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shaysdays ([info]shaysdays) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-03-02 17:14:00


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Entry tags:duck-billed fire-breathing dragon, fun with fundies, ideas for pokemon

Dinosaur Wank- Big, Old, and No One's Really Positive What Happened
Okay, so someone links to a relatively cute article about the Top Ten Myths About Dinos on a science forum. (Myth 1, Dinosaurs coexisted with humans, Myth 7, Dinosaurs were slow and sluggish animals, etc.) Right off the bat, someone starts in on 'evangelicals' probably not accepting #1, thus sending out some sort of subsonic signal across the internet for everyone with a bible and black helicopter fetish to show up and proclaim they are really the sane ones, really truly.

jteamjohn kicks off the WTFery with, Why don't you try to understand if what "evangelicals" believe may be true since almost anything we know about what happen to the dinosuars is myth or unexplainabe. I believe in my heart that dinos and man where here together. It is because of evidence that I have studied leads me to this belief. I believe man saw dinos becasue one of them wrote about them, Job.

Aaand they're off.

Is the Bible a peer-reviewed document?
Didn't I see cave drawings of 'dinasaurs' and man together?
Um, carbon dating is like guessing and therefore science is faith-based so haha, suck it, scientists*!
Did you know hippos don't have tails that look like trees? That means the Bible mentioned dinosaurs!
Dinosaurs and people lived together in a vegetarian utopia but I await your ignorant responses**!
You know, if I put what you "believe" in "quotes," it makes me look more "right."
Well, I was taught about Pluto, but now there's no planet Pluto, so science must have erased it!

And that's just page one and two. It goes on to name-calling, off-kilter assumptions about people of faith, a random quote by Pliny about Vesuvius from out of nowhere, and...

*screeches to a halt*

Dinosaurs could breathe... flame? Really? On page 3:

The fermenting plants in the stomach of the Parasaurolophus produced a combustible gas that ignited when the dinosaur channeled it through it's headcrest and out it's nostrils, as a defensive weapon. The Parasaurolophus was a "fire breathing dragon."

....Yes. Dinosaurs? Totes breathed flame. Don't believe him? Just look at the dinosaur's head and diet! It's obvious.

It goes on for quite a bit longer, but once I got to fire-breathing parasaurs, I knew I had to share.

*Some statements may be wildly paraphrased to make them funnier.
**That one was, um, not.



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[info]isntitironic
2008-03-03 01:06 am UTC (link)
I notice they're all avoiding the real question about dinosaurs.

Namely: how the hell did these things manage to have sex? I mean, consider the Stegosaurus. It looked like this. It can't lie down on its back. If it lies down on its side, it'll probably never get up again. And the male sure can't climb on the female's back. How did they manage to reproduce themselves?

Enquiring minds want to know.

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[info]catremistrae
2008-03-03 01:13 am UTC (link)
Very carefully.

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[info]marciamarcia
2008-03-05 05:30 pm UTC (link)
Icon LOVE!

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[info]catremistrae
2008-03-06 02:43 am UTC (link)
Thank you! I also have this one over on lj.

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[info]spacelogic
2008-03-03 01:15 am UTC (link)
Maybe one of 'em reared up against a tree or something and the other one came at it from in front?

...GODDAMN YOU NOW I'M THINKING ABOUT THIS.

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[info]wonderfish
2008-03-03 01:16 am UTC (link)
Really long, really prehensile penis?

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[info]catremistrae
2008-03-03 01:27 am UTC (link)
I'm posting twice, but there's actually some very interesting stuff out there. This has a good explanation. Like crocodiles, dinosaurs probably had single reproductive organs, instead of hemipenes, like in snakes. The penis is more flexible and with a bit of tail moving and bumping around, you've got copulation. I'm sure it was fun for everyone involved.

Also, snakes are right-handed. Fun fact for the day!

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[info]risha
2008-03-03 03:31 am UTC (link)
o.O

Nature is weird.

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[info]pantyless_angel
2008-03-03 04:08 am UTC (link)
It gets weirder.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Unisexual_Whiptail_Lizards/lizards.html?50

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[info]evilsqueakers
2008-03-03 08:41 am UTC (link)
*flashes back to Jurassic Park*

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[info]miss_padfoot
2008-03-04 05:16 pm UTC (link)
WHAT.

Holy shit, that's weird. I thought all animals reproduced sexually.

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[info]pantyless_angel
2008-03-04 05:37 pm UTC (link)
They kinda do.
One of the surprising things about unisexual whiptail reproduction is that a courtship ritual is still required even though there is only one sex. Unisexual whiptails pair up. In the courtship ritual one female takes the part of a male, while the other takes the role of a female. Later the 2 lizards switch roles. The switch is caused by hormones: estrogen promotes female behavior; progesterone stimulates male behavior. The mating ritual is required for survival of the species: without it few eggs are released (ovulation).

from here: http://members.aol.com/Attic21/CreatureofDay/whip.html

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[info]maureenlycaon
2008-03-05 12:01 am UTC (link)
There is a species of mollie fish that does the same thing. All members of the species are female, and they sort of reproductively parasitize the males of another species of mollie, luring the males to mate with them.

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[info]maureenlycaon
2008-03-05 12:26 am UTC (link)
Oh, yeah, and then there are the bdelloid rotifers.

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[info]erototoxin
2008-03-05 07:00 am UTC (link)
Not all of them...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061220-virgin-dragons.html

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[info]whimsy_chan
2008-03-03 05:06 am UTC (link)
Isn't it great? =D

[/biology nerdery]

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[info]dragonfangirl
2008-03-03 05:50 am UTC (link)
Gosh.

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[info]shark
2008-03-03 05:08 am UTC (link)
Your icon is made of win and I was whether you made it/whether it's shareable? because ♥

- shark here/boosette at lj

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[info]isntitironic
2008-03-03 05:31 am UTC (link)
Share away. There's plenty of mini-Jack to go around!

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[info]no_touching
2008-03-03 11:57 am UTC (link)
"I thought that's how you liked it."

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[info]laurelin_kit
2008-03-04 03:13 am UTC (link)
Goddamn, you're right. I never thought about that before.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2008-03-04 03:57 am UTC (link)
Interestingly, Walking with Dinosaurs is probably the only movie/TV show to actually show dinosaurs mating.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2008-03-04 03:59 am UTC (link)
*Let me rephrase that: it's the only movie/TV show which presents dinosaurs doing the deed in ways that look plausible.

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