{"id":5875,"date":"2018-09-07T05:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:00","slug":"10-minutes-from-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/10-minutes-from-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"10 minutes from dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Fascinating breakdown of exactly how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit, and how scientists figured that out](https:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2017\/08\/ten-minutes-difference-that-doomed-the-dinosaurs.html). Notably, if the asteroid hit 150 miles away, it wouldn&#8217;t have caused gypsum to vaporize in the atmosphere, and most animal life worldwide (including dinosaurs) would have survived.<\/p>\n<p>> If the meteorite had arrived ten minutes earlier, or ten minutes later, it would still no doubt have inflicted devastation, but the dinosaurs would still be here and you wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Fascinating breakdown of exactly how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit, and how scientists figured that out](https:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2017\/08\/ten-minutes-difference-that-doomed-the-dinosaurs.html). Notably, if the asteroid hit 150 miles away, it wouldn&#8217;t have caused gypsum to vaporize in the atmosphere, and most animal life worldwide (including dinosaurs) would have survived. > If the meteorite had arrived ten minutes&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/10-minutes-from-dinosaurs\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1wL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}