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Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru
Douglas Roberts points out as "obvious Linux fodder" the coverage of a study just published in PNAS claiming that, on fossil evidence, giant penguins once stalked the plains of Peru. One species goes back over 40 million years and its members were as large as modern king penguins. They were warm adapted. Members of another species, 30 million years ago, stood 5 feet high and made their living spearfishing with their 1-foot beaks. Here's an artist's impression.
I, welcome, overlords, etc.
Now that that's out of the way, we can actually have a serious discussion about this
(just kidding)
Obviously the end result of an unpopular fork.
We're hopelessly desperate, aren't we.
Damn.
Stalked the plains of Peru ?? WTF ? Penguins ? Hunting what ? Wilder beasts ? At least the article says that they just 'roamed' the deserts .
did they run Linux? ;-)
"made their living spearfishing"
Oh is that so???
And in other more recent news fossil evidence found England has indicated that 60 million years ago
apples grew to a astounnding circumference of 2 metres...... Fodder for Mac-Fanboys
"Drawing closer to world domination, keystroke by keystroke."
First Old Woman: Well, what's on the television then.
Second Old Woman: Looks like a giant 5 foot tall prehistoric penguin.
First Old Woman: No No No not what's on the television set - I mean what programme?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
OK, anyone who wants some more penguin info can check out my sig and the associated FAQ... I just want to add that this is not the first time that penguin fossils are discovered, and some larger than the Emperor penguins (actual largest species) are known.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
1. linusaurus
2. Torvaldosaur
"Drawing closer to world domination, keystroke by keystroke."
for those who want to learn more about penguins check out this new book. http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060891268/S mithsonian_Q__A_Penguins/index.aspx
the author is one of the leading experts on penguins.
Claus
Let this be a reverse-anthromorphic lesson to everyone in the Linux community: People care about size! Once your on-disk image gets too big (5-foot tall??) your fork will ultimately go extinct.
Error:
in soviet Russia, giant penguins roam you!
I have no doubt that these penguins no longer roam there thanks to man made Global Warming. We must immediately lower our CO2 emissions and cripple our economic growth.
An upright posture frees the forelimbs from walking duties. Imagine if these had evolved to be tool users then tool makers. They might have developed computers, and an OS with a mostly hairless ape for a mascot.
At the bottom of the
I'll take a dozen, please! :)
Can they be taught basic police dog techniques?
Or, better yet, martial arts?
I mean, you put a sharp metal edge on those... wings and you've got, well, something that rocks.
Hah! Marching Penguin Bladed Wing Attack! Pow!
Because they were depicted as penguins the artist decided for black-and-white. However common these are as animal colors around the polar circle. If these creatures were adapted to living in a hotter environment, most likely they would have followed a color scheme that would better hide them from predators.
Or else they would have gone extinct. Oh wait. Never mind.
Visit http://ringbreak.dnd.utwente.nl/~mrjb/growingbettersoftware to download your free copy of the book
...frickin' laser beams on their heads!
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
when Cameron Diaz insulted them with another one of her bags.
Summation 2
You mean bones like the skull show in the very same photogallery as the artist's rendering? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/ph otogalleries/giant-penguins/index.html
Don't forget:
And:
Netcraft confirms that all giant penguins are dead.
And last but not least:
The last one was killed after Steve Ballmer threw a chair at it and swore "I'm going to f***ing kill the giant penguins"
Those were a lot funnier in my mind. And they weren't even very funny there...
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
If the archaeologists had found some evidence of what distro they preferred.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
Linux predates Microsoft's patents.
I guess there is no way we're going to have a serious discussion on this subject.
Why was everything in the past so big? Just about all the animals were bigger at some previous point.
Is this the natural selection process or something? Things start small then being big is an advantage so things just keep getting bigger and bigger until it collapses with a medium size winning out?
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
1) Nuclear transfer DNA of giant penguins with existing penguins, and in several generations have %88 genetic compatibility.
2) Breed and let frolic 'free range'.
3) Stir fry.
4) ?????
5) Profit!!!
I say we replace CO2 emissions with Hydrochloric Acid emissions and see how the economy reacts.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
...found the blind, albino relatives of these critters at the Mountains of Madness in the 1920's. I thought this was common knowledge.
v.m
I have a "Zero Policy" tolerance.
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in fact, our two main weapons are sharp long beaks, disgustingly cute builds and Linux zealots who'll keep us alive in their folklore till kingdom come! Three, that's three...
Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
...a Magnum Opus.
rj
"He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker."