A random question.

[rivka]

Alex would like to know: "Who else thinks about how did the dinosaurs die?"

If you are someone who has, at times, thought about how the dinosaurs died, it would be nice if you could leave a comment that has a picture of your face so that I can show Alex who you are.

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

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I think about how the dinosaurs died from time to time.

What does Alex think about it?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Alex says: "I think a huge asteroid came from outer space and hit the dinosaurs, and that's how they died. That's how I think they died."

She is really loving these answers.

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

Smart girl! Closer to the truth than she might think. :>

[kightp.livejournal.com]

You realize, don't you, that she's going to be expecting an LJ of her own before you know it. (-;

[aendr.livejournal.com]

I do.


As part of my physics degree (geophysics option) I even looked at the evidence about it. The huge asteroid couldn't have hit all the dinosaurs at once (perhaps demonstrate that with a ball and lots of skittles all over), but it's possible it tossed up lots of dust and made the air bad for them to breathe. There's also other things which may have contributed, so they didn't all die at once. And as some others have said, they could have changed slowly in order to be able to live in the changing world. And I think about how the world was back then, and how much it has changed now - how my country (I'm in Britain) used to be connected to Europe and now is an island, so we have evidence of dinosaurs here which couldn't have got here if we hadn't been connected.

I also think a lot about the ice ages, and woolly mammoths, wolves and cave lions. I think about early humans and how they lived. I like to know about what food they ate and how they caught it or gathered it and how they cooked it, how and where they lived (not everyone had convenient caves to live in). I'd love to know what they thought about dinosaurs when they found their bones.