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Dinosaurs Could Hold Basketballs, But Not Dribble
Gre7g writes "Long before the invention of the photocopier, mud was the ideal way to preserve an image of your butt. 'We got lucky with this one [sitting] on a slope,' which brought its hands closer to the ground, said study author Andrew Milner of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm. Full disclosure: My wife did the artistic reconstruction."
Long before the invention of the photocopier, mud was the ideal way to preserve an image of your butt.
Some of us still consider mud to be far superior. Photocopiers may be more convenient, but they really can't compare with mud for capturing detail without distortion.
Now I'm going to be flamed by a lot of Xerox fan boys. For the last time: the best technology is the technology that works best for you!
Cast of Gre7g's wife?
This looks like research from the University in Alberta (Edmonton) that the U of C Dinos are guilty of a traveling violation.
These people put waaay too much effort into making fund of dinosaurs.
Yet another reason to fear raptors....
Well, I did read the friendly article and no where could I see any reference to basketball.
Virtual Betting on Facebook for non-geeks.
How do you explain Yao Ming then?
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
who wishes us to believe dinosaurs could evolve to hold a basketball. the holy truth is of course intelligent dribbling, probably taught by 3 point all star jesus himself to intelligent basketball playing dinosaurs on jurassic half courts
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They are beginning to puzzle the events of Godzilla vs Barkley (*) together at least!
*: Warning! Contains flash video and may make you laugh uncontrollably at horrible plot.
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There are plenty of theories about how the dinosaurs met their near-simultaneous end, but with the information provided in the article, I think I have an idea worth investigating!
Dinosaur Dodgeball Elimination Deathmatch!
If they can hold basketballs, then they can hold dodgeballs. And dribbling is not needed for dodgeball! So it all makes sense now!
What the hell do the dinosaur, the basketball and the mud have in common here?
Am I the only one to whom this reads like a kind of dadaist ramble?
Yet another thing I have in common with dinosaurs.
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
But they really could drool.
Happened in Utah. Tagged as 'mormons'
Now we know why the dinosaurs went extinct. You can't survive in this world without a decent guard rotation.
Still, England's guard rotation is still methodical and precise, and their empire is slowly diminishing. There's no accounting for team chemistry, I suppose.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
Fear these Toronto Raptors because they can hold basketballs, dribble, and sometimes shoot!
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
...they're a lot like the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Have gnu, will travel.
biggest. puffin. ev3r. and I for one welcome our new Mega-Puffin-saurus overlords.
Dribble is much harder to hold than a basketball. It drips out of your hands!
Are you married to an intellectually challenged chimpanzee? Seriously, the average monkey could do a better job drawing the scene than the pathetic waste of space your wife created.
What the world really wants to know is: could they slam dunk?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
who wishes us to believe dinosaurs could evolve to hold a basketball. the holy truth is of course intelligent dribbling, probably taught by 3 point all star jesus himself to intelligent basketball playing dinosaurs on jurassic half courts
... that he teached those dinos just before the tournament finals of 5500 bc
Stop hurting Slashdot.
Oh boy that must be the worst abstract ever. I couldn't make anything of it. It's about dinosaurs who want to preserve images of their bottoms, an one of them put its hands closer together? I have to read the fine article to find out what this is all about. I guess this is a scheme concocted by Taco to get more people to read the articles.
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Basketballs would have been relatively tiny in giant dinosaur hands, so they would probably have gripped them in their dinosaur fists rather than in the palms like modern man. So it doesn't really matter which way their wrists were oriented.
Also, the dinosaurs would have eaten the basketballs, thinking they were cleverly shaped poppy air eggs. To the primitive dinosaur palette, this would have been something of a delicacy or novelty, like pop rocks are to modern man.
I had the same reaction. Ass... mud... dinosaur... basketball... *headasplode*
Seriously, how did this get approved? It has nothing to do with the article.
The actual newsworthiness of the article is that the fossil prints are the first found of a meat-eating dinosaur's front limbs. No fucking basketballs anywhere in the article.
The find has shaken up paleontologists' understanding of how dinosaurs evolved into modern birds.
Please don't approve any more submissions from "Gre7g" until he gets his substance abuse problem under control.