^By which I mean that Brennan is presenting the current consensus. Most mass extinctions are associated with volcanism and a global warming episode.
― Roomba with an attitude (Sanpaku), Friday, 29 June 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
Well, my tweeting that Brennan quote has lead to M John Harrison reading and enjoying the book, so expect some wild geological SF in a few years.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 1 July 2018 08:45 (five years ago) link
Wat is penis worm pls
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link
"Go look in the mirror", etc
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
apparently they taste like clams and eaten raw in some places.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
xps to Sanpaku
I have that book on my kindle, just never got round to reading it.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 July 2018 09:41 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, is it a candiru, the little fella with a brief but memorable cameo in Naked Lunch?
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:47 (five years ago) link
the candiru is a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ...
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
Nope - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapulida
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
Thx
apparently they taste like clams and eaten raw in some places.― calzino, Sunday, July 1, 2018 10:37 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― calzino, Sunday, July 1, 2018 10:37 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
worm I said
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
I've got to admit that eating some poor creature that looks like a prosthetic cock, just stone cold raw off a plate seems like a scene from a Hieronymus Bosch themed restaurant!
― calzino, Monday, 2 July 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
...temperature estimates for the End-Permian mass extinction and its aftermath strain belief. In the Karoo Desert, as rivers stopped winding, insects stopped buzzing, and mass death swept over the land, the temperature might have jumped as much as 16 degrees Celsius. On Pangea, 140-degree-Fahrenheit heat waves wouldn't have been unusual. In the tropics, ocean temperatures skyrocketed from 25 degrees Celsius-similar to today's oceans- to perhaps upwards of 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the temperature of a hot tub, or as End-Permian expert Paul Wignall puts it, that of "very hot soup." Multi-cellular life simply can't exist in this sort of globe-spanning Jacuzzi. The complex proteins of life denature-that is, they cook. The language of academic papers is typically measured and sober, but even the peer-reviewed science literature describes the early Triassic period that followed this worst mass extinction ever as a "post-apocalyptic greenhouse."
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-ort2-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/b75d6fc77e1d18b28caa461da8c7e23c/5BC1FCA9/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/33376572_387621541725441_8535239759738437632_n.jpg
― soref, Friday, 20 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Pictures of Chris Pratt gazing haplessly at dinosaurs:http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/41/320x320/square-1476288011-jurassic-world-chris-pratt.jpghttp://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200x1200/public/2018/04/screen_shot_2018-04-18_at_2.16.37_pm.png?itok=tGorBM6l×tamp=1524075466https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2018/06/08/Pictures/_674af80c-6aea-11e8-af35-5e950c6035ab.PNG
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 10 August 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
what if it wasn't the asteroid: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/
"Before the asteroid hypothesis took hold, researchers had proposed other, similarly bizarre explanations for the dinosaurs’ demise: gluttony, protracted food poisoning, terminal chastity, acute stupidity, even Paleo-weltschmerz—death by boredom (…) She* argues that the mass extinction was caused not by a wrong-place-wrong-time asteroid collision but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions in a part of western India known as the Deccan Traps—a theory that was first proposed in 1978 and then abandoned by all but a small number of scientists."
* = Gerta Keller of Princeton, who "says she’s been called a 'bitch' and 'the most dangerous woman in the world,' who 'should be stoned and burned at the stake.'" lol rational academic debate eh
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
I think she might be right about the Deccan Traps playing a bigger role in their extinction than the Chicxulub jobbie. All the other major extinction were during hothouse or cooling earth periods, why should this one have been any different?*
*not that I know shit, like!
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
I heard something the other about reverse engineering ancient DNA traces with supercomputers, and yeah they are birds!"
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
*extinction events edit
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/05/24/15/dinosaur-asteroid.jpg?w968
― devvvine, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
new and correct haplessness begins here: https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/160705-dino-630x487.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
Dinasaurs going off their tits on mcat, while the world is turned into a post apocalyptic hothouse!
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:51 (five years ago) link
gluttony, protracted food poisoning, terminal chastity, acute stupidity, even Paleo-weltschmerz—death by boredom
poll, obv
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
https://assets1.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/57293/size_1024/dinosaur_volcano.jpg?1418393900
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
Paleo Weltschmerz, currently playing for Schalke 04's second team, hoping to break through to the first team in the coming season, has represented Germany at Under 19 level.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
^ This was totally the correct thread for that post.
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
some high quality images in this last update
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
i like the evil ones where the dinosaurs seem to be thrilled about what's happening
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
yes, yes!! destroy it all! burn it all down!! raaawwwrr
music to watch the end of the world to*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yXJZe6_ug
*that's right, haplessly
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
pplains, I disagree. In my opinion, any pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at erupting volcanoes should go in the "pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at erupting volcanoes" thread.
― Moves like Javert (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
My kid has a pack of dinosaur fact cards and I was pleased that it contained this one:
https://i.imgur.com/OlPLlQ8.jpg
― joygoat, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/FqaAJni
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
I think the dinosaurs actually died the same way as I am dying right now, over Tom D.’s Paleo Weltschmerz post
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
I am so glad I read that now instead of when it was posted because I would have been inconsolable in front of other people in an official setting and there would be no way to explain any of it
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
http://e.cinescape.americadigital.pe/ima/0/0/1/9/4/194563.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 1 September 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/Terryclothstiletto/photos/a.1190012354349761/2464286980255619/?type=3
― nickn, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41283125_2464286986922285_702965444889280512_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=38f91b65fede95abd0e768470e2290a2&oe=5C21F38A
― nickn, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UgX8r1g.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 15 September 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
reposting bcz TREX01 is clearly ilxor bizarro gazzara, will we never be rid
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/e6/3e/19e63e88948065095ae82f5401968460.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
would actually buy a poster of the third image itt
― nashwan, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
https://kmrciugjeu-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/dinosaurs-noahs-ark.jpg
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
https://cdns.yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dino-asteroid-cancer-cure-678x381.jpg
'University Study: Metal From Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs DESTROYS Cancer Cells'
…
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVvg6UkAnig/maxresdefault.jpg
― devvvine, Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
https://i.gifer.com/R7ep.gif
― soref, Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
mr.steggy otm
― jmm, Sunday, 7 October 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
trex01, it me
― shrek and han solo kinda dress the same (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 7 October 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
lol at t-rex wandering into that lava flowauuuughhh whyyyyyy
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
https://solutionsreview.com/data-integration/files/2015/06/oie_LhZh9OxR73dE.png
― jmm, Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/86/1f/81861fec587eda5cf51f8d91f0974ed9.jpghttps://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2755/4169813311_1d665d0446_z.jpghttps://rodneymackay.com/fun2017/Golden%20spiral/doomsday2images/ktevent1.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
first one is a little too real imo
― the Stanley Kubrick of testicular torsion (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link