Looking through some old comments that I’d left to moulder in the moderation queue, I cam across this gem:
why will we never know how dinosaurs died because we never knew what they were like i think that we will never know what and how they went extinct and you scintist stop tring so hard
First things first, this comment was left on a page listing 15mm scale miniature dinosaurs. Yes, a page about toy dinosaurs that doesn’t discuss the science of dinosaurs or the reason for their extinction at all.
It is true that we may never know with 100% certainty what caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs some sixty five million years ago. However, their is a large and growing body of evidence that lets us form a number of hyoptheses. Falling sea levels, increased volcanic activity and a massive meteorite impact probably all played their part.
Further study into the K-T extinction will not only tell us more about the end of the dinosaurs but will provide us with insights into the effect that climate change can have on the Earth and the creatures that live here. A subject that is of obvious importance to all of us.
You get such a better class of badly written comment spam than I do. All I attract is casino spam which is dull. While, without some sort of device that lets us look into the past, we will never know what the cause of the extinction was the simple act of investigation has a value of itself in the same way that climbing a mountain, writing a story or any other creative endevour does. It is essential to what makes us complete humans. In some ways it doesn’t matter if it gives us an insight into climate change or into a better way to boil an egg. However I doubt it will help your comment to learn where the shift key is or to appreciate the simple art of approximating basic grammar and spelling.
i love dinos