While decorating our tree, the boys and I unanimously decided to forego the Christmas carols and instead listen to this fantastically vivid Radiolab podcast called "Dinopocalypse", which turns the previous theory of extinction on its head . . . according to the scientists in this production, dinosaurs did not shiver and starve to death under a shroud of cataclysmic dust, instead something far more fiery and awful happened when a chunk of the Baptistina asteroid collided with the earth 65 million years ago (although NASA now believes that it wasn't Baptistina, but some other unknown asteroid, but . . . who cares, listen to the podcast because it's extraordinarily dramatic and apocalyptic).
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"the boys and I unanimously decided"
Really? You were able to get two young boys' votes to turn off Brenda Lee and Doris Day and hear about dinosaurs blowing up? You're like Jim Jones, getting what you want out of unsuspecting people by catering to their most obvious wants.
I don't listen to podcasts. What's the fiery theory?
When I first read this, I immediately had the same reaction as Whit, however after a few minutes I realized that you have a Christmas tree, and that is a big step for you. Of course, I'm sure the purchase was accompanied by a long lecture on Druidism and Gnostic traditions.
i'm lightening up a little bit -- i used to refuse to decorate the tree, but now i help a bit. the fiery theory is that the meteor hit and shot an immediate plume of molten glass into the atmosphere, which then rained down on the earth in tiny shrapnel like pellets, plus there was some sort of hot gas produced as well and a "pizza oven" reaction.
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