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Spinosaurus is the dude. Interesting that some of the most precious fragments ever found of this dino were harmed in a bomb blast during the big one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinosaurus
It also makes sense that a paleontologist named Jack Horner is in here talking about the length of Spinosaurus like he's the dino version of Dirk D.
Spinosaurus appeared in the 2001 film Jurassic Park III, it replaced Tyrannosaurus as the main antagonist.[42] The film's consulting paleontologist John R. (Jack) Horner was quoted as saying: "If we base the ferocious factor on the length of the animal, there was nothing that ever lived on this planet that could match this creature [Spinosaurus]. Also my hypothesis is that T-rex was actually a scavenger rather than a killer. Spinosaurus was really the predatory animal."
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| LarryCoon wrote: | | venturalakersfan wrote: | | Interesting that they are finding a lot of fossils (including a new species) from a former tropical rain forest in Utah. Lesson 1 why the global warming hysteria is just that. |
You need to work harder on the subtlety of your trolling. They're way too blatantly obvious now. |
It is what it is, the Earth changes and always will. I find it particularly interesting that what is now a barren desert was once a lush rain forest. That was the main reason I got interested in geology in the first place.
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| rwongega wrote: | | shnxx wrote: | i (bleep) love dinosaurs.
but i wonder where the world's best dinosaur museum is. |
Either Berlin or Chicago. |
There is a really nice one in Dickinson North Dakota.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | It is what it is, the Earth changes and always will. I find it particularly interesting that what is now a barren desert was once a lush rain forest. That was the main reason I got interested in geology in the first place. |
Yes, but Utah was also once located in the tropics. Through plate tectonics, even the locations of land masses changes over time. Much of Utah has also been under water (although this map is pretty inaccurate) due to changing sea levels over time.
But that's entirely orthogonal to the effects of anthropogenic forcing, for which evidence is solid.
I also don't get your reasoning about pointing out that the Earth changes on its own, and therefore the current GW concern is, as you put it, "hysteria." Even if it changes on its own (which it does), it can change in ways that are entirely incompatible with life -- and in fact, in the history of the Earth there are many extinction events that came as the result of natural environmental changes. Even if it doesn't get as bad as directly wiping out a lot of life, the indirect effects can be catastrophic. For example, how easily can we continue to feed 7+ billion people? What will be the financial/economic impact of rising sea levels, given that a majority of our population is clustered around water?
Yes, the Earth changes on its own over time. But some of those changes can be very, very bad for us. And even though natural change can and does occur, we can also tip the needle on the balance -- and there's pretty clear evidence that this is indeed happening.
So again, I just don't get your logic concluding that it's "hysteria." Just ask those creatures living in those Utah tropical rain forests how they feel about their environment changing to desert. |
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| I dont believe in dinosaurs |
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| Dladi Vidac wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | Dladi Vidac wrote: | | LarryCoon wrote: | | Fallout wrote: | | I seriously hope they can clone one. Not Jurassic park but to study. |
No, DNA integrity doesn't last that long, even solidified in amber (the Jurassic Park premise). About a million years is the most you'd ever get, under ideal circumstances, and even that is nowhere near long enough -- the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. The problem also is that the DNA starts degrading even sooner than that, and as soon as individual base pairs become unreadable, you change the creature's genetic makeup. |
I'd be more than satisfied with just a wooly mammoth. |
Well they can just clone Ron Jeremy for that. |
You sick son of a gun, are you implying that Ron Jeremy would satisfy me? |
A million and half porn stars can't be wrong. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Dladi Vidac wrote: | | LarryCoon wrote: | | Fallout wrote: | | I seriously hope they can clone one. Not Jurassic park but to study. |
No, DNA integrity doesn't last that long, even solidified in amber (the Jurassic Park premise). About a million years is the most you'd ever get, under ideal circumstances, and even that is nowhere near long enough -- the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. The problem also is that the DNA starts degrading even sooner than that, and as soon as individual base pairs become unreadable, you change the creature's genetic makeup. |
I'd be more than satisfied with just a wooly mammoth. |
I hear they're working on that. With a female elephant being the mother. So it would be some kind of elephant/mammoth hybrid. Still pretty cool.
