, if I remember my Godology, it's on par with what Shiva do.

So the Shiva 'crater' Structure may not be an impact, and the date for Shiva is taken directly from the Deccan Trap basalts, so not a remarkable coincidence, a fix.

You should have noted that the Shiva crater is far from a certainty or even a firmly founded theoretical impact. Only a minority believe it to be a crater at all.

Latest news about a contemporary (?) W. Africa crater:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/asteroid-tha...

Some nice maps and seismic sections in the paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn3096

It seems possible that the Nadir Crater (9.5N 17W) is 'half way' between Shiva (2.5S? 55E) and Chicxulub (21.5N 90W) with (+12N +72W) step between them - making some wild assumptions about Shiva's location 65m years ago, when India was near the Reunion Hotspot:

https://socratic.org/questions/where-was-india-65-million-ye...

So one asteroid splitting into 3+ pieces, of different sizes, but roughly the equal separation? Like Shoemaker-Levy 9?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9

wouldn't be volcanic activity be a consequence of a large enough impact, basically a waterhammer with magma?

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,yes but unfortunately plain text does not allow for reverb,echo, and huge vocal equivilants what would be "groundshaking" is an asteroid or meteor fragment containing clearly visible allien fossils statisticaly,such things must exist

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