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| Topic Started: Sep 5 2009, 06:04 PM (1,865 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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| Empyreon | Nov 23 2009, 01:41 PM Post #46 |
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Are you plausible?
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I guess I just don't see it being that different. Believe it or not, the mantle of a planet (apart from being inhospitable to life) is pretty fluid (in the thermodynamic sense). I don't think there are layers of minerals within it that separate out into unique regions. If some critter managed to live inside one molten mineral it would find itself thrust into another, and therefore find the need to adapt to the presence of both. Thus speciation would be very low. |
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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 23 2009, 03:42 PM Post #47 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Apparently, our mantle has the viscosity of oil. |
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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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