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  • So, they want us tobelieve that only small mammals below earth survived! South-America has Mammals similar to Africa. The Jaguar,Lama,..and others couldn't develope the same way in S-America, and on the other site of the Ocean. Un-true

  • 4m4s Is that what I think it is? A mole centipede?

    Sorry, Tom Six: you weren't the first to think of that.

  • mabye ants will rule the world and insectoids!

  • @Apoic123 Hail the ants!!

  • "Some say bla bla bla ...".

    this theory was made up to extinct dinosaur 100 year ago (keep that in mind). at that time they don't have technology like today, the pangea continent are collaps, there is no big continent! and the continent aren't flow freely in the sea!

  • @DannyTheSeeker I tried to understand what you were saying, but it was a bit difficult. There were repeated events of a supercontinent, not just Pangaea. Any supercontinent is doomed to break up because of pressure build-up that is strongest under its center. Then the tectonic movements eventually bring them back together by closing some oceans at subduction zones and expanding others at mid-ocean ridges. No, they don't float freely, but the actual explanation is pretty long.

  • kangaroo

  • u guys are nerds for watching this movie

  • i just can't stop smiling every time he says senote, because that is a spanish word which actually means big boob

  • Take a look at the hypothesis called The Impact And Exit Event. I read the book last fall and as far as I am concerned the hypothesis actually proves that a far larger catastrophic event must have occurred in the Gulf of Mexico - with Chixculub quite possibly being the epicenter. The hypopthesis is available at theimpactandexitevent . com

  • i don't think that dinosaur died cause of a meteor this maybe cause by a sickness or lack of food supply predation cause dino to extinc

  • @Usernamejanjacob39 agree! or maybe the pressure of the air that they couldn't hold. or any other natural cause. but the meteor is a NONSENSE DONKEY SHIT !!!

  • @Dogapsa so, you want to genocide all males under 5'9'' didn't you eugenic scum?

  • cod4rush that's funny lol like a big blob fart

  • 0:57 keep clicking it..

  • @cod4rush LOL

  • why do people have to flame with such vile epithets?

  • so weird.. all animals on the surface died including animals as big as dinos but smaller animals in the ground didnt die? i mean how deep did they live in the ground? and what happened to the water dinos in the ocean just like the whales? why did the sea dinos die too when whales survive? and crocodiles etc

  • Just a side note, not about the video, anyone else with a "2012, click here" ad on the side. Click it if you want to see some of the worst paranoia ever.

  • Earth is 4.54 billion years old

  • i saw this in school........his name is ian stewart!! lmao and he is funny as hell

  • the narratior has a cool accent =]

  • @videowiz557645 Actually, his accent is annoying.

  • owh come on fck off with your "god", dont just seek hope or try to believe in something that seems a miracle , just cuz someone wrote it in a book, believe in yourself. If you believe in god, you only fool yourself.

  • The dude narating this sounds like the dude from Theme Park World :)

  • Still believe in god?

  • It was God will he sent to Asteroid crashing toward earth without this event fold we would not have existed. We need this in order for our creation on earth. God created us from this cataclysmic event

  • @jampact132

    How do you know this?

  • @jampact132 wow i nvr thought of it in this way....dats a gd point but it kinda goes agains the whole he made earth in 7 days thing

  • @turreu yes i do

  • @invertballer12 I believe in magic wizards too.

  • I want the meteor park in chicxulub!!! My land needs that! and jurasic park in yucatan will be gorgerous! jejejejeje

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  • So... if another large meteor hit Earth and kill all people, maybe some millions of years later, a more intelligent species will come out, which is not a bad thing :P

  • i'd say we are pretty smart, except for some idiots who's ruining it for everybody :D

  • You mean like people who can't use punctuation or grammar correctly?

  • @chakazul bad for you though :p

  • ..yah.. the meteor only killed about a forth of the population. the once near the impact site..

    ..the rest died due to sudden change in weather patterns. scarcity of food sources.. and they can't adopt there..

  • Fascinating stuff.

  • You know the meteor didnt kill the dinosaurs it was all the stuff that flew into the air and was pulled all around earth to block out the sun is what really killed them so they had lack of sun = colder climates and no vegitation thats what led to the meat eaters dieing but all the small animals lived because they didnt need much then out of the survivors were anything small so all the big ones who need to eat alot died off.

  • Well, it was mainly three effects: heat and pressure, tsunami and climate effects. Heat and pressure is estimated to have mainly cleaned out megafauna in North America, and tsunamis cleared thousands of miles of coastlines. The climate effects did the rest in eventually.

