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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:41 pm
by thibodeaux
Just curious.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:11 pm
by GORDON
Define "dinosaur" before I vote.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:19 pm
by thibodeaux
Look it up.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:23 pm
by GORDON
I like 80's music, which makes me a dinosaur.
T. Rex is possibly the direct ancestor of turkeys, which sort of makes them dinosaurs.
A Celeocanth is an ancient fish that was once thought extinct, but then it isn't, which sort of makes it a living dinosaur.
Or do you mean do I think there is a brontosaurus living in a valley in the Congo?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:43 pm
by thibodeaux
What are you, some kind of Obamaweasel lawyer? It's a simple yes or no question.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:37 pm
by TheCatt
Trick question, they never existed.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:45 pm
by TPRJones
I voted yes, but I'd like to take it back. I agree with Gordon, it's an indeterminate question as phrased. There are lots of ancient life forms still in existance in modern times.
If you limit it to ancient reptiles, then my yes vote will stand.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:13 pm
by Troy
I voted Yes early today.
Then I found out my grandma's power went out, and she left my father 10 voice messages while he was on a client visit to come to her house tonight to "work magic" on the lil mystery box you and I call an Alarm clock.
Apparently when you turn 80, if the alarm clock doesn't go off at 5 in the morning you'll do horrible things, like.... sleep till 6.
I now wish to vote, No.
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:28 am
by Mommy Dearest
YES I am therefore.......................................nevermind
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:38 am
by Malcolm
Or is the entire point of this to find out what the hell most folk consider dinosaurs?
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:41 am
by thibodeaux
TheCatt wrote:Trick question, they never existed.
Evolution-denying Palin-tologist!
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:25 am
by GORDON
There needs to be a maybe/probably. I'll not be participating in this bourgeois vote.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:37 am
by unkbill
Until someone can prove to me that a Jurassic (Sp) Park thing is impossible then I consider nothing extinct.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:42 am
by TheCatt
I voted no.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:42 pm
by Malcolm
unkbill wrote:Until someone can prove to me that a Jurassic (Sp) Park thing is impossible then I consider nothing extinct.
While it's not technically impossible, it's so incredibly unlikely that it may as well be nil. Even if you're lucky enough to get your hands on some dinosaur DNA, the chances that you can tweek it enough to breed a new one are astronomical.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:49 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:unkbill wrote:Until someone can prove to me that a Jurassic (Sp) Park thing is impossible then I consider nothing extinct.
While it's not technically impossible, it's so incredibly unlikely that it may as well be nil. Even if you're lucky enough to get your hands on some dinosaur DNA, the chances that you can tweek it enough to breed a new one are astronomical.
You just don't want to be in charge of America II Future Tech Research in the worst way...
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:51 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:Malcolm wrote:unkbill wrote:Until someone can prove to me that a Jurassic (Sp) Park thing is impossible then I consider nothing extinct.
While it's not technically impossible, it's so incredibly unlikely that it may as well be nil. Even if you're lucky enough to get your hands on some dinosaur DNA, the chances that you can tweek it enough to breed a new one are astronomical.
You just don't want to be in charge of America II Future Tech Research in the worst way...
Hey, you wanna give me real funding, no gov't interference, & free reign to do whatever research I want, I'll find a way to make transdimensional travel at least a 50/50 shot & come up w\ a unified field theory.
With the way science is researched in this country right now, we ain't getting no dinos.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:38 am
by TheCatt
So is there an answer to this? I put no cuz of birds.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:23 am
by Leisher
I went with no because the question is too vague.
Am I worried about a T-Rex running around my neighborhood? No.
However, there is a lot of other stuff running around that had direct contact with T-Rexs.
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:17 pm
by Alhazad
Pretty sure this was an experiment to see how much we expect to be mislead by vague questions.