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#weeklyaiartchallenge
#AlternateHistory

                                                                                          "So Maybe it Wasn't an Asteroid"

                                                                                              Extinction of the Dinosaurs

  The extinction of the dinosaurs was brought about by over-hunting of the multiple species by big game hunters and poachers alike. Up to 1957, the giant lizards were freely walking the land and swimming the seas in concert with their human (and other mammalian) counterparts. In 1957, naturalists advised that hunting and poaching had reduced the world dinosaur conservation status to "endangered." In 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the official opening of three American Dinosaur Conservancy Parks (or DCPs), spread across the country in an effort to provide a proper environmental habitat for as many species as possible.

Other First World nations followed the path set by the United States. However, many of those countries did not have the geographic range or environmental diversity to care for dinosaurs in situ. Many species found state-sponsored conservancy homes in Africa. Although strictly monitored by the World Wildlife Fund and international agencies, illegal poaching for skins, bones and teeth (believed to have mystic powers by many from Southeast Asia to Korea), quickly dropped dinosaur populations to "critically endangered" levels.

In 1986, with the Cold War approaching a final phase of massive global government spending on military research, design, procurement and deployment, DCPs around the globe -- including those in America -- were opened to legalized, managed hunting for increased income as East and West faced off. Sudden climate catastrophes in parts of the globe reduced human populations to starvation levels, seeing the vast dinosaur parks as ready sources of food. Soon, the American DCPs and one European DCP outside of Paris were all that remained, the hundreds of extant dinosaur species reduced to a few dozen.

The military spending of the U.S. Government led almost directly to the downfall of the dinosaurs. The three parks in North America continued to be open to legalized hunting, but in an effort for peak efficiency, the Department of the Interior authorized a program that unfortunately led to massive over-harvesting. Big game hunters from around the world came to the United States for the increasingly narrow opportunity to take a terrible lizard as a trophy. Dave Grumman (of Northrop-Grumman) was one of the most prolific of international hunters, scoring more than three dozen kills over the course of two years. He donated most of his trophies (generally harvested with a CZ 550 Safari Magnum bolt-action rifle chambered for the massive .505 Gibbs cartridge) to institutions like the Smithsonian. Keeping only his favorite, most meaningful trophies, he is considered the harvester of the very last dinosaur, a brontosaurus nicknamed "Tammy," in the Georgia DCP.

Today, Dave travels the world giving public addresses and doing motivational speaking. He continues his passion of hunting endangered wildlife.

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In other news, a science unit led by the father and son team of Luis and Walter Alvarez have discovered a global sediment layer rich in iridium, an element that only rarely occurs on Earth, but is frequently found in asteroids. By back-tracing sediment layer thickness and iridium concentration, the Alvarez team has suggested that a six-mile-wide asteroid struck the northern Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

This theory has been dismissed in most scientific circles along the lines that nobody really cares.

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For #weeklyaiartchallenge #23 "Alternate History" running from 01/15/2024 - 01/19/2024. ("Alternate History" -- All Things History)
This week's theme was chosen by TorpedoBoat .

