Chicxulub: The Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs

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Source/Further reading:
Overview: www.atlasobscu...
Discovery of the impact crater: www.bbc.com/tra...
Life in the Cretaceous period: www.nationalge...
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The day of impact: www.smithsonia...
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The weeks after impact: www.smithsonia...
www.bbc.com/ear...
Why the impact struck the worst possible place: www.bbc.com/ne...
How the impact was good for bacteria www.nytimes.co...
Quick re-emergence of life: www.space.com/...
Alternative, volcano theory: www.nationalge...
www.theatlanti...
Permian-Triassic extinction: www.nationalge...
Former theories for what killed the dinos: www.nationalge...
www.smithsonia...
First dino fossils discovered: www.bbc.com/ear...
Math on the yield of Chicxulub vs Tsar Bomba: / how_many_tsar_bombas_w...

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[@no.8466]

CS BLOWS GOATS

[@biteme3989]

A week ago how?

[@williamoldaker5348]

Younger Dryas Impact. Please look into it.

[@williamoldaker5348]

@@biteme3989 Interesting.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

This impact! That freaking lucky strike.. Presumably. If we b cool

[@ashleybrown4754]

R.I.P. Dinosaurs. Can't believe it's been 66 million years already. Never forget.

[@FIRE_STORMFOX-3692]

I hope we get to celebrate the 69th million years aniversary

[@belialofeden]

Too soon

[@ArranLaPaul]

Belial Of Eden 😂😂

[@davecraft8753]

Seems like only yesterday....

[@sleazyfellow]

I'm still torn up about it...

[@73THUNDERDOME73]

“They had us in the first half, not guna lie” - Mammals

[@paraboo8994]

Great, now I have coffee up my nose 😂😂😂

[@blaidencortel]

Richard Foran How about “borgsaur”? Oooo, no, how about “borgosaur”? “Cysaur” seems bit tricky to say. Probably would’ve conquered the galaxy by now.

[@Ometecuhtli]

But then we unleashed our secret weapon...

[@TheWolfsnack]

given the title....I thought it was something your girlfriend bought at the "Love Shop".....

[@davehallett3128]

@Lord ballsac the 2nd yes but dinosaurs believed in the jesus lizard

[@DanFlorio]

Simon said, "It was a sound heard around the world." Actually, it was "heard" many times. I forget the specifics, but the shockwave traveled around the world many times and would have been audible for many of those passes.

[@StoutProper]

Only heard if you were still alive

[@scottwallace1]

Well…audible to everyone once for a blip before universal eardrum explosion rendered the whole world deaf.

[@4450krank]

It is believed that the shock wave form krakatoa hit London 8 times, as seismograf were pressent and gave readings. This would have been so many times worse.

[@4450krank]

@@nw932 Okay.

[@wlonsdale1]

A worldwide provable flood is more likely

[@powwowken2760]

"what would it have been like to be there on the day of the impact?" I'm gunna go with bad.... it would've been bad

[@ertren6]

@@chriscole1789 no shit

[@sludgemouth1408]

@@chriscole1789 but what of I made everything about me?

[@jessesisson2955]

But so much barbecue!!

[@Shojikitsune1]

Crossing the streams bad?

[@randymillhouse791]

"Could be worse. Could be raining."

[@mikefm4]

The story of this impact always makes me sad. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution all erased in a single event. And what a horrific way for these animals to die

[@geslinam9703]

Makes me feel sad too...and that we are very insignificant, that we too could be erased so completely.

[@Absaroka]

@Stella Hohenheim Lol

[@Nick-eq8kq]

@Stella Hohenheim spotted the mouth breather

[@doesnotexist305]

Not completely erased, otherwise there’d be no life today. Just incredibly slowed down

[@Armando_Brown32]

@Stella Hohenheim You’re obviously confused. Creationism is a hoax, not evolution. 😁

[@russellgilbert8625]

I very seldom comment on videos, especially those of the two year old variety, but Simon, thank you for putting in words something I've felt for a very VERY long time about the uniqueness, the rareness, and the absolute marvel that is human existence. Here in the future, who knows how much longer it'll be around given how we seem incapable of comprehending how you marvelously ended this piece. It is the first time a KZbin video has literally given me goosebumps (and I've watched a LOT of KZbin). Thank you. Truly.

[@notme2day]

At the rate humans are going ... I highly doubt nature (or we) are going to give *us* the 170 million years that dino got. What it took for us to get here was massive and maybe a mistake. Look at all the possibilities of life and evolution we've already ended with our extinction level actions.

