This is what I call NEWS
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:50:05 -0500
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A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off
Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a
glimpse at the frozen primordial ingredients of the solar system
Villagers digging in China's rich fossil beds have uncovered the
preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a
startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals
couldn't possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.
"One of the scary things is that we won't actually know the shape and
what it looks like until after we do the encounter," Melosh said.
"The most difficult and most challenging part is going to be the actual
encounter because we're doing things that nobody has done before," said
Jay Melosh, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona.
Equally mysterious is how these specimens died in the same area at the
same time. Neither shows evidence of being hunted itself.
What makes it important to scientists is not the titan's muscular form
but the globe he supports: carved constellations adorn its surface in
exactly the locations Hipparchus would have seen in his day, suggesting
that the sculptor based the globe on the ancient astronomer's star
catalog, which no modern eyes have seen.
The Yixian rock formation in which their bones were encased was a
combination of river sediments and volcanic ash called tuff. The
formation also includes the fossils of insects, frogs and other
creatures, suggesting a mass die-off.
Little is known about Comet Tempel 1, other than that it is an icy,
rocky body about nine miles long and three miles wide. Scientists do
not know whether the crust will be as hard as concrete or as flimsy as
corn flakes.
"It's possible that poisonous volcanic gas killed the animals when they
were sleeping," Meng said. "Then there was a catastrophic explosion
that buried the whole thing."
"There are really very few instances where lost ancient secrets or
wisdom are ever actually found," said Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana
State University. "Here is a real case where rather well-known lost
ancient wisdom has been discovered."
Scientists say the animal's last meal probably is the first proof that
mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago. It
contradicts conventional evolutionary theory that early mammals were
timid, chipmunk-sized creatures that scurried in the looming shadow of
the giant reptiles.
The entire mission costs $330 million, all the way through the grand
finale
Scientists are counting on Deep Impact to carve out a crater that could
swallow the Roman Coliseum. It will be humanity's first look into the
heart of a comet, a celestial snowball still preserving the original
building blocks of the sun and the planets.
In this case, the mammal was about the size of a large cat, and the
victim was a 5-inch "parrot dinosaur."
A second mammal fossil found at the same site claims the distinction of
being the largest early mammal ever found. It's about the size of a
modern dog, a breathtaking 20 times larger than most mammals living in
the early Cretaceous Period.
Because of the relative speed of the two objects at the moment of
impact -- 23,000 mph -- no explosives are needed for the job. The force
of the smashup will be equivalent to 41/2 tons of TNT, creating a flash
that just might be visible in the dark sky by the naked eye in one
spectacular Fourth of July fireworks display.
"Giganticus is in a league by itself," Luo said. "It's the world
champion so far for body mass in any Mesozoic mammal."
This new class of predatory mammals has set off new speculation.
Nothing like this has ever been attempted before.
It appears that at least some smaller dinosaurs had to look over their
shoulders for snarling, meat-eating mammals claiming the same turf.
With a launch window only one second long, Deep Impact rocketed away at
the designated moment on a six-month, 268 million-mile journey to Comet
Tempel 1. It will be a one-way trip that NASA hopes will reach a
cataclysmic end on the Fourth of July.
Considering the specimens in tandem, scientists suggest the period in
which these animals lived may have been much different than is commonly
understood as the Age of Dinosaurs, a time dominated by long-necked,
85-ton plant-eaters and the emergence of terrifying hunters with
bladelike teeth and sickle claws.
The comet will be more than 80 million miles from Earth when the
collision takes place. The resulting crater is expected to be anywhere
from two to 14 stories deep, and perhaps 300 feet in diameter.
"This new evidence gives us a drastically new picture," said
paleontologist Meng Jin of the American Museum of Natural History in
New York City, a co-author of the study in Thursday's issue of the
journal Nature.
Other scientists who did not work on the bones described the
discoveries as "exhilarating."
A jagged, cratered comet like the one headed for Earth in the 1998
movie "Deep Impact" would be difficult if not impossible to hit because
of all the shadows, Melosh said. Comet Tempel 1 is believed to be
smoother and easier to hit.
"This size range really has surprised everybody," said Zhexi Luo of the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, who digs in the same
area of northeast China. "It dispels the conventional wisdom."
