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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."
A crushed knucklebone in a drilling core,
Everybody find the dinosaur!
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 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.
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...
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Just wait until they discover the historical documents!