Holy CRAP!

Mar. 24th, 2005 02:46 pm
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Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue
70-million-year-old fossil yields preserved blood vessels!!!

Date: 2005-03-24 10:47 pm (UTC)

Date: 2005-03-24 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] araquan.livejournal.com
Wow. Can Jurassic Park be far behind?

Date: 2005-03-24 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cargoweasel.livejournal.com
It's delicious T-rex jerky!

Date: 2005-03-24 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikoshi.livejournal.com
Damnit! Quickly, someone get my paleontology specialization and send me back to grad school!

Date: 2005-03-24 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgegoth.livejournal.com
Quick! Congress needs to pass legislation to get that critter on life support now!

Date: 2005-03-24 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgegoth.livejournal.com
thenk yew

Date: 2005-03-24 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foofers.livejournal.com
No...fucking...way!

Wow.

Date: 2005-03-25 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrissawyer.livejournal.com
I await the cloned beastie...

Date: 2005-03-25 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xylen.livejournal.com
At the very least they need to map the DNA and plug it into a computer model that could generate exactly what it looked like or get very close.

Date: 2005-03-25 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikoshi.livejournal.com
And then, Jerry O'Connell shall create for us a 3-D rendition thereof, using M&M's in zero-G.

Date: 2005-03-25 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shavastak.livejournal.com
A lovely idea. Too bad there's no real way to do that yet. Maybe in 20 years!

Date: 2005-03-25 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrissawyer.livejournal.com
Hey, as much as I wanna believe in this, wouldn't this fit awfully well into some creationist's agenda. Pretty easy to make an arguement for a 6,000 year old earth when there's tissue from a T-rex still on the bone, huh?

Date: 2005-03-25 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistledown.livejournal.com
I'm sure the Creationists could come up with an argument.."Why..of course G** created that specimen just to confuse the scientists"
NOTHING that doesn't fit in with their bias's can shake their "faith"..they always have an answer.
It'd be cool if the news piece isn't a media over-reaction or misinterpretaion of what the researchers really found.

Date: 2005-03-25 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shavastak.livejournal.com
Well, when you have an all-powerful, all-knowing deity who also has extremely mysterious motives, you really can explain anything away. Because it'll come down to 'so why the heck does G** do all this to us?' and the answer is 'G** moves in mysterious ways.'

Date: 2005-03-25 06:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athelind.livejournal.com
G** moves in mysterious ways.

A little fiber in the diet will take care of that.

Date: 2005-03-25 08:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
Ah, yes. The ol' "Deus moves in mysterious ways" bit. Essentially the coward's brand of agnosticism. Admits that we don't have a clue WTF the Diety is doing, but stops short of proclaiming said Diety unknowable.

Date: 2005-03-25 05:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bfdragon.livejournal.com
If you mean it smells like it might be a hoax by such interests, I'm not so sure. Jack Horner is a paleontologist that even I have heard of just from his regular appearance on the discovery channel (back before it was the home improvement chanel). I think he was the one who said that T-Rexes were likely scavengers, which is why the evolved such small arms.

Date: 2005-03-25 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stalbon.livejournal.com
Most excellent. It was inevitable that they'd find tissue, and yes, they'll likely attempt to do all sorts of things to it. I'm just glad it's a big breakthrough that will likely let us know more about the creature.

Date: 2005-03-25 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pavel-lishin.livejournal.com
Let's put the T-rex on life support, and then petition Florida to take it off.

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