Posted on 03/21/2008 2:01:20 AM PDT by Swordmaker
A somewhat childish example of reasoning from consequents to ground, a formal logical fallacy.
Oh God! Teh Stupid! It Burns! It Burns!
Looking at the bible, there has been representations in the heavens of situations and entities that are on earth. The Moon and Saturn have represented Satan in some places in the bible...for instance, in Revelation, the antichrist's reign is given in months and Christ's reign is given in years.
The bible says that in ancient times (pre-Adam times), Satan was the "Cherub that covereth" so was Saturn the planet that covereth I wonder. If the earth used to be in a close orbit around Saturn or some kind of close diamagnetic lock with Saturn somehow, the gravity of Saturn would offset the earth's on the surface of the earth and pave the way for these huge dinosaurs to survive.
Man they got a lot of mileage out of three letters!!!
Yes, I agree with your theory that these massive animals were supported by anti-gravitation devices developed by advanced extraterrestrials.
Oooh, the “Thunderbird”:
http://www.lightmission.com/Admin.Web/Images/Teratorn-25ft.jpg
BTW, let me be the first (I guess, I didn’t read any comments yet) to accuse you of being, in reality, Ted Holden / medved. ;’)
I’ve never found this particular argument to be compelling; it is rooted in the idea that the “bronto”saurus had to wade to allow the water to support some of their weight, then eventually got stuck in the mud, died, fell over, and became fossilized. :’)
Without some kind of theory, or even speculation, as to how the gravitational force of a planet of basically constant mass changes over time, this is like some kind of aliens abducted my wife and got her pregnant story.
A little evidence would be nice as well placemarker.
That was the original thinking of Paleontologists... But Apatosaurus's feet were not adapted for muddy conditions, nor were Ultrasaurus and Seismasaurus or any of the huge Brachiosauri (branch eaters). Their skeletons are those of land walkers. That is the dilemma.
:’) I picture them as slow-movers, and having a dry alimentary canal, and look to the great whales as examples (since they swim via their own motion, and are larger than the dinos) of what muscle, sinex, and bone can accomplish. :’)
The missing Tripod image is hosted on GeoCities now:
http://www.geocities.com/anthrosaurs/DinoList.html
http://www.geocities.com/anthrosaurs/Pteranodon.html
“Then you explain how these huge animals stood up and walked around under one G gravity. “
You yourself said that another explanation is that they had more powerful muscles.
Frankly if I were to pick between the gravity being different and dinosaurs had different muscles. The different muscles explanation is a far more likely scenario. And I’m not sure why any one would opt for the different gravity theory except to be deliberately shocking.
The existence of the Blue Whale proves that this piece is nonsense in the very first sentence:
WOW - thank you for that link - thought provoking to say the least!
One thing is for sure. There are more questions than answers on this stuff. I figure it doesn't hurt me to keep an open mind on a lot of this stuff. "Forbidden Archaeology" poses some really interesting questions about our planet and race's (human) history.
Muscle tissue is nearly identically the same for all vertebrate animals; there’s no way to think dinosaur muscle was better than ours.
Wrong again. Using your logic we would be significantly stronger than chimpanzees (average male weight 90 - 115 pounds). Not even close!
Location of muscle attachments is part of it, but chimpanzees are significantly stronger than humans in spite of their smaller weight.
Does shilling for Apple turn your brain to putty or something?
It is interesting to see Ted anonymously puffing his own piece. I thought he had been banned from FR under his 10 previous login names. Maybe the rule against signing up under new names has been lifted.
IANHM placemarker.
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