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Originally posted by Tobra
It is not so much the climate as the population, if you ask me.
Catastrophic climate change, they say it killed the dinosaurs. If you can't move to a more palatable climate when it changes faster than you can adapt you are done, true dat.
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Well, the soil layers suggest it was an asteroid landing in the Gulf of Mexico that produced a "nuclear winter" to kill off the dinosaurs.
Certainly, the climate undergoes changes over long periods of time that alter the planet's landscape. It's just that the human species hasn't been around long enough to experience a really significant change. Though the Mayans, I understand, were killed off by a drought. I just hope nothing happens for another 20-25 years--and then I'll be in Heaven...maybe.
My own view about dinosaurs, as someone with a scientific background, is that bacteria probably killed them off. And might have gotten us, too, by now if we didn't have medical science. Our environment is loaded with unfriendly little critters that our immune systems have to fight off every day. When we get old, our immune systems get weak, and you know what happens then.
