So now we know. Why we’re here. How humans made it as the only species sufficiently sophisticated, evolved and successful to be able to fuck up the entire planet all by ourselves. But don’t forget, on the ‘path’ to this hi-tech, super-hi-fi, amazingly hi-everything world we now inhabit, we introduced art, we introduced morals and we introduced McDonalds. And war. Murder. Life insurance. And Arsenal football club.

Because ‘back in the day’ (oyyyy, really ‘back’) in the Cretaceous period, the dinosaurs undoubtedly ruled the world. Whose gonna argue with 25 tons of whatever-a-don? But they suffered a mass extinction. Which allowed small mammals to come out of hiding and eventually evolve into hominids of which we may count ourselves. In just 66 million years. Unless you prefer a more biblical interpretation, in which case; God dunnit, about 3 weeks ago, put everything there just as we see it now, fossils and everything, DNA, the lot, just for a laugh. Ooooh, that God, He’s a one…

They examined the crater off the Mexican coast where it has long been known to be the site of a massive meteorite strike. But this time they really examined it. And came up with some incredible results. The meteor was 9 miles wide, about the same size of London (up to zone 3 at least) and it crashed into the Mexican sea at a speed of 12 miles per second, which is 20 times the speed of a bullet.

Now that’s gonna make a splash. In fact, just a bit more than a ‘splash’. Because the explosion was reckoned to be the equivalent of 10 million Hiroshima bombs. I been to Hiroshima, one was enough. The sulphur in the rocks immediately vaporised into a massive cloud which blocked out the sunshine. And dinosaurs loved to sunbathe. They reckon the temperature dropped 26 degrees on the planet. And coupled with the darkness stopping the plants from growing, that was the end of the dinosaurs. Because if you eat 46 tons of vegetation a day and there’s no veg, bit of a problem. And if the herbivores die then what are the carnivores gonna eat? Mud??

The geologists who bored down into the crater reckon usual rock deposition is about one centimetre a year. In the crater the deposition was 130 metres in one day. That, in scientific parlance, is fucking massive.

I’ve now put in an order for a meteor strike on Westminster. Amazon sell them. Amazon sell everything. Though I’ve put it on delay because parliament is currently suspended. Along with the rest of political life in this nation.

If fucking only.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx