believe it or not:the scent of space

[Watery Star]

Makes them sound less threatening. Although I say that when I shrinked back from a chicken fluttering around in a close space of me.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

chickens actually be nasty, especially the leghorns, they can attack you insistently with pecking.

[Watery Star]

I don't like the pecking and how they can fly up to get in your face.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I would never have leghorns, they scared me so badly as a kid. But we did have rhode island reds and they were always scared and would just squat down and not move. We could actually pet them.

[Watery Star]

I'd like to meet a mellow chicken I could pet.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Well, you'd have to take the chance of being around ones that are not. There are quite a few breeds of chickens that are more mellow and baby chicks really are adorable.

I wonder how the dinosaurs were, other then some being incredibly large, were they as vicious as we have come to believe?

[Watery Star]

I guess that's true. I guess petting zoo chickens could be mellow and the people there would know which I could pet and which would be defensive.


I've gotten the impression that they varied a lot.

Herbivorous dinosaurs--which included sauropods, ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, hadrosaurs, pachycephalosaurs, ornithopods, ceratopsians and titanosaurs--vastly outnumbered meat-eaters in prehistoric times.

Some of which displayed armor and would fend off and even kill predators. From the herbivores they used different tactics to defend and protect themselves from predators. Besides fighting they could run away( fly or swim away if possible). They could also hide. I read that all dinosaurs had the ability to camouflage themselves. They could also seem imposing in hopes to scare the predator away.

Not all dinosaurs were large either. The velociraptor and the protoceratops were small, about child-sized. As I was checking to see if I named the right dinosaur I found out that velociraptors were only about 3 feet long and attacked with a large claw on their foot. It's older cousin Deinonychus was more threatening and actual inspiration behind the Jurassic Park velociraptor.

The single biggest fabrication in the entire Jurassic Park series was when that cute, curious little Dilophosaurus sprayed burning venom in the face of Wayne Knight. Not only wasn't Dilophosaurus poisonous, but to date there's no convincing evidence that any dinosaur of the Mesozoic Era deployed poison in its offensive or defensive arsenal (there was briefly some buzz about Sinornithosaurus, but it later turned out that this dinosaur's "venom sacs" were a actually displaced teeth).

[Lemon Cheesecake]

See, that's what I am talking about1 We THINK we know the facts but really we don't, we just assume ( best guess).

I wish I had a time machine that could just go back and view how things were/looked throughout history - I wouldn't need to interact... just "see"...omg great idea for 3d virtual reality for future technology ( if only we knew for sure how life was how animals and dinosaurs truly acted). I'll come up with the ideas and someone else can write the coding and develop the product.

[Watery Star]

I'm impressed with the information that can but gathered through fossils. But yeah it would be neat to really know how it truly was back then and during other times in history too. I read a book called "Just One Damned Thing After Another" first book in The Chronicles of St Mary's series. In it a team goes through time gathering samples from historic sites. I really enjoyed it and have the second book to read but the drama towards the end soured it for me.

You mean something like a virtual walking with dinosaurs? They are doing amazing things with 3D now. I've watched some people on Twitch using 3D headsets. They have a split screen of what the see and of them moving around. I'm not quite sure how advanced the technology is yet.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I did read last night Japan is working on interactive technology for people to "experience" being with the dinosaurs too, so that is cool.
I think it is amazing that people have the talent to be able to see in their mind what bones could have looked like in real life. For example, in forensics and archaeology, when they use the clay and come up with the person's appearance. Or look at a jawline or cheek bone and be able to describe the appearance. But how true to life is that? If there was a photo or a statue you would know how true a job they did.

Did you see the article on what they think Robert the Bruce from Scotland may have looked like by building a face off his bones?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/12/ ... rface.html

"Lasting around three seconds, the moaning noise hits super-low, and then super-high frequencies.
The experts’ best guess is that they picked up a never before heard whale call while monitoring the uncharted depths."
Whale mating call? Some
mysterious form of technology?
http://bioacoustics.oregonstate.edu/sit ... mple_0.mp3

[Watery Star]

That's interesting especially since they can't confirm that it's from a whale.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

but it sounds like the whale call they play on the Star Trek IV movie (I think) the one where they go back in time to get a whale.

[Watery Star]

I haven't seen that movie. That's an interesting plot for a movie.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

It's actually a funny one because they go back to the 1980's. Ya, an alien ship is sending out a call waiting to hear whale calls back but int he future that type of whale (humpback I think) has gone extinct so they have to go back in time to get a whale. Anyway, I like watching the Star Trek series.