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| Video Classifieds: Not just for dinosaurs anymore. | | 2008-06-08 19:56:00 | | Everyone tries to sell their car through the classifieds, but there's two problems with doing that: the buyer can't tell whether the car's any good until he gets there, and you have to pay to run the ad.Listasaurus has in one fell swoop rectified both of those problems with their video classifieds: They'll pay you to run your video classified ad on their service, so not only do you make some moola, but you also have a better chance of actually selling that hot rod your wife made you get rid of.Rather than run an ad in the paper saying something like Car runs great $4000 obo, you can whip out a video where you walk all around the car, showing it from all angles and highlighting the cheetah-print seats. Then you can hop in and rev the ol' engine and take the would-be buyer for a virtual spin. That way, guys like me, whose wives let us have hot cars, can see that video, know the car runs and it looks great, and will come buy it. I don't want to waste half my Saturday coming to look at | | By: Under The Eyes Of God | | |
| | Dinosaurs Alive at the Science Centre | | 2008-06-01 07:19:02 | | Today we visited the new exhibition at the Science Centre, Singapore. It was the opening day today and I have never seen the museum so busy. In the past I have walked straight up to the ticket counter to purchase tickets, but today I had to queue up for twenty minutes. It is a Sunday and also local school holidays, so I should have been expecting it. Dinosaurs are still able to capture the imagination of both children and adults. Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were found in the early 20th century, the mystery and and mythology of dinosaurs has enthralled people worldwide. In fact, only a tiny percentage of dinosaur species have been discovered, so paleantologists suggest there could be thousands more species to discover.Entrance to the Dinosaurs Alive exhibit is included with your entrance fee, which is just as well as it is quite small. Quite nicely set out though, with most of the models having moving parts and loud growls to bring them to life. There is also a T-Rex replica s | | By: SINGAPORE KIDS PLACES | | |
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| Detroit dinosaurs drag their heels over gas-guzzlers | | 2008-04-27 00:21:55 | | There’s one thing you can always count on with America’s car industry, if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster. In the Twenties, the president of General Motors insisted his company couldn’t possibly afford to make windscreens with safety glass. In the Fifties, auto executives warned Congress that making seat [...] | | By: learn about lean & six-sigma | | |
| | | Plenty More Hodge-Podge on Dinosaurs | | 2008-03-06 02:36:35 | | Can’t explain it, can’t they? It’s a blatant fact that Creationists can never, ever honestly explain why are there no human fossils found alongside dinosaur fossils. Instead, they just make everything up and tell it like it is, just like this individual here. On May 4th of last year (Yet mentioned recently on February 13 [...] | | By: Dinosaurs and The Bible A Creationist's Fairy Tale | | |
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| | Dinosaurs exterminated by insects? | | 2008-01-10 16:58:57 | | ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2008) — Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new arguemet is that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force — biting, disease-carrying insects. An important contributor to the demise of the dinosaurs, experts say, could have been the rise and evolution of insects, especially the slow-but-overwhelming threat posed by new disease carriers. And the evidence for this emerging threat has been captured in almost lifelike-detail — many types of insects preserved in amber that date to the time when dinosaurs disappeared. “There are serious problems with the sudden impact theories of dinosaur extinction, not the least of which is that dinosaurs declined and disappeared over a period of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years,” said George Poinar Jr., a courtesy professor of zoology at Oregon State University. “That time frame is just not consistent with the effects of an asteroid impact. But competition with insects, emerging new diseases and the spread of flowering plants over very long periods of time is perfectly compatible with everything we know about dinosaur extinction.” This concept is outlined in detail in “What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous,” a book by George and Roberta Poinar, just published by Princeton University Press. In it, the authors argue that insects provide a plausible and effective explanation for the slow, inexorable decline and eventual extinction of dinosaurs over many thousands of years. This period is known as the famous “K-T Boundary,” or the line between the Cretaceous and Tertiary Period about 65 million years ago. There is evidence that some catastrophic events, such as a major asteroid or lava flows, also occurred at this time — but these provide | | By: IBIBO | | |
| | Untold Story about Dinosaurs | | 2008-01-08 13:59:00 | | History said that Dinosaur extinction was due to the Ice Age, some historian said it is the Rain of Fire.. Well, they are dead wrong.. Here is the untold story why Dinosaurs failed to survive. One of the sign board that could be found somewhere in UAE. The message is clear and catchy..." BUCKLE UP or FACE extinction!!" A funny reminder for motorists and drivers. Take care and Drive Safely. [via Mark] You Know What to do Next: Subscribe our feed and be updated on the latest articles, tips & job posts. Share the Smile :
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| | Dinosaurs and insects | | 2008-01-05 18:41:49 | | Did the rise of biting insects contribute to the disappearance of the dinosaurs?
A new book, “What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous” argues that tiny arthropods might have contributed to the gradual decline of dinosaur populations.
Read more at ScienceDaily. | | By: Wild Light | | |
| | If Only Dinosaurs Were On Mars! | | 2007-12-22 14:33:00 | | I found this at Futurismic and thought I'd share my excitement.Apparently an asteroid may strike Mars in January! Why is this a big deal? Well, remember the dinosaurs? Remember when scientists told us they probably died from a big impact from an asteroid or comet? Well, here's a great chance for us to watch a large object strike a terrestrial planet! I'm hoping it will happen because this could bring about a whole slue of interesting images or videos--even more interesting than the Shoemaker-Levy 9 images here, here, and here. We might actually get to witness a significant impact on a relatively Earth-like planet (Mars is semi-Earthish, though it lacks liquid water and it is a bit different, but we could expect to gather quite a lot of info from this little red guy). You can read a bit more about the impact at this NASA article.Asteroid 2007 WD5 isn't a very big fella (about 50 meters or 164 feet), but for a small planet like Mars it shouldn't matter. It'll still do a good bit of damage and leave us enjoying every second of it:We estimate such impacts occur on Mars every thousand years or so," said Steve Chesley, a scientist at JPL. "If 2007 WD5 were to thump Mars on Jan. 30, we calculate it would hit at about 30,000 miles per hour and might create a crater more than half-a-mile wide.It's a 1 in 75 chance. Those aren't bad odds when you think about it.(Don't click the read more, there isn't any more after this!)
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| | | | Walking with the Dinosaurs | | 2007-06-06 18:45:12 | | This looks like it would be pretty cool to go see. If my nephews were a little bit older I am sure they would enjoy something like this also....
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| | Bible dinosaurs! | | 2007-06-05 11:46:00 | | I wish we had a Creation Museum in Italy as well, it would be fun.
Via PZ Myers. | | By: Agylen | | |
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