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Peerless Pterosaur Could Fly Long-Distance For Days
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| November 22, 2010
| Reid R. Frazier
Posted on 11/25/2010 4:47:02 PM PST by decimon
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posted on
11/25/2010 4:47:02 PM PST
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
Can’t say a whole lot more ping.
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posted on
11/25/2010 4:47:40 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Yeah, but could he launch a Hellfire on the bad guys?
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posted on
11/25/2010 4:49:24 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
To: decimon
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posted on
11/25/2010 4:52:45 PM PST
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: decimon
Would need a fairly long runway I’m thinking.
To: NonValueAdded
Yeah, but could he launch a Hellfire on the bad guys?I rather go out to a Hellfire than to one of those things.
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posted on
11/25/2010 4:55:20 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Hi, I'm Pterry.
This is Pteresa and that's Pthomas up ahead.
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posted on
11/25/2010 4:55:42 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
With that mass, you would pull in your wings and free-fall until time to nose up.
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posted on
11/25/2010 5:13:54 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: KevinDavis; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
11/25/2010 5:16:13 PM PST
by
EveningStar
(Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
To: decimon
It would be quicker and less painful...
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posted on
11/25/2010 5:28:38 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 674 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: decimon
IIRC the Flintstones flew Ptrans-Pterodactyl Airlines
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posted on
11/25/2010 5:58:52 PM PST
by
xp38
To: null and void
And taste just like chicken at 80 M.P.H.
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posted on
11/25/2010 6:00:20 PM PST
by
jimpick
To: decimon
So, then couldn’t these huge birdosauruses have just flown from the island that Jurassic Park was on to New York? or was that some other era? When the huge leaves off the huge prehistoric trees (that had just been planted for 2 or 3 yrs. from seedlings found in amber) fell onto the scientists visiting the island, that got me off on an incredulous tangent. The rest of the movie was overshadowed by wondering about how those seeds had grown into big trees so fast. Then when the herd of ostrichosauruses were stampeding through the crowd of scientists - making no noise stamping their feet nor trampling anyone - that also made me think it was phony.
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posted on
11/25/2010 6:00:49 PM PST
by
Twinkie
To: decimon
I rather go out to a Hellfire than to one of those things.There are worse things than death. There are teeth.
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posted on
11/25/2010 6:18:34 PM PST
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
To: decimon
The pterosaur's wingspan and size have spawned comparisons to dragons. But recently some scientists wondered whether the creature was too big to fly. Face it, he was. At least in our world, the heaviest creatures which can take off and land go around 25 lbs and those can barely take off or land. The biggest pterosaurs would go around 1000 lbs in our world, and would never get off the ground. In the present age of the world, birds over the sizes of albatrosses and the largest buzzards long since lost their ability to fly and their wings became vestigial.
To: wendy1946
You have to figure in thermas, updrafts of wind the today’s buzzards take use of.
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posted on
11/25/2010 7:00:44 PM PST
by
txhurl
(If we can shake Congress like a can of pennies, we can uproot voter fraud like a D-9.)
To: txhurl
Buzzards & vultures can take off from level ground with no wind.
If you can only launch from a cliff then the first time you have to land elsewhere, you’re dead. Especially if you are hauling around wings that are useless on the ground.
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posted on
11/25/2010 8:03:54 PM PST
by
BwanaNdege
("a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites" - Charles Krauthammer)
To: decimon
A flock of seagulls overhead can be a smelly business...a flock of those things come over you and you would feel like you are in a whiteout...before you suffocate.
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posted on
11/25/2010 8:22:20 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
To: BwanaNdege; txhurl
Pterosaurs never experienced gravity the way that we do at all. That’s the big cosmic dirty secret to the whole deal; Einstein was simply wrong about gravity.
To: decimon
“Peerless Pterosaur Could Fly Long-Distance For Days”
That was then. This is now.
With the TSA around, it probably wouldn’t be flying at all!
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posted on
11/25/2010 9:43:54 PM PST
by
Grumplestiltskin
(I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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