haha as if Death was not grim enough! :-)
Dino 101 was an eye opener. 65 million years ago - Dinos were flourishing, they were not just toys or movie characters or something in history(?? Oh I love them, It feels like history after all) They were real! They were so cool! They were warm blooded, had societies, cared for their young! and they were flying!!! oh They were as good as any mammals! if not even better! Also T-Rex had feathers!? :D so Cool! There were 4 winged Dino's which flew... They had guts so big, they produces tons of methane gas! haha! soo cool!
Then Bham! obliterated ! gone! One big rock was enough to wipe out this whole civilisation ( :-) I told u I love them no!) .
I get emotional thinking about it. They all disappeared almost over night!
Mother earth is patient, she just starts over - I like to think may be Dinos were a dead end, even better things came out of that mass extinction.. may be, may be not! Does she feel for all that is lost? Or does she know that life goes on? Life and Death part of the cycle, hey we even have a god for destruction Shiva! Pralaya keeps happening, new life always come out of destruction of old doesn't it?
I m feeling melancholy thinking of this....The extinction was gruesome. When the meteor made impact the atmosphere got so hot, they think most life just got cooked alive in a few seconds.. and then came the clouds and no sun light for years. Those that lived thru the cooking by being in water or hiding under rocks died of starvation, no plants no sun light! They think it took 100 years for things to really get back to normal.
Still life clung on! and mind this is NOT the biggest mass extinction,... hmmm... Sad! but life clung on!!
The life of any species is on an average 10 million years, some have stayed way longer, most have come and gone. All the cool dinosaurs that we see together in parks Stegosaurus and T-rex, never lived at the same time.. :-( one lived 275 million years ago and another just 65.. so stegosaurus was farther away from T rex than T-rex is from us! The immensity of time is kind of mind numbing. we as a species havent even been around for a million years.. 100,000 more like? baby species and already planing our extinction. 6-7 billion people we dont even think about extinction, but just a few 100 years ago we were in 1 billion. So humans wont last for ever. I wonder if at all we will last another billion, let alone 10?! Life is fragile. Its so easy for a rock to hit us or for earth to just decide to burst into volcanoes or for us to nuke each other. ( that btw will do wonders for evolution!?)
Hmm.... Bring on space travel! We should spread across the galaxy - make colonies out of planets and head our to conquer the stars! no? Life is precious! being on earth is like putting all eggs in one basket! :D
BTW about the Dinos, They are still with us!! Birds!! :-) Birds are direct descendants of dinos. Mammals are as far away from birds as from reptiles. and all reptiles are not dinosaurs either, turtles, snakes and crocks are very far away from dinosaurs in the family tree.
I felt happy to hear that! They are still with us, in some way! :)
Dino 101 was an eye opener. 65 million years ago - Dinos were flourishing, they were not just toys or movie characters or something in history(?? Oh I love them, It feels like history after all) They were real! They were so cool! They were warm blooded, had societies, cared for their young! and they were flying!!! oh They were as good as any mammals! if not even better! Also T-Rex had feathers!? :D so Cool! There were 4 winged Dino's which flew... They had guts so big, they produces tons of methane gas! haha! soo cool!
Then Bham! obliterated ! gone! One big rock was enough to wipe out this whole civilisation ( :-) I told u I love them no!) .
I get emotional thinking about it. They all disappeared almost over night!
Mother earth is patient, she just starts over - I like to think may be Dinos were a dead end, even better things came out of that mass extinction.. may be, may be not! Does she feel for all that is lost? Or does she know that life goes on? Life and Death part of the cycle, hey we even have a god for destruction Shiva! Pralaya keeps happening, new life always come out of destruction of old doesn't it?
I m feeling melancholy thinking of this....The extinction was gruesome. When the meteor made impact the atmosphere got so hot, they think most life just got cooked alive in a few seconds.. and then came the clouds and no sun light for years. Those that lived thru the cooking by being in water or hiding under rocks died of starvation, no plants no sun light! They think it took 100 years for things to really get back to normal.
Still life clung on! and mind this is NOT the biggest mass extinction,... hmmm... Sad! but life clung on!!
The life of any species is on an average 10 million years, some have stayed way longer, most have come and gone. All the cool dinosaurs that we see together in parks Stegosaurus and T-rex, never lived at the same time.. :-( one lived 275 million years ago and another just 65.. so stegosaurus was farther away from T rex than T-rex is from us! The immensity of time is kind of mind numbing. we as a species havent even been around for a million years.. 100,000 more like? baby species and already planing our extinction. 6-7 billion people we dont even think about extinction, but just a few 100 years ago we were in 1 billion. So humans wont last for ever. I wonder if at all we will last another billion, let alone 10?! Life is fragile. Its so easy for a rock to hit us or for earth to just decide to burst into volcanoes or for us to nuke each other. ( that btw will do wonders for evolution!?)
Hmm.... Bring on space travel! We should spread across the galaxy - make colonies out of planets and head our to conquer the stars! no? Life is precious! being on earth is like putting all eggs in one basket! :D
BTW about the Dinos, They are still with us!! Birds!! :-) Birds are direct descendants of dinos. Mammals are as far away from birds as from reptiles. and all reptiles are not dinosaurs either, turtles, snakes and crocks are very far away from dinosaurs in the family tree.
I felt happy to hear that! They are still with us, in some way! :)
