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The World's Deepest Dinosaur
FiReaNGeL writes to tell us BiologyNews.net is reporting that Norway has uncovered their first set of dinosaur remains. The catch? They found it 2,256 meters below the ocean floor. From the article: "It is merely a coincidence that the remains of the old dinosaur now see the light of day again, or more precisely, parts of the dinosaur. The fossil is in fact just a crushed knucklebone in a drilling core - a long cylinder of rock drilled out from an exploration well at the Snorre offshore field."
Give us the details on the drilling rig!
A crushed knucklebone in a drilling core,
Everybody find the dinosaur!
The fossil is in fact just a crushed knucklebone in a drilling core
Quick! someone call CSI!
They'll probably collapse onto the sand and shout "You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!"
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
I wonder what things will be like 200 million years from today, what adanced (or not so advanced) civilization will uncover the golden gate bridge, or statue of liberty.
Or the Slashdot servers. Holy crap, what if they're reading this post?! I for one welcome our 200 million year future overlords! (Just put my knucklebone somewhere nice please)
I agree. We should use science to figure out where the bones come from, rather than relying on supernatural explanations.
Also, if during the course of the scientific investigations, the researches should become hungry, they should eat food rather than praying for their hunger to end. Similarly, if their mode of transportation should run out of fuel, they probably would be better served by buying a tank full of gas, versus merely "wishing real hard" that they could get where they were going.
And, of course, if they post on Slashdot, they shouldn't Karma-whore by posting the BLEEDING OBVIOUS.
I though the worlds deepest dinosaur was cowboy neal
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
There will be no 200 million years from today. It all ends 12/21/2012
Snorre is probably an okay name in Norweigian, but it's the nickname for penis in Swedish. I guess they drill hard out there on the oil field...
Hmm, so the old woman was wrong, the earth is not perched on the back of a turtle, it is dinosaurs all the way down...
Oh well, what the hell...
Reminds me of an old song "Dem Dem Dry Bones" or whatever it was called. However, I can't seem to recall the "knucklebone" stanza, so hopefully the scientists won't mess up the rebuilding. =)
Fighting over religion is like seeing whose imaginary friend is best.
Apparently "Planet of the Apes" references get you modded Insightful.
"The FSM put it there!" comments :)
Reptilicus suddenly pop into my head?
I don't like big words..., does that make me anti-semantic?
So, they were drilling for fossil fuel? Looks like they knuckled down, and found the source. But still, with the odds of finding a fossil like that, so deep, it almost makes me wonder if the drill was intelligently designed...
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Surely the answer is obvious? It got pushed down by the drill bit.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Just wait until they discover the historical documents!
The Norwegians dug too deep and greedily.
...and placed that knucklebone there about 6500 years ago because he knew in his infinite wisdom and omnipotence that someday we would send an exploratory core driller down in that exact location. I see it all clearly now.
Hey, Marge! They had knucklebones! The Slashdot users were dinosaurs!
"The bugger died and just floated down to the deep."
"floated down"??
Is that at all like "sank"?
Agreed. Who knows what could happen?
What more proof do we need that the bible is literal truth?
I for one, need none. It's just too bad that Noah only brought his relatives on the boat with him, because now were all inbred cousins.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 will outlive the Earth.
I hardly think getting blown up by a bird of prey counts as outliving.
May the Maths Be with you!
as opposed to, you know, being sons of Adam or daughters of Eve...
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
... trying to trick us with fossils into believing the world is older than 10,000 years.