Did DINOSAURS defeat humans for the MOON? Bones from giant reptiles were hurled into space when the extinct asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, scientists say
- An excerpt from ‘The End of the World’ by Peter Brannen was shared on Twitter
- It describes the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
- The asteroid ‘punched a hole of space vacuum in the atmosphere’
- Debris was expelled by the impact mixed with dinosaur bones
- With this in mind, the scientists say there are likely bones on the moon
Although Neil Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the Moon in 1967, dinosaurs may have defeated him 66 million years earlier – or at least parts of prehistoric creatures did.
The claim stems from Peter Brannen’s 2017 book, “ The End of the World, ” which was recently sharpened by blogger on Twitter. Matt Austin.
One excerpt describes the violent asteroid as it ruptured a “hole of vacuum in space in the atmosphere.”
This sent debris into orbit and ‘pieces of dinosaurs’ may have mixed with the sheer volume of Earth that has been expelled into space – all of which have settled on the moon.
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Peter Brannen’s 2017 book ‘The End of the World’ suggests that the asteroid that swept out the dinosaurs threw debris into space that carried dinosaur bones – all of which settled on the moon
The catastrophic asteroid crashed into what experts say was in the “ deadliest possible angle ” as it entered today’s Mexican peninsula of Yucatán.
Brannen, who is an award-winning science journalist, writes that the asteroid was larger than Mount Everest and passed through the atmosphere 20 times faster than a bullet.
“This is so fast that it would have covered the distance from cruising altitude of a 747 to the ground in 0.3 seconds,” the book reads.
The book features commentary from Centro de Investigación geophysicist Mario Rebolledo who told Brannen, “The pressure from the atmosphere in front of the asteroid began excavating the crater before it even got there.”
A fragment describes the violent asteroid as it rips a “hole of vacuum in space in the atmosphere.” This sent debris into orbit and ‘pieces of dinosaurs’ may have mixed with the sheer volume of Earth that has been expelled into space – all of which have settled on the moon
When the meteorite hit ground zero, it was completely intact. It was so massive that the atmosphere didn’t even scratch it. ‘
The book says the scene witnessed 66 million years ago was nowhere near what we see in Hollywood movies that usually show a brilliant fireball shooting through the sky.
“When the asteroid collided with Earth, in the sky above, where air should have been, the rock had punched a hole from the space vacuum in the atmosphere,” explains Brannen.
“ As the heavens rushed in to close this hole, massive amounts of Earth orbited Earth and beyond – all within a second or two of impact. ”
“So there are probably little pieces of dinosaur bone on the moon,” Brannen asks.
And Rebolledo replies, “Yes, probably.”
Although the book was published in 2017, blogger Matt Austin recently focused snippets on Twitter
While there is no evidence to support claims in The End of the World, scientists have managed to piece together the events that took place.
The asteroid left a 120-mile-wide crater in the disaster area, evaporating rock and sending billions of tons of sulfur and carbon dioxide into the prehistoric air.
Any living things within hundreds of miles of the impact site would have been burned within minutes.
Meanwhile, the cloud of dust generated by the impact would have blocked the sun – likely triggering a ‘nuclear winter’ and seeing temperatures drop, acid rain falling from the sky and wiping out 75 percent of living species.
“It would have felt like the ground beneath your feet had turned into a ship in the middle of the ocean,” said Earth and space science professor Mark Richards of the University of Washington.
‘Then rocks would have bombarded you from a scalding sky that started to take on a hazy glow. It would have seemed like the end of the world. ‘