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Two billion years before the dinosaurs, Earth experienced an impact far larger than Chicxulub — and the scale of this event is still hard to fully grasp.The Vredefort impactor, estimated at 20–25 km in diameter, struck the Paleoproterozoic Earth with enough energy to create a crater 250–280 km wide, making it the largest confirmed impact structure on the planet. What we see today as the Vredefort Dome is only the deeply eroded central uplift — the original crater was far beyond anything in the Phanerozoic record.

What makes Vredefort scientifically fascinating is the combination of:extreme crustal deformation, including uplift of a ~25 km thick block of crust,shock metamorphism preserved across a huge radius,spherule layers found over 2,000 km away,and the fact that this event occurred when Earth’s biosphere consisted only of microbial life.

Despite being the most powerful known impact in Earth’s history, it left no mass extinction signature simply because complex ecosystems didn’t exist yet. Instead, its legacy is geological: it exposed Archean crust, reshaped regional tectonics, and left behind structures that allow us to study deep‑time Earth in a way few other sites can.If anyone’s interested in a deeper breakdown of the impact mechanics, crater formation, and why Vredefort still matters for understanding planetary evolution, I recently put together a detailed explanation here — mentioned only as an optional resource: link na video.

https://youtu.be/FMmQ48-rvs0

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I’ve been looking into the theropod tooth specimen MB R.2352, and the more I read about it, the stranger it gets. It’s a fragment from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation in South Africa, collected back in the 19th century and later re‑identified as part of a massive theropod crown.

What really caught my attention is how unusual it is: the size is comparable to large predators like T. rex or Carcharodontosaurus, but the crown shape and enamel texture don’t match any known species from the region. It seems to hint at a large African theropod we still can’t confidently classify — which is fascinating given how fragmentary the record from this formation is.If anyone has more papers, measurements, or thoughts on possible affinities, I’d love to hear them. I also put together a short breakdown of the specimen for anyone interested in the broader context video:

https://youtu.be/h4CfWbjQz_4

Adult Swim has a long history of giving canceled shows a second life — but at the same time, there are plenty of pilots that aired once and then vanished without ever getting a full series order.

Some of the most well‑known examples are Korgoth of Barbaria (2006), MacBeth With Dinosaurs (2021), and the recent Eggland (2024). Each had a strong identity, but for one reason or another, they never made it past that first episode.

I’m curious: what other Adult Swim pilots do you know about that never became full shows?
And more importantly — do you think any of them actually deserved a full series, or is their “one‑and‑done” nature part of what makes Adult Swim… Adult Swim?