May 14, 2007: How to spot T. Rex footprints - Page 2

Cloud · 05-14-2007, 04:06 PM

Reminds me of that scene in Godzilla where Matthew Broderick is standing in the print, going, What? What?

snais · 05-14-2007, 05:32 PM

That's one of the things that always gets me about dinosaurs - the sheer range of sizes. The longest dinosaur discovered so far (though only reconstructed from one vertebra) is a sauropod called Amphicoelias which may have been up to 60m long. I can't even visualise that in my head, wiki has a size comparison thing which is just incredible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H...comparison.png

can you imagine looking one in the eye?? What happened when one of those died, how long did it take before there was nothing left of it? Imagine the smell

xoxoxoBruce · 05-14-2007, 06:19 PM

Shouldn't take long to clean up. The ones eating the tail might not even see the ones eating the head.

Cloud · 05-15-2007, 08:13 PM

it's all just guesswork, anyway, and they keep changing their minds! --in 20 years, scientists will all decide that dinosaurs were talking worms, or something

glatt · 05-16-2007, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

it's all just guesswork, anyway, and they keep changing their minds! --in 20 years, scientists will all decide that dinosaurs were talking worms, or something

It's not guesswork at all. It's science. You look at evidence (data) and you draw conclusions from what you see. The reason they keep "changing their mind" is that new data is found, or somebody has a different theory that fits the data better than the old theory. This is progress, and it's good.

05-14-2007, 04:06 PM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Reminds me of that scene in Godzilla where Matthew Broderick is standing in the print, going, What? What? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

05-14-2007, 06:19 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Shouldn't take long to clean up. The ones eating the tail might not even see the ones eating the head. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-15-2007, 08:13 PM	#4
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	it's all just guesswork, anyway, and they keep changing their minds! --in 20 years, scientists will all decide that dinosaurs were talking worms, or something __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

05-14-2007, 05:32 PM	#2
snais Person Who Has Posted Join Date: May 2007 Location: Durham, England Posts: 2	That's one of the things that always gets me about dinosaurs - the sheer range of sizes. The longest dinosaur discovered so far (though only reconstructed from one vertebra) is a sauropod called Amphicoelias which may have been up to 60m long. I can't even visualise that in my head, wiki has a size comparison thing which is just incredible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H...comparison.png can you imagine looking one in the eye?? What happened when one of those died, how long did it take before there was nothing left of it? Imagine the smell

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