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    The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day

    Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry

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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    I know I'm just a big poopy-head, but I absolutely hate this entire trope.

    They were just big animals. Why would anyone possibly think they'd be more dangerous than men with rifles, not to mention tanks?
    -Kle.
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    Image of Ignited_Impulse Ignited_Impulse
    11/18/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: And maybe robots will help man instead of overthrow them and aliens will assist Earth instead of invade it. But where is the fun? Maybe because I'm a huge Jurassic Park fan and you're treading on my fandom. For the sake of looking silly on the internet and taking fiction seriously, tanks from WWI (yes, I, not II) had a huge psychological effect. They were terribly slow and broke down often but seeing this metal behemoth cross the battlefield inspired fear in the enemy. Hell, I don't care if all it did was sniff its own ass, if I saw a T-rex on the already danger laden battlefield I'd say "Forget France boys, back on the boat!" And that my good sir is my two cents.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/19/09

    @Ignited_Impulse: "And maybe robots will help man instead of overthrow them and aliens will assist Earth instead of invade it. But where is the fun?"

    Good stories have been made about those possibilities. I tend to find robot/alien disaster stories almost as hackneyed as the dinosaur ones, with the caveat that robots and aliens have a little more believability in the "dangerous" department.

    BTW, WW1 tanks were highly machinegun resistant. That was the major factor in their success.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Ignited_Impulse Ignited_Impulse
    11/19/09

    @Klebert L. Hall:

    #speakup Never said they weren't :P. But I'm not here to argue about no man's land. My friend, I don't see how you can enjoy a good sci-fi or fantasy romp without some suspension of disbelief.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/20/09

    @Ignited_Impulse:

    I have some suspension of disbelief; suspending all of it is beyond my abilities, though.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/17/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    And I here I thought this was going to be a movie on Syfy.... #dinodday
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/17/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: me too. #dinodday
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    11/17/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    Oh gods yes. A thousand, a million times over yes.

    I have yearned for this all of my life without knowing its name. This is why I have cried... #dinodday
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/17/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    The most interesting part to me is where did they get the voice over artist who nails the Pathe news reel voice? (yes I'm that old) #dinodday
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    Image of allium allium
    11/17/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    HA! Vhile der Ami dummkopfs vaste zhere strength against die Auszeitgroßenreptilien, der true Schwerpunkt approaches zhere harbors und cities from beneath der sea!

    Attack, mein Trilobitentruppen!! #dinodday
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    11/17/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    Well if that aint as patriotic as it gets! Seeing good ole Uncle Sam wrasslin a dinosaur! Where does one sign up to fight the Nazi dino-army? #dinodday
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    11/17/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    Saving Private Ryan meets Jurassic Park. Just imagine the Omaha Beach sequence with dinosaurs. Please do this Steven Spielberg!
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    Edited by Ghost_in_the_Machine at 11/17/09 7:17 AM Ghost_in_the_Machine was starred Ghost_in_the_Machine was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/17/09

    In reply to The Allied Forces Battle Nazi T-Rex on Dino D-Day
    Better Nazi Flintstones than figuring out how Nazis win WW2 in alternate timelines. #dinodday
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/11/09

    In reply to Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry
    When I was in fourth grade I did a project on dinosaurs that said that dinosaurs were likely endothermic (heated from within), my sources were Robert Bakker and John R. "Jack" Horner both of whom have argued that dinosaurs were endothermicfor the better part of the last 30 years. I guess someone they are finally being taken seriously. #dinosaurs
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    Image of bakana bakana
    11/11/09

    @Bill-Lee: Seriously, I thought this was old news. Maybe my childhood of dino-love was unknowingly spent reading only stuff by scientists in the pro-endothermic camp (I know I thought Bakker was awesome in middle school, and saw him give a lecture where he gave me a signed marker drawing of a Triceratops for knowing all about the Cretaceous period), but I remember being fairly certain at a young age that dinosaurs had been decisively labelled as warm-blooded for most of the reasons given in this post. #dinosaurs
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/11/09

    @bakana: I met Bakker in middle school, too. I wonder if you and I saw him at the same lecture tour. The interesting thing about Bakker is that he's also a Pentecostal Christian and has served as a minister. He's living proof that religious believers can also accept evolution and work in the sciences. #dinosaurs
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/11/09

    In reply to Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry
    So where does Bea Arthur fit into all of this?
    [www.brandonbird.com] #dinosaurs
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    Image of allium allium
    11/11/09

    @bonniegrrl: Attempts to calculate Bea Arthur's cost of locomotion resulted in repeated NaN errors as the strain modulus exhibited continual exponential (e=2.5±0.3) divergence, regardless of model.

    Perhaps a careful analysis of Betty White is in order. #dinosaurs
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/11/09

    In reply to Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry
    So they were basically jocks? Figures.
    Which dinos made up the Chess Club, I wonder? #dinosaurs
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/11/09

    @bonniegrrl: Diplodicus. #dinosaurs
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    11/11/09

    @bonniegrrl: Jocks! I resent this accusation, i like to think of them as elegant fusions of mind and body formed into athletic ability. Kinda like batman, minus the gadgets and morales of course. Animals do rape each other after all. #dinosaurs
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/11/09

    In reply to Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry
    Just another reason to fear the Raptor #dinosaurs
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/11/09

    In reply to Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry

    Sports-star dating in the Cretaceous...
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    11/12/09


    @Roklimber: Looking at those teeth, was that an English Dinosaur? #dinosaurs
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/11/09

    In reply to Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry
    Boy, oh boy! I'm glad they're gone. The view is much better from the top of the food chain. #dinosaurs
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/11/09

    In reply to Dinosaurs Were Probably Warm-Blooded, Incredibly Athletic, and Always Hungry
    Robert Bakker has been saying that dinosaurs are endothermic for over 20 years. #dinosaurs
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    11/11/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: he apparently was robbed of the glory.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/11/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: I was about to mention this. I distinctly remembered reading his book, where he points out that it'd be more than a little ridiculous for an apatosaurus to be an ectotherm--they'd get their tails eaten off by rats all the time. #dinosaurs
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    Image of capnrob capnrob
    11/11/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: I asked my wife-the-paleontologist about this. Her response: "Yeah, but THESE guys are dealing with EVIDENCE." Bob, on the other hand, has been making claims without bothering to get what we'd think of as actual data. He's funny that way. #dinosaurs
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/11/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: Bakker's book was also a lot bigger than Alan Grant's. #dinosaurs
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    Image of drmaybe drmaybe
    11/11/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: And Adrian Desmond's book "The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs", from the late '70's, built on Bakker's theories and supported them with scientific citations... how does this suddenly get to be news thirty years later? #dinosaurs
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    11/12/09

    @drmaybe: better PR firms? #dinosaurs
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