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Virgin dragon's surprise
The Sydney Morning Herald ^
Posted on 12/20/2006 8:19:54 PM PST by Valin
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:19:55 PM PST
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Valin
To: Valin
I find the parallel drawn repellant and blasphemous.
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:21:52 PM PST
by
Miss Marple
(Lord, thank you for Mozart Lover's son's safe return, and look after Jemian's son, please!)
To: Valin
"Other reptile species reproduce asexually in a process known as parthenogenesis."
So THAT'S how Hillary did it!!!
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:24:11 PM PST
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: Miss Marple
Despicable, indeed. Thought they would have gone for a Jurassic Park connection or story about another endangered species that did this and is no longer endangered. Way to poison the reporting of an important scientific/zoological event.
To: Miss Marple
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:27:00 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
To: Miss Marple
The reporter is from the lame-stream media. I expect nothing less than repellant and blasphemous. Someone once posted a cute graphic about hating the media.... ;)
/johnny
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:31:06 PM PST
by
JRandomFreeper
(They want to die in jihad. I'm here to help, in whatever small way I can. Generally by cooking...)
To: Valin
They are the world's largest lizards and have no natural predators - making them on par with sharks and lions at the pinnacle of the animal kingdom.
Orcas will eat sharks. Sharks eat sharks. I'm fairly certain that squid do as well.
Hyenas regularly kill lions and will eat their corpses afterwards. Whether this is merely competitory killing and scavenging or predation is a matter of opinion.
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:35:17 PM PST
by
rmlew
(Having slit their throats may the conservatives who voted for Casey choke slowly on their blood.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Ar one time, reporters would have been reluctant to post comments like this, even if they were the reporter's opinion, because the general public wouldn't tolerate such stuff.
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:42:06 PM PST
by
Miss Marple
(Lord, thank you for Mozart Lover's son's safe return, and look after Jemian's son, please!)
To: Valin
The writer of this piece would have done better to use a Jurassic Park comparison than to compare a reptiles parthengenisistic moment to the Virgin Birth of Christ. It's a "Nature will find a way" moment, not, Gods human intervention.
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posted on
12/20/2006 8:44:32 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
To: crazyhorse691
That's the 1st thing that popped into my (so called0 brain.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.
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posted on
12/20/2006 9:04:47 PM PST
by
Valin
(History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
To: Miss Marple
"...At one time, reporters would have been reluctant to post comments like this, even if they were the reporter's opinion, because the general public wouldn't tolerate such stuff..." Sadly, those days are gone forever.
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posted on
12/20/2006 9:14:54 PM PST
by
pickrell
(Old dog, new trick...sort of)
To: Valin
Taste Lik' Chikin'???...;0)
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posted on
12/20/2006 9:45:06 PM PST
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: Miss Marple
I find the parallel drawn repellant and blasphemous
A Reuters
article handled the parthenogenesis and Christmas conjunction in a way in which I found nothing offensive.
Parthenogenesis is most commonly heard of in domestic honey bees, where the queen or workers (when there's no queen) produce drones.
An apparent difference between the komodos and the bees is that the dragon males so produced can reproduce, where the bee drones are sterile.
Photo is not from the article.
To: caveat emptor
Question:
When a female dragon reproduces this way, are the offspring always male?
[I don't find the article offensive. If God doesn't have a sense of humor about such comparisons He wouldn't have made Man in His image.]
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posted on
12/20/2006 10:39:38 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
To: Miss Marple
I agree.
This is indeed an interesting fact and Komodo dragons are most interesting animals - but the analogy is both blasphemous and inaccurate.
Parthenogenesis is unknown in mammals - excepting a miracle - while it occurs in several cases in Reptiels. There are actually some species of lizards are entirely female. Some fish start out as one sex and then change into another as they mature. Absent surgery, this doesn't ocur in humans or other mammals.
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posted on
12/20/2006 10:50:50 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: piasa
[I don't find the article offensive. If God doesn't have a sense of humor about such comparisons He wouldn't have made Man in His image.]
Thne you fail to grasp the subtlety and perniciousness of the left wing media.
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posted on
12/20/2006 10:52:37 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: piasa
When a female dragon reproduces this way, are the offspring always male?
That's what was stated in the Reuters article which I linked to.
To: rmlew
To: caveat emptor
Bee drones are sterile? And dragons exist, and big animals can reproduce without sex. Have I all got that right?
Hmm.
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posted on
12/21/2006 11:21:38 AM PST
by
Graymatter
(before your time)
To: Rembrandt
""Other reptile species reproduce asexually in a process known as parthenogenesis."
So THAT'S how Hillary did it!!!"
That is how the HillaBeast was hatched, not how the HillaBeast's whelp was conceived.
For those with a sufficiently perverted mind to ask for details, I must respectfully decline to further discuss such a matter on a public forum, and thus refer you to Janet Reno.
;-)
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posted on
12/21/2006 3:43:10 PM PST
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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