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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2010, 07:17:07 PM »
Rage is right.

Virtually everyone has AS or something connected here, and I'm a spazz who likes hanging around here. So razornose can't use AS as any excuse for his behaviour more than that stupid bitch Meadow can. Yeah, he may be only around 18, but what sort of fuckwit would intentionally try to enter an >18's site when only a minor, then try to troll the place?

Rhetorical question, only razorteeth.

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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2010, 09:42:10 PM »
Rage is right.

Virtually everyone has AS or something connected here, and I'm a spazz who likes hanging around here. So razornose can't use AS as any excuse for his behaviour more than that stupid bitch Meadow can. Yeah, he may be only around 18, but what sort of fuckwit would intentionally try to enter an >18's site when only a minor, then try to troll the place?

Rhetorical question, only razorteeth.

but thats exactly what he does.
he uses AS as his excuse, for then to denounce every last one of us as posers and fakers :D

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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2010, 10:01:14 PM »
Insult: I'm an aspie, and your all losers and dickheads.

Reply: But we're all aspies anyway, dipshit. So what's yer point?

People who do that shit really make you wonder.

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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2014, 03:16:24 PM »








































Zegh is REALLY going to accuse me of ignorance now.

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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2014, 03:41:51 PM »
Zegh is REALLY going to accuse me of ignorance now.

Yes, and I'm going to accuse you of being a Weeble  :cbc:  :M

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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2014, 08:53:30 PM »


The dinosaurs are dead, because your mom.  :hahaha:
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2014, 03:53:54 AM »
Read an interesting article that drew attention to a recently discovered layer of diamond nanoparticles that seems to be arranged over a very large section of the earth, in thin layers that correspond with major mass estinction events during the earths history.

I wonder if the cause of extinction of dinosaurs (at least the toothed kinds) wasn't linked to dental erosion in addition to other factors in operation over the periods of extinction, which took a long time, this IMO would at least have exacerbated things.
Temporally localized deposition of this kind of material rather than a mass-scale full thickness layer present throughout soil implies a point source, and to do this an intense source of heat, and pressure is needed to yield diamond from organic carbon.

Sonocavitation in solvents can seemingly do  this, not surprising given the intense heat and likewise pressure that have to be going on within a cavitation bubble as it collapses, but a super-sized meteorite impact could presumably do this.

Which makes me wonder more about the source of the tunguska blast event, whilst larger fragments were afaik not found close to the site of impact, there is known to have been discovered micrometer-sized particles of such fused, crystalline material.

So quite possibly methinks, the intensity of the heat/pressure coupled with the dispersive blast wave throwing around either material from a carbonaceous chondrite type meteor airbursting, or thermolysis of airborne organic material in the gas phase (notably of interest here, a commercial nanodiamond powder product is actually created by setting off high explosives with a low oxygen content relative to carbon in an oxygen deficient atmosphere confined within a sealed chamber, the shockwave of the blast and heat of the explosives decomposition, the charge itself being the source of the organic carbon in the gas phase proving sufficient to vitrify (I use the term loosely, as diamonds are of course, crystalline rather than amorphous glasslike materials, although glassy carbon does exist, its used as an extremely thermally resistant and hard material with excellent resistance to molten metals and strong acids, as well as IIRC in space reentry vehicles as material for the ablative protective plates of nosecones) graphite into diamond.

The isotopic signature of the microparticulate material recovered from the tunguska blast epicenter though does suggest nonterrestrial origin, along with far larger than average concentrations of one of the platinum-group metals, iridium, which is very dense and on earth, mostly sinks over geological timescales whilst its far commoner in space rubble, having no hot core to sink into.

I'd hazard a guess that maybe the airbursting projectile was an iridium-rich carbonaceous chondrite, with the carbon fraction ablating in the atmosphere, or any remainder being vaporised by the resultant blast, I'm no expert on meteor impacts and know bugger all about computer modelling of airburst explosion projectile size/crater size ratios but it would make sense to me that this could be one reason a meteorite impact crater was not found, nor large fragments of the impact vehicle.

Just some offtrack musings.
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2014, 12:27:11 PM »
In particular, after a major impact event over north america, where a widespread dispersion of such diamond nanoparticles, much of the herbivorous megafauna, such as ground sloths, camelids and horses disappeared from the continent. The two events correspond temporally, so I just bet diamond nanocrystals produced by the impact could be small enough to be uptaken into plant tissue, making for a highly abrasive dietary source which would wear down the grinding type of teeth herbivores usually possess, and as such impact their ability to feed. This impact event also corresponded (but is not necessarily the cause of) to the extinction of the late/post-Pleistocene extinction of the Clovis people, possibly the first people to have inhabited N-america, these people were probably incomers from asia, and disappeared from north america after the impact.
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2014, 10:33:25 PM »
I wonder if someday future archaologists will be studying the layer of tiny plastic particles which humanity is doing its utmost to spread through the world's oceans and land, and be correlating it with another mass extinction event.
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2014, 10:37:37 PM »
Wouldn't surprise me.

