The 6th Mass Extinction

[WaspInWales]

Considering we've only managed to eradicate one infectious disease so far, I don't fancy our chances to eradicate many more that soon anyway.

are you referring to smallpox?

If fucking new age wankers would get on board with vaccination, measles and TB would be history too.

Measles and TB eradication would be a huge step, but polio seems very close to fucking off for good. Well, that is until a labratory 'accident' releases it along with smallpox and a few other nasties.

[rowan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nster.html

Dinosaur technology. The Jurassic Park scenario.

We realize it's cheaper to raise her hive army of Nessie's than to renew Trident,
the Ruski's have migrating swarms of trained killer Mammoths and the Japs have guerrilla cells of Super Godzilla.
Rapid French carnivorous Diplodocus....

The first time I saw the iconic 'Nessie' photo I just thought "isn't that sombody's arm?" Decades later it still just looks like someone's arm to me.

[kk67]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nster.html

Dinosaur technology. The Jurassic Park scenario.

We realize it's cheaper to raise her hive army of Nessie's than to renew Trident,
the Ruski's have migrating swarms of trained killer Mammoths and the Japs have guerrilla cells of Super Godzilla.
Rapid French carnivorous Diplodocus....

The first time I saw the iconic 'Nessie' photo I just thought "isn't that sombody's arm?" Decades later it still just looks like someone's arm to me.

As much as MP is downplaying the ability of genetic manipulation,......they could do a Mammoth.
They probably will. I have no problem with that,

[rowan]

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.

The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.

The creatures being lost range from mountains to forests to rivers and the seas and include well-known endangered species such as elephants and gorillas and lesser known creatures such as vultures and salamanders.



https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... are_btn_fb

[kk67]

Is it just me flicking through the failonline too much,....or is there a helluva lot of tectonic activity at the moment ?.

[rowan]

Regarding major quakes (6 & over) it's been about normal but there have actually been far fewer minor quakes (between 4-6) with only 291 registered so far this month compared to over 600 last month, 895 in September, and over a thousand in each of the preceding several months. The two biggest quakes of the past three months, however, if both been in New Zealand.

[kk67]

Cheers, Fella.

[Vengeful Glutton]

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.

The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.

The creatures being lost range from mountains to forests to rivers and the seas and include well-known endangered species such as elephants and gorillas and lesser known creatures such as vultures and salamanders.



https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... are_btn_fb

We knows whose going to get the blame, aye?

[rowan]

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.

The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.

The creatures being lost range from mountains to forests to rivers and the seas and include well-known endangered species such as elephants and gorillas and lesser known creatures such as vultures and salamanders.



https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... are_btn_fb

We knows whose going to get the blame, aye?

Yes, those evil, flabby, cloth-wearing apes who have plundered the earth for its resources, invented a multitude of devices for killing, and drop bombs on one another from the sky . . .

[Vengeful Glutton]

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.

The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.

The creatures being lost range from mountains to forests to rivers and the seas and include well-known endangered species such as elephants and gorillas and lesser known creatures such as vultures and salamanders.



https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... are_btn_fb

We knows whose going to get the blame, aye?

Good lord, you're a boring, pretentious cunt.

I triggered it!

[Vengeful Glutton]

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.

The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.

The creatures being lost range from mountains to forests to rivers and the seas and include well-known endangered species such as elephants and gorillas and lesser known creatures such as vultures and salamanders.



https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... are_btn_fb

We knows whose going to get the blame, aye?

Yes, those evil, flabby, cloth-wearing apes who have plundered the earth for its resources, invented a multitude of devices for killing, and drop bombs on one another from the sky . . .

Donald Trump is more likely.

[Vengeful Glutton]

[rowan]

What happened to my thread

[canta_brian]

What happened to my thread

I wouldn't panic. You've got about 4 and a half thousand others to be going on with. There's a couple only you reply on, maybe that can be a safe refuge for you.

[rowan]

Pretty amazing discovery in Asia, a 99 million-year-old dinosaur tail remarkably well preserved in amber, and it is covered in feathers! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016 ... retaceous/

[rowan]

Pretty amazing discovery in Asia, a 99 million-year-old dinosaur tail remarkably well preserved in amber, and it is covered in feathers! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016 ... retaceous/

Yes, and? All it does is confirm the scientific consensus, which is that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

I think this might be the first tangible evidence uncovered of 'feathered' dinosaurs, though it has already been established from fossils, of course.

[rowan]

My, my, what a moronic tone you have assumed with your constant badgering. I shared an article which I thought might be interesting, and you come along like the chief inspector and try to pick everything apart for the sake of it; just as you've done on other threads. My question is, why the animosity? Is it because I don't think as you do? Isn't that the basis of your obsessive nitpicking at everything I post?

I deleted part of my original post because I carried on reading another article on the same subject afterward and recognized a certain amount of ambiguity. Birds were not the next step in the evolutionary chain, any more than humans are the next step in the evolutionary chain from mammals, but they did evolve from a variety of dinosaurs, just as humans evolved from a variety of apes. So, while your earlier comment seemed a little misleading, I decided I'd rather not waste my time entering into any pointless arguments on the issue.

[rowan]

Uh, humans are still mammals. Not sure how you'd argue it's "misleading," when here you are basically saying exactly what I'd said earlier.



This is the splitting hairs argument I decided I'd prefer to avoid.

Still, it's a pretty amazing discovery. The NZ Herald describes it as 'huge.' http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/ar ... d=11764004

[morepork]

They need to get some DNA out of that mutha, sequence it, and run the homology. More data with which to cock slap creationism.

[Which Tyler]

[rowan]

Nice. Pretty much what I thought; just didn't have the energy to transcribe and debate it at that time of the morning

They need to get some DNA out of that mutha, sequence it, and run the homology. More data with which to cock slap creationism.


Also what I was thinking, though not in those exact words...

[WaspInWales]

They need to get some DNA out of that mutha, sequence it, and run the homology. More data with which to cock slap creationism.

I'm not sure it would make much of a difference. After all, God planted that as a test of our faith

[Digby]

They need to get some DNA out of that mutha, sequence it, and run the homology. More data with which to cock slap creationism.

I'm not sure it would make much of a difference. After all, God planted that as a test of our faith

And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?

[rowan]

They need to get some DNA out of that mutha,sequence it, and run the homology. More data with which to cock slap creationism.

I'm not sure it would make much of a difference. After all, God planted that as a test of our faith

Now, if I had posted that, the response would have been something like:

How do you know God planted it?

What evidence do you have for that claim?

Which God are you talking about anyway?

What proof do you even have that God exists?

Why are you so obsessed with religion?

What do you have against science anyway?

Wait - don't delete that! I know you edited something.


ad infinitum . . .

[Which Tyler]

And at some point science though the world was flat so how do we know they're right now?

Are you sure about that? certainly no seafaring nation ever did.
Ancients of Egypt and Greece certainly recorded the workd as being spherical; the Greeks with remarkable accuracy.
[align=center]Sorry, I know what you're trying to say; I'm just pathologically incapable of letting that one pass.[/align]