Incoming: The Chicxulub Impactor, Part 1 ― The History By Stephanie Osborn

Incoming: The Chicxulub Impactor, Part 1 ― The History By Stephanie Osborn

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As per usual, I gave a new science talk at LibertyCon this year. I get asked a lot about asteroid impacts, and for years I had a hobby of studying such things, given my background in astronomy/astrophysics. (I was even on an asteroid impact mitigation working group for a time.) So I figured it was about time to do something with this one. And of course, THE asteroid impact is the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T, or as it’s called...