    It is also noted that this happened a couple million years after huge volcanic eruptions in the Indian subcontinent probably caused major atmospheric damage, and the meteor merely applied a coup de grâce.

  • could the region around

    47.209121, -62.779541

    (Prince Edward Iland, Canada

    -paste coordinates in google maps)

    be an impact crater?

    This would mean a crater of approx 200 miles in diameter.

  • Geologists rate some 200 sites across the planet as probable meteor impact sites. There are at least two suspected sites in Hudson Bay, and one in Chesapeake Bay.

    A 200 mile wide crater would likely to have been caused by a meteor around 8 miles across. Similarly, the famous Barringer meteor crater, a mile across, was caused by a meteor 150 feet across (300,000 tons). It's the kinetic explosion when it strikes Earthside that clears the crater, not the physical meteor.

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  • I recall a documentary I just watched yesterday that basically said that it wasn't just a meteorite that would have killed off the dinosaurs.

    Apparently it was a number of factors, including climate change, moving of the titanic plates, plus several meteorites in different locations of the world which resulted in the slow extinction of the dinosaur age.

    Truth be told, we don't have a complete picture but pieces of one.

  • most of that was brought on BY THE IMPACT, The volcanic activity climate change etc. The only metorite strike that fts in with the KT extiction IS the Chixulub event

  • Ummmmm, there is another possibility. There is a somewhat larger crater site east of India in the Indian Ocean that *may* be another meteor strike site (and might also be from Earth tectonic causes - it's not yet clear). It's dated to approximately the same time; it could also be that the meteor broke into two or more pieces, hitting dispersed areas simultaneously. Must have been a rocking good time. Look up the Shiva crater.

  • Titanic plates :)

  • ahahahahaah!!! lmfao!!!

  • titanic plates lol? do you mean "tectonic" plates

  • @CheshireShade I have deciphered all the key spots in the world and I can explain everything.

    Christopher Earth-Walker facebook

  • @CheshireShade Also flood basalt eruptions, if I remember correctly.

  • Instead of asking infantile questions...

    READ...LEARN...ABSORB! You might be surprised what you can learn.

    What I find interesting is that no one talks about the resultant tsunami that would have been generated. Is it any wonder that the Midwest is so relatively flat & the Mississippi river channel so straight and well defined? Imagine the Gulf of Mexico suddenly splashed across the continent in a wave miles high; and how much force with which that water would have flowed back to the sea.

  • Apparently over 3 miles high according to many sources and there were multiple tsunamis

  • Where did you find info on this? I have looked high and low and while I have found plenty on the impact site and atmospheric repercusions, I have found little to nothing on the resulting tsunamis.

  • The Mississippi valley is mostly defined by what the geologists call a failed rift zone. Sometime in the past 50 million years or so it appears that there were tectonic forces trying to split North America apart roughly along the Mississippi valley. It stretched the plate, and then the forces quit, leaving a weakened plate. The whole area around New Orleans is slowly sinking, and the huge earthquakes experienced in 1800 around New Madrid, Missouri are some of the results.

  • I am aware of the New Madrid seismic zone. However, the river basin and flat lands could still be largely the result of the flow of water back into the gulf through one predominant channel.

  • Mammals, smallish, furry, produce milk for their young, keep warm, 4 chambered hearts, come to be way, way back. See "Synapsida" by McLoughlin or that book about the Permian extinction, "When Life Almost Died". Mammals & dinosaurs split off from reptiles but reptiles dominated until the end of the Permian, 250,000,000 b.c., when something(s) killed of most life on earth. Among the survivors, Dinos were most successful, but mammals were there, until the K-T extinction 65,000,000 b.c.

  • idk how these meteors explode, just rock hitting rock

  • Cuz It's going so fast, 25,000mph to 160,000mph.

  • its the impact ,just think of when you throw chalk really hard against the floor it breaks into little peices well thats wat happens when meteors hit only 100 million+more devistating

  • When they air burst which is what you are reffering to it's do to the massive build up of the friction directly infront of the meteor.

    The T-K event they talk about here was an impact event which is totaly different and as seen here can be ALOT more devestating.

  • amazing

  • i didnt know that Rats and mice were from the age of dinosaurs. And how did aligators and crocodiles survive?

  • they where just born after....

  • Well, they weren't exactly the same modern rats or mice we have today, of course, they've evolved too since then- but they were somewhat similar. As for Crocodiles and Alligators the water is a natural shelter- but they owe their real success from simply being widespread. If they die out in one area of the world- they've always been able to repopulate from another. Plus they're not specialists and will take anything they can catch.