There is a huge problem with plastic crap either on a macroscale with discarded bags entering the oceans and being mistaken, fatally, for jellyfish by turtles, and apparently even deep down the tiny particles resulting from degraded plastic items is being found in the bodies and gills of fish and other sea creatures.
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2014, 10:43:06 PM »
Not to mention the huge upsurge in the jellyfish population because they're one of the few things we're not overfishing.
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2014, 10:43:25 PM »
I wonder if someday future archaologists will be studying the layer of tiny plastic particles which humanity is doing its utmost to spread through the world's oceans and land, and be correlating it with another mass extinction event.
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2014, 11:17:17 PM »
AFAIK at least some kinds of jellyfish can be eaten, I think some of them actually are, in some oriental countries, china does I think, and they are popular in malaysia.

http://www.eattheweeds.com/stomolophus-meleagris-edible-jellyfish-2/

Might try some myself next time I happen to be at a beach. I can do the curing following those instructions, either with the alum, or keep things simple and avoid ingesting aluminium, as it isn't healthy stuff to be taking in. They can seemingly be done by just cutting off the inedible parts and packing in rock salt for a couple of days. Can't get much simpler than that. I love beef jerky, so I see no reason not to eat jellyfish jerky also. I'm usually up for trying unusual new foods. Hades only knows how many weird and in the lucky cases, wonderful wild mushrooms, tree nuts and berries I've eaten in my time. Quite certainly experimented with more kinds of wild fungi than anybody I've ever spoken to or known. Even tried stinkhorn eggs once. ONLY once mind you, I spent the rest of that night retching my insides out, a proper puke-fest that was, and they were totally revolting too. I do always go for many of the commonly eaten species, like parasols, chicken of the woods/sulfur polypore and ceps, chanterelle and morels, but I've also had for instance, various waxcaps, like the scarlet hood, slippery jack and larch boletes are a real favourite of mine, once the layer of slime adhering to the caps of those two are peeled off and discarded, giant puffballs, and other large edible puffballs, which are another favourite of mine. Me and my old man, when I was a kid, went up to his old workshop, which is situated on a farm. Whilst there, walking up, I happened to spot a couple of MASSIVE puffballs, at least two or three foot in diameter, making me a very happy kid indeed, and a very full one too once I got those huge puffballs home, sliced them up and fried them. I use some other mushrooms as cooking spices too, mainly cured, detoxified fly agaric, which is poisonous unless one knows how to prepare it right, same with the blusher, another Amanita like the fly agarics, likewise toxic raw. And I always look out for wild oystermushrooms, honshimeijii, enokitakes, charcoal burners (Russula cyanoxantha) and some other Russula and Lactarius (milk caps) around this time of year, to cover in mozzarella cheese and grill with a bit of worcestershire sauce, HP sauce and a splash of tabasco.

Ink caps are another favourite of mine, mainly lawyer's wig (Coprinus comatus) and C.atrementarius the common ink cap. The latter is totally edible BUT one cannot consume alcohol within a few hours prior to eating common ink caps, or for up to four days afterwards, as they contain a substance that acts like the booze-aversion therapy drug antabuse/disulfiram, which is given to addicts trying to get clean of the demon drink, and makes them so awfully sick they just want to die, and never drink again.

One must also get both the common and the lawyer's wig home FAST, within hours of picking at the most, otherwise they liquify and turn into a slimy black spore-laden mess that was once actually used for black ink. I've had them turn into a pool of inedible goo before I could even finish hiking and get the ink caps home before. Lepista spp. (blewits, field blewit, wood blewit, and Lepista irina) are another one thats wound up on my experimental menu before, although I find them rather too flowery tasting, as they really do have a very, very strongly perfumed taste and smell.

And of course, I do like to go hunting for magic mushrooms, we have a couple of kinds here in the UK, liberty caps and wavy caps (Psilocybe cyanescens, a woodlover species, which is one of the most potent of all the psilocybin mushrooms, 2g (dry weight) is enough to blow your head off) libs are pretty strong too, although very small per fruitbody.

Got to be really careful with wavycaps though as they have two very deadly lookalikes, Galerina species, and a small brown mushroom, Conocybe filaris, both containing the same deadly liver-destroying amatoxins as the infamous death cap, which pretty much does what it says on the tin if eaten. Both the offending species can grow side by side in the same patch of woodchips as the desired wavycaps, so spore printing every individual mushroom is essential to avoid the risk of potentially fatal poisoning. Both the offensive genera have rusty coloured to rust-tan brown ochre colored spores however, whilst Psilocybes have a dark purplish-blacky violetish blackened brown colored spore colour, so differentiating between the psychedelic and the poisonous ones is easily done even by a rank amateur. I've had a deadly Galerina turn up in a big haul of wavy caps once before, but luckily I knew to sporeprint the lot, so it didn't get the chance to sneak into the batch of shrooms.

Jellyfish though is out there as far as weird and  wonderful wild eating goes, but I'd still be up for giving it a go.
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #28 on: September 02, 2014, 12:21:00 PM »
Dinosaurs injected marijuanas and it turned them homogay so they wound up handjobing bear's male penises and the homo made them not have eggs n e more so they extinct
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Re: The real cause of the death of the dinosaurs.
« Reply #29 on: September 02, 2014, 12:24:40 PM »
Dinosaurs injected marijuanas and it turned them homogay so they wound up handjobing bear's male penises and the homo made them not have eggs n e more so they extinct

Dinosaurs had penises

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really

on very complete fossils, you can even tell male from female, because males have an additional, smaller chevron (tail rib), probably for attachment of penis muscles or ligaments
it would be tucked inside them except for when mating, like w some birds (ducks notably)
(this because they would probably not be able to rub butts, cus of their physique)


*VERY conservative illustration, as you can tell, he wouldn't be able to reach. More likely, the female did a real strutt with her butt.
In fact, several types of Chinese sauropods might be male and female of the same species, the females being individuals with very swayed backs.