Nothing like a dinosaur extinction conspiracy. For long time subscribers, you will recall the ongoing cartoons in this war between Charles Darwin on the theory of evolution and survival of the fittest and the humble dinosaur. But for newbies, here are the reasons for extinction so far.
#1 Darwin tests the dinosaurs by playing go fetch
#2 Darwin explores the impact an exploding volcano on the population of dinosaurs
#3 Darwin takes on the dinosaurs, with his sights set on the lemming too
#5 Darwin teams up with the fat lady because it’s all over when she starts singing
#6 Darwin’s evolution theory is possibly related climate
#7 Darwin and the evil pink aliens
#8 Dinosaurs take to the sky in order to even up the score with Darwin
I promised last time I posted the first of the ‘Evil Aliens’, I’d come back sometime later to answer the question I posed – Can you guess 2 scientific errors in the making of this cartoon? True to form, the smart readers out there not only came up with my answers, but also some of their own (see comments section on original post).
My two thoughts were:
- hydrogen burns clear to slight blue (my planet is ablaze with yellow and orange flames)
- to have a fire you need fuel (√ – hydrogen from the gas in Jupiter’s makeup), ignition source (√ -the nasty alien’s cigarette butt) and oxygen (× -not much taking place out there in space)
‘Arrgh!’ Apologies for the typo in the last posting. (If you replace ‘seeing’ with ‘wearing’ it might make a bit more sense. The link on the site has been updated). In my defence, I offer the fact that I is engineer and us enginiers are not known for our grammatical prowess. However, engineers are known for their ability to apply logic and process and as such I have added the new process of independent proof reading prior to posting. The newly appointed proof reader comes highly qualified with a masters of science! (definitely one up on the humble engineer).