The end of a myth

[Esseb]

I posted the information on the Archaeoraptor fossil and the way the media hailed it as truth in an attempt to make you take news with a grain of salt from now on. Judging by your first post, now deleted, you had taken a lot of sensational news for the truth, with no other backing than one TV program and rumours from a friend. While they might have turned out to be true, it's not wise to assume everything the news, and friends, say is true.

Regarding Siamese twins, their existence became popularly known at a time when PT Barnum paid thousands of dollars to have a replica of the Cardiff Giant built, when he could not obtain the genuine hoax, so that he could present it to punters as real. Had I lived back then I would have been very skeptical indeed before proper scientific journals reported it as fact, and even then I would wait it out a little and see if any counter-proofs were forthcoming.

What this boils down to is this: Don't automatically believe sensational news written on a deadline by journalists who are reporting on stuff they don't have an expertise in, published or shown in newspapers or TV programs that are known to have printed or broadcast erronous information on numerous previous occasions. (Which is pretty much every newspaper, TV news program ever)

[Scummbuddy]

LGM, I'm pretty sure that Unilin was just joking. You're probably the first name that entered his mind when making a joke. Perhaps you guys have a history that I don't know, but I never got more than a sarcastic post from his post.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Don't automatically believe sensational news written on a deadline by journalists who are reporting on stuff they don't have an expertise in, published or shown in newspapers or TV programs that are known to have printed or broadcast erronous information on numerous previous occasions. (Which is pretty much every newspaper, TV news program ever)

Ok, I'll bear that in mind. Thing is, I don't usually pay much attention to the news, and what news I do pay attention to is generally true, so I tend to believe the little I do hear. But rest assured, next time I say such things I will double check them.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh don't listen to that liberal jew run media nonsense!

Sensationalism only exists outside of Fox News!  Like PBS or NPR, what a bunch of crap!  That's what you get when a bunch of hippies with an "appreciation for the arts" beg the government for a tv or radio station.  That's my well-spent  tax dollar spent on bias (not to mention false) spinning of the facts!   When I could be buying more sex toys!

[Jon Stewart]

OMG yuo sux0r, bill!1 my show pwnd yuors!!1! HAHAHAHAHALOLROFFLEROFFLE!!1

[Nacho]

Hey! What was this post about? That interests me!!! What did the news tell? Thet there is an animal that links Dinos and Birds? Yeah, the archeaopterix, or something like that. But that does not proove anything, since in evolution there is a thing called "parallel evollution". That means that two different groups of animals can adapt theirselves in a simillar way to end in a simillar shape, for example, Ictiosaurs and Whales.

I am not saying that this thing of the "parallel evolution" was what actually happened. I don't know what happened with the dinosaurs, I was not there, and there are not remaining records to know what actually happened.

But what I think is that, yeah... some little species of dinosaurs who were able to flight some hundreds of meters (It is prooved that the Archaepterix has not enough wings surface to fly, but in the cretacic atmosphera he could have "jumped" very far like the nowadays chickens...) evolved into birds.

But pretending that our parrot is an ancient T-rex (Like some scientisct like to happily annouce) is (IMO) stupid, since that is not the brach of the dinos where the birds (are supossed) to come. That's like if a future civilization of intelligent fishes would adore an evolved brach of the rats as the descendents of the powerful Lion. Both are mammals, yeah... But they're not the same.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I think I'll go to this exposition I was talking about, it's called "Plumes in Dinossaurs" in the Museum of Natural History, one of these days, and make notes. Then I can return and say things I'm more sure about, and things which I can actually quote.

Farlander, the original post was a small reflection on how the myths of the dinossaurs came crashing down, from the great T-Rex being not at all the predator everyone thought it was to the recent discovery that it was not a plague or a comet or any such wild and romantic theory that had wiped them out, but simple evolution. I deleted it because it was apparently riddled with false information that prompted such responses that I was, less than half an hour after posting, forced to delete it or I'd never live it down (live it up?) and would die of shame outright.

[LGM]

LGM, I'm pretty sure that Unilin was just joking. You're probably the first name that entered his mind when making a joke. Perhaps you guys have a history that I don't know, but I never got more than a sarcastic post from his post.

Actually, we do have a history. He seems to like dragging my name in mud. I don't know why. It just kindof started one day.

[Andail]

LGM, when somebody's making a joke like that, that person will have to pick a name. You have a comical profile in this community, and you're partly responsible for that yourself. If you don't like being the resident goof, start building a more serious reputation.

[Nacho]

Oh, thanks Rui... So, if anybody wants my opinion (which is not very original, though) The meteor that felt into the Yucatan pen killed the dinosaurs... But the fossile records show that the population of the dinos was redoucing, in numbers of individuals and species. I don't think that htey could have lasted more than another 5 or 10 million years without the meteor. A study (whihc pretends to be serious) says they would have dissapeared in 6 millions. I would never dare to stale such an accurate date, but I quite agree with the "spirit" of the study.

About the T-Rex... everyday passes paleontologists are more for the theory that it was a huge cretacic hyena...

[LGM]

LGM, when somebody's making a joke like that, that person will have to pick a name. You have a comical profile in this community, and you're partly responsible for that yourself. If you don't like being the resident goof, start building a more serious reputation.

I understand my reputation as the quirky, sometimes annoying fellow. I understand why some people would want to reference me for a joke. I'm okay with that (see Las's sig), but Unilin has been doing more than that for a long while now. But I don't want to keep beating a dead horse, so I'll just ignore it from now on.

And please don't say I am not serious. Just because I tend not to put much thought in some of my posts, doesn't mean I can't be serious, comprehensible, or even logical. I guess I'm just not the best at expressing myself properly.

Anyways. On with the discussion!

[Nine Toes]

and isn't it kind of silly to believe that the earth is completely round?

Yeah... what the hell is wrong with you people?  The earth is flat!

[TerranRich]

LGM, when somebody's making a joke like that, that person will have to pick a name. You have a comical profile in this community, and you're partly responsible for that yourself. If you don't like being the resident goof, start building a more serious reputation.

It seems to me like lately he has been trying to do so.

And, on a more serous note, I can personally vouch for LGM's lack in taste or class (or hygiene, but that's another story!)

j/k LGM you know I love you

[DGMacphee]

I can't see what Unilin said that got a whole bunch of panties in a knot. But if you feel someone wronged you, you don't go, "OMG YUO DOANT KNOW ME!!1" That's the second-worst argument on the internet (The first being any mention of Hitler). What you do is have a bigass, motherfucken duel-off, like these guys:



YEAH! That shit looks awesome!

[VJP]

Dang! Those clothes would have made it impossible to stand straight!   

[DragonRose]

Meep. Again I must correct misconceptions. Those clothes actually forced you to stand upright.

The slops (big poofy pants things) are just really poofy pants.  It's completely possible put your knees together while wearing them. The doublet (tight things they're wearing around their torsos) would have metal boning in them to act as a bit of a corset. It's hard to slouch when you're wearing one.

WHY DO I KNOW SO MUCH RANDOM TRIVIA?

[Esseb]

Because you're a renfair nerd?

[DragonRose]

Well, yes. 

But that doesn't explain how I know about dinosaurs and the rotation of the earth and so forth.

[lgm_unplugged]

Oh DeeG.. It wasn't just what he said this time.. But I don't want to keep talking about it.
Bring the swords; Unilin and I shall have our duel. Yea..

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Yeah! A Monkey Island Insult Swordfight on the forums!

Hmmmmmmmmm, that sounds like actually a nice game to be played on this our gengen board...