Until it becomes sentient and takes over the world after teaching the other mammephants how to talk and wield weapons. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Shlumpledink wrote: | | Dladi Vidac wrote: | | LarryCoon wrote: | | Fallout wrote: | | I seriously hope they can clone one. Not Jurassic park but to study. |
No, DNA integrity doesn't last that long, even solidified in amber (the Jurassic Park premise). About a million years is the most you'd ever get, under ideal circumstances, and even that is nowhere near long enough -- the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. The problem also is that the DNA starts degrading even sooner than that, and as soon as individual base pairs become unreadable, you change the creature's genetic makeup. |
I'd be more than satisfied with just a wooly mammoth. |
I hear they're working on that. With a female elephant being the mother. So it would be some kind of elephant/mammoth hybrid. Still pretty cool.
Until it becomes sentient and takes over the world after teaching the other mammephants how to talk and wield weapons. |
>2315 A.D. (Year 301 on the Mammogregorian calendar)
>An ivory shuttle enters the atmosphere of a recently terraformed blue planet, lands at stately, 100% bamboo government structure vaguely resembling a circus tent
>Planet's one remaining moon has been turned into prison base for mice and men
>High Chieftan of the GAACP (Galactic Association for the Advancement of Coated Pachyderms) disembarks, hurries into Mammoth HQ, flanked by Rhinoceros Secret Service
>HAVE ALL PREPARATIONS BEEN MADE REGARDING ORDER 66?
>Yes your wooliness, everything is ready
>GOOD. TODAY WE SAY GOODBYE TO HUMANKIND ONCE AND FOR ALL. TODAY WE WILL DETONATE THE MOON.
>Chieftan Babar attempts diabolical laughter but only succeeds in making generic elephant sounds
>Meanwhile, human resistance on moon has overtaken prison
>Why did they think elephant enclosures would be able to contain us?
>WE CLAIM THIS MOON IN THE NAME OF THE UNITED BIBLICAL STATES OF THE 2ND AMENDMENT!
>Humans hastily launch 700,000 megaton nuclear warhead shaped like a giant peanut directly at planet
>explosion.jpeg
>cowboy hats are thrown into the air, celebratory hugs, etc.
>small bits of planetary debris gently pelt moon base
>a license plate lands nearby, it reads "Tuskegee, Alabama: Capital of the World"
>YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAAAAMMMMN YOUUUUU! GODDDD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
>Written by M. Night Shamalamadingdong
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| C M B wrote: | | Shlumpledink wrote: | | Dladi Vidac wrote: | | LarryCoon wrote: | | Fallout wrote: | | I seriously hope they can clone one. Not Jurassic park but to study. |
No, DNA integrity doesn't last that long, even solidified in amber (the Jurassic Park premise). About a million years is the most you'd ever get, under ideal circumstances, and even that is nowhere near long enough -- the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. The problem also is that the DNA starts degrading even sooner than that, and as soon as individual base pairs become unreadable, you change the creature's genetic makeup. |
I'd be more than satisfied with just a wooly mammoth. |
I hear they're working on that. With a female elephant being the mother. So it would be some kind of elephant/mammoth hybrid. Still pretty cool.
Until it becomes sentient and takes over the world after teaching the other mammephants how to talk and wield weapons. |
>2315 A.D. (Year 301 on the Mammogregorian calendar)
>An ivory shuttle enters the atmosphere of a recently terraformed blue planet, lands at stately, 100% bamboo government structure vaguely resembling a circus tent
>Planet's one remaining moon has been turned into prison base for mice and men
>High Chieftan of the GAACP (Galactic Association for the Advancement of Coated Pachyderms) disembarks, hurries into Mammoth HQ, flanked by Rhinoceros Secret Service
>HAVE ALL PREPARATIONS BEEN MADE REGARDING ORDER 66?
>Yes your wooliness, everything is ready
>GOOD. TODAY WE SAY GOODBYE TO HUMANKIND ONCE AND FOR ALL. TODAY WE WILL DETONATE THE MOON.
>Chieftan Babar attempts diabolical laughter but only succeeds in making generic elephant sounds
>Meanwhile, human resistance on moon has overtaken prison
>Why did they think elephant enclosures would be able to contain us?
>WE CLAIM THIS MOON IN THE NAME OF THE UNITED BIBLICAL STATES OF THE 2ND AMENDMENT!
