Khand-e Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 On that note, if I could fire self defense rounds that consisted of HCN or OCN filling basically all of it (with the jacket designed for the best fragmentation possible) without those pesky laws getting in the way, pretty sure I'd totally use them. Well, that and trying to detonate them in that small of an amount would be a pretty big challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 I think a Mk19 might work for T-Rex hunting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 I'd imagine that in reality, dinosaurs wouldn't be single-minded killing machines who'd spend all their energy trying to track down homosapiens (other than Velociraptors cuz they're bad-ass like that). Instead, precautions like you'd take when out on African safari or in the Bush in Alaska would probably be more than sufficient. And if you ran into a sick or hungry man-eater that just had a hankering for human flesh, anything from a 45-70 on up would be more than sufficient with shot placement etc. That's one of the annoyances I have with movies that I'm usually - usually - able to overlook. Sturgeon and T___A 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted June 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 Excellent observation, Donward. That very subject (that dinos were animals, not demons) has been the focus of a segment of the paleontology/paleoart community for the past few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 Yep. Most dinosaur artwork doesn't look like real animals. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 This video gave me cancer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 People take Jack Horner seriously after this: Tied 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Horner I don't have a problem with. He's barely even in the video. You're interviewing Chris Pratt and Jack Horner, and 80% of the video is a close-up of your stupid face? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Thought you guys might get a kick out this: Collimatrix, SergeantMatt and Sturgeon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/07/16/chinese-scientists-find-new-type-of-dinosaur.html More Raptor news. "Ok, Ladies, I got all the feathers." Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted August 4, 2015 Report Share Posted August 4, 2015 Donward, LoooSeR and Belesarius 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 Brachiosaurus Bulimia Awareness Month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Sturgeon and LoooSeR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted November 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Fuel for the fire. Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 I'd say pretty much confirmed now that at least significant numbers of dinosaurs were not the green, scaly lizards of yore. Time to get a refund on all of my plastic and rubber dinosaur figures... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 People take Jack Horner seriously after this: Marries 19-year old student in Vegas. Goes on to win highest honour in field. I see that palaeontology really hasn't changed all that much since the days of Cope and Marsh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted January 11, 2016 Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 Spinosaurus ate like a fatass pelican. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 Paper on dinosaur posture and its relation to size. Somewhat skeptical of T Rex being as slow as this article claims. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 http://now.howstuffworks.com/2016/01/27/dracoraptor-dinosaur-discovered-wales?rss=true&utm_campaign=sf&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 Pictured: Fat Cretaceous Pelican Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 New tyrannosaur from Uzbekistan had highly developed senses and seems to suggest that later tyrannosaurs(Rex, Tarbosaurus) were just bigger versions of the basic tyrannosaur design. Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 New tyrannosaur from Uzbekistan had highly developed senses and seems to suggest that later tyrannosaurs(Rex, Tarbosaurus) were just bigger versions of the basic tyrannosaur design. Link Pretty neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted March 15, 2016 Report Share Posted March 15, 2016 Just noticed it is named after Timur/Tamerlane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted March 27, 2016 Report Share Posted March 27, 2016 Almost half of new dinosaurs discovered will probably be disregarded LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted June 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2016 Holy shit Cretaceous bird wings have been found fully intact encased in amber!http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/dinosaur-bird-feather-burma-amber-myanmar-flying-paleontology-enantiornithes/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bird-wings-dating-back-age-dinosaurs-found-frozen-amber-180959599/?utm_source=facebook.com&no-istBasically, humans should start encasing specimens (of everything) in amber so that far future generations can learn all they need to. Like in Fringe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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