Are there dinosaur fossils in space?

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[@broccolycowboy3016]

"Bones on Europa" could be a really awesome band name.

[@samiamrg7]

Or a scifi novel title

[@davidsalazar13]

I do this a LOT I make band names out of cool phrases, too!

[@TheRealMirCat]

There's another, but I don't think it'd get past the censors.

[@toobig7150]

@@samiamrg7 imagine a lovecraft-ish book where astronauts go to Europa and find weird creatures that mutated from the bones and bits of a Dino. (ofc i doubt any corpse that reach Europe.. after a meteorite flings them there will even had blood on them. But maybe microorganisms?)

[@Ben_of_Milam_Music]

Bones on Europa is a New Wave band, Bones of Europa is a Symphonic Black Metal Band

[@LeggoMyGekko]

He really went “between 20 and 40 kilometers a 🔪 SECOND 🔪”

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Imagine in 3D? Lol *Dodge*

[@the_picard]

I also jumped a little when he started swinging that around

[@Its_Me_Romano]

He was making his point

[@mattcy6591]

I feel threatened

[@michaeldelazerda4434]

🤣🤣🤣

[@slothytoves]

I'll believe anything someone says when they point a huge knife at me.

[@DA-gq6kt]

haha

[@audeai4021]

My thoughts exactly!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@someguynamedsteve203]

Same

[@blessedwolfNotAFurry]

I’m not holding a knife. Points huge knife at you*

[@marloferrer1546]

😆😆😆😆😆

[@KimberlyGreen]

New science branch incoming: astro-paleontology.

[@Titan-fk2fi]

searching for bones using satellite telescopes instead of years searching and excavating bones

[@funguy123hs]

Well, in near future that job might exist

[@surajvaishnav1891]

Ross wants to know your Location

[@professoroak7545]

Think its already a thing tbh

[@morningstar52]

@@surajvaishnav1891 who?

[@0Unknowns]

Yeah!! I feel bad for eating the almighty chicken dinosaur while her ancestors are in space

[@josefanon8504]

good name you got there ^^

[@seretith3513]

I'd like to taste Flamingosaurus Tounghe, but their threatend

[@YUN6_V3NUZ]

@@seretith3513 they're :(

[@gyozakeynsianism]

I feel better when they're in nugget form.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

@@gyozakeynsianism as long as they are cut into dino shapes lol

[@RootVegetabIe]

Thank you, Science Hunk.

[@brain_apostrophe_t]

This cracked me up so hard

[@therealdarklizzy]

We had Hank Green, now get ready for Hunk Green...

[@aaronmarks9366]

Tell me about it 🥵

[@dotdotdot...176]

@@therealdarklizzy no you didn't 💀💀💀

[@marcomoreno6748]

Seriously... 🥵 what's up with that v-neck

[@disnecessaurorex4908]

Half of me: Yeah I never thought about how fossils could end up in space. Crazy. Another half: Work out routine?

[@mdkooter]

would it still be called a fossil when it's just a chunk of frozen dino leg? omg!

[@pimpkramer441]

@@mdkooter that’s not how it works, the pieces would be unrecognizable because of the extreme explosion, would literally be disintegrated microscopic particles

[@janew2108]

Thank you for the information unusually attractive man.

[@griffithd05]

Ain't nothing unusual about it. 👁️🫦👁️

[@Markfps]

Wow wow wow... Wow

[@michaeldelazerda4434]

🤣🤣🤣... I mean, he got me to start watching PBS Eons... and I'm straight 🤷‍♂️🤩😉

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

ikr 🤤

[@Yasir997ify]

@@michaeldelazerda4434 sus

[@MrFalcon343]

My mans tata's taking up a third of the screen. Im not complaining tho, i support this design decision

[@yudeok413]

No complaints. Complete support.

[@user-dr3pz4se4v]

Absolutely We need more

[@dotdotdot...176]

"Design decision" 💀

[@dhruv1422]

"tata's" 😂😭😭

[@testosteronic]

PBS Eons shorts feel wild, the presenters are literally anywhere, including in the kitchen chopping chicken while wearing a teeny tiny padlock necklace

[@lauravansanten7804]

Haha I know right! It's wild and casual at the same time, like, this is their life 24/7!

[@pseudo.account]

Makes me wonder if there is some significance to the padlock necklace... Reminds me of day collars

[@schrodingerscat3741]

Padlock necklace, pan flag, there's a lot going on in this one

[@ryanlinskey9293]

blake sub confirmed

[@addfuture]

So cool! Love the pan flag in the background too!