Weekly AI Art Challenge: #23 Alternate History🌎 Welcome to the Weekly AI Art Challenge! This week's Theme for the #WeeklyAiArtChallenge is,🛸"Alternate History" (All Things History) 🛸 - Good Luck and Have Fun Creating! - This week's theme: Was Chosen by: 🥇TorpedoBoat - the Winner of - #21 The New Year ⭐️ - Go Drop Some ❤️ HEARTS ❤️ On Their Profile - ⭐️ Challenge Dates: 🗓️ Entry Dates: 01/15/2024 - 01/19/2024 11:59 PM Midnight Friday USA Time (ET) 🗓️ Voting Dates: 01/20/2024 - 01/21/2024 until 9 PM💰 Winner will Receive 780+ DA Points Prize pool donors: 💰Thank you to Jeffdoute for the initial 200 Points. 💰Thank you to Illusion-ai-art for the generous 80 Points. 💰Thank you to laneadoe for the generous 100 Points. 💰Thank you to Snowden2023 for the generous 300 Points. 💰Thank you to TorpedoBoat for the generous 100 Points., Hi Friends - All are more than Welcome to join / participate / watch / vote / and enjoy all the wonderful art that is being created - ❤️, ,,📢 Status: OPEN TO ENTER! Create an original piece using AI generative techniques in the theme of the challenge.Add the #WeeklyAiArtChallenge tag to the tags and/or keywords of your piece.Link to this announcement in your piece's description and mention jeffdoute as the organizer to help me see it.Post your entry in the comments below on this announcement so that it's clearly featured here and to help make sure it gets entered in all the galleries.Once you have entered the challenge your masterpiece will be added to this Gallery in the WeeklyAiArtChallenge group, and the Winner will be added to the Featured Gallery and the Runners Up will be added the Featured Favorites Gallery - Now have some fun 🎯 Here is a quick guide on how to enter the Weekly Ai Art Challenge. 🎯 First - Post your image to DA.Second - Link to this week's - Weekly Ai Art Challenge in the description.Third - Add the keyword/Tag --- weeklyaiartchallengeFourth - Post your comment on this Week's Challenge Post below. The Description Link should look something like this - See Below.,,,🎯 Details & RulesOne entry per artist.Enter the 🛸"Alternate History" (All Things History) 🛸 But remember, keep it tasteful—no explicit nudity or themes. We'll gather submissions together to vote on the winner over the weekend. When voting goes live, there will be a link at the top and middle of this post and Featured on my DA page.The artist of the winning piece will receive DeviantArt points as described in the introduction, bragging rights, visibility, and picks the theme for the next challenge.,💰 Donations & Prize Pool 🥳 🎉 The prize pool for this challenge is made possible through the generous contributions of jeffdoute and members of our community each week. If you're participating in the challenge, we kindly invite you to consider donating $1/80 DeviantArt points to help us make the prize pool even more fascinating. You can contribute by donating your DeviantArt points to @jeffdoute using the 'Give' option and including a note specifying that the points are intended for the prize pool. Alternatively, you can also contribute to the donation pool by visiting my profile page.,🤝 THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS TO THE PRIZE POOL THIS WEEK!,You can also follow along on Discord.,Some Mood Music for You - Enjoy!,,,⭐️ Have Fun and Good Luck Everybody! ⭐, ❤️ Give Some Love to All These Great Entries ❤️, 🧸- Stop by and Introduce Yourself to Everyone! -🧸, Don't Forget to Drop Some ❤️ HEARTS ❤️ on All these Wonderful Creations, 📬 Contestant Submissions This Week 👇, ,,by coochycootie , ,,by LevTai , ,,by Illusion-ai-art, ,,by AngelicDestiny05, ,,by NemoArrigo, ,,by mac4tu, ,,by NeuralDreamer, ,,by Tigerlady316, ,,by AMIN3BADI , ,,by cicacecilia , ,,by 0dzisama, ,,by VitrinExposta, ,,by Baileyarthead , ,,by laneadoe, ,,by AguraNatasDreams, ,,by DeniseG02, ,,by KellyLynnMartin, ,,by Felfel55, ,,by AfroGusar , ,,by amethystangel777, ,,by intothefade, ,,by tiamatdxv , ,,by cuda1016, ,,by Dropdeadpink , ,,by TorpedoBoat, ,,by RSandrineD , ,,by WeedWood420Fantasy, ,,by PurpleUnicorn420Haze , ,,by EmeraldSativaDragon, ,,by TheAlphega, ,,by HighWeedFairyGarden, ,,by ChikiwiCreations, ,,by akirandres, ,,by Snowden2023, Don't Forget to Drop Some ❤️ HEARTS ❤️ on All these Wonderful Creations,...

This competition is as always, sponsored by jeffdoute . Thanks, Jeff!

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A humorous note. I posted this next little piece to my general account as a joke, but it got some real attention (it is not my submission to the competition!):

Good luck, everybody!