  • 2:36 That looked amazing!

  • amazing.

  • Senorties.....

    wish to be there.....

  • Beautiful

  • Hey, does anybody know the name of that Impact Crator that hit the ocean off mexico that they say killed the dionasours?

  • Chicxulub crater. (aka Yucatan crater, see the wiki)

  • That's true, it's an approximated method, but i haven't seen any book where it tolds about an age of billions...I've read encyclopedias since i was five years old, and all the places i've read something related to the age of the earth presented the same information, although where publications with no conexion between them. it's around 5000 million years, nothing of billions. And the universe around 13000 million years. In fact, by the elements which are in the sun, it's a third generation star.

  • 5000 million years *is* 5 billion. There used to be two definitions of billion - a thousand million (10^9, "American" definition) and a million million (10^12, "British"). Since the end of WWII, the American definition has become the standard, and that's what 5000 million is - 5 billion. The rest of what you explain is pretty much accepted scientifically as true.

  • Well, i imagine it has become the standard in anglosaxon world(i don't know if is like this in the whole Europe, because when i was a kid studied that a billion is a million of millions , a trillion a million of billions, and so on. But i recognize my error at understanding it in english. Thanks for your apreciation

  • @puncheex Ive often found that having two definitions for a mathmatical term is confusing, Thanks for explaining it though I dare sayI will forgetagain before too long, I never did have a head for numbers

  • Why dont one of you bible thumpers build a time machine, go back to the beginning and figure it out for all of us! While youre at it, make note of what you see first, Jesus or purple unicorns! My guess is neither!

  • Lol thank you. Someone needed to say it!

  • @SnapShow82 Jesus was the Cris Angel of his time, and possibly mad, yet it was better than a fucking Jock that rapes shorter males, but anyway "bible thumpers" do not believe in space anyway.

  • Are you sure about that? Human made God in their image. You should study a bit and learn about how it's possible to obtain the aprpoximate age of a material. Do you really believe that the fossils at the mountains are because of the big flood that the Bible describes? Come on!!!

  • @Alahaied  jocks made God

  • why do you feel so strongly about it?

  • @haloking2907 why

  • @haloking2907

    Your a fucking idiot!

    The earth is 127,029,829,283 years old!

  • @TaylorLuatner How does anyone know?

    No proof.

  • @twiggyh4x

    Yeah, I'm a Paleontologist. From cat scans, DNA test, Marsupials from Precambrian tests.

  • @TaylorLuatner

    That's still pretty damn accurate. afaik it's 4.54 × 109 years ± 1%.

  • @didjabringadidjalong

    Actually afaik is 4.32 x 109 years ± 2%.

  • @TaylorLuatner

    yea, my books don't agree with eachother either... oh well.

  • @didjabringadidjalong

    lol/. right.

  • I think I may have misunderstood you. Did you say that the Earth is only 10,000 years old? It is commonly recognized by science that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

  • You know, I was going to give you a break, because your beliefs are your own. But I went to your profile. Every other word is a curse word or something sexual. I dare say that all that time in a religious school has taught you nothing about how to act.

  • @oasisdreams  Fucking Shit!

  • well, i guess that number changes often. i've seen 'scientific' books, they have differing opinions, 2 billion, 5 billion, 10 billion, i've seen tons of different ideas. face it, we have no actual idea, if you look at the methods they use to date the earth (hehe, date the earth? get it?), you'd see that it's not some foolproof system they have.

  • bah your all idiots, it was obviously chuck noris farting.

  • hahahaha

  • no wai i changed my mind its now a mudkip being born

  • Do you feel your masculinity growing by insulting others who think different than you? Wow, what a christian you are!! Short minded and short pennis, surely. Does your girl fuck real guys, not halfman like you? Ohhh, i'm sorry, you are gay, all my respects for you, but you don't have to hide it by insulting gays!

  • Fag.

  • Oh, the adorable piggy has spoken.

  • Buh.

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  • The sad part is that a lot of retards are keep reading and reading, and believe that is true.

  • What is this? It is sad that people are reading a book. Regardless of what it is, are retards? Man, I suppose humanity should just stop creating literature. You insignificant fuck, get off of my planet.

  • I'm sorry for a so simply explanation, but i can't explain better when i have a limited number of characters. I meant not only birds, but most of life. When i was a youngster i loved all the aspects related to dinosaurs and evolution,i read and thought about the theories, it's proven that for about 50000 years the surface of earth was devastated, that doesn't mean that life has dissapeared, but it's difficult for big animals to find food. That helps the smaller to survive.

