he’s not talking about birds. he is talking about full sized t-rexes who can fly. i am not one to say that evolution dropped the ball here, but i know one consonant-loving former nasa roboticist who would be living in ABJECT TERROR today if there were flying velociraptors roaming the skies!
I read yesterday about archaeologists in the 60s having coprolite throwing contests, thinking they had no other value. The scientist who first started studying them had his entire collection destroyed by his university after he died.
I should probably make the quibble and point out that the past actually IS going somewhere. Nature eventually degrades it away over time, making it harder and harder to recover details it had ever existed. So waiting until we had the flawless tech like T-Rex suggests would mean it would be even harder to learn about it because there’s more of it that just isn’t there anymore.Of course, on the flipside, T-Rex has a point that we’re probably missing valuable details about it NOW too simply because we don’t have the tech or knowledge needed to realize/find it.See, this is why I like this strip. It’s not just about laughs, sometimes it actually gets you thinking too. Somehow.
Ida No over 8 years ago
That’s crazy talk. Flying is for the birds.
ryanqnorth Premium Member over 8 years ago
he’s not talking about birds. he is talking about full sized t-rexes who can fly. i am not one to say that evolution dropped the ball here, but i know one consonant-loving former nasa roboticist who would be living in ABJECT TERROR today if there were flying velociraptors roaming the skies!
ladamson1918 over 8 years ago
To lift and support T-Rex, how big would the wings have to be?
arbyrb over 8 years ago
I read yesterday about archaeologists in the 60s having coprolite throwing contests, thinking they had no other value. The scientist who first started studying them had his entire collection destroyed by his university after he died.
Coyoty Premium Member over 8 years ago
“You ever think we could study these things instead and find out what the dinosaurs ate?”“What, and give up our throwing contests?”
scyphi26 over 8 years ago
I should probably make the quibble and point out that the past actually IS going somewhere. Nature eventually degrades it away over time, making it harder and harder to recover details it had ever existed. So waiting until we had the flawless tech like T-Rex suggests would mean it would be even harder to learn about it because there’s more of it that just isn’t there anymore.Of course, on the flipside, T-Rex has a point that we’re probably missing valuable details about it NOW too simply because we don’t have the tech or knowledge needed to realize/find it.See, this is why I like this strip. It’s not just about laughs, sometimes it actually gets you thinking too. Somehow.
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 8 years ago
But birds were once T-Rexes, and birds fly all over the place!