Muad'dib
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Post by Muad'dib on Jul 19, 2006 23:12:06 GMT -5
To prevent another thread from being derailed, I figured here would be a good thread to discuss about dinosaurs...
I'm sure there are some people here who say they never existed, some who say they existed beside us for a time, and some who believed they died out somehow millions of years ago.
Anyway, here is where we discuss if dinosaurs existed (which I take as fact, fossils anyone? Not trying to throw a dirty dig)
Anyway, lets discuss all that and how they died out. Unless the Loch Ness monster is your idea of dinosaurs still among us.
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 19, 2006 23:16:55 GMT -5
I love Dinosaurs! I thought we were talking about Evolution, my apologies, that Dolphin/Horker wierdo guy! I wish I was a Dinosaur... Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doooooo... Anywho, kidding aside, there are already plenty of fossil evidence to support the existance of Dinosaurs. However, I am still tolerant to other beliefs and suggestions, but my beliefs will most likely remain with Dinosaurs having existed. This webpage might help on the gruesome end of the Dinosaurs: web.ukonline.co.uk/a.buckley/dino.htm
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Post by melchior1 on Jul 19, 2006 23:18:28 GMT -5
everyone knows that the whole fossil thing was a conspiracy created by George Washington and aliens...seriously though? I don't dispute that dinosaurs lived a very long time ago....I took chemistry, and radioactive and carbon dating techniques are pretty precise unless the world was actually created about 6000 yrs ago, which seems kind of flawed to me cause that would mean that dinosaurs never lived, they were always fossils
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Post by Osama Bin Laden on Jul 19, 2006 23:22:40 GMT -5
Dinosaurs are among us. Lizards, crocdiles, and certain species of fish.
I think they died out due to a natural phenomenon, millions of years ago. I dont beleive humans ever lived along with them, or that the fossils were placed on Earth by Satan.
I beleive they were just a natural step in evolution, then they got wiped out, and other things evolved from the ashes.
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Post by comike14 on Jul 19, 2006 23:23:00 GMT -5
I pretty much follow the comet extinction theory. I mean, the last major clump of fossils they can find correspond to a layer of dust, iron, and other subterranean metals and material that covers the geological timeline at 65 million years ago--the very same time to which we can date that enormous crater on the Yucatan peninsula. Coinkidink?
That, or they all smoked.
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Post by melchior1 on Jul 19, 2006 23:26:16 GMT -5
or an alien race wiped them out with bioweps cause they were becoming more advanced did you know that now they are saying that dinosaurs(some) had feathers, at least for part of their lives? I read that in Discovery
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 19, 2006 23:28:40 GMT -5
Oh, puh-leeze. That's bull. Everyone knows it was George W. Bush, he created Dinosaurs to scare black people, because he's Racist. Duh. Er, I have to disagree. Those may be the Descendants of Dinosaurs, but I don't think of them, or believe them to be, actual dinosaurs. Dinosaur specifically refers to the Great lizards of the Cenozoic Era, when Reptiles ruled the Earth. When the age of Dinosaurs ended, so too did Dinosaurs. The now-existant reptiles are but shadows of their former glory.
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Post by Britney on Jul 19, 2006 23:28:41 GMT -5
Dinosaurs did not exist. Didn't you get the memo? They were invented purely so that museums could make money.
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Post by comike14 on Jul 19, 2006 23:29:09 GMT -5
or an alien race wiped them out with bioweps cause they were becoming more advanced did you know that now they are saying that dinosaurs(some) had feathers, at least for part of their lives? I read that in Discovery Yep, I think that's pretty awesome. Just imagine how cool that would have looked...
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 19, 2006 23:29:57 GMT -5
or an alien race wiped them out with bioweps cause they were becoming more advanced did you know that now they are saying that dinosaurs(some) had feathers, at least for part of their lives? I read that in Discovery Well, yes. Those of the Raptors were the ancestors of modern birds, as was the Archeopterix.
