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."

Comments

awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

holy shit man i got some wicked diarrhea

suck my fucking balls robert malda you faggot

anyone care?

[Anonymous Coward]

who cares

Proof!

[Anonymous Coward]

What more proof do we need that the bible is literal truth? Obviously this dinosaur was buried in the great flood. I bet if they kept drilling, they'd also find human remains -- if they didn't already, and they're just covering up the fact that evolution is on its last legs.

Of course, if someone happened to find the human remains, they'd somehow convince themselves that it was "contaminated" somehow.

Re:Proof!

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm...why would this refer to the Christian bible in particular? What about, I don't know, pretty much every other religious and mythological tradition that all recount a worldwide flood?

Arrogance is why many religious-based arguments are not taken seriously, though potentially having real merit.

God be praised!

[copponex]

Another test of faith? Oh no, the Deliverer is angry with us - quickly! The omnipotent creator of the universe needs your money! And he's saying you should send it through my paypal address...

Re:How did it get there?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

So you're saying that scientists should be open to the theory that "God did it" and without evidence to the contrary they should establish that as a scientific theory?

That's more than open-mindedness. That's actively pouring the contents of your brain onto a hot sidewalk.

Re:How did it get there?

[Anonymous Coward]

>I do not know anything about the theory of relativity, except that my

Like you said, ...

If you are going to argue a point, use something you do know about.

That is contrary to falsifiability

[Perdo]

And therefore rigorous science

"Until science _disproves_ something, that thing should not be discounted as a possibility. That includes God, goblins, and pink dinosaurs under the ocean floor."

The existance of god and the supernatural is not falsifiable, and therefore must be discounted as possibilities when conducting rigorous science.

Check the wiki for more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

See also: proving a negative, division by zero, perpetual motion and the recent Intelligent design trial.

Judge John E. Jones III states the case nicely:

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/educate/ktzmllr dvr122005opn.pdf

Re:Assuming a lot

[Anonymous Coward]

you know.... i know enough to know that I don't really know a whole lot - even about the things I think I know.

you're statement contained enough hubris to sink the rig that found the knuckle.

let me explain why I'm assuming much less because i have a bit of background on the matter...and a brain. (And I'm an oil rig driller and therefore I KNOW.) *wink wink*

*you weren't around back then.
*you don't really know anything other than what you read...unless you hung out with the poor creature and watched it fall into eternal sleep.
*you haven't even seen a picture. you just read a news article and get all excited.

i think it is hilarious when people are just DYING to have something pop up to justify the things that fancy them. honestly, i think it is plausible that saddam hussein put the bone there.

we'd better make sure tom cruise doesn't hear about this or he'll prove it was something that only level X scientologists have the answer to, and cause people to join.

sometimes, i wonder if finding a dinosaur tail bone and artistcly rendering a dinosaur face and conjuring the smell of its poop is any different than reading tea leaves. hmmmm. (*did the leave fall from a western wind, or eastern?*)

Since I'm an oil driller, i know all things under the ocean. just ask away. you fools went to college when you should have been fixing cars to know this stuff.

And yes, i am an anonymous coward. because i fear for my life that the secrets i reveal about the knuckle will cause ths XDO factor aliens to swoop down and chase me around (this was how the grand canyon was made.)

Re:What will remain of us in 200 million years?

[apostrophesemicolon]

"The lunar landing sites will still be recognizable in 200 million years. Even the footprints are estimated to survive for a hundred times the age of the Pyramids."

200 years? This must mean the government puts great care of that studio in Burbank where they shot the landing sites scene..

Satan is devious

[CptPicard]

One just simply has to admire the industriousness of Satan in seeking to deceive good Christians. If he had been even a bit lazy he wouldn't have bothered to place dinosaur fossils THAT deep. He certainly knows where we'll be looking.