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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Anyone else read Raptor Red when they were a kid? Yep!
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# ? May 28, 2024 05:16 |
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I'm not really convinced that Utah is a real place, but I'll run with it. So, the fossil was found in the 70s but not well studied until 91. The book was published in 90 and the film in 93. While I believe that Spielberg might have heard of it, Crichton probably hadn't. None of this matters because the movie just handwaves it all away as frog DNA and I never read the book but I hear it handles the evil company stuff better.
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Unperson_47 posted:I have never see a post that is more wrong
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# ? May 11, 2024 20:20 |
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Feathers would have been impossible with the CGI of Jurassic Park's time and a pain in the arse for the model makers and animatronics The subsequent movies, I guess the style guide had been set, no feathers
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# ? May 11, 2024 20:38 |
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Anyone else read Raptor Red when they were a kid? i loved that book, but i vaguely remember it suffering from the same problem of sizing the raptors up, although in retrospect i probably misunderstood the intention of 10-15 feet head to tail as being 10-15 feet tall nomad2020 posted:I never read the book but I hear it handles the evil company stuff better. yeah, there's a side plot about Wu and Hammond butting heads about what they're actually doing. Hammond buys into his own hype/marketing about resurrecting dinosaurs as they were, and Wu is pissed because be fully recognizes how little they resemble the real thing and hates how that undermines/downplays how much work he did to make them viable, like adapting their genomes with extensive prototyping to be even able to breathe in the current atmosphere. the "lysine contingency" they mention in the movie is a callback to that--Wu reminisces about how hard he had to push to be allowed to make the dinosaurs dependent on park food because Hammond considered it "unnatural" despite all the other modifications they made. and then it turns out all that did was make raptors who LOVED soybeans
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# ? May 11, 2024 20:58 |
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another cat with a job https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sday045ybP1z7uchi.mp4
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# ? May 11, 2024 21:09 |
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Finance cat helpfully attempting to curb your exorbitant spending habits
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the only good Utah is Johnny Utah
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sd89tilSSB1uvv5gh.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sd4qeeJCTz1w5pr9j.mp4
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Hasturtium posted:Yep, because the movies were significantly influenced by Gregory S. Paul’s book Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, which is well-written and beautifully illustrated but made some rather unusual suggestions for reclassification of some theropods… And one of the more salacious was to reclassify Deinononychus, a larger dromaeosaur, as a member of the genus Velociraptor. The broader paleontological community read it, conferred briefly, and disagreed, but the Jurassic Park guys took it and ran with it, so now we have Big Raptors as part of the discourse even though they’re wrong. Worse, even though Paul advocated for the presence of feathers in his book, Jurassic Park ignored that. Hell, Deinonychus and Velociraptor were all part of the same clade, Eudromaeosauria; it all comes down to who looks cooler and who has the cooler name, so Michael Crichton threw accuracy to the wind in the name of edginess. I get it, but he was a massive prick, so any chance to dunk on him, you know?
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root beer posted:Hell, Deinonychus and Velociraptor were all part of the same clade, Eudromaeosauria; it all comes down to who looks cooler and who has the cooler name, so Michael Crichton threw accuracy to the wind in the name of edginess. The velociraptors in the book are actually accurate, they're described as being the size of large dogs. It was the movies that hosed it up.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W85oD8FEF78
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# ? May 11, 2024 22:26 |
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the movie got these wrong... cats are much smaller (about the size of a cat) and of course they don't have hair
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# ? May 11, 2024 22:45 |
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To show size, you need to pose the subject with a common household item, like a quarter.
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ArmedZombie posted:the only good Utah is Johnny Utah Utah Saints are also good It's really Utah the state brining the name down.
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sweet geek swag posted:The velociraptors in the book are actually accurate, they're described as being the size of large dogs. It was the movies that hosed it up. Ah, okay, it’s been decades since I’d read it and maybe I was thinking of the compys being the singular resident shrinky-dink bastards of that world. Well then, thanks, Spielberg. Crichton still sucks and totally made poo poo up tho
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Inceltown posted:Utah Saints are also good They can’t help it, there’s all that salt up there.