The scientists came up with the Deep Impact name independently of the
movie studio, around the same time, neither knowing the other was
choosing it, even though some members of NASA's Deep Impact team were
consultants on the picture.
The fossils were found more than two years ago in Liaoning province.
The specimens were taken to a Beijing lab, where they were cleaned and
analyzed by Chinese and American scientists.
The dinosaur-eater belongs to a species called Repenomamus robustus,
known previously from skull fragments.
This squat, toothy specimen is more complete; lying on its side, it
measures a little less than 2 feet (60 centimeters) long, and probably
weighed about 15 pounds (7 kilos).
On R. robustus' left side and under the ribs in the location of its
stomach are the fragmented remains of a very young Psittacosaurus.
This common, fast-moving plant-eater is known as the "parrot dinosaur"
because it had a small head with a curved, horny beak. Its arms were
much shorter than its legs. Adults grew to be 6 feet (1.8 meters) long,
but the one that was devoured was just 5 inches (13 centimeters).
The remains still are recognizable, indicating that R. robustus ripped
its prey like a crocodile, but probably had not developed the ability
to chew food like more advanced mammals.
"We can still see articulated limb bones," Meng said. "It must have
swallowed food in large hunks without being chewed."
The larger, second fossil also is a Repenomamus, but considerably
larger. It measures more than 3 feet (90 meters) long and probably
weighed more than 30 pounds (13.6 kilos). Scientists have named it R.
giganticus.
It weighed 20 times more than most of the 290 known early mammal
species, Meng said. Its head is 50 percent larger than R. robustus and
its body was larger than some dinosaurs living in the region.
Being so much larger means that R. giganticus probably behaved
differently to most other early mammals, which ate insects and seeds. A
larger mammal could roam and hunt aggressively, preying on young
dinosaurs.
Originally, scientists believed that mammals remained small because
larger dinosaurs were hunting them. Only after dinosaurs went extinct
by 65 million years ago did surviving mammals begin to grow larger,
they reasoned.
Now, the presence of larger mammals is reversing some of the
speculation. The Liaoning region already is famous for its trove of
small feathered dinosaurs and early birds.
"Maybe small dinosaurs got larger or got off the ground to avoid
rapacious mammals," wonders Duke University paleontologist Anne Weil.
Deep Impact is carrying the most powerful telescope ever sent into deep
space. It will remain with the mothership when the impactor springs
free the day before the comet strike, and will observe the event from a
safe 300 miles away. NASA space telescopes like the Hubble will view
the collision, along with ground observatories and amateur astronomers.
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Correspondent:: "Lurkar"
Date: 12 Jan 2005 16:00:21 -0800
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Wow... that is sensual...
If i had baby dino-sores on my deep impact, i might have to see a
doctor.
or at least a vet.
Correspondent:: "Rev Chain Smerker"
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:08:10 GMT
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote in message
news:120120051850054291%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com...
>
> A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off
> Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a
> glimpse at the frozen primordial ingredients of the solar system..........
Thats what THEY want us to beleive, do you really think the US govt would
spend 300 million just to smash something into a flying object?
HA!, what they are really doing "out there" may suprise you
Correspondent:: "iowalot2iowapot"
Date: 12 Jan 2005 16:08:59 -0800
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Yup. We ate 'em. And they taste just like chicken!
===========================================
"You know tyrannosaurus rex was destroyed before by a furry little ball
that crawled along the primeval jungle floor. It slowly ate all the
dinosaurs!"--
Paul Kantner "Blows Against the Empire"
Correspondent:: "angelicusrex"
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:37:20 -0700
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"iowalot2iowapot" wrote in message
news:1105574939.820411.305550@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Yup. We ate 'em. And they taste just like chicken!
> ===========================================
Dinosaurs are chickens. They evolved just so we could have Church's and KFC.
Archimandrite Pudlevitcz. Mr. Know-it-all
Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:30:30 -0800
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:37:20 -0700, "angelicusrex"
wrote:
>Dinosaurs are chickens
They're not chicken, they're YELLA
--
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Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc)
Date: 13 Jan 2005 20:30:11 GMT
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They should have called that rocket
"Deep Penetration". . .
ooOOoo
Daily Affirmation:
No matter what new depths to which my life may fall,
I may always take solace in the fact
that I will never be found refining a puppet act.
