Posted on 04/24/2008 11:04:30 PM PDT by Soliton
In the first analysis of proteins extracted from dinosaur bones, scientists say they have established more firmly than ever that the closest living relatives of the mighty predator Tyrannosaurus rex are modern birds.
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After many millions of data points only the willingly ignorant could claim to be surprised by this.
While I like feeding the finch because they eat the wasps, maybe they also eat the bees and that is why the spruce and alder and willow didn’t bloom last year.
Yeah, and then they will set up a religion caucus open to them alone so they can discuss how science expells free thinkers
How many beans in a beanbag, true or false?
I don't remember if it was Asimov or Clarke: If a noted scientist says somethign is possible, he is probably correct. If a noted scientist says something is impossible he is probably wrong.
Yesterday’s thread, con’t.
Saying it doesn’t make it so...that is simply the perspective of an individual(s)
The birds and the bees are at war?
Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.Isaac Asimov wrote a corollary to Clarke's First Law, statingThe only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion -- the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.
The wasps got an early and strong start last spring and refused the wasp traps, but then the small birds, who travel together although of several species, arrived and began to pick them out of the air. Very nimble, acrobatic. I wonder how the birds can eat the wasps without getting indigestion, but there it was. The wasps were gone in about three weeks and their nests soon dissolved in the rain.
Where did matter come from?... it goes on and on...
And when we can’t know the answer, we invent big invisible people in the sky to fill the void.
The way i see it, very simply. There is some degree of evolution but what changes things and what created matter and space in the first place?
yeap I agree with analogy. Until then I will have to go with the best theory that is available to me.
T. Rex quacked!
and most likely had feathers.
I want to believe T-rex could really move as fast has in Jurassic park. I’m sick of hearing people theorizing he was a slow scavenger when I look at ostriches with very similar body mechanics and how explosive they can be running. T-rex’s body looks almost 50-50 in weight distribution from head to tail, skeleton is so well balanced...just like modern birds.
When I was in middle school, I wrote a paper on how T-Rex probably hopped. I based it on the similarities in morphology to the kangaroo. I got an A for the argument and lots of laughs in the teachers’ lounge.
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