I generally wake up early in the morning, and I am the type of person that is productive in the morning and as soon as i do something "unproductive" I don't easily get started again. My question is what do people do (outside of running and meditating) in between waking up and taking a prep test at 12 pm to stay focused? Would it be a good idea to read a somewhat easy to read book, or will that somewhat tire the brain out?
it specifically says in the answer choice D. that the the "impact that formed the crater" HAD to be the cause. but what if it was the atmosphere right before the impact? the stimulus still works...
yeah about the first part i mis-typed and didn't have enough time to edit everything haha. What I meant was it's not necessary to the argument that the meteor was melted as a result of the impact or it doesn't necessarily hurt the argument if something else melted the meteor. and ill amend that to say.. as long as it was melted in the process of its collision with earth, it doesn't matter what actually melted it. I get why the dragon argument doesn't hold but why not my argument about the atmosphere? if the atmosphere melted it and not the impact the argument in the stimulus would still hold. (atmosphere IS generally what heats up meteors from my understanding). The argument in the stimulus never mentions that when hitting the earth meteorites are melted only by the impact.
I'm probably overthinking this, but for answer choice D, if we apply the "negation test" it would state that the meteor melted from something other than the impact. I actually don't think thats necessary to the argument. It could have been the atmosphere that melted the rock and that would still give an accurate measurement of the polarity of Earth's magnetic field at the time, no? That would melt meteorites and it would be impossible for it to burn in the atmosphere for a considerable amount of time so it would have been right around the time of the impact. the only necessary assumptions concerning melting are that nothing melted it after, and that it was melted at the time it hit the earth. What actually melted it doesn't matter to the argument. If a fire breathing dragon walked up to the meteorite right after it hit the earth and melted it further and then the rock crystallization should still reflect the polarity of Earth's magnetic field at the time.
I get it. For some reason I thought by “rocks” it was refering to pieces of the meteorite. Not literal rocks that had been there and then got hit by the meteorite. I don’t know why hahah.