Thursday, 22 May 2014

If not us, who? If not now, when? BRONTOSAURUS

quote [ The as-yet unnamed creature, referred to simply as the Giant by the researchers, is estimated to have been about 20m tall, 40m long and 77 tons in weight, about the same as 14 African elephants. ]

The key words are "as yet unnamed."

This would put to bed the whole apatosaurus/brontosaurus naming fiasco. If these people would get off their asses and call this one BRONTOSAURUS, it would make everybody--pedants and real people alike-- happy.

Well, it would make *me* happy.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+6]
[by machpi@6:25pmGMT]

Comments

machpi said @ 6:45pm GMT on 22nd May [Score:2]
Also, measuring things using African elephants seems a little clumsy to me. I would like to formally propose a sizing scheme that would measure everything in "olympic-sized swimming pools." For instance: "The Matterhorn masses an extraordinary 35,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools", or "Beyonce looked stunning in her red Versace dress at the awards ceremony last night. But ladies, don't even *think* about putting that dress on unless you trim down to 0.00008 olympic-sized swimming pools."

arrowhen said @ 7:31pm GMT on 22nd May [Score:3]
Millihelen: the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
MFDork said @ 12:15am GMT on 23rd May
Slow golf clap.
shiftace said @ 6:48pm GMT on 22nd May [Score:1 Underrated]
WTF! Brontosaurus never existed? Yeah right and Pluto is not a planet. I call shenanigan.
Ankylosaur said @ 7:58pm GMT on 22nd May [Score:1 Informative]
Brontosaurus escaped the Global Flood on a UFO and now lives on planet Pluto! Don't let the mainstream media tell you otherwise!
Ankylosaur said @ 8:03pm GMT on 22nd May [Score:2 Funny]
machpi said @ 10:43pm GMT on 22nd May
That is awesome. I love our goofy-assed forefathers!
vintuk said @ 11:02pm GMT on 22nd May [Score:1 Classy Pr0n]
Scroopy Noops said @ 7:27pm GMT on 22nd May
Fuck yeah!
shiftace said @ 1:26am GMT on 23rd May
Achievement Unlocked! You win the Internets!
Ankylosaur said @ 8:10pm GMT on 22nd May [Score:1 Interesting]
Everything you think you know about sauropods is wrong! They had trunks!
Headlessfriar said @ 2:57pm GMT on 23rd May
I've seen that idiocy before. Have you seen an elephant skull? The sinus is so huge, people think it gave rise to the cyclops myths. Sauropods weird elevated sinus doesn't come close looking like it could mount a trunk on it.
eggboy said @ 9:49pm GMT on 22nd May
I think that's a brilliant idea.
robotroadkill said @ 1:27am GMT on 23rd May
This is a tricky situation. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature does not prevent the genus name "Brontosaurus" from being used again just because it's considered invalid (as a junior synonym of Apatosaurus), for that specimen, but for the genus to be resurrected, a species that fits within it is required (not just any new dinosaur species) Another possible issue is that the original animal was described based on a composite of two different species. The code is dense and sometimes difficult to interpret, so if anyone wants to give it a shot, here you go:

ICZN
machpi said @ 12:52pm GMT on 23rd May
I'm prepared to write a check for a million dollars to cut through the red tape. Okay, two then. What, these blokes won't haggle?
Sarahbear said @ 4:58am GMT on 23rd May
I got tired of waiting around for dinosaurs to be named what I wanted and just started giving people I know dinosaur nicknames. More fun.

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