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mk  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski poll - Top Ten Disasters in the History of Man
I'll try to compile a list but... chicxulub is dated at ~65 MYA. That's about 58 million years before hominids.




cliffelam  ·  4652 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Totally correct, brain damage from talking to a curious 10 year old while trying to coax my old man brain into a list. I'd intended to go find out which ice age took the pre-human species down to just a few hundred breeding pairs. Not at my computer right now, will go look that up shortly.
b_b  ·  4651 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I'm fairly sure you're thinking of the Toba supervolcano. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
cliffelam  ·  4651 days ago  ·  link  ·  
That's the one.

Shh, Yellowstone, stay asleep.

mk  ·  4651 days ago  ·  link  ·  
No kidding, huh? I mean, if that's not reason to explore Mars, I don't know what is. We have a freaking super volcano on humanities doorstep, and that thing is going to go off. It's just time.