Dinosaurs // Telekinetic Marketing

Sumit Menon
830 days ago

It's the Museum...

So, here you go:

Michael Mayo

Michael Mayo
829 days ago

Sumit, Is it a male or a female?

Oh, also, what the heck is it? I'm pretty sure it's not a T-Rex...lol

Sal

Sal
828 days ago

Looks like a member of the triceritops family? Or an early version of a turtle or amadillo. Whatever it is, I'm thinking we can be pretty sure it's extinct.

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
828 days ago

It is an ankylosaurus.

It is from the same period (late Cretaceous) as the triceratops.

Sal

Sal
828 days ago

Dan gets the cookie again. LOL. And spells triceratops correctly for the bonus of frosting!

I'll go see if I can dig a pic to go with one of my old RHS1 articles.

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
828 days ago

At least they haven't changed its name in the past couple decades. ;)

I used to know dinosaurs pretty well. I remember when I was a kid and Johnny Carson had some kid "dinosaur expert" on The Tonight Show. I was like, I know more than him!

But, that was many moons ago. I wonder how much I have forgotten. On top of that, some of the names have changed. The Apatosaurus was a Brontosaurus when I was a kid. Even though the Brontosaurus name lost its priority back in 1903, word apparently didn't get out until the 1990's or something.

Sal

Sal
828 days ago

There are a lot of Dino's in the Brontosaurus line. I thik Apato's were about the same thing but bigger. And either Apato's or Allo's or something had blow holes in the top of their heads like a whales. I'm thinking that is just the catch all name for the class if I remember right.....which I might not. I studied them furiously when I was a kid, too. Forgotten more than many will ever know about it. When I was a kid I wanted to be either a paleontologist or achaeologist.

But its all good, ya know - with the discoveries just in the last decade half of what you and I knew as kids is just crap now anyhow. Same with Astronomy and physics. All the more reason to stay fascinated with it all though, eh?

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
828 days ago

There is no more Brontosaurus anymore. The Apatosaurus was bigger than the Brontosaurus, but now (er, at least since 1903), the Brontosaurus is an Apatosaurus. So the bigger one was one type of Apatosaurus (Apatosaurus ajax) and the Brontosaurus was another type of Apatosaurus (was Brontosaurus excelsus, now Apatosaurus excelsus).

I've still got to get used to the Apatosaurus as the dominant name. I think pretty much all of my dinosaur books still refer to it as a Brontosaurus.

When I was a kid I wanted to be either a paleontologist or achaeologist.

Same here.

Same with Astronomy and physics. All the more reason to stay fascinated with it all though, eh?

There's a quote that I think may have come from Joseph Campbell in his interviews with Bill Moyers, but it could be from somewhere else. It was that when science finally looks over the brink of all knowledge, it will find that religion has been there all along. I don't think that science is quite there yet, but you can see hints of that quote being true when you see stuff like quantum mechanics, string theory and m-theory all coming into play.

Sal

Sal
828 days ago

Yeah, Dan - it seems to me that it would be impossible for someone to believe anything about quantum mechanics and not believe in the afterlife. The nature of that afterlife is about all there is left to debate it would seem.

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
828 days ago

I hope there is an afterlife. It would be a tragic waste if all those who have passed are lost to us and the universe forever.

And, it may be that what we perceive as a three-dimensional world is nothing more than a holographic projection of a two-dimensional universe. In which case, we're all cartoons.

Sal

Sal
828 days ago

There is holographic theory, Dan - but it doesn't delete the fact that energy can be transformed, but not destroyed. It, rather, states a case for this world being more of a Matrix type existence. As far as this universe - we will all be lost to it.......but there are others for us to cross to, other dimensions, other realities.

I just hope 1. that there is a really hillarious punchline at the end of it all..........and 2. If I end up where there are live Gorgons (see my petrified post) that they are much milder creatures in other dimensions than they were in this place.

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
828 days ago

Someday, I need to write up my bubble-theory.

Except I don't have the math skills to support it. I'll probably have to incorporate it into a scifi story and let physicists figure it out.

The Gorgons are worse in other dimensions. But it's okay because you can just fly away.

Sumit Menon

Sumit Menon
828 days ago

FINE.. I copied the pic from Wikipedia. :p

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
828 days ago

FINE.. I copied the pic from Wikipedia. :p

Okay, so it was an Edmontonia Nodosaurus then, which is in the Ankylosaurus family.

Sumit Menon

Sumit Menon
828 days ago

Okay, so it was an Edmontonia Nodosaurus then, which is in the Ankylosaurus family.

Cool.. But, don't really care.

Sumit, Is it a male or a female?

Well, since we are exhibiting the same level of thinking here, I guess I can safely tell you from the fact that I can't see it's pee-pee, it's a her.

(Excuse the grammar. I'm not used to making such big sentences. :p)

Sal

Sal
828 days ago

Well - all in all, it's definitely a cute little guy. Probably make a wonderful pet. Looks like it was an herbavore so wouldn't have to worry about it "disappearing" neighbor kids.

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
828 days ago

No, you'd just have to worry about "flattened" neighbor kids.

Robert Velare (Indiana)

Robert Velare (Indiana)
807 days ago

Dinosaurs...First...The nile crocodile is cold blooded, so solar powered

from sunrise to movment of the reptile = 4 hours...Given the mass of the croc

+ the time involed to animation...When turned into maths...The maths say dinosaurs

were not reptillia...The mass of Brontosaurus excelsus, now Apatosaurus excelsus

prohibit animation...Therefore they were warm blooded ...The birds are their direct descendents

and buddy is a direct descendent of Tyronasaus Rex...-O)...Indy

Robert Velare (Indiana)

Robert Velare (Indiana)
807 days ago

Next...

" It was that when science finally looks over the brink of all knowledge, it will find that religion has been there all along. I don't think that science is quite there yet, but you can see hints of that quote being true when you see stuff like quantum mechanics, string theory and m-theory all coming into play."

"The divine irrational" is the key to science and it logic...Collective religion was devolped and promoted by Sumerian pirates as a means of control...The world today still runs on Sumerian pirate tech...The afterlife -O)

From the no nosense group;;;Level 1

"

"Valerie!!!!!!!!!!!

Repeat after me...I will not die...I cannot die...I am eternal...

Be glad Valerie for the song has no ending -O) HTH...Indy

Your body will perish...The Valerie that you are will be lost in the mists of time

generations rise and fall ...We are eternal

Why do we perish away?...You know the answer bickette however on the suns we remember but on the planets we forget...So do not be afraid...You have a double, another Valerie that lives on the Sun..."

"

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
807 days ago

Therefore they were warm blooded ...The birds are their direct descendents

And, in the beginning, God created the creatures of the sea and the birds of the air. First the fish and then the birds. In evolution, creatures originated in the sea and moved to the land. So, if dinosaurs are the original birds, then both Genesis and evolution can peaceably co-exist as describing the origins of life in a very similar manner.

Reminds me of an old saying, something from Joseph Campbell I think, that when science peers over the crest of all knowledge, it will see that religion has been there all along.

Robert Velare (Indiana)

Robert Velare (Indiana)
807 days ago

Dan for your sci-fi site...Compliments Indy

http://www.greymatrixx.com/ADNA.html

Dan C. Rinnert

Dan C. Rinnert
807 days ago

" It was that when science finally looks over the brink of all knowledge, it will find that religion has been there all along. I don't think that science is quite there yet, but you can see hints of that quote being true when you see stuff like quantum mechanics, string theory and m-theory all coming into play."

I guess we were typing the same thing at the same time! I was just a little slower because I had three tabs open in my browser plus another computer.