  • There's something i don't like about this video. It says the dinosaurs dissapeared but the ancestors of rats and all of us survived because of living underground. Correct me if i've heard wrong(i'm not an english speaker, so it's a bit difficult to me to understand everything), but birds survived also, and they weren't underground. If those animals survived probably was thanks to their hability to addapt, which is more difficult for animals which are cold blooded and so big not all, but most

  • You raise a good question, Alaheid. It's still contested whether the impact alone was responsible. But climate change and volcanic activity in the region that is now India may also have played a part. The meteorite may not have caused as much devastation as this video implies. It has been oversimplified.

  • little note nobody knows what an impact it would be. They talk here about a blast it can be but it also can be not its just waiting and see when its happen then no more imaginations then we all see what damage it would be make

  • Nice thing about that supernova, the sun, the earth...not one of them judges me, hates me, loves me, promises me eternal life, codemns me to everlasting torment...nope they just LET me EXIST, finitely so that my life has PURPOSE, then I get to die, so i dont have to suffer concioussness forever. That is a worthy to be praised power, but it dosnt require praise because WE are its praise. Intelligent creative life IS its glory. Besided they cant hear us, nor can imaginary sky fathers. Simple.

  • so what religion are you then...im guessing scientologist or athiest

  • scientologists believe in fairy tales, too, just different ones

  • ?ATHIEST??? ATHIEST IS NOT A RELIGION!!!!! Its not even some group movement. its just a word t describe someone who doesnt belive in a god or creator.

  • the supernova that detonated all the heavy elements into this region of space IS God. The SUN that gives energy to everything in this space, is GOD..the EARTH that produced life or at least nurtured it from some far off place from some comet that also brings water, life, etc...also reneweal through these events to erase life and start over..they are GODS...STARS write the letters, PLANETS are the setting, LIFE is the story...these are GODS, that produced CREATORS, US..THE GODS! Get with it folks

  • @mrmonkeyman1985 I hope I could be a Demon

  • that guy isn't Australian u dumb motherfucker

    hes a scott ...u fucking idiot

  • wow nice and clear water source!

  • this video is again another scam,funny how when it hits,it goes deep but no dirt flys up. this annoying fucking ausie needs to go back and fuck his home dingos

  • hes scottish, dipshit.

  • dirt? are you kidding me? the very rock itself on alarge meteor impact would turn liquid moltan. anythng else would vaparise.

  • GOD?!?!?!?! hes nothing more than a fictional character brought about to bring hope to the week and vulnerable

  • @steelstud96 yes, but you are an eugenic scum person

  • that explains why we still have animals and plants

  • id say that tradition is brought about by the social norms. and i dont think beliefs have anything to do with genes, they have to do with how you are raised, what your parents teach you, what the people around you believe, etc.

  • id say tradtion rather than genetics.

  • christian god...to be specific

  • Which one, the Catholic, the lutheran, the mormon, the anglican, the greek orthodox, the evanglestic...which "christian god", which also is the jewish god, and Allah....etc...Allah IS the christian god, Jesus IS the christian god...so many factions there certainly must be SOMETHING false about these things, and please dont just say, well mines the right god...that statement has cause most of the suffering on earth, how about we all accept...there is NO god, and stop fighting over fairytales

  • heh why is it that every fucking video related to religions or beliefs ends up with this load load of bull shitted chips in the comments...personally humans have got to get along and stop being cunts to each other. Obviously if you cant accept other peoples beliefs then maybe there should be a hell for thoes people for being nothing more than insensitive and squabbling over this insignifcant matter of how the earth started instead look towards the future ya dumb shits.personally i believe in god

  • Read:The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement

  • Interesting reading about "The Flood" -

    Sitchen's "12th planet"

  • The mathematical probability of a SINGLE CELL coming about by chance is 1/10340,000,000, the fraction 1 divided by 1 followed by 340 million zeros!

    And then this cell must live long enough to reproduce.

    And then the reproduced cell must live long enough to do the same.

    And then more "accidents" must happen to cause more complexity.

    And then more "accidents" must happen to cause more complexity.

    And long before the first "accident" evolution is nothing but a silly, mystical fairy tale.

  • To all the Christians,here your prove that a meteor killed the dinosaur.And not a "Great flood".

  • When you talk about a "Great Flood" ur talking about the flood with Noahs Ark and all that stuff? I read the bible and i don't remember it saying that the great flood killed the dinosaurs... The Great Flood was to punish the majority of humans as they were turning evil if i remember correctly, nothing to do with the dinosaurs.

