Posted on 09/08/2005 7:26:09 PM PDT by aculeus
There was a 30's era cliffhanger serial that had a scene where some cowboys were fighting a flying dinosaur. Pehaps that is what is triggering these memories.
There was a clip from it on a recent TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?", which used it for one of their Green Screen Reporter bits.
Pity they can't build a Predator drone in the shape of a pterosaur ... can you imagine the look of sheer panic in the face of a jihadi terrorist?
A bit related but not really, I have heard the proposed sequel to Peter Jackson's King Kong is for Kong to battle Nazi dinosaurs genetically engineered for nefarious war purposes!
Not that long ago. The legend of the Thunderbird in North America, has the animal this large and with an appearance like that of a flying crocodile. There is an account of some whitemen shooting one in New Mexico in the 1800's.
Eighteen years is a long time to be deathly sick with radiation sickness.
Yeah. It was a bitch finding it again.
Would they then be called Herrosaurs?
http://www.trueauthority.com/cryptozoology/thunderbird.htm
I think somebody said bees couldn't fly either.
Uniformitarian approaches to the evolution of terrestrial locomotor physiology and animal flight performance have generally presupposed the constancy of atmospheric composition. Recent geophysical data as well as theoretical models suggest that, to the contrary, both oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations have changed dramatically during defining periods of metazoan evolution. Hyperoxia in the late Paleozoic atmosphere may have physiologically enhanced the initial evolution of tetrapod locomotor energetics; a concurrently hyperdense atmosphere would have augmented aerodynamic force production in early flying insects. Multiple historical origins of vertebrate flight also correlate temporally with geological periods of increased oxygen concentration and atmospheric density. Arthropod as well as amphibian gigantism appear to have been facilitated by a hyperoxic Carboniferous atmosphere and were subsequently eliminated by a late Permian transition to hypoxia. For extant organisms, the transient, chronic and ontogenetic effects of exposure to hyperoxic gas mixtures are poorly understood relative to contemporary understanding of the physiology of oxygen deprivation. Experimentally, the biomechanical and physiological effects of hyperoxia on animal flight performance can be decoupled through the use of gas mixtures that vary in density and oxygen concentration. Such manipulations permit both paleophysiological simulation of ancestral locomotor performance and an analysis of maximal flight capacity in extant forms.
Ha! As if anything that came out of the moon missions proves anything. Everyone knows the moon missions were faked up by the US gov't under the orders of the international Zionist/Evolutionist/Communist conspiracy, for the purpose of ....
OK, I don't know how anyone can buy into all thank conspiracy bunk either, but many do, especially if it supports what they want to believe.
YYZ? Win one for the zipper?
*nevermind*
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