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Reminds me of those local "neighborhood gurus," you know, that one slightly older kid who would just make up some bullshit; and we would carry it as truth for the rest of our lives until hopefully corrected.
My favorite had to be "dinosaurs died to a volcano."
To be fair, it's only fairly recently that meteor induced climate change has been established as the root cause. Up until then, there were several theories, and one of them was a supermassive volcano.
I mean the impact likely set off a bunch of tectonic activity and intense volcanic activity increases greenhouse gases, and dinosaurs ultimately died due to habitat loss and not direct blunt force trauma so... Volcanoes are maybe sequelae 2 or 3 in a chain of interrelated consequences.
That made me wonder if it's theoretically possible to die from blunt force trauma from a dinosaur-ending-sized meteor.
I mean, for starters, there's gotta be a huge shockwave of plasma around it. Besides, at that scale, in such a short time, I think it's hard to clearly define an actual cause of death as there are so many unhealthy things affectedyou at once; At some point you judt suddenly stop being alive and start being physics.