they are idiots... if i didnt have so much time on my hands id leave it at that but that not being the case:

we have enough problems with stray cats preying on wildlife as it is, we've seen firsthand what introducing a species to a country can do (cane toad hoorah) so why would we even consider introducing a "super cat" just so that people can brag that they have an incredibly expensive imported pet

the only way this pet should have even a small chance of getting here is if there is forced nutering and they have to be kept caged up or indoors 24/7

Sometimes your point of view really annoys me Fletch, but your right there.

B."OMG TH3 P01AR B34r 1Z DY1Ng C4Uz 0F Gl0b4l W4rm1ng!!11111ONEONEONE"- Not true actually, its mainly because of decreasing food supply and the fact that Polar bears find it so hard to breed. THe Decreaing food may be caused by Humans but we cant say for sure.
C.Pandas- Partly caused by Humans (deforestation) but Thats the Chinese for you, i cant help it, so cant you. But The Pandas eat need WAYY to much to eat, they havn't adapted well. They are also very hard to breed
D.Climate Change/Global Warming- uhhhhh, Proof anyone? Unless you give me some good proof, i'll continue being a sceptic.
Ice Caps are melting-False
C02 Levels are higher than ever before-Bullcrap
Humans are the source- Nope
Green House gases are killing us- Bluff
We've made a hole in the ozon layer- lie
Do i have to say anymore? Dont listen to what the media tells you.
E.Pollution- ITS A PROBLEM, soon everyone WILL look like China, for this one i am concerned, we really have to find alternate sources otherwise we'll be chokin.
But the main problem here is, the most polution IS caused by China, and they really have to get their act together, so does the United States.Australia causes less than 0.1% of the total polution in the planet, so theres nothing our country can really do. Heck, most of the polution here is caused by bushfires!
F.Litter-Also, i agree, we should really do something about this, either we do an unpractical system like buring rubbish or we get our act together and start using biodegratable stuffs.
G.Our World Is dying- No its not, certainly it would be in alot better conditions if humans didn't exist, but we're not "killing" our plnet, we're just making it more uninhabitable, a big difference. And Believe me, by the time our planet does get uninhabitable, we'd probably made a better, fresh colony on mars.

Stupid Rathet Comment- If I were an elephant, i would rather have my tusks cut off, Teeth sticking out of my mouth wouldn't feel right.....
Yeah but i'm not an elephant so its wrong to get ivory.

Should we help the enviornement?- Yes
Should we worry too much about it?- No.
What i mean by that is not worry night after night whether our grandkids wont see polar bears, just try and help the environment to last as long as possible.

"Eat more food because others cant get it"- The leading cause of obsity lol XD

Believe me, if i could feed my leftovers to some starving children instead of my dog, i would, but i dont own a starving child do i. And do you realise that i would have to spend lots of money and risk my life in the ghetto areas just to feed them.
I am grateful i'm not a starving child, but theres no way i can help the children, JUst like Fletch said, Eating the rest of my food doesn't do anything.

Go into a lion's den and see how many waisted animals are there

If its not an endangered species, by the time you've Finally kiled the animal, 10 more probanly would have already been born

A.If anybody didn't realise, People Join the Army and Hence are prepared for wars on their OWN accord, No one forces them to fight for their country, people normally do it for money or because they have nothing better to do, its THEIR CHOICE. Anyone who signs up for the army should prepare for war, if you dont, your dumb.
B.People in the middle east were already being Idiots before We arrived, And Whats REALLY annoying is when people say things like "Its the americans fault if the IRAGies are misbehaving", there is such thing as being intimidating, but lets take this for example.
One day at School, Iraq Started Bashing up America, So America and His friends Told the teacher and Iraq Got in deep trouble, But Iraq's friends were now angry at America and his Friends, And Now America and his friends were starting to blame themselves.
Now this is kind of wrong, but you get the picture, its not our fault if Iraqy muslim terrorist want to be idiots and pests, they were Already before we even came.
Do you know that Iragies were such idiots that they burnt out many oil wells in Iraq just to annoy the Americans and waist Their oil, thats how STUPID they are. They really need to be settled.
C.If we just left IRAQ how it is, it will just get even more corrupt. Terrorist attacks will keep happening and the Innocents of IRAQ will just get more hurt. If we dont do anything, it will be worse than nothing.
D.We didn't go into IRAQ for money, Though Maybe a bit more money should be spent on the troops.

I like the meteor theory the best, because to me it just seems to explain everything in a way that is possible.

Fletch_Talon wrote:

how can you know what the population of a species, or in fact the number of species, that existed millions of years ago when all we have to judge by (to my knowledge) are fossils which require specific conditions to form (ie. there arent necessarily a lot of them regardless of how many dinosaurs were alive at the time)

I'm no paleontologist, but I'm pretty sure population estimates aren't determined by the number of fossils found. But good question.

well i wouldnt have thought so either, thats why i asked, i just cant imagine what else you would use to find the population of a long extinct creature

oh well, ill just sit and wait to find out 

The meteorite

Correction: meteor. Meteor refers to the extraterrestrial object that's still in space.

I thought the meteor impact caused a whole bunch of environmental irregularities which eventually led to the demise of the dinosaurs, not the other way around where you state that the dinosaurs were already under a lot of stress before the occurrence of the impact. I think it makes more sense when you have a series of events, started by the impact, that cause a domino effect on the environment, negatively affecting life on the planet. I wasn't aware that the dinosaurs were already on decline, if that's true.

A similar diagnostic feature:
On a microscopic scale, quartz grains affected by shock impact may show what looks like "cleavage" (normally quartz doesn't have cleavage), a feature known as PDFs (planar deformation features).

I'm no paleontologist, but I'm pretty sure population estimates aren't determined by the number of fossils found. But good question.