h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Today I read that scientist recon that the common chiken may of evolved from the not so common t-rex!!:O So what do you think? Drop a comment...and i'll get back to you!

Howdy emo and welcome to h2g2. Glad to see you're plugging away against the unknown and unknowable that is hootooville.

I saw you ask this question elsewhere and I replied there (but now I see you've figured out that some of these conversations are quite old and more or less inactive) so I'll just copy that answer below and maybe we'll inspire a conversation. Not that I'm around much but sometimes other folks tend to pile on when they fail to recognise my wizard like wit and think I'm being silly or otherwise less than helpful.


The emu (but not the emo ) and many other birds have T-rex proportions with lots of dark meat on big thighs, lean breasts and tiny little useless wings (unless broiled and coated with buffalo sauce).

Yes, m'dear, the birds of today are the dinos of yesteryear. And who's to say that even back then they didn't have feathers and giblets and some serious pecking order.



~jwf~

hummm yes i see what youb say now that i look at it it seems that they could be right.... but that's my opinion and it's up to science to tell us now!!

Your 'faith' in science is quite distressing.

Science began to become a substitute for religion way back in the Renaissance when 'intelligent' men sought answers to questions religions were afraid to ask - like why does nature hate a vacuum.

Sadly, while Hobbs gave 'science' his personal positive character traits (scholar and gentleman), it has continued to follow (rather parasitically) along with every social trend and flow. In the Victorian era it gave us 'natural selection' and 'animal kingdoms'; today it gives us the very visible finger from 'the invisble hand' of market driven technologies.

pewace
~jwf~

yeh I see what you mean! emo_kid_08

"I see what you mean!"

Really?

TRiG.

Oh TRig, stop pressurising the newbie!

You know he's (she's?) just being polite and cautiously avoiding confrontation on an issue [ + = ] which I seem to have strong feelings about.


~jwf~

I'm a girl (belive it or not!). So yeh I think i'm no longer a newbie...at least I tink (loll?)

Traveller in Time checking the < <./>online</.> >
"Congratulations you are no longer 'new this week'

That is just science, nothing to believe in just check it yourself "

yep i'm no lonher a newbie ad guess what i'm proud!!

Inasmuch as birds descend from dinosaurs, yes, it's true!

You just have to look at a chicken's beady little eyes, to know it's reptilian...

I've just been sending 'thank you' letters after an appeal for WSPA where I work

http://www.wspa.org.nz/about.asp

and I'm putting an ugly little chicken with each one.

Sadly, I can't find the chicken on their website.

Vicky

Well isn't that unfortunate. (not sarcastic, but in a sympathetic way! )

So...

Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get away from the dinosaurs.


~jwf~

Chickens and their beady eyes...

Like this image of a mother hen with her chicks; you can see the reptile in her.

http://www.ruralramblings.com/blog/uploaded_images/hen-chicks-768152.jpg

Mind you the chicks do look a little bit 'Jurassic Park'


(Or are you trying to say you prefer cocks, Vicky? )

<<(Or are you trying to say you prefer cocks, Vicky>>

Provided they don't have beady little eyes! Well, yes, as a rule..

Man, those are the scariest chicks I've ever seen! :shock:!

Vicky

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Well, if you see one with more than one eye, I'd run away anyway..

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Definitely! I don't think I'd thought that through... it's been that kind of day! So surreal...


Vicky

>> So surreal... <<

Hey there's music in that!
To the tune of "Que Sera, Sera"


"So surreal, surreal,
Whatever will be, will be.
The butcher's knot hours to see,
So surreal, surreal.."



~jwf~

Well...this conversatin is random!!

As ever.

We call it topic drift.

TRiG.