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 01:21:26 GMT
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In article <120120051850054291%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>,
"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
> A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off
> Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a
> glimpse at the frozen primordial ingredients of the solar system
>
> Villagers digging in China's rich fossil beds have uncovered the
> preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a
> startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals
> couldn't possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.
>
> "One of the scary things is that we won't actually know the shape and
> what it looks like until after we do the encounter," Melosh said.
>
> "The most difficult and most challenging part is going to be the actual
> encounter because we're doing things that nobody has done before," said
> Jay Melosh, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona.
>
> Equally mysterious is how these specimens died in the same area at the
> same time. Neither shows evidence of being hunted itself.
>
> What makes it important to scientists is not the titan's muscular form
> but the globe he supports: carved constellations adorn its surface in
> exactly the locations Hipparchus would have seen in his day, suggesting
> that the sculptor based the globe on the ancient astronomer's star
> catalog, which no modern eyes have seen.
>
> The Yixian rock formation in which their bones were encased was a
> combination of river sediments and volcanic ash called tuff. The
> formation also includes the fossils of insects, frogs and other
> creatures, suggesting a mass die-off.
If you are going to re-post Hal Robins material, please give proper
attribution.
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now they're at the damned malls
At some point in time,
you will come to the realization
that almost everybody is making
Howard Dean sounds.
- Revi Shankar
"Nietsche is Pietsche."
- Ogden Nash
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:33:56 +1100
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> In this case, the mammal was about the size of a large cat, and the
> victim was a 5-inch "parrot dinosaur."
an accident involving a prototype time machine, Sylvester, and Tweetie.
Correspondent:: Rev DJ Epoch
Date: 14 Jan 2005 13:31:21 GMT
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote in
news:120120051850054291%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com:
>
> A NASA spacecraft with a Hollywood name -- Deep Impact -- blasted off
> Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a comet and give scientists a
> glimpse at the frozen primordial ingredients of the solar system
>
> Villagers digging in China's rich fossil beds have uncovered the
> preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a
> startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals
> couldn't possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.
>
> "One of the scary things is that we won't actually know the shape and
> what it looks like until after we do the encounter," Melosh said.
>
> "The most difficult and most challenging part is going to be the actual
> encounter because we're doing things that nobody has done before," said
> Jay Melosh, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona.
>
> Equally mysterious is how these specimens died in the same area at the
> same time. Neither shows evidence of being hunted itself.
>
> What makes it important to scientists is not the titan's muscular form
> but the globe he supports: carved constellations adorn its surface in
> exactly the locations Hipparchus would have seen in his day, suggesting
> that the sculptor based the globe on the ancient astronomer's star
> catalog, which no modern eyes have seen.
>
> The Yixian rock formation in which their bones were encased was a
> combination of river sediments and volcanic ash called tuff. The
> formation also includes the fossils of insects, frogs and other
> creatures, suggesting a mass die-off.
>
> Little is known about Comet Tempel 1, other than that it is an icy,
> rocky body about nine miles long and three miles wide. Scientists do
> not know whether the crust will be as hard as concrete or as flimsy as
> corn flakes.
>
> "It's possible that poisonous volcanic gas killed the animals when they
> were sleeping," Meng said. "Then there was a catastrophic explosion
> that buried the whole thing."
>
> "There are really very few instances where lost ancient secrets or
> wisdom are ever actually found," said Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana
> State University. "Here is a real case where rather well-known lost
> ancient wisdom has been discovered."
>
> Scientists say the animal's last meal probably is the first proof that
> mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago. It
> contradicts conventional evolutionary theory that early mammals were
> timid, chipmunk-sized creatures that scurried in the looming shadow of
> the giant reptiles.
>
> The entire mission costs $330 million, all the way through the grand
> finale
>
> Scientists are counting on Deep Impact to carve out a crater that could
> swallow the Roman Coliseum. It will be humanity's first look into the
> heart of a comet, a celestial snowball still preserving the original
> building blocks of the sun and the planets.