[@ErikHare]

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." - Pablo Picasso

[@jamier65551]

Pretty true tbh

[@RudyCantGame]

Is this from Prometheus?

[@pacco9532]

He never actually said that, it’s a myth

[@nebtheweb8885]

_"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."_ Pablo Picasso

[@ナフィズロイ]

@Ethan Rhodes what

[@alteredbeast7145]

Sure it might have been rough on the dinos, but Im willing to bet none of them ever stepped on a lego

[@shamelessape1]

well, now they are the legos.

[@stevenwilson6450]

Listen, legosauris was fairly small when compared with the heavyweights. So, yeah, the big ones could step on them.

[@alteredbeast7145]

@@shamelessape1 thats a witty riposte. I doff my fedora and pledge my sword to you

[@onlyme9254]

I would take asteroid over lego any day of the week! Micro machines weren't so nice to step on also back in the day according to my dad 30 years ago when he wished he hadn't! 🤣🤣🤣

[@xAdorNexasYT]

I've walked on Legos as a kid, y'all just bitches 😂 kiddin lol about y'all being bitches. Not the Lego walking thing. I did that shit.

[@bycdbema]

I've always been a dinosaur fan, so imagine my shock when I found out at age 7 that I lived 2 hours and a half from when the asteroid that extinct dinosaurs. Even if I'm from Yucatan, maybe out of respect I never went to Chicxulub in all the 25 years I lived there.

[@estefaneoy3483]

I live in Yucatan and I've never been to Chicxulub neither.

[@deadboy3646]

I live about 7 hours from Hiawatha crater almost as big as Chixculub, the one that ended the ice age and sent pretty much all of the ice age species to extinction 12,800 years ago.

[@drewmadenew3000]

You should go, I hear it’s a real blast.

[@scene2much]

The Yucatan is a Cultural and Geological Treasure. From Pink Flamingo Hordes (not far from Chicxulub) to the Mayan Ruins, and the mysterious Cenotes, and the Place-Where-Time-Stood-Still that is Central Merida....yeah... great place.

[@Chris-yi4pj]

I live 1hr from the swamp Washington DC I wish something would blow up this swamp

[@edwardrawn8157]

"We don't know if it landed in morning, noon or night" - Pretty sure it was all three.

[@macmedic892]

Edward Rawn It’s 5:00 somewhere.

[@darthXreven]

which just proves even if you land in the tropics you won't know if you're coming or going.....lolz

[@jarrodbarker5050]

Ha! Intellectual burn!

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

yeah, I would not want to be close enough to that thing that it's 13km wide shadow made it look like night, or where the plasma ball from it going through the air made it look like midday, or when at the moment of impact the fireball made it look like a sunrise. Agreed, all three. And that is rather 'modest' compared to events like Caloris Planitia or the much larger Theia event.

[@christianyepez1016]

This is a perfect comment, I applaud you sir.

[@DragonKittyCombi]

I'm 36 years old and still to this day I get sad when I think about the poor dinosaurs.

[@spaceman081447]

@ DragonKittyCombi RE: " I'm 36 years old and still to this day I get sad when I think about the poor dinosaurs." Why? Remember that it was the extinction of the dinosaurs that allowed our mammalians ancestors to eventually evolve into human beings. If the ecology hadn't been drastically rearranged, we would still be little rat-like creatures scurrying around at night trying not to get stepped on or eaten by dinosaurs.

[@yourroyalhighness7662]

I’m 62 and feel the same.

[@kloschuessel773]

Im happy Would be nasty having those beasts buggering around

[@kloschuessel773]

@@Madame.de.Polignac i think i can speak for "most of us" when i say: we dont care how you feel about us, the world doesnt revolve around you. Go swim with crocs and have a shark bite your head of to experience how to shill ancient predators are.

[@SnidgetAsphodel]

Dinosaurs are cool af. Never too old to be interested in them!

[@HORRIOR1]

As someone born in the 90s, it feels super weird to think that we didn't know the cause of extinction of Dinosaurs until the 80s.

[@DivoGo]

I was born in the 60’s and I thought it was strange. Also the science books that my school used were in HUGE error for just about everything.

[@punkgrl325]

Yeah, for real. I guess kids today will never know there was a time when Pluto was considered a planet.