[@pollux_the_insufferable.]

Came to the comment section to see if anybody else noticed???

[@solsystem1342]

pan parade in the comment section here. Also coming to comment this

[@MagicBaldMushroom]

Who cares it's literally just his sexuality it's the same as any other opinion. Were you even paying attention to the video? Or were you looking at the piece of cloth with pretty colours?

[@addfuture]

@@MagicBaldMushroom judging by your other comments I'm gunna just assume you're a troll or just dislike other sexualities. To answer your question tho, it takes literally 2 seconds to notice and appreciate, strangely enough I don't need to keep my eyes solely glued on the main person in the video chopping chicken 😂

[@tgf2586]

@@MagicBaldMushroom we were, we just noticed it and its one of those things you go like "omg thats me!"

[@dippyfresh1635]

Maybe, I'm guessing alot of the debri would be vaporized or broken into tiny bits as it escaped our planet. If it entered another planets atmosphere, it definitely got torn apart apon entry or impact.

[@pixelmaster98]

not all of it would have entered a planets atmosphere, though. It's possible that some of the dinosaur debris ended up in the asteroid belt or got flung out of the solar system.

[@JJ-fq4nl]

We do have meteor rocks that came from Mars found from Martian impacts 🤷🏽‍♀️. I believe the small samples were mostly found in Antarctica I recall 🤔. Will Google to make sure if my memory is right 🤷🏽‍♀️.

[@jp9707]

Yeah, I can barely remember this from school all those years ago (so this is worth double-checking if you're interested, I may get bits wrong), but I seem to recall that the formation of fossils happens when an animal dies and is quickly covered in soil so that it isn't exposed to the air and so doesn't rot. This can especially happen in quicksand. Over a long time more and more soil gets layered on top of the dead animal, pushing it further under the surface of the earth. The soil around it becomes very hard because it's so compacted. Eventually the animal rots away (the rotting process is slowed but isn't unstoppable), but it leaves a hollow shape in the soil - the shape is retained because the soil around it is so solid. Then groundwater drips into the hollow and drains out again, but gradually leaves behind minerals that slowly fill up the hollow over a long, long time until they form the fossil. I don't see how that can happen in space, you don't get the layers of soil and the water flowing through.

[@sally8708]

That would probably depend on the how much of an atmosphere the planet/moon had, if any.

[@dippyfresh1635]

@@jp9707 the fossils would have already formed on earth before potentially being flung into space.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

I'm inclined to just believe the guy with the giant knife.

[@samwill7259]

Oh...you know I for the first time in my life realized there were probably a whole lot of very unlucky dinosaurs who were directly under the physical mass of the rock when it hit the planet...

[@firedoom666]

Those ones might have been the lucky ones. That is a very quick and painless way to go.

[@syd.a.m]

@@firedoom666 Vaporized by asteroid impact vs a slow death by starvation? Yeah, I'll pick the space rock.

[@osvaldocortes4598]

The Yucatan peninsula was underwater at the time, so, unless you're counting marine birds, yeah, no dinosaurs were directly impacted by the asteroid. However, the impact shockwaves could have traveled as far north as Southern Laramidia, where there definitely were non-avian dinosaurs, and the force of the shockwave was still enough to kill them instantly, so... close enough?

[@MisterCynic18]

Probably better than dying in the subsequent firestorms and choking ash clouds

[@Hannah_Em]

​@@osvaldocortes4598 There were definitely pterosaurs extant at the time, so I guess there were at least fairly close dinosaur cousins which could have been hit directly, right? The question has made me realise that I actually don't know if any avian dinosaurs had evolved flight by that point, or whether it came later, though :o

[@nicelydunwell5681]

Love how that astroid is still blowing stuff up to this day... Like minds!

[@user-dr3pz4se4v]

Y'know what else is "blowing up"?

[@MLeoDaalder]

For a moment I thought you were going to reference that one Star Trek: Voyager episode with rather 'questionable' evolution 'science' where there was an advanced civilization of dinosaurs (called the Voth) that escaped the Earth before the asteroid impact.

[@ulischmidt03]

I thought he was gonna reference the Doctor Who episode, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

[@MLeoDaalder]

@@ulischmidt03 That was a fun episode. 😁

[@EebstertheGreat]

And then they apparently forgot about it.

[@pseudo.account]

I loved that episode lmao

[@availanila]

So the dinosaurs might have had a "don't look up" event in the year leading up to their extinction.

[@maidros85]

Aww, daddy making his meal prep! 😍 Grow even bigger, my man!

