Kenneth Lacovara famous quotes

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Dinosaurs #Meteors #Eras

In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the Quaternary Period, which is within the Cenozoic Era. And within the Quaternary, we are in the Holocene Epoch.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Dinosaurs #Eras #Ends

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#New York #Philadelphia #Water

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Definitions #Extinction #Snail

If we want to know how the Earth's biosphere is going to respond to the things that humans are doing to the planet right now, the only evidence that we have is how biotic systems have responded in the past.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Past #Earth #Want

Certainly, we have entered into a new age on our planet.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Age #Planets #New Age

The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline. The rocks of the Anthropocene haven't been deposited yet, really.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Rocks #Discipline #Would Be

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Records #Way #Cases

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.
-- Kenneth Lacovara

#Years #Doubt #Would Be

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.

We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.