[@brunoutechkaheeros1182]

​@@punkgrl325ah yes... the 9 planets of solar system 15 years ago... i remember reading that in school books... then, 8 planets 😂

[@WillieBrownsWeiner]

When I was in school in the early 80s the whole comet/meteor theory was fringe. Like UFOs and Bigfoot

[@davemurphy2774]

They tell us about "Climate Change" was man made the use of Automobiles. In 1927 USA had their worst flood... But they tell us it's worse floods today. Largest recorded forest fire in North America 1950.... They should have stopped Henry Ford in his tracks... No Model T and No V8's... Science changes....@@DivoGo

[@Crurned]

A bruised Earth: Look how they massacred my boys

[@matthewjones8798]

“I don’t want his mother to see him like this...”

[@bradbutterfield5935]

The gf1 ?

[@Tommy_6948]

Imagine living in the historically most important place ever, which no one knows about

[@gumaromebius]

It’s a pretty popular tourist spot for people from Mérida, and I’m pretty sure no one has a clue

[@CazzyVR]

@@gumaromebius where is it exactly?

[@gumaromebius]

@@CazzyVR not too far north of Mérida, in the state of Yucatán, there’s a port called Progreso. It’s right there

[@randymillhouse791]

@@CazzyVR It's on a Planet called Earth. Crack a book.

[@ichigokarasu]

Can someone hold this asteroid? My armageddon tired.

[@kyleglenn2434]

Good one 👍👍

[@mr.beanman9816]

ichigokarasu heckin hecking good one

[@BenWoods]

I hate you. 😭🤣

[@Killer_Turnip]

Wow, just wow. I actually chuckled.

[@swrennie]

Pretty funny comet, but it could have been meteor...

[@hexwolfi]

This man: "The Chicxulub impact wiped out the dinosaurs." Birds, who are technically dinosaurs: "Are we a joke to you?"

[@Roadhouse1997]

@@gamestation2690 and you know this comment was a joke.

[@aahiadhanus6290]

U skip some portion 😂 lol atmosphere also heated up man then how they will sustain

[@biggstavros5876]

You know exactly what he means. He is talking about them being the dominant species on the planet. Smart arse mummy`s basement boy.

[@VisualVariant]

That’s like saying a shark is technically a whale.

[@gravytrain74]

He's talking about all non avian dinosaurs went extinct. Birds are actually part of the avian dinosaur group

[@mattelwood980]

"And then it rained molten glass"

[@merrittanimation7721]

It was a bad day overall.

[@williamcrisp6032]

someone probably jinxed it by saying "it can't get any worse can it"

[@IrishCarney]

@@williamcrisp6032 Or "Phew made it, unlike this continent sized field of corpses. Lucky me"

[@henryfleischer404]

Challenge: next time this happens make a window from the falling molten glass.

[@gibblesglobe991]

“Part time genius, full time jerk” - best summary I’ve ever heard of Richard Owen.

[@somethinglikethat2176]

This is going to send me down a wikipedia rabbit hole

[@livethefuture2492]

If I may ask why...

[@peachyykeen80]

@@livethefuture2492 Owen had a pretty bad reputation amongst his peers, was described as vindictive, sadistic and a liar, and was accused of plagiarism and claiming credit for other peoples work several times, for which he was eventually removed from the Royal Society's zoological council.

[@jamiebarba5701]

Richard Owen Job Full time jerk Part time genius.

[@nunyabidness117]

Every time Simon says Cheecha-lube you gotta take a drink.

[@lrballistics]

Dinosaurs: "We're the apex predators of this planet, nothing can stop us!" A weird space rock: *"Chacha real smooth"*

[@Lakhshamana]

Or rather *_Astronomia intensifies_*

[@steveblanchard777]

Chicxulub Meteorite: Watch this. Hold my beer.

[@notmenotme614]

Dinosaurs: “We’re the apex predators of this planet” Raccoon: “hold my fern leaf”

[@Andrew-sv3ck]

Too soon dude

[@mrhalos6770]

I just Not Me Not Me

[@lilgnomey]

I watch with the captions on and OMG you guys never disappoint! ‘A handful of dinos chilling out in India (unspoken cc:doing some yoga and finding themselves), well that depends on who you ask.’ Your captions person needs a medal. 😂

[@ZankuroMinazuki]

When Simon said "The Day of Impact" I thought he said "The Dave Impact." From this day forward the Extinction Level Event that wiped out the dinosaurs will be known to me as "The Dave Impact." It must be so. ;)

[@BaronVonQuiply]

The dinosaurs in a desperate bid to stay alive: "Dave's not here, man."

