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Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil
douglips writes "Reuters is running a story about a shocking development in paleontology: A T-Rex thigh bone fossil was reluctantly broken to fit in a transport helicopter, and inside soft tissue was found. It appears to include blood vessels and bone cells. Scientists hope to isolate proteins, and perhaps even DNA."
Let the cloning begin!
hail our new cloned-DNA T-rex overlor-*CHOMP*
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
If I said it once, I've said it a thousand times...
Modern helicopters are just too small!
Now we know that when the cloned T-Rex escapes, if you stand perfectly still it won't see you!
Also, do NOT run directly to the shitter.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
those damn SUVs better watch out. Yeah, who owns the road now %^*@$!
Homer: He may be rich, but money can't buy everything!
Marge: Like what?
Homer: . . . A Dinosaur!
I want to be the first 35 year old kid on my block with a T-Rex. Leash laws be damned!
I HAVE CUBIC WISDOM THAT TRANSCENDS AND CONTRADICTS ONE DAY GODS
Why would a T-Rex be using Kleenex?
Hello?... Is this thing on?
WHY did it have to be the DNA of a T-Rex? Why couldn't it have been a nice herbivore, like a stegosaurus, or even better, one of those little chicken-sized dinos?
Now there's going to be running and screaming, and it's all going to be a big huge mess.
Technoli
As much as I trust TV and the essentially random guesses made by people about something that has been dead for millions of years, I am not sure I want to stand still while being chased by a really big meat-eating dinosaur unless I am reeeaaally extra sure that it won't see me. On the upside I only have to run past the other people who have seen Jurassic Park and are standing still to test if this theory is true or not. If it runs past them I simply freeze, otherwise I can escape while it chomps on the first few unlucky souls to hold still.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
"Paleontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter..."
Who was heading this team, Homer Simpson?
I can just see him now:
Homer: "Grrr..."
Lisa: "Dad, it's just too big to fit in there."
Homer: "Nonsense Lisa, daddy will just shove it in....Grrr....here it goes...." *snap* "...DOH!"
Sugapablo
Whoever clones one first! I mean, who's gonna argue with a guy who has a friggin T-REX backing him up?
I thought that specifying that the bone was only 10,000 years old was bad, but when you talked about drinking White Zinfandel, your ignorance was confirmed... ;)
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
Anybody got a handy chaos theorist? Anybody? Seriously, I need a chaos theorist, oily hair, glasses, fuzzy math skills, preferably debauched.
Alternatively do any of you know anything about UNIX systems?
No problem. When the T-Rexes start attacking, we can simply get our handy chaos theorist to upload a virus into the mother T-Rex and just pray that the T-Rex is Mac compatible.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
birds are believed to be whats left of dinosours as they evolved to today
It'd be amusing if the T-Rex had the parrot's vocal abilities to mimic human voices.
Of course, the only words they'd be exposed to and thus be able to mimic would be various versions of "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!" and "OH DEAR GOD NORRUUUURRRGGGGLLLE!!!!" and that would just scare other people off.
A sad life, the T-Rex's.
Sigh.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
God creates dinosaur.
God kills dinosaur.
God creates man.
Man kills God.
Man creates dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats man.
Woman inherits the earth.
Analogous to a geek that can turn on a chick
Ahh. This just proves that Evolution is BS, and that the earth is not hundreds of millions of years old. It is just a couple of thousand years old. Soft tissue could have lasted that long. In your FACE scientists. The dinosaurs were obviously killed in the crusades because they were dumb animals that didn't believe in Jesus. Duh.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Obseity in others is your best defense mechanism.
Certainly from predation, but speaking for fat people at McDonald's everywhere, I'd like to say that we're betting that the global food supply will run out before a T-Rex comes to life and chases us down.
We think that a better defense mechanism is taking two weeks longer to starve to death so we can eat you scrawny arrogant bastards as you drop like flies.
I don't care how thin you are, we'll still get a whole bunch of quarter pounders out of you...
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
Lab analysis reveals that that the soft tissue was a Chicken McNugget dropped by a site worker eating his lunch.
Engineering is the art of compromise.