[@rib_rob_personal]

You sir, are scientifically way too attractive

[@eyeDavid]

Speaking of space there’s none in my shirt

[@little_forest]

Kind of frightening when you wave your knife like that at me! ;)

[@christopherlanger3159]

What I learned from watching PBS eons is that dino Nuggies are made from real Dinosaurs

[@tobitheminnow]

I see a pan flag in the background :-D nice

[@noahcreutziger7690]

That moment when you colonize Europa and find the missing link between two dinosaur clades: O.O

[@alesdossantos4224]

Just found my dreamjob: I want to be a space paleontologist !!

[@MossyMozart]

@Ales dos Santos - DITTO!

[@Samuel.U]

Thank you t shirt for showing me the outline of such a fine specimen 🤩

[@robinj7385]

Hello to the TomboyX sticker and Pan flag on the fridge.

[@Sadmanmcgee]

I was looking for this comment

[@dotdotdot...176]

Love the pan flag in the back! Also, drop the workout routine 😳

[@ArtiKox]

Imagine getting to Europa one day and seeing a fossil

[@rococo6931]

Shoutout to Pan folk!

[@ZappaBlues]

Doctor Who... "Dinosaurs!! On a Spaceship!!!"

[@theburg3286]

LOL, I was wondering what the man was doing with the knife, and at the end I'm like oohhhhhh, chicken nuggies.

[@bemusedbandersnatch2069]

It's like a mini T-rex you can eat!

[@zakiducky]

I swear, hey gets a bit swoler every video lol

[@jsmoothd654]

T-rex floated in space for eons after the asteroid… Eventually, he stopped thinking…

[@bagea]

0:41 pan flag pan plag

[@cloudwaveASMRsleepsounds]

There's probably freeze-dried dinosaur meat on the moon.

[@izaakaz6863]

Hoshino Yukinobu wrote a manga about this in one of his anthologies. The Mars base got its water from the martian ice cap but its crew members kept getting infected by an unknown rabies and went insane. Acting like a dinosaur trapped in the body of a human. Turns out the ice they were getting water from had dinosaurs trapped in it and they had begun to decay.

[@TrueTydin]

Thanks science daddy

[@cpeteman1]

5/7 needs a tighter shirt

[@twicepilled]

@@cpeteman1 LmFAOO

[@Cahos_Rahne_Veloza]

I'm just glad Blake was safe and we got to eventually see such a Thicc Apex Specimen such as himself explain cool science stuff like this to all of us 😊

[@hawkeyestegosaurus5680]

I'd like to think they survived and invented little dino space suits, just for my own head-canon

[@Jacob-kx1ix]

Me high as hell: This Guy: Starts the video out with that Me: “…heheheheheheheheheheehheh”

[@plutoniumin]

Two questions. 1 could it have been possible that some of the parts mummified. 2 could microbes have reached Europa?

[@EebstertheGreat]

1. Sort of, but the bits that actually escaped the atmosphere would be microscopic. 2. Yes, but they would have been dead for tens of millions of years by the time they got there.

[@plutoniumin]

@@EebstertheGreat what I assumed

[@therealdarklizzy]

The craziest part is that while most life on earth can't survive in space, only hibernate, there are extremophile bacteria that can survive off of things like sulfur and no oxygen. Some of these are found near undersea vents and volcanic zones. The dinosaur asteroid impacted in what was then sea, so if some if anaerobic bacteria got blasted into space on bits of seafloor, they could make it to an icy moon and survive off of chemicals there.

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@therealdarklizzy Many many bacteria can survive without oxygen, as can all sorts of other organisms. If you think about the process of baking bread, brewing beer, or fermenting wine, yeast is surviving with no oxygen, fermenting the sugar into alcohol. (If too much oxygen gets in, fermentation stops.) Soil has almost the highest concentration of microorganisms out there, and most of them are anaerobic, cause there's not much oxygen underground. Stool also contains a lot of bacteria, so _E. coli_ for instance can't survive oxygen, which isn't a problem, since there is hardly any oxygen in your gut. They still need water though, and an energy source, and protection from UV radiation, and above-freezing temperatures, and other things. Experiments have found that some bacterial spores can survive for months in space if they are protected from radiation, because they resist dehydration, but if they are exposed to radiation, they die in days to weeks.

[@therealdarklizzy]

@@EebstertheGreat That is true. I think the biggest problem is how the the bacteria would survive in their new environment. Most of these icy moons don't have thick atmospheres, and the chances of them making it down to any subterranean ocean are slim to none. I wonder if there are any bacteria that could actually metabolize and reproduce in a vacuum.