[@lorettamowell8764]

@@BaronVonQuiply Hey man, let me in!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

I thought "The Karen Krunch" might be a good moniker for it...😉

[@michaelnoyola7971]

Asteroid Dave...gets my vote in the astronomical object naming poll.

[@beeno3487]

Reminds me of my geology classes in middle school. We would just watch the core at the start of every term.

[@mwhitelaw8569]

In 1978 I was still in grade school It was absolute massive news to us kids the finding of the impact scar. Still seemingly fascinated by geology I find myself prey of Simon's humor

[@jamesjimenez8698]

"Part time genius and full time jerk" 😂😂 i love your channel so much

[@bcm8984]

I have to look up Richard Owen now. I need to understand that zinger 😂

[@resileaf9501]

"Life finds a way" Haaaa, Simon said the thing! I mean, it's missing the 'uh', but hey, it's still good.

[@TheSteveBoyd]

Cretaceous: The Jim Belushi of geological eras. I LITERALLY did a spit-take!

[@DeaconDee80]

😆

[@humanperson5153]

66 million years ago a meteor hits earth 66 million years pass 2020: youtube recommends this video

[@acolossalsquid]

Par for the course when dealing with KZbin algorithms.

[@ravidas4852]

And the year is 2020 and I don't like where this is going

[@demef758]

Whistler is one helluva "presenter." I don't know if he also writes the content, but his presentations are consistently highly engaging. Bravo, sir!

[@mikenike6079]

He doesn't write it

[@michaelgallagher3640]

His writers are locked in the basement.

[@wabisabi6875]

Mind blown. Thanks, Simon. Chicxulub is one of the factors that causes me to remind my fellow humans to believe there is life on other planets. Yes, statistically it is likely, since the universe is apparently infinite. But our planet spent the mind-bogglingly vast amount of its history with no life (or very simple life forms) that it seems to me that even if we find (carbon-based) life on other planets, it would most likely be something like slime mold.

[@jacktingey7886]

You should cover the Bay of Fundy and its weird tides. Also, asteroids are scary.

[@terrygrossmann2295]

Jack Tingey I had asteroids once- preparation H took care of it. Lol

[@jacktingey7886]

Terry Grossmann Sounds painful. ;)

[@quadravert]

Terry Grossmann that’s not hemeroids that’s Assburgers. And I like your bean bag chair...

[@Lextacy06]

I live on the Bay of Fundy. It is amazing to see the tidal changes!

[@sparkybolt2085]

I thought it was insane to see a river flow backwards.

[@bleikrsound6127]

Absolutely correct - I visited Yucatan a few years ago, and did not see a single dinosaur.

[@cjm8160]

“Everybody gangsta’ until volcanoes go boom”

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

What would happen if a 10km asteroid hit yellowstone?

[@RejectedInch]

@@The_Greedy_Orphan well.... consider how thin is the crust in that spot...i reckon that magma would probably splash out for miles, emptying the caldera in few seconds vaporizing the rest. Magma tsunami.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

@@RejectedInch sounds like the name for an awesome disaster movie.

[@patty4449]

One thing about the volcano and meteor theories is that they could both be the reason... But what if there is more? Has it been considered that the tectonic plates have been damaged by that impact so that land masses sank underwater for a longer period? Because there are some studies saying that around that time not only did tsunamis bring sea organics all over the land, but also the ripple effect of this could have lasted long enough to have ocean cover the surface for several months... Enough time to kill literally everything it covers... Than there is also the 2nd impact theory that states that a 2nd asteroid hit the planet just shortly afterwards... I mean there is just too much to argue about... Also tornadoes btw...

[@ravenlord4]

66M/BC -- never forget

[@nalaeel219]

Rip

[@violent___serenity]

subtitles is where the real story lies @21:23

[@cinskybuhsrandy5099]

10:31 - I'm a bit surprised that you found a footage that old, good job!

[@SecularFelinist]

Dinosaurs: It's the end of the world as we know it! Mammals: And I feel fine.

[@apolicum]

We feel fine *

[@solesurvivor5]

All I know is, that when the asteroid hit, a mother T-rex, who had been mortally wounded trying to defend her offspring against an Ankilosaur, lay dead on the plains of what would become Montana, her baby T-rexes by her side, a blinding flash of white light, followed by a massive tremor signalled the impact of the asteroid. the baby T-rexes and their mother were blown away by the front of the explosion, then the molten rock started raining down, this was the end of the age of the Dinosaurs!