Description
WeeklyAiArtChallenge
#weeklyaiartchallenge
#AlternateHistory

                                                                                          "So Maybe it Wasn't an Asteroid"

                                                                                              Extinction of the Dinosaurs

  The extinction of the dinosaurs was brought about by over-hunting of the multiple species by big game hunters and poachers alike. Up to 1957, the giant lizards were freely walking the land and swimming the seas in concert with their human (and other mammalian) counterparts. In 1957, naturalists advised that hunting and poaching had reduced the world dinosaur conservation status to "endangered." In 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the official opening of three American Dinosaur Conservancy Parks (or DCPs), spread across the country in an effort to provide a proper environmental habitat for as many species as possible.

Other First World nations followed the path set by the United States. However, many of those countries did not have the geographic range or environmental diversity to care for dinosaurs in situ. Many species found state-sponsored conservancy homes in Africa. Although strictly monitored by the World Wildlife Fund and international agencies, illegal poaching for skins, bones and teeth (believed to have mystic powers by many from Southeast Asia to Korea), quickly dropped dinosaur populations to "critically endangered" levels.

In 1986, with the Cold War approaching a final phase of massive global government spending on military research, design, procurement and deployment, DCPs around the globe -- including those in America -- were opened to legalized, managed hunting for increased income as East and West faced off. Sudden climate catastrophes in parts of the globe reduced human populations to starvation levels, seeing the vast dinosaur parks as ready sources of food. Soon, the American DCPs and one European DCP outside of Paris were all that remained, the hundreds of extant dinosaur species reduced to a few dozen.

The military spending of the U.S. Government led almost directly to the downfall of the dinosaurs. The three parks in North America continued to be open to legalized hunting, but in an effort for peak efficiency, the Department of the Interior authorized a program that unfortunately led to massive over-harvesting. Big game hunters from around the world came to the United States for the increasingly narrow opportunity to take a terrible lizard as a trophy. Dave Grumman (of Northrop-Grumman) was one of the most prolific of international hunters, scoring more than three dozen kills over the course of two years. He donated most of his trophies (generally harvested with a CZ 550 Safari Magnum bolt-action rifle chambered for the massive .505 Gibbs cartridge) to institutions like the Smithsonian. Keeping only his favorite, most meaningful trophies, he is considered the harvester of the very last dinosaur, a brontosaurus nicknamed "Tammy," in the Georgia DCP.

Today, Dave travels the world giving public addresses and doing motivational speaking. He continues his passion of hunting endangered wildlife.

                                                                                                          =======

In other news, a science unit led by the father and son team of Luis and Walter Alvarez have discovered a global sediment layer rich in iridium, an element that only rarely occurs on Earth, but is frequently found in asteroids. By back-tracing sediment layer thickness and iridium concentration, the Alvarez team has suggested that a six-mile-wide asteroid struck the northern Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

This theory has been dismissed in most scientific circles along the lines that nobody really cares.

                                                                                                      -=-=-=--=--=-

For #weeklyaiartchallenge #23 "Alternate History" running from 01/15/2024 - 01/19/2024. ("Alternate History" -- All Things History)
This week's theme was chosen by TorpedoBoat .

