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Fossils show flying reptiles were 'size of a small aeroplane'
The Daily Telegraph ^ | September 9, 2005 | British Association Festival of Science

Posted on 09/08/2005 7:26:09 PM PDT by aculeus

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To: eastforker

Indeed, some things can't be explained. I find the story behind this photo (real or imagined) really cool.


41 posted on 09/08/2005 8:28:39 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: HitmanNY

Are you into UFO's?


42 posted on 09/08/2005 8:30:20 PM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: All

43 posted on 09/08/2005 8:30:45 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

HOLY MOLEY, THAT's THE PICTURE!!!! :-)


44 posted on 09/08/2005 8:31:56 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: Dashing Dasher

Ping...


45 posted on 09/08/2005 8:32:01 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: HitmanNY

http://ufocasebook.com/Pineywoods.html check this out and the many articles associated with it. Just do the google thing. This happened about a mile from my house.


46 posted on 09/08/2005 8:34:24 PM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker

Yes, very much so.

This stuff fascinated me when I was a youngster and I never lost a passion for it, though for some spells I didn't cultivate my interest.

Regarding UFOs, my opinion of them is greatly influenced by a trio of books by Jaques Vallee, where if I remember correctly he pretty much posits that they are interdimensional in nature. I tend to not go for a lot of the wilder stories I have read - Branton's writings, for example, if you are familiar with them, are so morbid and strange that - while possible - suggests a kind of conspiracy so vast that I can't imagine it could be pulled off.

I never bought into the alien abductions for scienific research idea - if its a real phenomenon, I suspect that it has more to do with either putting something inside of humans, or taking something out of them. As to what or why, I can't say.

I think some ETs are good guys, some are bad guys, most are just out for themselves, kind of like us on earth. I don't expect an ET breakthrough in our lifetimes - a very public First Contact, for example, but that could change literally overnight.


47 posted on 09/08/2005 8:36:42 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: null and void

Even with the differing atmoshpheric pressures, just pumping blood from the heart of a sauropod to the brain ( over 30 feet UPHILL!!) seems impossible in our gravity.


48 posted on 09/08/2005 8:39:22 PM PDT by keithtoo (Howard Dean's Democratic Party: Traitors, Haters, and Vacillators)
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To: eastforker

I will read it, thanks, and like I said, I'm convinced that while some ETs are good, and many are probably neutral, some are just really bad people. Watch the skies!


49 posted on 09/08/2005 8:40:03 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: Squantos

Hey bro.

Just a quick tip, but they're talking about you-know-what again, and even mentioned Big Bend National Park. I know you've taken excellent precautions to camoflage and conceal the nest n' all...but even with those Longhorn ghillie suits you have 'em wearing.....well...can't be too careful, I guess.

How cool is FReepmail, huh ?!

Right under their noses....just like shaggy eel...who they think isn't really an eel from outer space, n' all....

Anyway....oh yeah....I decided that "reading glasses" stuff is a bunch a' bunk, so I'm cowboying up and just dealing with it....hear me roar. I don't need no steenking glasses, doc...!

O.K....now where's SEND..oh..here it i


50 posted on 09/08/2005 8:43:29 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun -T.Jefferson)
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To: null and void

If the mass of the Earth is constant, how could the gravitational force be stronger? Sometimes I just can't believe the mental gymnastics that people go through to try to explain out how some of these creatures could have existed or functioned. With all the "may have","would be needed", and "must have been", it's all speculation. Nobody KNOWS what the environment was that far back. There's no way to verify it. And evolutionists think creationists are silly for believing it was created as it is now?


51 posted on 09/08/2005 8:44:27 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: HitmanNY

I have always thought since being an adult that earth was just one big experiment. Taking into account biblical reports, older paintings and that we can now clone embryo's and the fact modern man appeared and flurished in such a short time span compared to the millions of years of prehistoric domain leads me to believe there was some scientific engineering. Now the question is who did it.


52 posted on 09/08/2005 8:48:33 PM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: eastforker

Watch the skies!


53 posted on 09/08/2005 8:54:05 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: HitmanNY
I suspect that it has more to do with either putting something inside of humans, or taking something out of them.

Traci discovered that Aliens are vampires.


54 posted on 09/08/2005 8:55:04 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Line the border with trebuchets. Provide the invaders free flights home.)
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To: ASA Vet

A heck of a documentary, you are correct!


55 posted on 09/08/2005 8:55:30 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: PoorMuttly

And ya'll laughed at my .460 Weatherby Magnum I take dove hunting.....Welome to Texas Muttly !


56 posted on 09/08/2005 8:59:20 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: aculeus
Hmm... there are weight limits on anything flying under its own muscle power, and that means size limits. Heaviest contemporary flying birds are what - 40 lbs swans? Say, the limit could be close to 100 lbs. Anything with 50 feet wingspan would have to be much heavier.
57 posted on 09/08/2005 9:00:28 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: eastforker
Now the question is who did it.


58 posted on 09/08/2005 9:00:37 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Line the border with trebuchets. Provide the invaders free flights home.)
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To: keithtoo
Ever hear of a giraffe?
59 posted on 09/08/2005 9:09:39 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: metmom; keithtoo
An excellent question for kiethtoo!

How 'bout it keith? Where did the extra mass go???

60 posted on 09/08/2005 9:15:08 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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