[@Mister_Kourkoutas]

solesurvivor5 Walking With Dinosaurs, still the greatest documentary on the dinosaurs ever!

[@livethefuture2492]

And then some billionaire tycoon decided to suck some Dino DNA out of a mosquito trapped in amber and genetically engineer dinosaurs in a theme park and.... oh wait, wrong movie! :p

[@solesurvivor5]

@@livethefuture2492 don't be so hard on yourself, that can still happen. XD.

[@johnmcglynn4102]

I was around at the time that this theory of the dinosaur extinction was first discussed. The Alvarez borthers were geologists from UC Berkeley and they discovered a layer or iridium that was present in rocks, worldwide, at the point where the dinosaur era ended. It seemed too crazy to believe at first, but then the hunt for the crater started. There were ideas that it was in Iceland where two crustal plates collided. Then finally Chicxulub crater in Mexico was found.

[@dahemac]

“That was the year that, part-time genius and full-time jerk Richard Owen…” LOL

[@alaskankara]

From an Historian, Thank you for dissing Owen, always appreciated!

[@danirons1853]

This video had quite an “impact “ on me. Dad joke time.

[@Troglor048]

You can let yourself out.

[@macmedic892]

That joke rocks!

[@RavenMacy]

🤔😐

[@jamescarter3196]

That joke is so dead, it's EXTINCT! Do... do you get it?

[@levilandes1719]

That's pretty punny.

[@jaynehorn151]

Simon Thank you for this and your other channels. They inform and educate unlike so many other sites. Watching from Kangaroo Island, South Australia

[@robbes7rh]

This is by far the most substantive video I've seen thus far on the impact of this asteroid. I read that a timeline comparing humans with the dinasaurs if stretched from San Francisco to New York, the period of dinasaurs would go across the continent to about West Milford and humans just the last few miles from West Milford to Central Park. It had to have been something cateclysmic for them all to disappear at once.

[@amehak1922]

We still have dinosaurs: birds.

[@amehak1922]

@Jayo Delaware lmao thanks, i needed a laugh. Birds are literally dinosaurs, their ancestors were dinosaurs, they evolved from dinosaurs.

[@theiridescentwon]

What is that background dinging sound? 😂

[@mrTacooguy]

It was driving me mad too

[@nickjack1696]

Your tinnitus?

[@jamescarter3196]

It's a humdinger. I mostly hear the humming but others hear the dings.

[@djdange01]

Glad I wasnt the only one lol. I paused the video like ten times to make sure I wasnt hearing things or to see if it was coming from outside my house or something. It's very faint, I imagine it was coming from outside the studio or whever they record these. Def some weird beeping going on in Prague tho

[@disclosureguru7737]

Yeah I stopped the video 15:22. Called indoctrination

[@wayneigoe6722]

Or as Ultron would say: "There were more than a dozen.. Extinction-level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs..."

[@RogueJedi]

"The impact of this [...] crater cannot be ignored." I see what you did there. :D

[@conors4430]

This was an awesome video. Obviously I have heard the story but this is the first time I ever actually empathised with those poor animals. The absolute horror they would have gone through. I have never really thought about it like that. Sure most of them probably would’ve killed me on site but, their level of suffering is too horrible for words

[@TotalRookie_LV]

"..we don't know much about that day..." Well, we do know the season, when it happened - late spring or early summer (May or June), based on the pollen found in the layer with traces of that particular meteor.

[@zufalllx]

It was always late spring or early summer. With no real winter, I imagine pollen was a year round thing

[@TotalRookie_LV]

@@zufalllx I doubt that, as that would really screw up pollination cycle, as seeds and fruits can't ripe instantly, they need time.

[@zufalllx]

@@TotalRookie_LV But there wouldn't be a widespread cycle, as year round temps wouldn't change all that much. Think of it like mice.

[@TotalRookie_LV]

@@zufalllx No, that would be awful. Lotus, that was specifically mentioned regarding that meteor impact, needs time for it nuts to ripe. Now imagine, some lotuses bloom, while others bear fruit or are somewhere in between in the cycle, so there is a chance, some of them will bloom while no other lotuses or very few are blooming too, thus they will not get pollinated at all or they will, but with a lessened genepool of other lotuses, which will diminish their genetic variety, and that's not good for survival.

[@zufalllx]

@@TotalRookie_LV Thus all the extra pollen for them to find.

