When Dinosaurs Battled Crurotarsans 181
onehitwonder writes "Reuters reported yesterday on new scientific research that indicates how dinosaurs beat out another early reptilian species for domination of the earth. Roughly 200 million years ago, dinosaurs battled with another dinosaur-like animal, the crurotarsan, which is related to the crocodile. Some species grew to 39 feet long, according to the article, at an epoch when few dinosaurs exceeded 10 feet in length. Scientists used to believe that dinosaurs beat out the crurotarsans because the dinosaurs were physiologically superior. But new research indicates that dinosaurs might have won out due to a large stroke of cosmic luck, the nature of which is speculative."
Crurotarsans are... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Errata (Score:4, Insightful)
Jeez, Otter, what crawled up your butt and died? The fact that in the 21st century, some people still think the Earth is only 6,000 years old because they misinterpreted a stupid fable, is funny.
You don't like us making fun of stupid religious people, but then you call us stupid. Are you a religious person? Do you think the world is only 6,000 years old? Why are you making such a big deal about this? I don't get it.
If it is only because the joke is old, I got news for you. People like old familiar jokes. You may have noticed, people here still quote a comedian who hasn't played outside of Laughlin, Nevada for decades. Do you also bitch and whine about the 'Soviet Russia' jokes? Do you rail about the stupidity of people quoting the Simpsons, or making Natalie Portman/Hot Grits comments?
Maybe this making fun of stupid religious beliefs hits a little close to home? What ARE your beliefs in that regard?
Re:Sort of like movie and rock stars, really. (Score:3, Insightful)
And haing been up close and personal with crocs, caymans, and gators, I can say that they are anything but underwhelming... though some more diversity would be cool.
Re:Sort of like movie and rock stars, really. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Errata (Score:4, Insightful)
Now there's a dumb comment. I don't like stupid black people or stupid Asian people or stupid Jewish people or stupid Muslims or stupid white people or stupid programmers or stupid...anything. Nothing to do with the race, skin color, religion, gender, sexual preference or whatever: I just don't like stupid people.
I have absolutely nothing against religious people per se, but for some reason the ones in the US are letting the stupidest among them dominate the political debate, and that fills me with some contempt even for the smart ones. Speak out and make it clear that being religious doesn't automatically make you an idiot, or the idiots will be the only thing the rest of us see and associate with your religion!
And by "speak out", I don't mean whine about how people are starting to assume that all US Xtians are idiots. Stand up and tell the idiots in your creed what idiots they're being. Publicly. Tell them that they're making a mockery of your religion. That'll earn you my respect.
Re:Errata (Score:4, Insightful)
A person is born "black", "asian", or "jewish". "religious" is a personal decision, which makes it fair game for ridicule. (same applies obviously for "muslim")
Re:Errata (Score:3, Insightful)
IT's funny, until it's a person in congress making laws, or a teacher pushing non science as science or refusing to teach science.
Meaningful? (Score:2, Insightful)
It's already loaded with enough sex, violence, intrigue, dismemberment, rape and murder to be meaningful to today's society. It's more disgusting than your average 18A torture-porn flick.
Maybe a new movie version is needed. It would be like "300" except because it's from the Bible it would be Sunday School-approved.
I'd like to see that on the flannelgraph.
Re:Errata (Score:4, Insightful)
We don't knock their beliefs because we disagree with them, we knock their beliefs because those beliefs are idiotic.