#10501 2008-10-24 02:03:29

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#10502 2008-10-24 02:25:34

Cheney fhtagn!
http://www.reddawn.net/~uzik/images/CheneyCthulhu.jpg

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#10503 2008-10-24 03:26:23

sigmoid freud wrote:

scarydog wrote:

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Stop it. Scatology is for middle-schoolers.

It was actually shit and BLOOD. Not that anyone cares, of course.

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#10504 2008-10-24 03:31:20

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#10505 2008-10-24 03:32:26

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#10506 2008-10-24 03:34:18

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#10507 2008-10-24 03:35:02

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#10508 2008-10-24 03:36:14

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#10509 2008-10-24 03:39:51

"Eleazar Crushed By An Elephant"

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#10510 2008-10-24 04:14:11

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#10511 2008-10-24 04:15:05

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#10512 2008-10-24 04:16:22

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#10513 2008-10-24 04:31:09

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#10514 2008-10-24 11:40:05

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens and this stuff.....

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#10515 2008-10-24 17:33:10

Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto.

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#10516 2008-10-24 17:36:07

As much as I enjoyed the (cheaply produced, but dialog rich) THHGTTG BBC TV Series,  the movie wasn't so bad.

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#10517 2008-10-24 19:28:32

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#10518 2008-10-24 21:19:51

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#10519 2008-10-24 21:20:40

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#10520 2008-10-24 23:45:27

http://www.usc.edu/dept/mda/180evolution/IMAGES/gifs/wle04.jpg

The HS Mascot, perhaps. Anything with spikes, tentacles, and a butthead can't be too far off. Not to mention the cool name. Imagine the world if these critters had evolved into intelligence.

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#10521 2008-10-25 00:18:57

Ee.  Gad.  How big was that thing?  Or do I want to know that?

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#10522 2008-10-25 00:52:52

George Orr wrote:

Ee.  Gad.  How big was that thing?  Or do I want to know that?

Those things were awful little, the Hallucigenia and most of it's Cambrian peers were just centimeters in length at most....  There are lots of amazing critters that popped up during the Cambrian explosion...   For hours of entertainment check out some of the creatures that are being dug out of the Burgess Shale formation in Canada...  They are incredibly well preserved with many of their soft parts intact, it's a view into the world soon after life began....  One of the species found in the Burgess Shale that never ceases to amaze me is the Pikaia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikaia .  The Pikaia is so intriguing because it is the first known example of the animals that evolved into vertabrates...

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#10523 2008-10-25 00:58:35

sigmoid freud wrote:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/mda/180evolutio … /wle04.jpg

The HS Mascot, perhaps. Anything with spikes, tentacles, and a butthead can't be too far off. Not to mention the cool name. Imagine the world if these critters had evolved into intelligence.

they did, more or less, and can be found in the senate building once in awhile.

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#10524 2008-10-25 01:01:46

I just referenced the book The Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek E. G. Briggs and they say that Hallucigenia is .5 to 3 cm in length...

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#10525 2008-10-25 01:04:18

Dirckman wrote:

I just referenced the book The Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek E. G. Briggs and they say that Hallucigenia is .5 to 3 cm in length...

Oh.  So, presumably, the li'l bastard coulda crawled into your dickeye...the nightmare continues.

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#10526 2008-10-25 01:08:43

http://www.ufonet.be/RESIMLER/dinozor/images/burgess_shale_jpg.jpg

Here's a picture of Cambrian life!!!

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#10527 2008-10-25 01:11:12

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#10528 2008-10-25 01:53:36

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#10529 2008-10-25 01:56:24

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#10530 2008-10-25 01:57:32

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#10531 2008-10-25 17:16:06

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#10532 2008-10-25 17:59:25

The monster of the Cambrian was Anomalocaris. Two feet of trilobite-munchin' terror:

http://www.bogleech.com/pokemon/pkmn-anomalocaris.jpg
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#10533 2008-10-25 18:15:29

The Eurypterids came along a little later, late Cambrian to the Permian extinction.

http://www.g-3d.com/images/Eurypterid_No_G2.jpg

Most weren't more than 2 feet or so, but some got seriously large.

http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/bristol_eurypterid.jpg

This one, Eurypterus remipes, is the New York state fossil:

http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/npl/images/exhibits/NPL4415.jpg

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#10534 2008-10-26 00:10:50

sigmoid freud wrote:

The Eurypterids came along a little later, late Cambrian to the Permian extinction.

This one, Eurypterus remipes, is the New York state fossil:

http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/npl/images/exhibits/NPL4415.jpg

Then there's the Arizona state fossil, Senator John McCain:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/2813770610_f2de42104c.jpg?v=0

He's languishing around the time of the Republican extinction.

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#10535 2008-10-26 00:25:46

Dirckman wrote:

http://www.ufonet.be/RESIMLER/dinozor/i … le_jpg.jpg

Here's a picture of Cambrian life!!!