  • what if the meteor caused the "Great Flood"?

  • I greatly appreciate the 3d map in the video. IMHO the Chicxulub crater is caused by ejecta from a much larger impact. I have (at this posting) one video explaining where and how to find other ejecta impacts from the Wallowa event.

  • On the same earth YOU grew up in. =P

  • That's one big meteor!

    ...

    I like the narrators accent...=) I could listen to him all day.

  • Few million years is no big deal. In God's laboratory, experiments galore where comet crashes wipe out entire species and new better ones are formed.

    Stupid man basks in self-importance, but one day man will be wiped out like bacteria in another cataclysm, and another form of life will take root in a few million years, the universe will go on and no one will care.

    stupid man thinks that God cares about insignificant creatures like us. If God did not love the dinosaurs, why should HE love us?

  • Cause we have ICE CREAM.

  • are you little stupid.."The earth's been around for thousands..." what the fuck?? where have u grown up??!?!?!?!!

  • I love National Geographic, but "Millions of years?" The earth's been around for thousands. Likewise, it's nearly impossible for dinosaurs to be "wiped off" the face of earth with a 9-mile meteor. Seriously think about it, even the same meteor in say, Russia, just as big as the one they're describing in this video, won't affect the USA in such a large scale to "wipe out" any of us now. What makes us think something like that could wipe out "all" dinosaurs who were in other parts of the world? =P

  • @ DeborahChris69.

    The meteor didn't "wipe" them directly. Instead, the black smoke coming from the impact blocked sunlight. Temperatures dropped, and some plants became extinct. Those plants were the source of food for some herbivore dinosaurs. Those died, and meat eating ones also died. NG have done their research about their topics, or they would get sued for showing false stuff. Think before you critize.

  • That's possible. However, that doesn't answer anything. Something of that magnitude COULD change temperatures, etc, in a certain area....just nearly impossible to have affected the "entire" earth is what I was pointing out. I thought it out, thank you. =) Also, many research have been debunked in the past, so I'll do well to remain skeptical. lol I DO love his accent too! =P

  • It's not about how big the meteor was. It's about the strength of the explosion . which was a trillion tons of tnt. which is about 1 million nukes being set off at the same place. the explosion was probably enough to make the crust ripple like water.

  • also ozone thining is mostly at the north and south poles. which is not a big part of earth so how can that be affecting global temperatures?

  • Well, once a certain place's temperature dies, the whole world does too. Ever heard of wind currents? Sea currents? They are an important factor related to temperature. It probably set up a chain reaction. Either the meteor did the wiping or an alien race came down to Earth and eliminated all the dinosaurs :3

  • Oceanography for a semester (lol) allowed me to learn about sea currents. Sure. I'd <3 to entertain that. So, since we weren't alive during this "temperature death" thing, how can we explain, without using scientific terms, how the Philippines can remain dry and humid, while Antartica can remain ice cold. Temperature death in other locations, does not, by any logical means, affect other locations, BUT how would we know? It hasn't happened today. I'd probably believe Aliens more. LOL =P

  • yes, the earth has been around for thousands of years, but its been around for a few billion years before that.The earth didnt suddenly poof into being because of humans, and theres no evidence to back up a young earth. An asteroid makes shock waves that radiate around the earth and heat that causes fires and smoke. The lack of sunlight from ash made by fires blocks out the sun, causing extinctions when plants die without the sunkight

  • finally someone understands

  • Wow!!! interesting, That show's a bit of information of how the EArth surface was formed. And the pronunciation of the narrator will be of help for the listening activity of my students. Anyway, for my students in Cebu Study, I hope you'll be able to learn something of it. Certainly this will informd your listeningand comprehensio skills. Hopefully you'll be able to make it. So listen carefully... You can do it...

  • Wow, is right! Excellent video: educationally and visually. Where was this massive impact, anybody know?

  • Notice the demonstrator had a Russian accent.

  • rofl, it sounded like they farted in the water....

  • how dum!

  • M'azing, are you?

  • all we are certain of is that it will happen again, likely in the next few years as we pass through the galaxy. the world might survive to rebuild and have another era of life that will be different from the dinosaurs and different from what we have now, but we will most likely never know. I hope all the evil ppl are destroyed too with the rest of us.

  • that is beautiful we have such a joyous planet, yet so destroyed already and yet again so unadventured by many

  • so if it turned out to be good, that must mean that the global warming will turn out good. Wait is there even such thing as global warming?

  • cool video

  • I want to make love to this guys voice.

  • haha.

    mee too