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.