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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:38 pm

Stooo wrote:
Keyser wrote:
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It's a shame I had a shiload of links tonight.

Anyway no doubt someone who knows what they are doing will be eventually able to sort it for me. :more beer:


Were you signed in to your Google account when it went pear shaped?


Yeah I think so.

Just tried everything to sort it.

I think a nice hammer or my boot will come in handy next! :shoot:


Uninstall and then reinstall, your settings should have been saved.


I will try that later cheers Stu.

I noticed a lot of people have had the same problem with it on the net.

Just a thought to leave you and others reading this thread with tonight.

Forget about piddling little Triassic reptiles like Tanystropheus and a modern example the giraffe - imagine being one of the largest sauropod dinosaurs - with a neck over 15 metres long - that takes some bloody efficient physiology/anatomy to function! :kinell:
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:29 pm

A bit of deep sea news.

One of my favourite deep sea denizens Alepisaurus ferox - the awesome (and cannibalistic) Lancetfish - one has recently washed ashore on a New Plymouth beach.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-n ... outh-shore

The incredible glowing nudibranch genus Phylliroe - the sea slug that swims like a fish and hunts down jellies.

A wonderful example of convergent evolution. :smilin:

http://www.deepseanews.com/2015/11/meet ... and-glows/

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animal ... glows-dark
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Robocop » Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:34 pm

Yes! The Keyser Science thread! :canny:

I will be checking out those links and hopefully contributing to this place too. Nice work sir. :thumbsup:
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Stooo » Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:34 pm

Keyser wrote:
Stooo wrote:
Keyser wrote:
Stooo wrote:
Keyser wrote:
It's a shame I had a shiload of links tonight.

Anyway no doubt someone who knows what they are doing will be eventually able to sort it for me. :more beer:


Were you signed in to your Google account when it went pear shaped?


Yeah I think so.

Just tried everything to sort it.

I think a nice hammer or my boot will come in handy next! :shoot:


Uninstall and then reinstall, your settings should have been saved.


I will try that later cheers Stu.

I noticed a lot of people have had the same problem with it on the net.

Just a thought to leave you and others reading this thread with tonight.

Forget about piddling little Triassic reptiles like Tanystropheus and a modern example the giraffe - imagine being one of the largest sauropod dinosaurs - with a neck over 15 metres long - that takes some bloody efficient physiology/anatomy to function! :kinell:


The smaller evolved ones are bad enough



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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:49 pm

Robocop wrote:Yes! The Keyser Science thread! :canny:

I will be checking out those links and hopefully contributing to this place too. Nice work sir. :thumbsup:


Cheers!

I hope that people enjoy reading through it and looking forward to others like yourself contributing as well! :Hiya:
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:57 pm

Yes Stu the Cassowary is like a brief glimpse into theropod prehistory (although on a far smaller scale).

Just imagine hearing this outside your window at night. :doomed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcQO6Zb8Eg
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:33 am

Can't sleep so before I go and watch the awesome Saga in The Bridge III a few more palaeo links that may be of interest to some.

The first is an interesting little story about a graduate babe blowing a Corythosaurus! :leer: :gigglesnshit:

http://www.statepress.com/article/2015/ ... -sound-art

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/m ... r-a-mouth/

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/t ... er-tooths/

http://extinctmonsters.net/2015/11/20/amnh-5027-at-100/
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:54 am

Some fascinating new information on the genome of the world's most indestructible animals - the incredible Tardigrades.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch ... es/417243/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 180957371/

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/newly- ... we-thought

http://news.discovery.com/animals/only- ... 151123.htm

A very nice article on the bite of Allosaurus - it's head was basically a swinging axe with teeth. :doomed:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com ... zing-gape/
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Tue Nov 24, 2015 9:12 pm

A great BBC article on Tardigrades and a brand new one on the strange lifeforms that live at great depths in the Earth's crust.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/201503 ... s-on-earth

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151124 ... nderground
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:58 am

Good news.

Why the empirical fact of Evolution is finally beginning to defeat the utter bullshit of Creationism in America. :thumbsup:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... ingle.html

A few other recent evolutionary articles from Slate (although the topical Thanksgiving one is from 2012).

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... her.2.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/ ... ectus.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... _does.html
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Thu Nov 26, 2015 8:48 pm

If they finally find the great queen's tomb intact it would probably be the biggest archaeological discovery since Howard Carter described 'wonderful things' all those years ago.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015 ... chaeology/

Which is rather ironic, as it would have been hidden in plain sight for almost a century.
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:18 pm

Guest wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28132521


I hope so... :shake head:


It's such a terribly sad situation. :shake head:

http://www.livescience.com/52889-nola-n ... -dies.html
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Re: Keyser's science thread.

Postby Keyser » Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:55 pm

Things really are getting very interesting indeed...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015 ... -chambers/
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