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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 28926 |
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do you like stars, planets, solar-systems, moons, galaxies, black holes, and supernovas
or do you like T-rex, sauropods, triceraptos. and other great dinosaurs i am torn, i love both, i believe space is cool but i also find dinosaurs to be the most amazing creatures who have walked the earth, they rock my world and is more awesome then humans
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tamijo ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 06 2009 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 4287 |
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a split decition, my favorite would be archaeology and early history
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Gerinski ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 4083 |
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I'm quite interested in Astronomy, Paleontology too but less
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 28926 |
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the Land Before TIme is the first film i ever saw so, it had an effect on me
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someone_else ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: The Castoreum Status: Offline Points: 18145 |
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Astronomy, though I still like paleontology a bit.
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Equality 7-2521 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Philly Status: Offline Points: 15725 |
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Archaeology on the Cosmic scale is much more interesting than practicing it on the Earthly. Astronomy all the way.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 28926 |
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this is a great homage to Paleontology
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Gerinski ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 4083 |
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If yu like astronomy you have possibly already seen this
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 28926 |
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I have k
when will they make a telescope to look 65 million years back in time ![]() and is the ting they do in Jurassic Park possible or impossible or plausible Edited by aginor - July 16 2013 at 08:59 |
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Equality 7-2521 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Philly Status: Offline Points: 15725 |
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The Hubble telescope looks 65 million years, 100 million years, and more into the past.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 28926 |
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i actually know that
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 10264 |
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Astronomy.....never had any interest in dinosaurs.
I do enjoy reading about very early civilizations like Sumeria, Egypt, and possible lost civilizations.
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Gerinski ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 4083 |
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Think about this: when you look at a star 65 million light-years away, you see it how it was 65 million years ago. Conversely, if you were on that star you would see the Earth how it was 65 million years ago. Now, think that we go there and place a huge mirror orbiting the star and facing to the Earth. When you look again at the star, in the mirror you will see the Earth how it was 65 million years ago. EDIT: sorry, you will see the Earth how it was 130 million years ago, the time it took for Earth's light to reach the mirror and back. Now, of course for that to happen, even if we could place the mirror there tomorrow, it would only be our descendants 65 million years from now (edit: 130 million years) that would be able to see us now in the mirror ![]() ![]()
First, finding such old DNA well enough preserved is basically impossible, but the theoretical principles behind the story are valid and currently DNA of endangered species is being kept so that in case of total extinction the species can be hopefully recovered by cloning. Two considerations are: the DNA must be inserted on a parent animal and it seems clear that only genetically similar animals can develop the embryo in a viable way, so for example, an extinct sort of goat (the Pyrenean Ibex) whose DNA had been preserved was cloned using a normal goat as mother (although the calf died shortly), but we do not have any current species which could likely develop an embryo with dinosaur DNA. Secondly, one specimen DNA does not solve much, you need at least a male and a female's DNA if you want to recover the species, otherwise you will just clone one animal which will eventually die. And even with just one male and a female, it's doubtful that there would be enough genetic diversity to produce a viable lineage. It is highly likely that you need to have perfectly preserved DNA of a few males and a few females (and some similar species to act as first mother) to start anything like Jurassic Park. Edited by Gerinski - July 16 2013 at 12:41 |
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CPicard ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10683 |
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Paleoexobiology with some hints of astroarcheology.
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Man With Hat ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 116972 |
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Astronomy.
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The.Crimson.King ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 3900 |
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Paleontology for me. Astronomy's cool too but I like to see the bones
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Theremin77 ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: June 04 2013 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 8 |
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Astronomy for me - I was lucky enough to spend 4 years studying it (well, Astrophysics strictly speaking) and considered it a career choice for a while!
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Eetu Pellonpaa ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 17 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 4828 |
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Kind of feel interest for both, but lack wits due winnie-the-ppoh brains for understanding it all. I understood Peter Ward wrote on his "Life as we do not know it", that remains of early-earth bacteria and viruses might be found from moon due inter-planetoid material exchanges due asteroid/comet/etc collisions to earth more realiably, due lesser erosion on our solemn silver queen passing the nocturnal horizon.
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smartpatrol ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 15 2012 Location: My Bedroom Status: Offline Points: 14164 |
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I like astronomy better k
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Gerinski ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 4083 |
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It could be argued that Astronomy is the mother of all sciences.
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