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Dinosaur feathers, or, ResetEra and science denial
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I think feathered dinosaurs are awesome. I love the super colorful depictions of feathered dinosaurs, it'd be amazing to see one in real life.
Speaking of Dinosaurs, just finished reading the following book by paleontologist Steve Brusatte, and it's superb.
I might have to audiobook this!
My point was that even if she's being facetious, real people like this exist.
Anyone who thinks these don't look cooler than those scrawny skin-on-bones shit reptiles as seen in Jurassic Park and numerous kids' books of the 90s can just straight-up fuck off because they are objectively wrong about aesthetics
I think a more controversial thing would be a good portion of the lefts denial of IQ and the G-Factor, mainly because of its association with race science etc. which is a good thing to combat, but the consensus of behavior geneticists today is that the G-factor exists and is highly hereitable
Birds are cooler than dinosaurs anyway and I can scream at them in real life. I can't scream at no dinosaur in my day to day life!
Spitting out my figurative coffee right now, well done hahaha.
Did we really just compare these subjects to whether Dinosaurs had feathers?
It's also funny how the t-rex was this super cool badass apex predator which was, importantly, living on what is now North America. And then it was suggested that not only did it have feathers, it was probably mostly a scavenger or only feeding on large, slow dinosaurs because it was too bulky to actually do much hunting itself... and for some reason people tended to ignore that the All-American Tyrannosaurus King Of The Dinosaurs was kind of a bully.
This. Also, feathers are hard to animate right now, so I doubt we will see them anytime soon in the mass media.
No one is denying, anyone who claims so is just a troll. People just like the scaley skin dinos we grew up with.
i was stoked Trevorrow said there weren't gonna be feathers in the new JP, cuz who needs or wants scientific accuracy in a movie about dinosaurs coming back to life and killing a bunch of hapless goofballs? after seeing that last one though ugh, go to town. give em feathers, make them glow in the dark, deck em out in Supreme box logo tees, Google Glass, who cares. whole thing is a wash now smfh. bring back theS
But I could be wrong, IQ is something that's highly debated in the scientific community but I think g is widely accepted as valid
I think feathers kinda messes with the imagination a bit. Like scaly dinos its kinda easy to look at bones and diagrams and imagine what they looked like as a reptile but throw feathers into the mix and it gets a bit crazy. I don't ever seem to see a consensus on 'how' feathered dinosaurs were with some artists giving them a bit of a flourish to others decking them out with full peacock regalia and beaks too.
Plus Big Bird has trained generations that large feathered bipeds are a friend to children everywhere. Not scary!
Plus Big Bird has trained generations that large feathered bipeds are a friend to children everywhere. Not scary!
Intelligence may be heritable and IQ test can be poor measures of intelligence. These are not conflicting theories or ideas.
Giant birds would be fucking horrifying. Have you seen what chickens do to mice? The biggest problem is that there are no authentic representations in modern society to actually contrast and compare to the lizard like versions (which still exist even with bird related relatives being real.
Isn't that the thing, some had feathers, some had scales. I think I heard the ones most likely to have feathers were the predatory ones (raptors, T-Rex...) while the herbivore ones were scaly.
If anything, I think the bigger blow to my childhood is that flying Dinosaurs aren't considered "Dinosaurs" at all. Pterosaurs =/= Dinosaurs. WTF?!
Feathered dinosaurs look so much cooler. Come at me.
It's just a shame that the T-Rex apparently wasn't covered in feathers.
It's just a shame that the T-Rex apparently wasn't covered in feathers.
American Alligators even have feather keratin as embryos but the feathers never grow beyond that point. Much like human gills that never develop but are coded in our DNA.
Listen, if dinos had feathers they could have flown away from the asteroid.
They would still be here, and we wouldn't.
So no, they obviously didn't have feathers.
They would still be here, and we wouldn't.
So no, they obviously didn't have feathers.
But they are still here...
Even alligators still have feathers coded in their DNA that don't get expressed anymore.
Chickens have DNA for teeth that they never develop because the traits that form a beak a more dominant and carried by every chicken and at passed on 100% of the time. But they still have the old code that never gets activated in there.
Chickens and alligators share common genetic ancestry.
Went down a rabbit hole....
This is terrifying. I thought "retro-viruses" that rewrote your DNA causing physical mutation were science fiction... Imagine a virus that affected people, causing the reactivation of latent DNA...
This is terrifying. I thought "retro-viruses" that rewrote your DNA causing physical mutation were science fiction... Imagine a virus that affected people, causing the reactivation of latent DNA...