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Post by johannes on Jul 8, 2015 19:31:13 GMT 10
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 10, 2015 14:12:18 GMT 10
Uh oh. Think i spotted the name 'Rex Gilroy' lurking in the text. I been warned that puts the whole thing on par with a certain deranged Moss ..  |
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Post by johannes on Jul 15, 2015 0:14:33 GMT 10
This is the Rex Gilroy who claims that there are living, breathing TYRANNOSAURS running around in the Northern Territory?   |
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Post by youcantry on Jul 16, 2015 12:04:04 GMT 10
Hadn't heard that claim.
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Post by johannes on Jul 19, 2015 1:16:22 GMT 10
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 27, 2015 6:04:33 GMT 10
This is the Rex Gilroy who claims that there are living, breathing TYRANNOSAURS running around in the Northern Territory? Yup. The very same. |
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Post by dennisw on Jul 27, 2015 10:06:02 GMT 10
He might be right I saw one running through the background in a recent advertisement.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 27, 2015 20:47:37 GMT 10
He might be right I saw one running through the background in a recent advertisement. There was a tame one at Knoxfield shopping centre week before last. |
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Post by johannes on Oct 2, 2015 20:27:22 GMT 10
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Post by Ian Thomas on Oct 4, 2015 5:28:22 GMT 10
Mesozoic kosher. Gotta admit, I never really thought about that.  On other hand, maybe there is a serious point in there, if you look hard enough? If you did have a time machine to hand, yeah, it would get harder to find a meal the further back you went. Wild plants have much less nutritional content than farm crops and the further back you went they'd have even less. In the Mesozoic dominant plants were, what, pines & ferns? Before that - what, mosses & liverworts? Which means a time traveler would necessarily be carnivorous. Definitely not vegan. Kosher or halal would not be an option before modern lineages appeared. Same limitation would apply when visiting extra-solar planets. Uh oh! This means aliens visiting Earth would be carnivores? It's a cookbook!!!  |
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Post by dennisw on Oct 4, 2015 10:55:54 GMT 10
The concept of Kosher was only introduced during the Exodus from Egypt so I guess that anything that was around more than 3,500 years ago must have been OK to eat. Dinosaurs may not have been Kosher but that was fine, the laws hadn't been written, so no breach.
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Post by johannes on Nov 10, 2015 2:54:32 GMT 10
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Post by Isengard on Nov 20, 2015 5:05:45 GMT 10
Tyrannosaurs alive today? Did they escape from Jurassic Park???
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Post by johannes on Nov 25, 2015 1:31:50 GMT 10
Kazanlak's novelette is obiously fiction, but it points out the fatal, ha-ha weakness of Rex Gilroy's, er, hypothesis (its not well-founded enough to call it a theory): Tyrannosaurs, like all Non-avian theropods, bred like rats. If any of them would be alive today, their population would explode when humans introduce conveniently sized prey, like cattle or water buffalo; hence conflict with humans would be pretty much unavoidable. We would have tons of evidence in the form of cattle-stealing or man eating Burrunjors shot by the authorities or by private individuals trying to protect themselves and their livestock; not to speak of Burrunjor roadkill.
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? This happens from time to time www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thylacoleo-Plush-Soft-Toy-by-Hansa-Marsupial-Lion-Extinct-Animal-/351253213923 
Sparassodonts are metatherians, and therefore close cousins of marsupials, but afaik, they are a purely Souh American clade, with no fossil record from Australia or even Antarctica. Or has somebody just confused Thylacosmilus and Thylacoleo 
? This happens from time to time www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thylacoleo-Plush-Soft-Toy-by-Hansa-Marsupial-Lion-Extinct-Animal-/351253213923 
(admittedly, the tome is so obscure that not even the notoriously ligititious Greg Paul cared about the break of his copyrights).
