Dinosaurs with the most bony ornamentation on their heads showed the fastest rates of evolution toward fantastically-large animals. (Science Daily: Outrageous heads led to outrageously large dinosaurs)
The study applied to therapod dinosaurs and these seem to be any which are carnivorous and mostly walk around on two legs but they can be any size up to T. rex.
Read the article for speculation on what the bony ornamentation may have given the dinosaur and one thought is it enhances communication, maybe in terms of territorial aggression with members of the same species. Read for more detail on that but mostly we're interested here in the fact it happened at all. Crazy heads lead to huge crazy creatures. Well ...
You might as well roll your Intelligent Design into this since using it for interesting parts and dodging weird parts isn't a fair go. So God thought, hmm, I will make a dinosaur head look like something out of the scariest nightmare a kid could ever have because that will inspire the dinosaurs to get even bigger so they can look scarier still.
Dunno how well that one will play in the Ark.
Note: I know die Kaninchen probably don't have any hard obsession with an overt implementation of an Intelligent Design as in some kind of blueprint but likely many of religious persuasion believe God has at least some kind of Plan. OK, so we can work with that and see how it fits with the science. So far it's not looking like a strong match for crazy dinosaur heads but we roll with it.
I really don't know what Islam makes of evolution and it would be outrageously smug to assume it takes a fundamentalist view simply because we hear the most from fundamentalist Muslims.
Mostly upper vertebrates (i.e. humans and most mammals) don't have crazy heads as elephants have crazy ears, giraffes have crazy necks, and a lion has a wild-looking mane but nothing has six eyes or odd protuberances coming out of the head region. This implies if we can get our sci-fi GMO boys adding such ornamentations to humans then we could grow really huge. Think of the advantages since you could get to work so much faster.
Update: just thought of sheep and similar animals with horns and antlers. Using dinosaur logic they should have got really huge too. Hmmm ...
With really huge humans, the Las Vegas prize fights would be spectacles which might have to move to the Coliseum in Rome. The fighters would be twenty-feet tall and have bizarre bony knobs coming out of their heads. Don't miss this. Bring the whole family.
Football games would become rumbles of epic magnificence. They will throw footballs the size of small cars which make lights and sounds as they fly through the air.
And then there's Giant Porno. As soon as we have Giants, some twisted mutant will want to film sex scenes so be ready for that. When Debby Does Dallas now, she really ...
So they're Homo sapiens rex and we continue as our regular Homo sapiens selves, living in coexistence with the Giants. Sooner or later there has to be a war, the Cro-Mags against the Giants ... but maybe that gets ahead of things a little bit.
The study applied to therapod dinosaurs and these seem to be any which are carnivorous and mostly walk around on two legs but they can be any size up to T. rex.
Read the article for speculation on what the bony ornamentation may have given the dinosaur and one thought is it enhances communication, maybe in terms of territorial aggression with members of the same species. Read for more detail on that but mostly we're interested here in the fact it happened at all. Crazy heads lead to huge crazy creatures. Well ...
You might as well roll your Intelligent Design into this since using it for interesting parts and dodging weird parts isn't a fair go. So God thought, hmm, I will make a dinosaur head look like something out of the scariest nightmare a kid could ever have because that will inspire the dinosaurs to get even bigger so they can look scarier still.
Dunno how well that one will play in the Ark.
Note: I know die Kaninchen probably don't have any hard obsession with an overt implementation of an Intelligent Design as in some kind of blueprint but likely many of religious persuasion believe God has at least some kind of Plan. OK, so we can work with that and see how it fits with the science. So far it's not looking like a strong match for crazy dinosaur heads but we roll with it.
I really don't know what Islam makes of evolution and it would be outrageously smug to assume it takes a fundamentalist view simply because we hear the most from fundamentalist Muslims.
Mostly upper vertebrates (i.e. humans and most mammals) don't have crazy heads as elephants have crazy ears, giraffes have crazy necks, and a lion has a wild-looking mane but nothing has six eyes or odd protuberances coming out of the head region. This implies if we can get our sci-fi GMO boys adding such ornamentations to humans then we could grow really huge. Think of the advantages since you could get to work so much faster.
Update: just thought of sheep and similar animals with horns and antlers. Using dinosaur logic they should have got really huge too. Hmmm ...
With really huge humans, the Las Vegas prize fights would be spectacles which might have to move to the Coliseum in Rome. The fighters would be twenty-feet tall and have bizarre bony knobs coming out of their heads. Don't miss this. Bring the whole family.
Football games would become rumbles of epic magnificence. They will throw footballs the size of small cars which make lights and sounds as they fly through the air.
And then there's Giant Porno. As soon as we have Giants, some twisted mutant will want to film sex scenes so be ready for that. When Debby Does Dallas now, she really ...
So they're Homo sapiens rex and we continue as our regular Homo sapiens selves, living in coexistence with the Giants. Sooner or later there has to be a war, the Cro-Mags against the Giants ... but maybe that gets ahead of things a little bit.
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