The third panel may actually be have some scientific merit.
In 2019 scientists studying moon rocks acquired from a 1971 Apollo mission determined that one of the rocks was of terrestrial origin. The rock has also been determined to be the oldest Earth rock ever discovered at over 4 billion years old. The current most likely hypothesis is that the rock formed within our planet’s crust and later got jettisoned to the moon by one of the many daily meteor impacts that bombarded early Earth.
This has led others to speculate that the dino-killing asteroid impact may have hurled dinosaurs out of the planet’s atmosphere and into space (albeit in much more fragmentary form than depicted here). Some have even gone so far as to suggest that we may someday discover such fragmentary dinosaur fossils on the moon, though it should be noted that the moon was much closer to the Earth 4 billion years ago than 66 million years ago
I suspect the true pre-scientific theory of “dinosaur extinction” was that extinction didn’t exist and that dinosaurs where a single contemporary species. Think about T-Rex + brontosaur + pterodactyl, with all remains found skeletonized. And maybe a few other combinations in other lands.
Pharmakeus Ubik 6 months ago
Not that I’ve got any chops as a cartoonist or magical evolutionist, but shouldn’t that be a Stargazy pie in the second panel?
Perkycat 6 months ago
Thank you scientists for setting things straight!! Although I can really understand the second panel, depending on what kind of pie that is.
Lady loves a joke 6 months ago
The smiling fish is cute!
holdenrex 6 months ago
The third panel may actually be have some scientific merit.
In 2019 scientists studying moon rocks acquired from a 1971 Apollo mission determined that one of the rocks was of terrestrial origin. The rock has also been determined to be the oldest Earth rock ever discovered at over 4 billion years old. The current most likely hypothesis is that the rock formed within our planet’s crust and later got jettisoned to the moon by one of the many daily meteor impacts that bombarded early Earth.
This has led others to speculate that the dino-killing asteroid impact may have hurled dinosaurs out of the planet’s atmosphere and into space (albeit in much more fragmentary form than depicted here). Some have even gone so far as to suggest that we may someday discover such fragmentary dinosaur fossils on the moon, though it should be noted that the moon was much closer to the Earth 4 billion years ago than 66 million years ago
divad27182 4 months ago
I suspect the true pre-scientific theory of “dinosaur extinction” was that extinction didn’t exist and that dinosaurs where a single contemporary species. Think about T-Rex + brontosaur + pterodactyl, with all remains found skeletonized. And maybe a few other combinations in other lands.