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When Dinosaurs Battled Crurotarsans
onehitwonder writes "Reuters reported yesterday on new scientific research that indicates how dinosaurs beat out another early reptilian species for domination of the earth. Roughly 200 million years ago, dinosaurs battled with another dinosaur-like animal, the crurotarsan, which is related to the crocodile. Some species grew to 39 feet long, according to the article, at an epoch when few dinosaurs exceeded 10 feet in length. Scientists used to believe that dinosaurs beat out the crurotarsans because the dinosaurs were physiologically superior. But new research indicates that dinosaurs might have won out due to a large stroke of cosmic luck, the nature of which is speculative."
And outside this particular garden was the rest of the Earth, surrounded by the people and animals who pre-existed the ones in said garden.
If you were from Kansas, you'd have read what it says.
Well, maybe not Kansas, but certainly Alexandria.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
Erm, the wife and I have an open marriage. We have three ways. We've been to orgies. We discuss sex in frank and matter of fact ways with our friends. We are not at all embarrassed by sex, and consider it private only in that we don't do it in public. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, as long as there are no kids present. The only reason that people think it should be private is because they think it is dirty, like taking a dump.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The puppeteers in Ringworld thought so.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."