[@aspopulvera9130]

When we talking about dinos first thing my head came up is a space suit wearing dinosaurs

[@wuzzleone]

Every time I see a bird I say there goes a dinosaur 🤷🏿‍♂️🤣

[@myidvarchive889]

Sir.......... With all due respect......... Daddy

[@oratorinvisibilia5152]

Imagine finding one of the bits. The things we could learn..!

[@billthebanuk6212]

I just love the idea of future astronauts exploring Europa and finding Dinosaur remains there

[@PBTophie]

I never knew Howard Hamlin did science presentations. That's awesome. He seems like a really nice guy. Namaste

[@xvor_tex8577]

So what you're saying is Dinosaurs reached space 65 millions years before humans did?

[@QsPhilosophy]

That ending tho

[@Rauschgenerator]

Yeah. Turns out, even dinosaurs taste like chicken.

[@ALAPINO]

Trying to explain to your little one that chickens are dinosaurs is a risky proposition.

[@Mana-jg7vn]

Props to this guy for going to space and collect dino nuggy bits to eat them

[@casbot71]

There are lots of Dinosaur fossils in the Delta Quadrant …

[@Gr4ceful4life]

*There’s a pansexual flag in the background*

[@therealdarklizzy]

My man is preparing dinner, of course he needs a pan.

[@Gr4ceful4life]

@@therealdarklizzy ohhh, thanks for the context bud

[@Ngamotu83]

Dinosaurs in space? Yeah, the Doctor already encountered them in space.

[@brookegravitt4117]

I love the idea of Dinos in Spaaaaaaaaaace! as a concept for sure. Also, post that workout routine somewhere, it getting results.

[@andyjay729]

I forget, did any of Gonzo's chicken girlfriends pop up on the Pigs in Spaaaaaace's ship?

[@MrBishop077]

Granted there may be Dino bits out there, would they really be "Fossil's" though?

[@twistedtachyon5877]

Unevenly- toasted freeze-dried dino puree?

[@emryscunningham8325]

pan flag alert! yay representation!

[@a.g.e.9249]

My brain stopped at "Dinosaurs in Space" 😂😂😂

[@Gocolas]

He looks like he would teach me survival skills at a country club

[@Dee-jp7ek]

Loving the pan flag on the fridge

[@kcrystal2470]

YES NOW I KNOW THAT HES NOT STRAIGHT 😏

[@OakenTome]

@@kcrystal2470 I think he’s just an LGBTQ+ advocate.

[@Dee-jp7ek]

@@OakenTome It seems a little too specific for generic advocacy but it could be in support of someone close to him, like his spouse or kids (assuming he has any).

[@kcrystal2470]

@@OakenTome he already came out on titktok tho 😭

[@ficialintelligence1869]

@@kcrystal2470 Not completely, anyway. He has been shown to wear a wedding ring, and he has a son.

[@shanekeefer40]

There is a pan flag behind him!!!!

[@peterprime2140]

Definitely not expecting to see a pan flag in Blake's kitchen, love it nevertheless.

[@disnecessaurorex4908]

I think Blake said he was pan in Tiktok

[@rachelfrater6623]

@@disnecessaurorex4908 i love him:')

[@pseudo.account]

@@disnecessaurorex4908 woa really? I thought maybe he had teenage kids or something that put their pan pride flag there, it's cool that it's his own flag!

[@jennaxolotl6275]

WOOOOOO, PAN!! idk who this youtuber is but i like him already

[@rachelfrater6623]

@@jennaxolotl6275 this is blake! he's one of the hosts of pbs eons, they do loads of stuff on natural/prehistory and are definitely worth checking out!!

[@Chaotic.Fish88]

At first I was like “WHY DO YOU HAVE A KNIFE?!” But then I realised “oh you’re just making dinner”

[@michaelmurphy8736]

Imagine future humans are just cruising through space and they turn and see a t-Rex head just drifting along

[@globalwarrior16]

a pan flag in the background, how nice

[@pablozurita2996]

Love the flag in the back

[@adlockhungry304]

My new pet theory is, the reason we all love chicken so much is cuz, like, in the dark days following the asteroid strike, us mammals got through it munching on char broiled T Rex, and BBQd Triceratops. Now our ancestral memory waxes nostalgic every time we nibble on some farmyard Therapod.

[@stupidboyliker6960]

Imagine being a dinosaur in a zone where the pressure change from the impact wasn’t deadly, but was strong enough to propel them into space. One minute you’re chilling, the next, a big red glowing space rock see-saws the tectonic plate you’re standing on and suddenly you’re the first reptile in space.

