COLD DARK ROOM

[johnandjade]

good mornooning! hope everyone is in good spirits

 

[johnandjade]

Earwig of the moment: ARnold ARnold ARnold Rimmer he's also a fantastic swimmer and if you play your cards right he just might be coming home for DINner...

I love that scene.

 

[johnandjade]

Earwig of the moment: ARnold ARnold ARnold Rimmer he's also a fantastic swimmer and if you play your cards right he just might be coming home for DINner...

and let's not forget

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Good morning.
we're having a Christmas party here at work.
Code for: NO ONE will be working.
Suki let me sleep about 5 hours last night. So I'm feeling good.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Was anything ever mentioned again about the new moderator position?
You know, Adams job?

 

[johnandjade]

Good morning.
we're having a Christmas party here at work.
Code for: NO ONE will be working.
Suki let me sleep about 5 hours last night. So I'm feeling good.

enjoy mr ed! is santa coming in?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

enjoy mr ed! is santa coming in?

I've got a belly and a beard.
It'll have to do.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Suki the finger eater

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Have a nice day John.
I'll be back later.

 

[johnandjade]

Have a nice day John.
I'll be back later.

you too, enjoy the party

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Ho.ho.ho

 

[johnandjade]

to Burger King or not to Burger King, that is the question....

it means braving the rain:/

 

[johnandjade]

kit kat, mars bar and a cuppa cha. not quite the same:/

 

[AZtortMom]

Morning all

 

[Moozillion]

Suki the finger eater

ADORABLE!!!!!!!!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

ADORABLE!!!!!!!!

Thanks.

 

[johnandjade]

wibble

 

[Moozillion]

it's actually amazing and hard to fathom how old fossils are!

I once read in a book about the amount of trees or vegetation that would have been required to create 1 gallon of gasoline. I don't remember the amount, but I remember being totally gobsmacked: it takes a LOT!!!!

 

[Moozillion]

Perhaps you could just point out that she's acting like a child.

If he did, I predict he'd be walking pretty oddly for a good while...just saying'...

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I am intrigued!!!! WHAT, exactly, IS the definition of a dinosaur?

Not to intrude, but as I recall a dinosaur is defined as being a subset of the archosaurs with a pelvis that orients the hind legs vertically, beneath the body. I'm thinking an endothermic physiology is also a characteristic, but not sure on that but.

Steve is pretty much correct , the back legs are directly under the body instead of coming out sideways and then bending down at the knee joint as in lizards, crocodiles etc. In modern phylogenic classification they are descried as the group containing the birds and the most recent Ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs like Triceratops) that were the most recent group of dinosaurs to evolve and their most recent common ancestor and all descendants.
Pterosaurs do not fit either of these definitions, as their legs emerge horizontally from the body at the pelvis and are not ancestral to the birds or Ceratopsians. They are descended from another closely related group, but not dinosaurs.
Regarding being endothermic, this is still a matter of great debate, some say yes and some say no
I believe that early dinosaurs were cold-blooded, but that at least some groups evolved warm blooded systems quite early on.
Most, if not all, later dinosaurs were warm blooded, as, indeed, were at least the later pterosaurs.