New Dinosaur Built Like a Sherman Tank

LiveScience.com ^ | 10/30/09 | Jeanna Bryner

[JoeProBono]

Sorry.

Better?

[Pelham]

I think I’ll take door # 18, reptile or not.

[JoeProBono]

[Pelham]

A gopher with a Halloween mask!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Not much on the topic here.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I have a question....

How come we never see Mammals with armor plating of any kind...excepting horns....?

Archeology speaking....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Not sure what a Rino carries...

[FrogMom]

Show me the fossilized skeleton!

I read a National Geographic article on dinosaurs. WONDERFUL pictures and vignettes of how they lived.

Then they showed the 1X2 inch bone fragment from which they extrapolated all of that. Color? Size? What they ate? How they cared for their young? What their defenses were? From a 1X2 inch fossilized bone fragment.

These articles are interesting but have lost any magic, they pretty much fall into the realm of fantasy.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, if the fossil of an armored humanoid were found in a prehuman paleontological strata, nothing would be published. ;’D

[SunkenCiv]

The width and height of the assembly lines had much more to do with it. :’)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well,...they need to find some armored humanoids....they must be out there...

If evolution worked for reptiles ....why didn't it work for humanoids...?

[SunkenCiv]

Hoosez it did? :’)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL!

[pabianice]

A little history’s in order. The M-4 “Sherman” was built to be a speedy, armored escort for infantry. The German tanks were bulit to be mobile artillery. Shermans were less armored and smaller gunned but faster and more mobile. A big mistake was first making them with gasoline engines, vs. diesel, which resulted in their exploding when hit. They could not slug it out with bigger, heavier German tanks which also had 90 or 105 millimeter guns to the Sherman’s 75. The allies used Shermans in packs to destroy each heavy German tank. Shermans operated in fours. One or two Shermans were destroyed for each Panzer but the allies had the numbers.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We can't handle casualties like that anymore.

[colorado tanker]

A Sherman can give you a very nice... edge.

[colorado tanker]

Oddball: Hi, man.
Big Joe: What are you doing?
Oddball: I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.
Big Joe: What's happening?
Oddball: Well, the tank's broke and they're trying to fix it.
Big Joe: Well, then, why the hell aren't you up there helping them?
Oddball: [chuckles] I only ride 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work.
Big Joe: Christ!
Oddball: Definitely an antisocial type. Woof, woof, woof! That's my other dog imitation.