Weekly AI Art Challenge: #23 Alternate History🌎 Welcome to the Weekly AI Art Challenge! This week's Theme for the #WeeklyAiArtChallenge is,🛸"Alternate History" (All Things History) 🛸 - Good Luck and Have Fun Creating! - This week's theme: Was Chosen by: 🥇TorpedoBoat - the Winner of - #21 The New Year ⭐️ - Go Drop Some ❤️ HEARTS ❤️ On Their Profile - ⭐️ Challenge Dates: 🗓️ Entry Dates: 01/15/2024 - 01/19/2024 11:59 PM Midnight Friday USA Time (ET) 🗓️ Voting Dates: 01/20/2024 - 01/21/2024 until 9 PM💰 Winner will Receive 780+ DA Points Prize pool donors: 💰Thank you to Jeffdoute for the initial 200 Points. 💰Thank you to Illusion-ai-art for the generous 80 Points. 💰Thank you to laneadoe for the generous 100 Points. 💰Thank you to Snowden2023 for the generous 300 Points. 💰Thank you to TorpedoBoat for the generous 100 Points., Hi Friends - All are more than Welcome to join / participate / watch / vote / and enjoy all the wonderful art that is being created - ❤️, ,,📢 Status: OPEN TO ENTER! Create an original piece using AI generative techniques in the theme of the challenge.Add the #WeeklyAiArtChallenge tag to the tags and/or keywords of your piece.Link to this announcement in your piece's description and mention jeffdoute as the organizer to help me see it.Post your entry in the comments below on this announcement so that it's clearly featured here and to help make sure it gets entered in all the galleries.Once you have entered the challenge your masterpiece will be added to this Gallery in the WeeklyAiArtChallenge group, and the Winner will be added to the Featured Gallery and the Runners Up will be added the Featured Favorites Gallery - Now have some fun 🎯 Here is a quick guide on how to enter the Weekly Ai Art Challenge. 🎯 First - Post your image to DA.Second - Link to this week's - Weekly Ai Art Challenge in the description.Third - Add the keyword/Tag --- weeklyaiartchallengeFourth - Post your comment on this Week's Challenge Post below. The Description Link should look something like this - See Below.,,,🎯 Details & RulesOne entry per artist.Enter the 🛸"Alternate History" (All Things History) 🛸 But remember, keep it tasteful—no explicit nudity or themes. We'll gather submissions together to vote on the winner over the weekend. When voting goes live, there will be a link at the top and middle of this post and Featured on my DA page.The artist of the winning piece will receive DeviantArt points as described in the introduction, bragging rights, visibility, and picks the theme for the next challenge.,💰 Donations & Prize Pool 🥳 🎉 The prize pool for this challenge is made possible through the generous contributions of jeffdoute and members of our community each week. If you're participating in the challenge, we kindly invite you to consider donating $1/80 DeviantArt points to help us make the prize pool even more fascinating. You can contribute by donating your DeviantArt points to @jeffdoute using the 'Give' option and including a note specifying that the points are intended for the prize pool. Alternatively, you can also contribute to the donation pool by visiting my profile page.,🤝 THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS TO THE PRIZE POOL THIS WEEK!,You can also follow along on Discord.,Some Mood Music for You - Enjoy!,,,⭐️ Have Fun and Good Luck Everybody! ⭐, ❤️ Give Some Love to All These Great Entries ❤️, 🧸- Stop by and Introduce Yourself to Everyone! -🧸, Don't Forget to Drop Some ❤️ HEARTS ❤️ on All these Wonderful Creations, 📬 Contestant Submissions This Week 👇, ,,by coochycootie , ,,by LevTai , ,,by Illusion-ai-art, ,,by AngelicDestiny05, ,,by NemoArrigo, ,,by mac4tu, ,,by NeuralDreamer, ,,by Tigerlady316, ,,by AMIN3BADI , ,,by cicacecilia , ,,by 0dzisama, ,,by VitrinExposta, ,,by Baileyarthead , ,,by laneadoe, ,,by AguraNatasDreams, ,,by DeniseG02, ,,by KellyLynnMartin, ,,by Felfel55, ,,by AfroGusar , ,,by amethystangel777, ,,by intothefade, ,,by tiamatdxv , ,,by cuda1016, ,,by Dropdeadpink , ,,by TorpedoBoat, ,,by RSandrineD , ,,by WeedWood420Fantasy, ,,by PurpleUnicorn420Haze , ,,by EmeraldSativaDragon, ,,by TheAlphega, ,,by HighWeedFairyGarden, ,,by ChikiwiCreations, ,,by akirandres, ,,by Snowden2023, Don't Forget to Drop Some ❤️ HEARTS ❤️ on All these Wonderful Creations,...

This competition is as always, sponsored by jeffdoute . Thanks, Jeff!

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A humorous note. I posted this next little piece to my general account as a joke, but it got some real attention (it is not my submission to the competition!):

Good luck, everybody!