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On a similar note: "to be alive" made me think this wasn't limited to Homo Sapiens, so my money was on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event [0] https://en
by vanderZwan 6y ago
On a similar note: "to be alive" made me think this wasn't limited to Homo Sapiens, so my money was on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...
- jhgb 6y agoIsn't the Permian extinction considered to be generally worse?
- vanderZwan 6y agoYeah, as a mass extinction event it is. However, I figured that took longer to escalate than one year, so it wouldn't quite work when answering the question of worst year to be alive
- jhgb 6y agoAh, yes, the timescales may differ. I've always wondered how the estimates of those work for these geological events, as in, how do we estimate the "one-year-damage" curve or something like that. You're most likely right that the K-T may have had a higher peak in this respect.
- vanderZwan 6y agoIt's so weird to try to reason about deep time, isn't it? It just goes beyond human intuition due to it's scale. Also, thanks to your comment I double-check out the wiki page for the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event[0], and meteors being the cause hasn't been ruled out yet as a potential cause, in which case it might still win out! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...