Dinosaurs Could Hold Basketballs, But Not Dribble 73
Gre7g writes "Long before the invention of the photocopier, mud was the ideal way to preserve an image of your butt. 'We got lucky with this one [sitting] on a slope,' which brought its hands closer to the ground, said study author Andrew Milner of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm. Full disclosure: My wife did the artistic reconstruction."
Use Cases (Score:5, Funny)
Long before the invention of the photocopier, mud was the ideal way to preserve an image of your butt.
Some of us still consider mud to be far superior. Photocopiers may be more convenient, but they really can't compare with mud for capturing detail without distortion.
Now I'm going to be flamed by a lot of Xerox fan boys. For the last time: the best technology is the technology that works best for you!
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This is the most absurd post I've ever read. Maybe this was true 15 years ago. You moronic mudophiles think that because you hear a squishy sound when you sit in the mud it's superior to Xerox. This really insults the BCT (Butt Capture Technology) advances that Xerox's researchers have made in recent years. It's really gotten to a point where mud just can't compete. Anyone who does Butt Captures professionally has known this for years now.
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Oh, right, your fancy BCT can unflatten your butt. Get real!
I think you just like having your posterior irradiated. Hope you're not planning to have kids!
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I love the smell of irradiated posterior in the morning.
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Plus, you insert a mud imprint of your butt into your boss's presentation.
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you insert = you cannot insert
You sound like my girlfriend.
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Go write for TV. What would you rather have, a quality product, or a big audience?
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Dinos Basketball Team (Score:1)
Man, (Score:2)
These people put waaay too much effort into making fund of dinosaurs.
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Was that the most subtle pun today or a typo?
The world may never know.
Clever girl (Score:3, Funny)
Yet another reason to fear raptors....
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Oh they can, but not very well. ;)
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Oh they can, but not very well. ;)
Isn't that also the answer to "Anyone can sing."
Toronto Raptors! (Score:4, Funny)
Fear these Toronto Raptors [nba.com] because they can hold basketballs, dribble, and sometimes shoot!
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I was ready to post a "Cue the Raptors jokes" comment... Nice. :-)
Where's the basketball? (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, I did read the friendly article and no where could I see any reference to basketball.
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Unless you have to pay for the research, please keep in mind that in future submissions, you can have more than one link in the body of your submission. Even if it's just <a href="...">More details here</a>
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Well, where's the more detailed reference in the comments, then? :)
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Yet here, where people are asking for high detail, you still forgo linking it.
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Didn't see it, hadn't been moderated high enough, my apologies.
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But wait... (Score:2)
it is satan himself (Score:5, Funny)
who wishes us to believe dinosaurs could evolve to hold a basketball. the holy truth is of course intelligent dribbling, probably taught by 3 point all star jesus himself to intelligent basketball playing dinosaurs on jurassic half courts
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how dare you laugh at (Score:2)
what god has revealed, in his infinite wisdom, to an internet troll ;-)
You forgot to add . . . (Score:1)
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A triumph for science! (Score:2)
*: Warning! Contains flash video and may make you laugh uncontrollably at horrible plot.
New Extinction theory! (Score:3, Funny)
There are plenty of theories about how the dinosaurs met their near-simultaneous end, but with the information provided in the article, I think I have an idea worth investigating!
Dinosaur Dodgeball Elimination Deathmatch!
If they can hold basketballs, then they can hold dodgeballs. And dribbling is not needed for dodgeball! So it all makes sense now!
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Wait, what... (Score:3, Insightful)
What the hell do the dinosaur, the basketball and the mud have in common here?
Am I the only one to whom this reads like a kind of dadaist ramble?
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Fossilized mud-print -> angle of wrists -> palms up not down -> could hold basketball.
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That's right, the global conspiracy to deny the fact that dinosaurs could dribble isn't science, hell it's not even sport, it's politics - specifically the IOC, NBA, and the Chinese government are to blame.
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Sadly, that's a better explanation than what's in the National Geographic article.
Put down the crack pipe (Score:2)
I had the same reaction. Ass... mud... dinosaur... basketball... *headasplode*
Seriously, how did this get approved? It has nothing to do with the article.
The actual newsworthiness of the article is that the fossil prints are the first found of a meat-eating dinosaur's front limbs. No fucking basketballs anywhere in the article.
The find has shaken up paleontologists' understanding of how dinosaurs evolved into modern birds.
Please don't approve any more submissions from "Gre7g" until he gets his substance abuse problem under control.
Could hold a basketball but couldn't dribble? (Score:2)
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Utah (Score:2, Insightful)
extinction via weak back court (Score:3, Funny)
Now we know why the dinosaurs went extinct. You can't survive in this world without a decent guard rotation.
Still, England's guard rotation is still methodical and precise, and their empire is slowly diminishing. There's no accounting for team chemistry, I suppose.
In other words ... (Score:3, Funny)
...they're a lot like the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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you steal a crappy NBA team, what ya expect?
whoa... (Score:1)
Well ofcourse! (Score:2)
Dribble is much harder to hold than a basketball. It drips out of your hands!
Yes, but... (Score:2)
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Depends if they were able to make the baskets.
This [zazzle.com] would seem to be evidence that they could...
Goddamnit timothy (Score:2)
Stop hurting Slashdot.
Worse abstract ever (Score:1, Troll)
Oh boy that must be the worst abstract ever. I couldn't make anything of it. It's about dinosaurs who want to preserve images of their bottoms, an one of them put its hands closer together? I have to read the fine article to find out what this is all about. I guess this is a scheme concocted by Taco to get more people to read the articles.
Irrelevant (Score:1)
Basketballs would have been relatively tiny in giant dinosaur hands, so they would probably have gripped them in their dinosaur fists rather than in the palms like modern man. So it doesn't really matter which way their wrists were oriented.
Also, the dinosaurs would have eaten the basketballs, thinking they were cleverly shaped poppy air eggs. To the primitive dinosaur palette, this would have been something of a delicacy or novelty, like pop rocks are to modern man.
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