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

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

me.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

She already knows me, but what the heck. I'd be glad to talk to her about it sometime.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kightp/2408834294/)

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

What does Alex think about it?

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

I think about how dinosaurs died, sometimes. But I also remember that some dinosaurs changed into birds, and how some animals who live right now are from the time of dinosaurs.

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I like to think about it. I also am coming to believe that only some of the dinosaurs died and that the others became birds.

[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]

Tell her that Himself the Rocket Scientist and I discuss how meteor dust caused climate change that killed the dinos. :>

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

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

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I think about how the dinosaurs died, but much more about how the dinosaurs lived, and live on as birds. Glenn and I often refer to chicken as dinosaur (as in, "Please pass the curried dinosaur.") and notice the fierceness and territoriality of the tiniest dinosaurs, the hummingbirds.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I don't know if Elena thinks about it (yet), but I do!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

I do! I often wonder about that. How they died, why they died, how many are fossilized.... I also like to wonder about how the Universe came to be, why time works the way it does, how life began on Earth, and if there are other Earth-like planets with sentient creatures living on them wondering the same sorts of things!

Much love,
N.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

I have thought about it.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

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

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I first starting thinking about how the dinosaurs died when I saw the movie Fantasia. I don't have a picture of myself, but I do look kind of like my icon here.

[kazoogrrl.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to put the picture in the post, but here is a link to a pic of me and my SO (dressed like fairy pirates). I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was a kid (and dig up dinosaurs!).

http://flickr.com/photos/25448288@N00/498877184/

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I like to think about it! I have books about it. I wonder if it was more from meteorites or volcanos or whether things got too hot and dry or dark for some of them. I know that they didn't really all die, some changed to be more like turtles and alligators and eagles and hummingbirds, and we don't call them "dinosaurs" anymore, but reptiles and birds.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I doooo! (Sometimes.) (And not in an official sense. No paleontologist, me.)

[juthwara.livejournal.com]

I've thought about it many times. And Katherine and I have discussed it at least once.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Me:

And also, maybe Alex would like to answer a question I once asked in my secondary journal (http://electrons-write.livejournal.com/950.html). Or you can answer for her; it is probably close enough that both of you remember exactly...

[windsea.livejournal.com]

Hi Alex, i like to think about dinosaurs, not just how they died, but what it must have been like when they lived, and how the earth shook when they stomped by.

This photo is from a place called Prospect, about a half-hour's drive from where I live. It's a big headland covered in huge boulders, which a glacier left behind when it melted over 10,000 years ago. There were no dinosaurs then, but big mastodons lived in Nova Scotia - like a furry elephant.

At Prospect, the sea crashes in big waves against the rocks; It's a big moor covered in gorse and juniper, with wild roses and irises, and cranberries growing in the boggy wet spots. It's a really beautiful place; you can see more pictures of it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/windsea/tags/prospect/

The girl in the red jacket is *my* daughter, just a few days before her 12th birthday.

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

Me.

[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.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

I think about that. I have thought about that for a long time -- since back when "tiny mammals ate their eggs" was a viable hypothesis (at least in kids' science books).

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

I think about how the dinosaurs died (like Alex, I think it was an asteroid). But mostly when I think of dinosaurs it's to try to to wrap my head around how big they really were - it's hard to imagine an animal as long as 3 school buses!

[geminigirl]

I think about dinosaurs. And I think about how they died, but also about things like what they ate, and what happened when they stepped on stuff, and sometimes even things like "did dinosaurs ever trip on their own feet?"

And sometimes I think about whether Naomi will be interested in dinosaurs and what I'll tell her about dinosaurs.

This is a picture of me when we went to visit Kennedy Space Center. That's Naomi's Dad in the picture with me, and someone dressed up like an astronaut. I think about astronauts too.