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WaspInWales wrote: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.

Did the Russians dump their stockpiles of weaponized small pox?

Now lads, let's not forget that the Warsaw pact was dissolved on April Fool's day.

morepork wrote:Maybe women on the pill pishing it into the system?

YEAH,......and giving us man boobs. You just can't trust wimmin.

morepork wrote:

WaspInWales wrote: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.

kk67 wrote: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.

rowan wrote:

kk67 wrote: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,

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

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

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.

Cheers, Fella.

rowan wrote:

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?

Vengeful Glutton wrote:

rowan wrote:

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.

Vengeful Glutton wrote:

rowan wrote:

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 . . .

cashead wrote:

Vengeful Glutton wrote:

rowan wrote:

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!

rowan wrote:

Vengeful Glutton wrote:

rowan wrote:

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 wrote:

cashead wrote:

Vengeful Glutton wrote:
We knows whose going to get the blame, aye?

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

I triggered it!

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Thanks for proving my point.

The "oooohhhhh" gesture is pretty much an admission that you've got nothing to actually say in response to being called a "boring, pretentious cunt," which is what you are. That, and the fact that you're a poser, but I guess that comes with the territory.

What happened to my thread

rowan wrote: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.

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 wrote: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.

cashead wrote:

rowan wrote: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 wrote:

cashead wrote:

rowan wrote: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.

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

Uh, the fossils already kind of prove it though?

rowan wrote:Secondly, I believe dinosaurs and birds more or less evolved together, and were undoubtedly closely related. I don't think birds were the next step in the evolutionary chain, as you appear to imply.

Now why would you delete this part, I wonder?

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 wrote: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?

It is my divine mission. It can not be helped.

Serious answer: you're not an idiot, but you post stupid shit.

Lizard and I don't share many opinions, other than a shared fandom of the All Blacks and a tendency to compile statistics but you don't see me pulling him up on stuff do you? Ask yourself why.

rowan wrote: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.

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.