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The Day the Dinosaurs Died

Alfalfa said:
I don't know if millions of Americans believe that. But it is a conspiracy theory that exists, thus the joke. It's probably more fringe than flat Earth tho, which is really fringe to begin with.
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Well, I saw a poll that indicated several million. Polls are always spot on, BTW.
 
Red said:
There are a list of characteristics one looks for to identify which of our leaders are "lizard people", I don't know, maybe the ones that speak with forked tongue?
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Even funnier since, biologically speaking, all mammals are lizards anyhow.
 
So anyway guys, speaking of dinosaurs and space rocks, you got yourself a national treasure over in Moab. Lin Ottinger. The "dinosaur hunter of Utah". I did not know it at the time I met him that he was a legend in the West. I had driven into Moab early one July morning in a thunderous rain. Cleared up, I toured Arches. That night, teaming up with a guy I met in Arches, we attended a Lin Ottinger slide lecture at his Moab Rock Shop. We signed up for one of his now famous VW Bus tours of Canyonlands the next day. Unfortunetly, the rain that morning meant he would be gold prospecting the next day, so our tour guide the next morning was a Navaho guide. Still a great day.

Ottinger has had at least one dino named after him, and he loves rubbing park rangers the wrong way, from the stories I've heard. In his early 90's now, but I hear he still loves spinning tales to any ear he can grab. So, if you're in Moab, check out the Moab rock shop. I was there in 1986, bought a huge Stegosaurus back plate from him, and had him ship it home for me.

Here are some stories about Lin Ottinger. One of a kind.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170310-the-dinosaur-hunter-of-moab

http://moabstories.com/2018/04/moab...walk-if-it-doesnt-talk-lin-ottinger-finds-it/

https://www.dreamride.com/ottinger.html

Old photos of Ottinger's VW buses navigating Canyonlands....

http://www.linottingersmuseum.org/

If I ever make it back to Moab, and I'd love to take my wife there someday, I hope Ottinger is still among the living. The Moab Rock Shop will be my first stop.
 
Dinosaurs committed mass suicide... they were told of the coming of Joe Ingles who would end their reign on the earth... they figured why waste time and fight it... so Joe having no dinosaur killing to do, took up basketball.
 
Red said:
Kidding aside, or not, it is a fact that several million Americans believe at least some of our political leaders are shape shifting reptilian aliens from another star system. It's a specific star system, but it's slipping my mind at the moment. But, this is an actual belief, and I have to assume nobody can possibly be surprised at this point. There are a list of characteristics one looks for to identify which of our leaders are "lizard people", I don't know, maybe the ones that speak with forked tongue?
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I know that there’s big concern about what’s perceived as a steep rise in people being “against science” because it’s “dangerous,” but I’m honestly not certain which is more dangerous: people believing that shape-shifting, reptilian aliens have infiltrated our government, or people believing that it’s a fact that there are millions of people that believe there are shape-shifting, reptilian aliens that have infiltrated our government.
 
Red said:
For my money, one of the neatest theories of my lifetime. It's fun to see birds as avian dinosaurs. That does appear to be the consensus opinion at the moment, with some existing dissent, which should be expected and encouraged in any scientific discipline. But when I throw seeds out on the lawn, and watch a flock of mourning doves grazing in the grass, I'm seeing a herd of dinosaurs, and it couldn't delight me more.
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yeah, it is still a hypothesis but it seems to have growing evidence and support.
 
gandalfe said:
I think it's gone past hypothesis to consensus.
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Interesting. I had not gotten that sense, but my "Paleontology Today" subscription was not renewed. Haha.

Is it considered a Scientific Theory by the experts?
 
silesian said:
Interesting. I had not gotten that sense, but my "Paleontology Today" subscription was not renewed. Haha.

Is it considered a Scientific Theory by the experts?
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I am not sure. Probably? I am neither a paleontologist nor an ornithologist, so I'm not the best person to answer, but my understanding is that it's been researched since the mid-1800s, the discovery of Archaeopteryx, and that there are just too many similarities between dinosaurs and birds that are NOT shared by mammals or insects to see it any other way. They have found a bunch of dinos with feathers. Now, how exact it happened is another matter - did it start with the pterodactyl and other winged dinosaurs, or did another, smaller dinosaur develop wings and then fairly quickly speciate?
 
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