[@m4ttyofficialchannel]

Everything dying outside Tardigrade : Hey, what was that sound?

[@Scrolltoendyt]

What a feeling knowing dieng suddenly, without warning, excuse in one of the most painful(or in some cases extremely quick) was a mercy

[@Ayoosi]

"The 45th parallel, roughly on the border of US and Canada"... Um, that's Oregon territory. Hello from the US, sitting on the 49th parallel.

[@johnvandenburgh8771]

Actually 15 miles from my house in McCall Idaho. It cuts through just North of a small town called New Meadows

[@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes]

Just north of Lincoln City, Oregon, there's a sign on HW 101 which indicates the 45th parallel

[@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes]

What's really interesting about baldy-head up there is that he appears to be reading directly from an article printed in The Atlantic ("What Caused The Dinosaur Extinction") which is about a scientist who has provided interesting (if not compelling) evidence that the dinos were *_NOT_* wiped out by an asteroid. The Atlantic Quote: _It was swimsuit weather most places on land: Even as far north as the 45th parallel, which today roughly marks the U.S.-Canada border, the climate had a humid, subtropical feel._

[@jeffreygosselin1143]

@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes WOW! Plagiarism!!!! Interesting! 🤔

[@silversword90]

Funny thing is that the 45th parallel goes through the north of italy. Europe is very far north compared to the US and still the climate is warm

[@Freakingbean]

The dinosaurs looked at Chuck Norris wrong... once.

[@ToaArcan]

How did you make this comment all the way from 2008?

[@Erik_Arnqvist]

Can't believe I saw a Chuck Norris joke in 2020.

[@annescholey6546]

Family Guy chin fist

[@Games_and_Music]

Nobody dares chucking an asteroid at Norris

[@sardonicspartan9343]

"Trex scavenged along side the triceratops" Bless your heart.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

WTF? T.Rex being scavenger was debunked for years!

[@ranndomundead9112]

@@ExtremeMadnessX if i had to guess the trex specifically evolved around hunting the biggest vegan animals...the arms seem relatively useless until put into context of biting and grappling a long ass neck while still being small enough to not be guaranteed to shatter in the inevitable roll

[@andrewbrown6522]

A t-rex looks like a giant reptile rabbit....

[@unbrokenbeatrecs]

"ket-so-cala-ticos" made me spit my drink. Great effort 😂

[@TheBrianRuby]

I knew someone else had to have caught that. 🤜🤛

[@mrmojomajestic8317]

One of the best videos, not only on this channel but any channel, presented by Simon ever. IMHO, blah blah, of cousre but I liked this one a lot. *ALL PRAISE BE TO THE ONE THEY CALL ... THE WHISTLER*

[@endearingteacup]

I love how he, just verypolitely, says: Shut up, and lets use a little bit of our imagination, because he has to be professional on this channel. 😂👌🏼

[@xAdorNexasYT]

Plot twist: ancient aliens sent the asteroid to kill off the dinosaurs to make room for their little project... Us.

[@fadillangston9797]

Why the fuck would they wait 66 million years for it?

[@isiso.speenie5994]

How to imagine over 2 million tzar bombas ? Pieces of earth would shower down on all the inner planets as meteors ! Similar to us finding meteorites from mars.

[@DannL18]

What’s the name of that short story where they go back in time and shoot the T-Rex only to have to go back again to dig the bullet out bacause they can’t leave anything behind? They complete their task only to come back to the present and realize the world had changed because one of the guys had stepped on a butterfly in the past and changed the future because of it.

[@stimpy_thecat]

A Sound of Thunder

[@DannL18]

Mark Richards Thanks that was Bradbury right?

[@stimpy_thecat]

@@DannL18 Bradbury, yes.

[@sneeringimperialist6667]

That was written before the butterfly effect was popular. They thought they could walk on those floating squares and not affect anything.

[@RavenMacy]

Thank you , I saw a bit of that when I was younger and couldn't remember the name of the movie , so many years of wondering!

[@Chooong7]

Crocs & Alligators: We wuz kangz n shiet

[@Tysard]

Dinosaurs existed back when the earth was still in early access. Volcanoes were still shaping the land and the devs estimated it would take many years before it's ready for release so in the meantime, they figured they're release the experimental Asteroid event but a bug in the code paired with the underdeveloped land caused it to kill off almost all life on earth. Eventually they managed to fix most of the bugs caused by the unstable event and the earth was ready for open beta but everyone that lost their characters would have to start from scratch. Some still speculate that the devs will release an updated, more stable version of this event for us to experience but inside sources claim that it's still quite a ways off and will be optional DLC rather than it being RNG based.

