Earliest Primate Placed With Dinosaurs

Quirk writes "National Geographic has a piece suggesting the earliest primates were contemporaries of dinosaurs. The article is an endorsement for the evolutionary dating system using molecular-clock studies. The earliest primates according to the current fossil record suggests a common ancestor about 55 million years ago after the great dinosaur die-off. Relying on biology and mathematics the new study suggests a small, nocturnal creature of the tropical forests was the earliest primate. The research viewed fewer differences in genetic codes as an indicator that the more recently two species parted evolutionary company, and, math equations were used to flesh out the tree and to predict when and for how long species may have lived. So, really, a Rachel Welch lookalike in a skimpy fur bikini may have actually fled a rampaging T-Rex."

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THE FIRST UNIVERSAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING

[Krapangor]

The world's first consistent and complete theory of everything.

Well this is slightly offtopic, but I discovered recently an universal theory of everything and I can't whithold such important information from the slashdot crowd.

The theory is mainly inspired by the posts I read here at slashdot and consists of the revolutionary thesis:

Everything is a troll.

I'll explain now what leads me to this conclusion.
Let's start with the most important part of most slashdotters lives: the computer.
As you all know operating systems have lead to many heated and sometimes flamebait discussions, take all these Linux vs Windows XP vs *BSD etc flamewars here at slashdot as an example. In fact we all now that the most important differences of the OSes are for these discussion, for most practical uses an operating system is as good and any other. Therefore the main purpose of modern operating systems is just trolling and not any practical issues anymore !
The same goes for programming languages. Today we have enough programming languages for any purpose which comes into our minds. And we all know that the best programming is choosen specifically for an explicit task. But nevertheless there are always more and more universal programming languages which "suit all purposes perfectly" created all the time. Take Microsofts C# as an example. Thus we can conclude that the main purpose of modern programming languages is again trolling.
C# takes us direct to Microsofts monopolic behavoir. If you examine it long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that their practices to subdue the competitors is just a very clever way of trolling. The the whole anti-trust case is just the way of the competitors and the goverment to troll back at Microsoft !
You can go on and on with this and you'll finally reach the same conclusion as I: the main purpose of the entire computer/IT industry is just trolling.

Can we extend this statement to other parts of our lives ?
Let's look at something basic: emotions.
Hate is obviously a form of trolling. If you think about it a little, you'll see that the same goes to the opposite: love. If you love someone you just troll everybody you don't love and if you love everybody you troll the people who don't want to be loved. In fact any kind of emotion is a form of trolling.
The same goes for the society war is an obvious form of trolling. The rule above for love applies at society leave at peace. Terrorism, trade contracts, diplomany, just anything is trolling. Religions are trolling just by their existence, because they always claim all other relgions to be wrong. You'll have to do some examination to see this always but once you know the pattern it's relatively easy to spot.
This lead to the next conclusion: humans and society are always trolling.

But what about nature ?
Well we know how to approach such thing know, so it's not very difficult to procceed.
Carnivores are trolling herbivores and other carnivores by eating them.
Herbivores troll plants by eating them.
Plants are trolling everybody by sitting around doing nothing and being green.
Bacteria are trolling everybody by causing such things as rotting and diarreea.
In fact even the physical laws are trollish. Take the laws of thermodynamics. The law of entropia is trollish by causing disorder everywhere. The law of energy conservation is trollish by causing energy problems all over the world. As another example the law of gravitation is trollish by hitting people with apples on the head. The moon circles around earth to troll it which on the other hand trolls around the sun. And the sun trolls the planets by sending radition and light at them. The milkyway trolls around it's own axis. The whole universe is trolling by expanding infinitely !

Well, this leaves the question wether the laws of trolling hold outside our universe. But the existance of such questions would be oviously trolling and therefore everything outside the universe must be trolling, too ! So we can conclude the universal laws of the universe:
EVERTHING IS TROLLING !

This law has some interesting implications:

• All slashdot readers, editors, crapflooders are trolls.
• Every slashdot post is a troll. Moderating it "troll" is always fair.
• Moderation is always trolling. Therefore all moderation is unfair. This is inconstent with the above statement that moderation "troll" is always fair, but this is just a troll.
• If Taco wants to get rid of the trolls he must close down slashdot entirely. This action would be, of course, trollish.
• If someone stops trolling slashdot then this is just a troll.
• If you moderate this post (up or down) you are a troll. If you don't moderate you are a troll, too.
• All factual, logical, grammatical, spelling errors is this post are there to troll you.
• This post is a troll.