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Science thread - anything interesting?

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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    For Timmer and Martijn:

    When Feathered Dinos Ruled The Earth.
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    I love feathered dinosaurs. This one being my favourite.

    And, yes, birds are dinosaurs, cladistically speaking.

    Peter lick
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    Steven wrote
    For Timmer and Martijn:

    When Feathered Dinos Ruled The Earth.


    Thanks Steven, much appreciated beer

    Loved some of the artwork and, oh, I'm sure # 2/11 is a cast member of EastEnders.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    I remember well my very first talk in school was on dinosaurs (this must have been in 1979 or 1980), and I remember showing this drawing of an archaeopteryx, which the book said was quite possibly a (oh hilarity and incredulous looks!) a dinosaur...with feathers!

    Now of course the relationship between dinosaurs and birds is far more firmly established, with evidence suggesting feathers were far more common than assumed in previous decades.

    Ah, the innocence of youth...when dinosaurs without exceptions were considered to be nigh-mythical creatures with big teeth, standing as tall as houses and mountains.

    I'm unable to find it now, but the book featured a picture of the only parts they had found of a new and terrible dinosaur, they called deinonychus (or "terrible claw") which they figured was FAR larger and more dangerous than T-Rex, due to its ENORMOUS arms. The picture figured a man standing next to a metal skeleton that had the arms attached in scale with a T-Rex's arms.

    Of course they know now that the deinonychus was a velociraptor, and WAY smaller than T-Rex...but with exceptionally long arms! dizzy

    I used to have nightmares about the monster deinonychus...
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    Nice story cool

    Funny enough, Spielberg's Velociraptors were nearer in size to the very similar Deinonychus.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    Actually deinonychus IS a type of velociraptor! smile

    (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I considered to do this as a True/False, but then I considered it'd only be of interest to you and me. dizzy )
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    Sad but TRUE rolleyes wink
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2010
    lol
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2010
    Just imagine if you had the proportionate strength of an ANT
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    Big spiders with myriads of her babies on her. Not for the faint hearted.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b4_1266684183
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010 edited
    shocked shocked shocked

    MARTIJN HAS TO SEE THIS!

    shocked shocked shocked
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    Christodoulides wrote
    Big spiders with myriads of her babies on her. Not for the faint hearted.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b4_1266684183


    Heh hey! devil


    flash [b]WARNING! MARTIJN, WARNING![/b] flash


    You really REALLY don't want to see this.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    Yeah, he does. He REALLY does. biggrin

    That video makes my skin itch. :epic-shudder:
  14. Christodoulides wrote
    Big spiders with myriads of her babies on her. Not for the faint hearted.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b4_1266684183


    omg, you think it's one spider, and suddenly there are a dozen, arghhhhh I don't like this at all cry
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    freezing
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    NOT. LOOKING.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010 edited
    Thomas Glorieux wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    Big spiders with myriads of her babies on her. Not for the faint hearted.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b4_1266684183


    omg, you think it's one spider, and suddenly there are a dozen, arghhhhh I don't like this at all cry


    When the video started, everything was still for a moment and i thought to myself, ok, it's not that scary; the other photo with the big ass spider that killed a whole big bird was much scariiiiiieeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!aaaaarrrrrrhhhHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh$#)(*&$*#&%)(!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    biggrin

    Still not looking!
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    I peaked. And I regret it.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    To a bird I'm sure it looks yummy.

    Peter lick
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    Thor wrote
    I peaked. And I regret it.


    Nnooooooooesss, you have to watch it all!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  22. I actually think it's kind of cute: mommy spider with all her little ones.

    Now that doesn't mean that I would pick her up and cuddle her if I would come across her any time soon, but it does look beautiful to my scientific eye.

    If she would wonder in to my house, I would definitely get her outside safely and not kill her.
    Recognizing somebody else's strength doesn't diminish your own (Joss Whedon)
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    Skating_Lientje wrote

    If she would wonder in to my house, I would definitely get her outside safely and not kill her.


    Yeah, me too. uhm
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010 edited
    Skating_Lientje wrote
    I actually think it's kind of cute: mommy spider with all her little ones.


    Hehe, I thought the same. It creeped me out and made me go "awwww, how cute" at the same time.

    I'd put her outside too, but I'd certainly experience the heebie-jeebies the rest of the day.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010 edited
    plindboe wrote
    Skating_Lientje wrote
    I actually think it's kind of cute: mommy spider with all her little ones.


    Hehe, I thought the same. It creeped me out and made me go "awwww, how cute" at the same time.

    I'd put her outside too, but I'd certainly experience the heebie-jeebies the rest of the day.

    Peter smile


    You'd go close to her, pick her up with your hands and gently put her outside? You big liar.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    Fuck. That.
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    I'd use the glass and cardboard method. This has been proven to work by science.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010 edited
    plindboe wrote
    I'd use the glass and cardboard method. This has been proven to work by science.

    Peter smile


    I'd shit my pants 12 times until i found the 3 spray cans of aerosol required to kill the fuckers freezing
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  29. plindboe wrote
    I'd use the glass and cardboard method. This has been proven to work by science.

    Peter smile


    I use the same method and it works fine for me. I tend to look trough the glass and study them a bit before releasing them. I just don't really like touching them (or letting them touch me) and I definitely wouldn't like to have mommy with the kids crawl over my hands, but look at her trhough a glass... No problem.

    By the way, you guys are really killing the myth here of the manly men who help the distressed screaming women when a spider is in the house. Only Peter would help out a spooked-out girl...

    Good for you punk

    Elin
    Recognizing somebody else's strength doesn't diminish your own (Joss Whedon)
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 21st 2010
    Lucky bastard Peter, you got the girl again!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.

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