Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died

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Documentary, Science Fiction, Life Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Fiction

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🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs. Though dinosaur extinction probably took weeks or months, in just one day, 425 feet of material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion atomic bombs. The blast ignited trees and plants for thousands of miles -- which were quickly extinguished by mega tsunamis with waves that may have reached as far inland as Illinois. And at the low-end estimate of 10.1 on the Richter scale, the subsequent earthquake would have been more powerful than anything ever measured or experienced by humans. And then things got worse. Let's find out why. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewhyfiles/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.3	Hi everyone, this is James Harkin and Anna Toshinsky, two writers of the TV show QI and
0:45.9	two-fourths of the hip-podcast, no such thing as a fish.
0:49.3	We'd like to let you know that we've written a book.
0:51.6	It is called Everything to Play for.
0:53.7	The most interesting things there are to know about the world of sports, it's for you,
0:58.2	whether you like sports or not.
1:00.0	Did you know that legendary Cricketer Gary Sobers scored his final century while drunk?
1:06.5	Or that games of lacrosse used to involve 100,000 players?
1:11.6	Learn that and so much more by getting everything to play for.
1:14.4	The QI Booker Sports available in all bookshops and online right now.
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