I've lusted over Dicranuras trilobite fossils for a long time, but the better ones are SO expensive, and usually just a few inches in length:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2973722774_61c0732e31_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2972876273_8eab6f98fd_o.jpg

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#10536 2008-10-26 00:26:54

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#10537 2008-10-26 00:29:18

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#10538 2008-10-26 00:29:56

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#10539 2008-10-26 00:30:47

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#10540 2008-10-26 00:32:03

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#10541 2008-10-26 00:33:20

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#10542 2008-10-26 00:36:13

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#10543 2008-10-26 00:37:43

A chimney sweep, or what?

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#10544 2008-10-26 00:43:36

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/trilobite-fossil-422863-ga.jpg

I've always been amazed by trilobites myself....  I've got quite a few of them in my personal collection and as a kid I even used to dream at night of finding them....  The majority of my fossil collection comes from the Fox Hills and Lance Formations of North Eastern Wyoming...  I have had the honor of digging in Montana's Hell Creek Formation with Jack Horner and have gone on a couple of dinosaur digs with Pete and Neal Larson...  I still remember the excitement I felt when I discovered my first fossils...  I was twelve years old and while out hiking found a large rock filled with ammonites...  I carried that rock three miles over rough terrain into town and called my mom for a ride home...  After that I was hooked and spent every last minute in the pursuit of finding the ultimate fossil...  My favorite part of fossil hunting is the incredible feeling you get after first pulling one from the ground...  You're sitting there holding a tangible link to the past which no person has ever laid eyes on before....  Most of my recent fossil hunts have been of Dinosaur remains from the Lance Formation and it's mind boggling to hold a piece of a T. Rex or or Triceratops in your hand imagining the world in which they lived...  All throughout the Lance Formation is outcroppings of red mudstone which is filled with palm fronds and ferns, one glance around you and you see nothing but a semi-arid grass land...  You start to feel a real connection with the dinosaurs when you realize that the grasses around you were created with a symbiotic relationship to the dinosaurs...  God I'm fucking drunk...  I need to go fossil hunting before it gets cold again.....

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#10545 2008-10-26 00:46:21

Heh...  I've got around 70% of the bones of an Ankylosaur plastered up in my closet and under my bed right now!!

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#10546 2008-10-26 00:51:40

Dirckman wrote:

Heh...  I've got around 70% of the bones of an Ankylosaur plastered up in my closet and under my bed right now!!

In my bed, I'll be giving my wife a bone in a minute or two...

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#10547 2008-10-26 00:57:56

Here's a pic of my favorite Triceratops Horridus tooth!!  It's massive!!!

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#10548 2008-10-26 01:09:39

It's never ceased to amaze me how the simple beauty and endless struggle of evolution has come to create human beings as a successful species.....  C'mon, look at us, we're fucking helpless, ugly, disgusting and absolutely worthless....  Screw self-awareness and conciousness, I want life to go back to creatures working like little pieces of clockwork reacting to their environment in harmony without a false impression of free will....  Humans are fucked as a species and the sooner they become extinct the better....

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#10549 2008-10-26 05:25:56

Dirckman wrote:

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s … 863-ga.jpg

I've always been amazed by trilobites myself....  I've got quite a few of them in my personal collection and as a kid I even used to dream at night of finding them....  The majority of my fossil collection comes from the Fox Hills and Lance Formations of North Eastern Wyoming...  I have had the honor of digging in Montana's Hell Creek Formation with Jack Horner and have gone on a couple of dinosaur digs with Pete and Neal Larson...  I still remember the excitement I felt when I discovered my first fossils...  I was twelve years old and while out hiking found a large rock filled with ammonites...  I carried that rock three miles over rough terrain into town and called my mom for a ride home...  After that I was hooked and spent every last minute in the pursuit of finding the ultimate fossil...  My favorite part of fossil hunting is the incredible feeling you get after first pulling one from the ground...  You're sitting there holding a tangible link to the past which no person has ever laid eyes on before....  Most of my recent fossil hunts have been of Dinosaur remains from the Lance Formation and it's mind boggling to hold a piece of a T. Rex or or Triceratops in your hand imagining the world in which they lived...  All throughout the Lance Formation is outcroppings of red mudstone which is filled with palm fronds and ferns, one glance around you and you see nothing but a semi-arid grass land...  You start to feel a real connection with the dinosaurs when you realize that the grasses around you were created with a symbiotic relationship to the dinosaurs...  God I'm fucking drunk...  I need to go fossil hunting before it gets cold again.....

Awesome. Years ago, I went on a dino dig conducted by the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Canada. We were excavating hadrosaur bones in what was---in the dinosaur age---a bend in a river where herds of drowned hadrosaurs washed during floods. There were matrices of fossilized bones on top of bones, which made separating and removing individual bones difficult; the fossils were brittle like hard rotten wood, requiring later stabilization in a lab. A few bones exhibited the teeth marks of Albertosaurs that had fed on the carcasses. We jacketed several large bones for removal. The landscape was eroded painted desert badlands. Nice. There were also a full-length fossil skeleton of a Mamenchisaurus (on loan from China) and a T-Rex in matrix at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. I suggest a trip to the museum for dino lovers visiting Canada.

Example of a Mamenchisaurus skeleton:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2974210864_3bd4ab0489_o.jpg

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#10550 2008-10-26 05:40:08

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