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Dinosaurs still exist; Steven Spielberg killed one!
flash525
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Is it possible that some people are that naive and blinded that they're oblivious to the rest of the world? Apparently so; Steven Spielberg killed a Triceratops. :rolleyes:
I just want to facepalm right now.
I just want to facepalm right now.
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edit: But yes, the world is getting stupider by the minute...meh.
In fact, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Hercules (in movie advert beneath the article) is likely more intelligent. And a buttload more entertaining.
It's just that these days they're completely covered with feathers, most of them can fly, and we call them "birds".
And I absolutely LOVED his performance in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island". He was hammy when necessary but not overly so, and his skill at self-effacing humor was quite the surprise.
People laugh when they hear about professional wrestlers turning to acting, but frankly, while the Rock's no Patrick Stewart, he's got decent acting chops, and he's got no qualms about doing dumb roles like certain other people do *cough* Tom Cruise *cough*.
Not that they're THAT different from most Jurassic and Cretaceous theropods...
Well, except for the fact that most are volant. But even then, Rahonavis was volant, and that was an unenlagiine dromaeosaurid...
Yup, those moldy oldies still fly commercial! hehe
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And I am suddenly reminded of Idiocracy.
After watching that, you will find examples of life imitating art on a fairly regular basis.
In case you couldn't tell, I'm being ironic.
Why is this planet full of morons? I want to move to Norway, or FInland. At least they have decent education...
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And a baby box.
Three? Quit being stingy. That one was worth four at least.
I'm having to clean pesto sauce off of my keyboard, but it was totally worth it.
What? No catch and relocation program? Even a zoo would be better than...than this. Clearly some Elmer Fudd legal-type authorized this as an excuse for he and his cronies to unleash their bloodlust. Disgusting. I hope the T-rex gets them on the next hunt.
Bravo!
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So, given a choice between 1) habitat distruction caused by triceratops in their invasive range, 2) disease and starvation in the triceratops home range, or 3) culling triceratops within their invasive range, option 3 is the least inhumane. It's not a great situation, but it's the lesser evil.
Oh.....so that explains where all that sage brush behind my house went. Apparently it was eaten by a Triceratops.:P
You know what to watch out for where triceratops have been grazing...
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
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The most absurd yet sensible paragraph ever written about Triceratops.
That's actually what I was expecting when I opened this thread, too...Spielberg with a quail or something. (He doesn't strike me as the quail hunting type, but still, that's how my sense of humor goes.)
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Invasive or not, the fact of the matter is, the triceratops are still endangered, and as previous posters pointed out, there's no reason why he couldn't have simply relocated the beast. Instead, he shot it, and posed triumphantly for a photo next to its slain carcass. This is the exact sort of sick, murderous behaviour that is driving Earth's dinosaurs to extinction.
I mean seriously, just the other day I saw this photo of a bunch of big game hunters standing in front of a rare endangered viriousaurus they just killed. What is our world coming to?
Really? I thought those big piles in my yard were termite mounds!:P
It also explains the stench, I figured it was just my cat's litter box.
Additionally, triceratops was removed from the US endangered species list in 1995, following a large population rebound after the banning of DDT, which was causing eggs to have unusually brittle shells which often broke upon laying. Aside from that brief stretch of time, triceratops has not been at risk of extinction for 66 million years.
In contrast, micromicroraptor, an offshoot of the common microraptor species, is currently known only in a small region of California, and is federally listed as vulnerable to exctinction. It dwells in mid-level scrublands, and the presense of triceratops in California is resulting in desertification of the scrublands, eliminating the cover that micromicroraptors rely upon, and therefor eliminating the micromicroraptors themselves. There are other examples of triceratops threatening native dinosaurs, but this is the most direct.
Couldn't resist this one.