We are given to believe that there was an intense heat release which killed off most of the big animals globally, but that it lasted just hours, and then nuclear winter followed immediately in the days and weeks to follow to finish off the rest of the planet from cold and starvation.
Unfortunately for the theory temperature at the time of the extinction is unremarkable.
Meanwhile our betters want us to think that Odysseus felt g u i l t y and thought his age was d o o m e d.
None of this is proper summer entertainment, dammit.
