Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost

Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by Varcht on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:53PM (#16227106)

Dinosaurs are now birds? Do Velociraptors climb trees?

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by labster on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:45PM (#16227434)

You got it backwards, birds are now dinosaurs. The world just got that much cooler. If you're not convinced, look through YouTube for videos of my favorite dinosaur, the raven.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by clw8 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:59PM (#16228187)

Care to elucidate on the choice of ravens? I would go with cassowaries and emus as examples of "oh yeah they totally are dinosaurs"...

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by labster on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:26PM (#16228765)

Mainly just that ravens are awesome, and velociraptors are awesome, so Q.E.D. Not really a scientific argument.

I do wonder how many Cretaceous critters were intelligent to the degree of ravens or dogs or primates, if any. We know they weren't as good at terraforming as we are, or there'd be some evidence in the strata. But the Cretaceous was longer than the current period, so I wouldn't be shocked if something we could call intelligent evolved.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by Varcht on Thursday January 25, 2018 @12:47AM (#16229054)

Hah, poor dumb kid. Velociraptors evolved into birds, birds are safe from grounded velociraptors... Read gp again, see it fits? Heard of Socrates?

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