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Skeleton of Earth's Largest Predator
angkor writes "A COMPLETE skeleton of the largest predator of all time, a Jurassic sea monster that made tyrannosaurus rex look like a featherweight, has been discovered in Mexico. /. needs more dinosaur articles..."
No pictures.
here's one
here's another
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Interesting claim, but I seriously doubt the time quoted can be backed up, given what we now know about the age of the Earth. Let's apply some basic physics.
The sun puts out 386 billion billion megawatts. Expressed in scientific notation, that 3.86e26 watts, which is 3.86e26 joules per second. According to Einstein's famous equations, that's also 1.29e20 kg/s. But the Earth is so small, we only intercept one one-billionth of that, which is 1.29e11 kg/s. The mass of the Earth is 5.89e24 kg. Divide the one into the other and you have a mere 1.5 million years, much much shorter than evolutionary "scientists" say it would take to spontaneously create simple DNA, let alone the profusion of God's creation that we see around us. And that's being generous and assuming there was no rock here to begin with (which we know is false from Genesis). My gut feeling is that the calculated figure of 40,000 years is probably right on target.
is it the standard assumption that all Slashdot readers believe that evolution is true and that creatures existed on the Earth "millions" of years ago? I would guess that a good chunk of readers do not even come close to believing this (perhaps even the majority of us.) IMHO it's time to split the Science section up into two sections: one for real science articles and another for the garbage like this that is little more than instruments of hate aimed at the moral community.
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I was sure that Rush Limbaugh held top honors here.
Is it just me, or does everyone else wonder what kind of awesome fossils lie on the ocean floor, given that:
(1) most of the earth's surface is covered by ocean, and that's likely been the case for quite some time
and
(2) the largest contemporary vertebrates (whales) live in the water, where gravity is less of a factor
Joe
http://www.joegrossberg.com
Can be found here:
http://www.oceansofkansas.com/varner.html
I get all excited, go to the article, see a big space in the middle of the article (I'm on 56k) that's loading. I'm saying "YES! A pic of it!" then what comes up? "Many Cambodian children will not live to be 5 years old" Damnit, who cares, I wanted to see the skeleton!
Check it out.
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The Earth has been absorbing all that energy for all that time. It isn't here as energy, it must be here as mass.
I was pretty worried with all that fog this morning, but it looks like you managed to get a few solid bites.
I shouldn't respond to this, but I am going to anyways. I believe in Evolution/big Bang theory simply because it makes the most sense as opposed to the world being made out of the milk of a cow or Some chick putting dirt on top of a Turtle. None of the creation theories Ever made much sense to me. Why should I believe it? Because some book that is an incomplete partial translation of an earlier book that was a copy of a still earlier book said "God Said and ZAP-POW we had light"? If I ever met a priest that said, "I don't know" I might listen, but I never have. What I have seen is a lot self-serving mumbo-jumbo that can't be proven. There is no Hard Proof. Not that there is a lot of hard proof when it comes to Evolution either. But they admit it. Yes there are gaps in the fossil record. Yes there are parts of Biology & evolution that we can't explain. But at least they admit it I am curious what you consider to be "good" Science. It can't be astronomy. The notion that light travels thousands of years (well more then 6 thousand anyways) must put a strain on your faith. So that rules out physics & Chemistry (Or do you not believe that Iron was created in another star billions of years ago?) What Science do you believe in? What Science Can you believe in? I read once that the Adam and Eve story was a myth to explain why people left the hunter\gather lifestyle to begin agriculture. (Oh there was a happy time once when we didn't have to toil in the fields and God supplied every thing to us) The story was created much like the people who tell us we would be happier if we all lived as we did in the 17th century. I have to admit that interpretation of the story makes more sense to me then that story being the gospel truth. Does this make Analyses "bad" Science? What about logic? I hope you will respond to this .....
D.A.K.D.A.E.---- Deny all Knowledge, Destroy All Evidence
The Editor said:
The skeleton they found isn't technically a dinosaur. My background is Physics, not Biology, but it has something to do with which Order or Class these creatures fit into.
I only found this out when my daughter was studying dinosaurs in school. I told her that there were dinosaurs that lived in the oceans and she told me they weren't really dinosaurs! I google'd it and sure enough, she was right. Doh!
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Wouldn't the Blue Whale qualify for this honor since it also eats other sea animals (krill)? It is bigger at around 25 meters.