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The proponents of such 'big fart' theory (pardon my language) are probably the same ones who promote the 'big bong' beginning of the universe.
Have you ever noticed how things always seem to begin instantly with with a bing or a bong, like an asteroid, in one camp; while the opposing camp is always pushing the more diffussive theories such as beginning and ending with a long drawn-out whimper ? This has alot more to do with politics and religions than facts.
Actually, it was the largest dino of all, the Thesaurus Rex, that killed off all the other dinosaurs.
The metaphor was just too much for them to handle, what with those peanut sized brains incapable of storing metaphors and analogies. Just not enough memory for that. They were pure instinct; real-time, instead of statistical.
'Time' can be said to be the culprit that killed off the dinosaurs because they inherently didn't have enough brains for storing very long histories needed to adapt to the increasing volatility in the climate etc.
In america we have the Fed to watch over the economic volatility of our Leviathan; the regulation of its metabolism.
So why did they do so well then ?
One might ask why mankind has lasted as long as it has, considering how cheap a gigabyte of silicon memory now costs so little and there's plenty of sand out there. Is silicon-based life just waiting in the wings for carbon-based life forms to make them some arms and legs ?
Perhaps the dinos lasted for so long, because things didn't change very much back then, and there was just no need for a 'higher-level languages' in terms of genetics. Everything was written in low-level genetic machine-code because its efficient and practical like german engineering. Nuts and volts.
Of course, machine-code programming is slow and takes up alot of time to run through all the combinatorics. Eventually, as things speed up in time (like CPUs and the weather cycles etc.), it becomes more efficient to use a higher-level language than a lower-level one.
Hence the mammals which needed to stay warm at night in order to dream, because dreaming is essential to maintaining that analogizing part of the mind. In sleep we mostly use analogic, and when awake we mostly use logic. Later, nature decided to make it possible to use both analogy and logic at the same time, that's how we mammals developed right and left brains which the reptiles to a large extent lack.
All things, are always, trying to optimize themselves in subjective-objective space-time.
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