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Re:The Day the Dinosaurs Died by elevaet on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:13AM (#33637863)
> The energy released was more than that of a billion Hiroshima bombs

> a fiery plume, reached halfway to the moon

> fires consumed about seventy per cent of the world’s forests

> tsunamis, acid rain

> After the fires died down, Earth plunged into a period of cold, perhaps even a deep freeze

An almost unimaginable scale of destruction. It's mind-blowing that life continued at all. I would love to know more about how life prevailed through this period, how anything made it through this extreme bottleneck.

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