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Post by melchior1 on Jul 20, 2006 0:22:03 GMT -5
I used to want to be an archeologist/palentologist and have Nazi kicking adventures like Indiana Jones
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 20, 2006 0:24:03 GMT -5
I used to want to be an archeologist/palentologist and have Nazi kicking adventures like Indiana Jones Lawlz. Panzer > You Panzer > Nazism Panzer > Alles
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Post by melchior1 on Jul 20, 2006 0:32:14 GMT -5
wait, what? sPek 3nglish fewl
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 20, 2006 0:35:24 GMT -5
Panzer = a German tank called the 'Panther'
Panzer Spaeter Version Ueber Alles!
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Post by melchior1 on Jul 20, 2006 0:43:51 GMT -5
aha, *looks up relevant info* yeah I knew that
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Post by pilaf on Jul 20, 2006 2:01:37 GMT -5
Dinosaurs are among us. Lizards, crocdiles, and certain species of fish. Lizard, crocodiles and fish are not dinosaurs. The word "dinosaur" refers to a very specific subgroup of reptiles who went extinct roughly 65 million years ago. Just because some animals exist today which are holdouts from during and before the time of the dinosaurs does not make them dinosaurs. It is not pretty commonly theorized that certain small, predatory dinosaurs evolved into modern day birds.
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Post by lucia on Jul 20, 2006 2:03:39 GMT -5
Man, a dinosaur pet would be so cool... [/Random]
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 20, 2006 4:42:18 GMT -5
Dinosaurs are among us. Lizards, crocdiles, and certain species of fish. Lizard, crocodiles and fish are not dinosaurs. The word "dinosaur" refers to a very specific subgroup of reptiles who went extinct roughly 65 million years ago. Just because some animals exist today which are holdouts from during and before the time of the dinosaurs does not make them dinosaurs. It is not pretty commonly theorized that certain small, predatory dinosaurs evolved into modern day birds. ;D Yay, I actually got something right! I believe the proof for most of the bird-raptor-dinosaur theories is the pelvis. From what I keep hearing, and seeing, the Pelvis of a bird and of a Raptor/Dinosaur are quite similar. The way they walk for example, etc. I don't miss watching BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. Babies just had zero luck in that documentary.
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Post by Vinya on Jul 20, 2006 19:36:34 GMT -5
or an alien race wiped them out with bioweps cause they were becoming more advanced did you know that now they are saying that dinosaurs(some) had feathers, at least for part of their lives? I read that in Discovery Yep, I think that's pretty awesome. Just imagine how cool that would have looked... duh...dinosaurs are closely related to birds. Or birds to dinosaurs, whatever. There is no dispute in that...the bone structures are insanely similar, as well as gestation and birth habits. Also, Archyopterix's are both birds and dinosaurs...they had teeth! RAWR! haven't you guys seen Jurassic Park?
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Post by pilaf on Jul 21, 2006 15:39:14 GMT -5
Lizard, crocodiles and fish are not dinosaurs. The word "dinosaur" refers to a very specific subgroup of reptiles who went extinct roughly 65 million years ago. Just because some animals exist today which are holdouts from during and before the time of the dinosaurs does not make them dinosaurs. It is not pretty commonly theorized that certain small, predatory dinosaurs evolved into modern day birds. ;D Yay, I actually got something right! No, you didn't. You said lizards, crocodiles and fish were descended from dinosaurs. They all lived before dinosaurs. Also, turtles and frogs. And cockroaches and mosquitos. And ferns.
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Post by Gold_skywalker on Jul 21, 2006 15:42:53 GMT -5
;D Yay, I actually got something right! No, you didn't. You said lizards, crocodiles and fish were descended from dinosaurs. They all lived before dinosaurs. Also, turtles and frogs. And cockroaches and mosquitos. And ferns. /cry /wrist /emo'd /dead I meant modern lizards, and amphibians.
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