[@jonraquet6629]

Imagine finding fossils on Europa just to later find out they came from earth. What a scam lol

[@live4him4eva]

I can't wait to hear the conspiracy theories that would come from that one

[@Some_Siren]

That's really interesting but is it me or is there a pansexual flag in the back?

[@ddr8570]

Imagine if space explorers found these bones and thought damn that's a new species we discovered here 💀

[@pseudo.account]

Anybody notice the pansexual pride flag in the background? 🤔

[@forest_green]

I was so pleasantly surprised to see it I didn't notice what he was saying the first time I saw the video :)

[@TheGriffinArts]

The pansexual flag in the background ❤️

[@thechickhouse2985]

Maybe we will have a frozen dinosaur corpse be spotted in space. It’s a long shot but imagine how cool that would be

[@MorkusPorkus]

Imagine people find dino bones on Mars and believe they just discovered a new extraterrestrial species at first, then realized what happened.

[@trickvro]

Hello pansexual T. rex in the background! 😄

[@alannabanana6255]

I'm sorry, I didn't hear anything because I couldn't stop staring at Blake in that shirt.... 😳😳😳

[@coltmax65]

My man is a multi-tasking king

[@Najolve]

Would dinosaur bits get fossilized in the vacuum of space? I thought about a similar problem when playing a game and it showed blood in space that was still bright red. At first I thought it was just the need for suspension of disbelief but would blood become deoxygenated in a vacuum?

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

No fossilized but frozen, probably.

[@thecorlorlesspig1993]

Omggg a pansexual flag in the background lol

[@LadyViscera]

Is that a pansexual dino I see?

[@Grayismyname]

Imagine being the first person to land on Mars and the first major thing you see is a t-Rex skull

[@erikdohme1097]

It took me 2 watches to hear him butchering a chicken and now I can’t help but think of chickens orbiting Europa.

[@MrKhho100]

bro said I'm on a cut while I'm doing a quick cut

[@phaedrus000]

But if a dinosaur (or any other animal for that matter) were launched with enough force to achieve escape velocity, wouldn't they get pretty much vaporized by either the force of the explosion or by the heat they experience as they race through the atmosphere at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour? So yeah the particles that made up the dinosaur would be in space but I don't know if that counts as a dinosaur fossil. Or are you talking about dinosaurs that had already fossilized by the time of the impact? I suppose those could make it into space intact since they would be encased in rock. Edit: OK after re-watching the video I think I may have been missing a key point at first. The asteroid punches a hole in the atmosphere. Which could mean that for objects traveling back up there is nothing to race through since the air hasn't had time to rush back in and fill the vacuum. If that's it, then that's wild. Still seems like they would get blown to smithereens by the force, but there's a chance. And that's awesome.

[@TheRedKnight101]

Maybe a pterosaur could have been sucked up if the vacuum was strong enough and lasted long enough but anything on the surface would have been decimated, maybe some carbon that originated from a dinosaur made it into space but I would be surprised if anything big enough to be considered a chunk could have made it.

[@ebutuoY_kcuF]

Moom! Dad's overthinking again! 🤣🤣🤣

[@excalibur1812]

Bits and pieces of dinosaurs might have been flung as far as Uranus.

[@kellydalstok8900]

The Doctor Who episode Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was very enjoyable.

[@cocolocobirb981]

“ Dinosaur traces found on mars! “ *Jurassic universe coming this fall*

[@chieckenman4432]

The build up for that joke though... lol

[@spherence]

We will find some out there. How thrilling that moment will be.

[@AJ-jq3hm]

Howard after he got shot by Lalo decided to become science man.

[@VoidDragon82]

I think Blake could bench press a T-Rex then lob it out into outer space! Dude has been hittin the weights HARD!! 🤘🏾

[@JAS0N_M00RE]

Dinosaurs in Spaaaaaaace sounds like a movie from the 50s-60s lol

[@inkognitopracholochos]

Now I want to be a PaleoAstronaut 🤣

[@nicholaspoling9691]

If we find bits in space, how decayed would they be? Asking for a friend who wants to build a theme park...

[@sassyNsarcastic]

"Makes me feel kinda bad that I'm about eat one of them" Took me a while to figure out he was talking about a chicken🤣

[@danieldecesaris347]

The end though! 😂😂

[@billtyack2564]

Bro what ever regiment you're on keep it up pecs are popping nice job

[@Warmaker01]

When those Space Dinosaurs come back with their superior technology, they're going to make you regret eating their brethren.