[@alvianekka80]

Ah yes, TierZoo enjoyer.

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

But is the answer still 42? 🤔

[@shanemerrill8925]

The answer to everything!

[@jamesddarby84]

14:30 anyone else hear that faint pinging?

[@chrismize9802]

Thank god someone else heard it!!! I thought I was audiohalucinating.

[@DoomsdayOps]

Heard that and something else earlier in the video. Someone's phone in another room maybe?

[@Zepplin76]

Thank you. I searched my apt for the source of that sound.

[@Jeeters87]

Dinosaurs: “we’re extinct!” Cockroaches: “skill issue”

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Yeah, I can’t believe that people sometimes say it’s “a meteor” that killed the dinosaurs A meteor is mostly made of ice and gasses, asteroids are made of iron and other heavy metals, it drives me crazy whenever people say it was a meteor.

[@d2factotum]

By definition, a "meteor" is the visible track of something falling through the Earth's atmosphere--it doesn't imply anything about what the object in question is made of.

[@MajesticSkywhale]

Comets are made of ice and gasses, asteroids are rock and metal, meteors are what you call an asteroid in space and as it's falling, and once on Earth it's a meteoroid.

[@nevyen149]

A "meteor" is any body of matter which enter the Earth's atmosphere and makes a streak of light. If it hits the Earth, it's a meteorite. An asteroid is a small rocky body in space. A comet is a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust. If either a comet or an asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere, the chunks of solid matter would become meteors. By definition the thing which killed the dinosaurs and made the Chicxulub crater was a meteorite, most likely formerly an asteroid.

[@remalm3670]

... Okay Guys, how do you really feel when people say ... "Oh! Look! ... It's a bird! ... No! It's a plane! ... NO! IT'S!😉 ...

[@1xoACEox1]

I love those measurements of time they're so freaky. Like the ancient Egyptians were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us now.

[@Deeplycloseted435]

We are three times closer to this event, than the dino’s that died from it, are to their first relatives.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Great info

[@azisandwich]

Didn't expect you here

[@WooshaBaloo]

If dinosaurs hadn’t been wiped out, I wonder what they would have evolved into.

[@jeffbuck2111]

What’s funny is there was a gap between dinosaur and mammalian dominances where birds were the top predator

[@21macca21]

well that's cheered me right up that has 😳😳

[@LovleyLemonade]

I bet it wouldn't have happened if the Dinosaurs played the song "Live and Learn" as it plummited to earth.

[@Bloated_Tony_Danza]

If you say “I like dinosaurs” you get laughed at and thought of a giant man-baby😂 why?

[@cmd31220]

I'll do you one better. I tell people that I have a pet dinosaur and people look at me like I'm crazy. My parrot is as much a dinosaur as a t-rex is. Taxonomy bitches

[@alanmoss3603]

Why? Ross from Friends is why!

@@alanmoss3603 ross is one reason I was never a " friends" fan. chandler was the other.

[@Gekayy]

Goddamn I love your channels and content. Didn't know I needed this in my life so bad, but goddamn I did.

[@ITSecurityNerd]

Wouldn't an impact potentially set off volcanoes worldwide if it were severe enough???

[@dyobodraode2554]

That's what I also think

[@oatlord]

Almost certainly. Worldwide.

[@ITSecurityNerd]

@Oatlord yeah, so the idea that it is "either or" is probably not the case, it was probably "both and"

[@greasyitalian476]

IS THIS THE VOICE OF OBI WAN FROM CLONE WARS

[@_cameroncarey_]

no.

[@willyjoerockhead]

I remember once i asked everyone of my co-workers... "Did humans ever live at the same time with dinosaurs?" They all said "Yes" - One guy told me that he saw it on TV - "The Flintstones" another guy said that has an artifact dinosaur bone with an arrow head in it, For what i understand is that humans have only been around about one million years and the dinosaurs died over sixty million years ago.

[@jansenart0]

We can know the approximate time of impact. Certain orbits would be impossible for the speed and angle of impact, which we know. Since the relative velocity to Earth was only about 300m/s, the orbit had to be pretty similar to ours. Since the impact was steep, that rules out noon and midnight as orbital solutions. Most likely it happened in the morning as Earth was overtaking it in its orbit.

