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Yeah, I wonder how fast Chicxulub affected the earth when the majority of large dinosaurs were wiped out.

The earth survived and evolved another set of new large animal masters. The beauty and diversity of nature we see around us has all evolved after several extinction level events which have all very rapidly killed ecosystems and changed the earths climate.

It will do the same again after all humans are gone. This is the outcome I am hoping comes sooner rather than later.




I see you have cherry picked a very specific date range from that paragraph. Quite clearly missing the statement:

> "the period of global darkness following the Chicxulub impact would have persisted in the Hell Creek Formation nearly 2 years"




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