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nomad2020 posted:To show size, you need to pose the subject with a common household item, like a quarter.
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Hasturtium posted:Yep, because the movies were significantly influenced by Gregory S. Paul’s book Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, which is well-written and beautifully illustrated but made some rather unusual suggestions for reclassification of some theropods… And one of the more salacious was to reclassify Deinononychus, a larger dromaeosaur, as a member of the genus Velociraptor. The broader paleontological community read it, conferred briefly, and disagreed, but the Jurassic Park guys took it and ran with it, so now we have Big Raptors as part of the discourse even though they’re wrong. Worse, even though Paul advocated for the presence of feathers in his book, Jurassic Park ignored that. To be fair there was a lot of CGI in the first movie, and the ability to CGI realistic fluffy feathers was not great at the time. Like when you look at Toy Story the toys are fine but the people . . . also look like plastic toys.
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https://twitter.com/ilove_borzois/status/1789394966810091526
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https://twitter.com/Bodegacats_/status/1789647464133186007 https://i.imgur.com/Hg5JEVy.mp4 https://twitter.com/Bodegacats_/status/1789647457044836714
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I guess it's appropriate given the usage here, but it bothers me that this metal gear solid sound effect video uses what looks like the Bubsy t-shirt exclamation point.
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Garrand posted:I guess it's appropriate given the usage here, but it bothers me that this metal gear solid sound effect video uses what looks like the Bubsy t-shirt exclamation point. I'm glad someone is saying it
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Garrand posted:I guess it's appropriate given the usage here, but it bothers me that this metal gear solid sound effect video uses what looks like the Bubsy t-shirt exclamation point. Lol that bugged me too, but it was also the first search match, and
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sweet geek swag posted:The velociraptors in the book are actually accurate, they're described as being the size of large dogs. It was the movies that hosed it up. Are you sure? Here's a quote from the first time the raptors appear and are testing the fence: "Grant had a blurred impression of powerful, six-foot-tall bodies" (Jurassic Park 119). Interestingly, they also acknowledge Deinonychus two pages earlier and are quite specific that the raptors are V. mongoliensis the page before that. Then, much later, as the kids are hiding from the raptors: "The velociraptor was man-size..." (330). I think there's also a mention that they weigh 150 pounds, but I didn't see it while hand-checking. Iamyourking fucked around with this message at 23:58 on May 12, 2024 |
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Iamyourking posted:Are you sure? Here's a quote from the first time the raptors appear and are testing the fence: "Grant had a blurred impression of powerful, six-foot-tall bodies" (Jurassic Park 119). Interestingly, they also acknowledge Deinonychus two pages earlier and are quite specific that the raptors are V. mongoliensis the page before that. Then, much later, as the kids are hiding from the raptors: "The velociraptor was man-size..." (330). I think there's also a mention that they weigh 150 pounds, but I didn't see it while hand-checking. My bad, the place I found this info for some reason had their height in metric, so I took 2m to mean 2ft. There were some smaller Velociraptors in the Lost World book, but they were juveniles.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6JiFztJdg
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when you find a clam https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sd66892VDE1uvv5gh.mp4
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spechtie posted:when you find a clam He found a rock that smells like meat it’s the best and most exciting thing everrrrrrr
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I bet that clam is dizzy as hell.
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I present Flora, a beautiful cat that lives in my city, and she even has her own instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floramollenberg/ She likes to visit the local pub as well.
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https://twitter.com/milanbydzovsky/status/1790053876017582105
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afen posted:I present Flora, a beautiful cat that lives in my city, and she even has her own instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floramollenberg/ I thought she had her own surname and everything but it's just where she's from
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Cats can have little a pint, as a treat
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Pfft. That dog has met those cool bananas before.
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For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue posted:What’s better than raising a baby mink? Raising six of them! 🤩
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Live feed from a Pallas' cat den with 4 tiny kittens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHlP4uuC8CY
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