If you had asked me this as a teenager, I would have said, “It was good,” and the conversation would have ended. In this post, though, I actually give you details.
How do we know how old a rock is?
All you need are radioactive rock parts, a mass spectrometer and math skills, and then you too can figure out how many millions of years ago different things happened on our planet.
What do you call that thing that hit the Earth and created the Chicxulub Crater?
An asteroid? A meteorite? A Near-Earth object? A bolide? Anything, but late for dinner?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Sometimes. Yes, but only if it is also a comedian from the 1950s.
What was the worst day the dinosaurs ever had?
If you want to have a really bad day, do like the dinosaurs did and hang around after a six-mile wide object from outer space smashes into the Earth.
Are there pros and cons to getting hypothermia?
For the most part, getting hypothermia is not good, unless, of course, you want to make your body a suitable habitat for bioluminescent bacteria.
Were there ever glow-in-the-dark Civil War soldiers?
Angels making Civil War soldiers glow? Unicorns on the Moon? It's science in the Nineteenth Century!
Did we not notice the world’s biggest volcano until like three years ago?
We just recently realized there is a volcano here on Earth that is about the same size as Poland.