After decades of debate, name calling, and late night talk show jokes, a group of researchers got together and decided to determine, once and for all, why the dinosaurs went extinct. Was it an asteroid? Climate change? STDs? What?
So they built a time machine, set the auto-pilot for 65 million years BCE and took a bunch of cameras with them.
Much has changed in 65 million years, and while plants and animals evolved, so did microbes.
”Oops,” said one of the researchers, as they watched all the dinosaurs die from runny noses and upset stomachs. “How are we going to explain this?”
”What do you mean, ‘we’? This wasn’t my idea.”
”Crap! My career is over!”
Memoirs of an Earthling 