[@bugcatcherwade9048]

Is it just me who thought “a decreased sex drive” was a much more normal theory then “they got so into eating eggs they ate their own”?

[@rachitaroy6621]

You are like magic. I could listen to you speak all year round.

[@baronvonhoughton]

"Literally the end of the world" - pretty sure it's still going.

[@elgringo1058]

Idiot

[@laschicasRloca]

Wow this video was amazing. Telling a historic mass extension story and ending it on a positive note. Bravo!

[@FuckYoutubeCensorship]

... I spent my entire life hearing 65 million years. Are you legitimately telling me that this giant anniversary has reached 66 million years in the past decade?

[@faulknersealock5575]

Wow that's interesting

[@jeffthompson9622]

Probably a refinement of the previous estimate based on new evidence or improved processing of it.

[@lustrazor44]

are you trying to use around 50 years to compare to an estimate of millions?

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

Nah - it was the switch to the metric system that did it. 65 million years in Imperial units = 66 million years in metric. 😎 You're welcome. 👍

[@multiyapples]

@@svenmorgenstern9506 no idea what you’re talking about. All countries use the same calendar.

[@martydewitt4006]

My ex mother in law witnessed this. She should be interviewed

[@dannymack1196]

"By this point in history, flowering plants have finally appeared." I guess this is the point in time when the cannibis plant was born. 😤😎

[@CazzyVR]

That first Emoji looks like you are so focused on that Blow

[@Tea_laBlue]

Part of me is a scientist who loves seeing how the Earth and its environment have historically functioned. How other species evolved to survive the environment. Part of me is a history buff who loves seeing how other civilizations rose and fell due to environmental factors. And then there’s another part of me that keeps singing “we’re what killed the dinosaurs”

[@charlations]

Thank you!!! Thank you for that AMAZING conclusion, putting to words the wonder and absolute near-impossible coincidence that has last to us all existing today, watching this wonderful video!!! I had the amazing experience of going and staying in Chicxulub in January of 2020, and there IS a small pedestal in one of their parks with what was supposed to be a recreation of the asteroid in it, but it was stolen. So the only memorial to the event leading to us existing is an empty pedestal with a few dinosaur sculptures around it, no plaque explaining about the asteroid, nothing. That amazing conclusion brought to mind the surreal experience I had being there, thinking that without this crater, we wouldn't be alive today, but with nothing to appreciate such a momentous location. We were just a bunch of young adults traveling through the beaches of the Yucatán peninsula, but that spot felt special to me for it's invisible importance to us all.

[@narmale]

Danny... i blame you.... That low key dining had me tearing my car apart for HOURS... THANKS ALOT! 🤦‍♂️

[@furthurondown]

this is a vid i found during covid when i first found these channels. y'all should do a fun spinoff into the Dead Space world based on this event

[@setaside2]

This was excellent work, kids. You're pretty good, on the regular but this was even better than most. Nice.

[@firevenuz1815]

It’s so surreal and lost feeling how that very first spark got everything started, it’s just how did that first spark start, what made that first spark 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@domhuckle]

Crocodiles still partying like it's the jurassic

[@brendadefazio8497]

I love all your videos, Simon 😊 No matter what channel you're on💜💜💜

[@436jcarr]

On the other hand, consider a slightly larger asteroid that could have completely ended the entire planet and it further underscores what a precarious event the Chicxulub asteroid actually was. Not too big, not too small.

[@otaddiction]

Damn he really did John Belushi's brother like that 😂

[@patrickmckinley8739]

19:20 When I was just a pup, we called those sinkholes sen-oh-tays.

[@Oxymoron53]

Simon that scientist has a point, if an asteroid hits the sea like it did at chicxulub it would not put out half as much dust as if it hit land. Seeing as the sea levels 200m higher back then undoubtedly chicxulub would have been under water so the volcano also erupting would have been a major contributing factor to the amount of dust and debris in the air. I haven’t done research on this I just have common sense and I’m using ur stats to back up my opinion. There’s no way chicxulub would have caused all that damage to the rest of the world on its own. It would have been more localised damage with volcanoes also acting to wipe out the dinosaurs. Not necessarily saying a volcano and a asteroid were the only things that killed them. For all we know really there could have been super volcanoes erupting as a result or alongside the Chicxulub extinction event

[@razamadaz3417]

Fern is 350 million years old, it's incredible i have some in my garden.

[@JamesThomas-zl9er]

“Burning through the skies” - thankyou Mr Fahrenheit