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Nah, they aren't even allowed to believe in the Chicxulub meteor, to them, dinosaurs died in Noah's Flood just a few thousand years ago. Or during the mudflood in 1890 or such, lol

I think what happened there was the dinosaur-killing impact split the world into alternate dimensions/timelines, one where it happened (ours) and one where it didn't (dinosaurs evolve into republicans)

This is probably more accurate but I’m reasonably certain part of the plot was turning the planet into dinosaur utopia. Or am I thinking about Sauron, the Spider-Man villain…

An impact of that magnitude would create tidal waves around the planet. Tectonic shifts. The seas would boil for a hundred miles in every direction. It would takes weeks or longer for the dead fish smell to wear off. We would be too busy reconnecting what remained of the power grid to care.

Good news: It would reduce the amount of debris thrown up into the atmosphere, though still creating massive tidal waves with cataclysmic effects on the environment. Bad news: Most dinosaurs would be unable to safely swim to land, foiling our chances of a future devoted to our saurian overlords.

If I understand this correctly, we'll be wiped out in order to make room for them. Does anyone have an electronic thumb? I'm sure there will be scientists and park managers coming in from other star systems to manage the place. Maybe some of us can catch a ride out of here.

That alt text. It has never occurred to me that some dinosaurs or chunks of dinosaurs made it to orbit, or space. There may be dino dna just out there that reached some crater in the moon, or other atmosphereless moons, or an interstellar asteroid. Dinosaur chunks may have gone interstellar?

Pure DNA doesn't stay good for that long. But, I have been thinking something similar: life has been on earth for a long time, and there were lots of impacts from space. Terrestrial life might have been seeded to other places in the solar system. Reverse panspermia, so to speak

Eeerr, to get accross space in any way it would need to be encased in rocks or something. So while some splatter might have gone orbital on impact .. it would have been flash fried, pressure cooked, pulverized, then frozen solid. We have no reason to believe anything organic would survive that.

Yeah, but that's also true for the regular Panspermia hypothesis. I never said it was very plausible :D But that would be an interesting space research topic: try to find earth meteorites on Moon or Mars, look what remains of earth bacteria on them, evaluate how realistic panspermia is.