>Humans hastily launch 700,000 megaton nuclear warhead shaped like a giant peanut directly at planet
>explosion.jpeg
>cowboy hats are thrown into the air, celebratory hugs, etc.
>small bits of planetary debris gently pelt moon base
>a license plate lands nearby, it reads "Tuskegee, Alabama: Capital of the World"
>YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAAAAMMMMN YOUUUUU! GODDDD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
>Written by M. Night Shamalamadingdong |
Needs more forced pop culture references and people angrily throwing plates.
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| City_Dawg wrote: | | C M B wrote: | | Shlumpledink wrote: | | Dladi Vidac wrote: | | LarryCoon wrote: | | Fallout wrote: | | I seriously hope they can clone one. Not Jurassic park but to study. |
No, DNA integrity doesn't last that long, even solidified in amber (the Jurassic Park premise). About a million years is the most you'd ever get, under ideal circumstances, and even that is nowhere near long enough -- the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. The problem also is that the DNA starts degrading even sooner than that, and as soon as individual base pairs become unreadable, you change the creature's genetic makeup. |
I'd be more than satisfied with just a wooly mammoth. |
I hear they're working on that. With a female elephant being the mother. So it would be some kind of elephant/mammoth hybrid. Still pretty cool.
Until it becomes sentient and takes over the world after teaching the other mammephants how to talk and wield weapons. |
>2315 A.D. (Year 301 on the Mammogregorian calendar)
>An ivory shuttle enters the atmosphere of a recently terraformed blue planet, lands at stately, 100% bamboo government structure vaguely resembling a circus tent
>Planet's one remaining moon has been turned into prison base for mice and men
>High Chieftan of the GAACP (Galactic Association for the Advancement of Coated Pachyderms) disembarks, hurries into Mammoth HQ, flanked by Rhinoceros Secret Service
>HAVE ALL PREPARATIONS BEEN MADE REGARDING ORDER 66?
>Yes your wooliness, everything is ready
>GOOD. TODAY WE SAY GOODBYE TO HUMANKIND ONCE AND FOR ALL. TODAY WE WILL DETONATE THE MOON.
>Chieftan Babar attempts diabolical laughter but only succeeds in making generic elephant sounds
>Meanwhile, human resistance on moon has overtaken prison
>Why did they think elephant enclosures would be able to contain us?
>WE CLAIM THIS MOON IN THE NAME OF THE UNITED BIBLICAL STATES OF THE 2ND AMENDMENT!
>Humans hastily launch 700,000 megaton nuclear warhead shaped like a giant peanut directly at planet
>explosion.jpeg
>cowboy hats are thrown into the air, celebratory hugs, etc.
>small bits of planetary debris gently pelt moon base
>a license plate lands nearby, it reads "Tuskegee, Alabama: Capital of the World"
>YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAAAAMMMMN YOUUUUU! GODDDD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
>Written by M. Night Shamalamadingdong |
Needs more forced pop culture references and people angrily throwing plates. |
>Vin Diesel as Groot cast for the lead part
>Movie has no real audio track, the only sound is just a 90 minute loop of one Jackson 5 song
>$700b at the box office first weekend
>www.lakersground.net
>"Did this movie remind anyone else of Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, and the Godfather, and every other good movie ever made? btw I've never seen those movies"
>"Yeah I thought I was the only one who thought that! BTW the soundtrack was amazing! btw I'm deaf"
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| C M B wrote: |
>Vin Diesel as Groot cast for the lead part
>Movie has no real audio track, the only sound is just a 90 minute loop of one Jackson 5 song
>$700b at the box office first weekend
>www.lakersground.net
>"Did this movie remind anyone else of Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, and the Godfather, and every other good movie ever made? btw I've never seen those movies"
>"Yeah I thought I was the only one who thought that! BTW the soundtrack was amazing! btw I'm deaf"
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Put Goldblum and Dr. Grant in it and it'll work. It'll work, man. It worked for the crap sequels of JP. People'll watch that s just for the Goldblum.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| rwongega wrote: | | shnxx wrote: | i (bleep) love dinosaurs.
but i wonder where the world's best dinosaur museum is. |
Either Berlin or Chicago. |
Oh wow. Really?
I was just in Chicago and didn't go to the museum.
Doh! |
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