r/BeAmazed Nov 11 '23

Science Look at that

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u/Putrid-Initiative809 Nov 11 '23

This series was incredible. One thing that struck me was when Sagan mentions somewhere that ‘the dinosaur extinction event is a mystery’. The 1980 Chixculub impact hypothesis wasn’t even proposed yet!

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '23

The documentary came out later in 1980 but production for it probably occurred 1979 into early 1980 before the hypothesis became a theory.