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Dinosaur Auction In Las Vegas
Xerfas writes "If you ever dreamed of owning your own dinosaur, here's your chance. Possibly the most impressive natural history auction ever is set to take place Oct. 3 at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas. Here you can find everything from the T.rex to a duck-billed dinosaur and a mammoth skeleton."
Cool. I can just imagine the kids yelling "Daddy, I wanna T-Rex!" :-)
From TFA:
Fifty-one million years after the dinosaurs became extinct, Carcharocles megalodon trolled the Earthâ(TM)s seas as an apex predator
Great, as if trolls on Slashdot weren't enough...
Wake me up when I can buy a prehistoric shark with a frikkin' slingshot.
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I understand one of the least interesting lots is a Corporate IT dept complete with a well preserved version of I.E.6
(Please feel free to mod down as 'Troll')
Smivs on the intertubes!
Assertions that these "dinosaur" "fossils" are really the bones of early species are just a con. The Universe was created approximately 6000 years ago and these so-called fossils were placed in the earth by God to test our faith. He's trying to find out if we can be tricked into using those tools of Satan, logic and evidence.
Good Creationists could call the Las Vegas police and have this auction of fraudulent material shut down for making false claims about the age of the items for sale.
I piss off bigots.
You filthy communist!!! By what right, by what right, should anyone have to give up their God given birthright to own in perpetuity not only the physical manifestations of , but also the copyrights on any images of, the few known fossils of extinct species of general and scientific interest!? What right to the people have to the bones of dinosaurs lying under my land, just because I happen to live in their national state and am protected by the laws and statues which it passes?!
Is it just that I be denied the right to auction and sell these priceless anthropological treasures to wealthy, cloistered individuals who will hoard them in secret for eternity? What kind of country do we live in if the profits and pleasures of the few can be superseded by the benefit, progress and interests of the many? A Communist country, That's What!!!
I found these bones by chance on my own property. Or at least, these bones were found on property belonging to me. Do you know what that means? It means that God has chosen me, and blessed me with this bountiful roll of the dice that I may enjoy it. And His Will trumps the wants of the People. If He wanted the bones to be in a museum, He would have had them found on Government property on on some altruist hippy's plot.
If it was found on their property then Folks have a RIGHT to do whatever they want with the their country's natural heritage, without restriction or regulation!! It's in the CONSTITUTION!!! If the Founding Father's had wanted there to be things that people shouldn't exclusively own, then they would have explicitly said so. They didn't, because they were great men, who recognised the benefit of cultured men being able to hang ancient lizard bones in their private study, instead of forfeiting them for the masses to paw!!
I just thank God everyday that this isn't Europe!
May the Maths Be with you!
Just so some sad sack can own a little piece of eternity.
eternity, hell. I'm covering that trex in papier mache and glitter, filling it with hookers and blow, and making the world's most kickass birthday pinata.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
Don't forget to make some air holes (he says from bitter personal experience).
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