Re: K-T oil field smithereens

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Excellent!  :-D  I think this probably gets across the idea
> to anyone that was of mid-teens age in 1977 very well.

No, in the early 00s, when the CGI-enhanced remakes came out and both the 
originals and the remakes were shown on TV because the "first" three parts 
were shown in the cinema. I was born in 1982. I'm still working on my 
classical education -- haven't ever watched Batman, for example...

> The enormity of this calamity is really beyond immediate human
> understanding - we can work out the kinetics, we can review films
> of Hiroshima, Mt. St. Helens, the telescopic pics of Jupiter when the
> comet fragments hit etc. etc.,  but those are abstracts.

That's what I mean.

> This thing fractured quartz crystals on the other side of the world -

I thought it fractured them on the spot and then blasted them into the 
mesosphere?