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| Topic Started: Sep 5 2009, 06:04 PM (1,867 Views) | |
| Giant Blue Anteater | Sep 5 2009, 06:04 PM Post #1 |
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I was insulted by the blatant biological errors in the second video. He was trying to disprove the mythological "lizard men" (which is true that they are complete nonsense), but his evidence against them was really dodgy. He says that non-avian dinosaurs lived for 300 million years, when a quick fact check says otherwise. Reptiles may have been around for over 300 million years, but hello, non-avian dinosaurs only lived for 165 or so million years! He then mentions that there is no evidence for dinosaurs becoming sapient. Of course there isn't! But does that mean it isn't possible? Of course not! Ironically, in both of the videos, he shows a picture of three dinosauroids (Russel's, McLoughlin's, and Ramjet's), and here he dismisses the possibility of sapience in dinosaurs only because they are reptiles. Then he mentions the dinosaurs becoming extinct and stating that modern mammals evolved from RODENTS (anyone who has actually studied the history of life on Earth knows this is wrong, as a rodent isn't just any small mammal). He then states that if humans (a single genus) took a "couple thousand years" to develop advanced technology, what does that say about 300 million years of dinosaur (read:reptiles, a whole class of animals) evolution, then... it just gets frustrating how he set up this biological strawman. Edited by Giant Blue Anteater, Sep 5 2009, 08:41 PM.
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| Holben | Nov 13 2009, 04:02 PM Post #31 |
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Well, they could naturally curve round as they age into the 'mouth'. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| ATEK Azul | Nov 13 2009, 04:03 PM Post #32 |
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I had not thought of that and it stays with plant structures so your way is superior. |
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| Holben | Nov 13 2009, 04:06 PM Post #33 |
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Yesss. Thanks. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| ATEK Azul | Nov 13 2009, 04:12 PM Post #34 |
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Your post makes me think of Beast Wars Megatron. I wonder if mars would be slight ly smaller or larger if the life there started digesting most of the planet and creating tunnals in it? That would cause some weird adaptations because the farth you go down the weirder gravity will get as the amount of mass and gravity sifts around you when tunneling. |
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| Holben | Nov 13 2009, 04:14 PM Post #35 |
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Well, you'd have to go quite far down for that. |
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| ATEK Azul | Nov 13 2009, 04:20 PM Post #36 |
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And most scientists think Mars is volcanicly dead. So the Life would be able to go far down even if some areas are harder to get through like the core, it would just spawn more speacialized forms and habitats. This might make Mars more diverse then Earth. |
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| Holben | Nov 14 2009, 09:23 AM Post #37 |
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Maybe, but it's smaller. |
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| ATEK Azul | Nov 20 2009, 02:53 PM Post #38 |
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Mars might be smaller but if the entire planet is an ecosystem not just the crust, it would be more diverse and have alot more life than Earth. |
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| Holben | Nov 20 2009, 03:04 PM Post #39 |
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_tape_030819.html Mars is 53% earth's mass. I don't think it would be THAT more diverse. |
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| T.Neo | Nov 20 2009, 04:16 PM Post #40 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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Mars is not volcanically "dead". Most of the volcanoes are extinct, but there is talk of Olympus Mons and some of the other big ones just being dormant. Either way, the amount of activity there is far less then on Earth. |
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| Holben | Nov 20 2009, 04:20 PM Post #41 |
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it cools quicker \and doesn't have the amount of radioactivity to keep going long. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Empyreon | Nov 20 2009, 04:36 PM Post #42 |
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Are you plausible?
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Even if there was some way for life to exist below a planet's crust, the environment down there is far too homogeneous for there to be much diversification. Its the diversity of environment that promotes diversity of life. |
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Take a look at my exobiology subforum of the planet Nereus! COM Contributions food for thought
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| Holben | Nov 20 2009, 04:55 PM Post #43 |
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Ooh i hate the homogenous universe. |
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| ATEK Azul | Nov 21 2009, 05:06 PM Post #44 |
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The different layers of the planet would have different minerals allowing for diversity. And then the fact that the farther away populations get from each other the more unique they become. Even if they meet up eventually they would be different species. So while the enviroment is the simular the life inhabiting it is different. |
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| Holben | Nov 22 2009, 11:24 AM Post #45 |
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Depends how long they're apart. |
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