>
> In this case, the mammal was about the size of a large cat, and the
> victim was a 5-inch "parrot dinosaur."
>
> A second mammal fossil found at the same site claims the distinction of
> being the largest early mammal ever found. It's about the size of a
> modern dog, a breathtaking 20 times larger than most mammals living in
> the early Cretaceous Period.
>
> Because of the relative speed of the two objects at the moment of
> impact -- 23,000 mph -- no explosives are needed for the job. The force
> of the smashup will be equivalent to 41/2 tons of TNT, creating a flash
> that just might be visible in the dark sky by the naked eye in one
> spectacular Fourth of July fireworks display.
>
> "Giganticus is in a league by itself," Luo said. "It's the world
> champion so far for body mass in any Mesozoic mammal."
>
> This new class of predatory mammals has set off new speculation.
>
> Nothing like this has ever been attempted before.
>
> It appears that at least some smaller dinosaurs had to look over their
> shoulders for snarling, meat-eating mammals claiming the same turf.
>
> With a launch window only one second long, Deep Impact rocketed away at
> the designated moment on a six-month, 268 million-mile journey to Comet
> Tempel 1. It will be a one-way trip that NASA hopes will reach a
> cataclysmic end on the Fourth of July.
>
> Considering the specimens in tandem, scientists suggest the period in
> which these animals lived may have been much different than is commonly
> understood as the Age of Dinosaurs, a time dominated by long-necked,
> 85-ton plant-eaters and the emergence of terrifying hunters with
> bladelike teeth and sickle claws.
>
> The comet will be more than 80 million miles from Earth when the
> collision takes place. The resulting crater is expected to be anywhere
> from two to 14 stories deep, and perhaps 300 feet in diameter.
>
> "This new evidence gives us a drastically new picture," said
> paleontologist Meng Jin of the American Museum of Natural History in
> New York City, a co-author of the study in Thursday's issue of the
> journal Nature.
>
> Other scientists who did not work on the bones described the
> discoveries as "exhilarating."
>
> A jagged, cratered comet like the one headed for Earth in the 1998
> movie "Deep Impact" would be difficult if not impossible to hit because
> of all the shadows, Melosh said. Comet Tempel 1 is believed to be
> smoother and easier to hit.
>
> "This size range really has surprised everybody," said Zhexi Luo of the
> Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, who digs in the same
> area of northeast China. "It dispels the conventional wisdom."
>
> The scientists came up with the Deep Impact name independently of the
> movie studio, around the same time, neither knowing the other was
> choosing it, even though some members of NASA's Deep Impact team were
> consultants on the picture.
>
> The fossils were found more than two years ago in Liaoning province.
> The specimens were taken to a Beijing lab, where they were cleaned and
> analyzed by Chinese and American scientists.
>
> The dinosaur-eater belongs to a species called Repenomamus robustus,
> known previously from skull fragments.
>
> This squat, toothy specimen is more complete; lying on its side, it
> measures a little less than 2 feet (60 centimeters) long, and probably
> weighed about 15 pounds (7 kilos).
>
> On R. robustus' left side and under the ribs in the location of its
> stomach are the fragmented remains of a very young Psittacosaurus.
>
> This common, fast-moving plant-eater is known as the "parrot dinosaur"
> because it had a small head with a curved, horny beak. Its arms were
> much shorter than its legs. Adults grew to be 6 feet (1.8 meters) long,
> but the one that was devoured was just 5 inches (13 centimeters).
>
> The remains still are recognizable, indicating that R. robustus ripped
> its prey like a crocodile, but probably had not developed the ability
> to chew food like more advanced mammals.
>
> "We can still see articulated limb bones," Meng said. "It must have
> swallowed food in large hunks without being chewed."
>
> The larger, second fossil also is a Repenomamus, but considerably
> larger. It measures more than 3 feet (90 meters) long and probably
> weighed more than 30 pounds (13.6 kilos). Scientists have named it R.
> giganticus.
>
> It weighed 20 times more than most of the 290 known early mammal
> species, Meng said. Its head is 50 percent larger than R. robustus and
> its body was larger than some dinosaurs living in the region.
>
> Being so much larger means that R. giganticus probably behaved
> differently to most other early mammals, which ate insects and seeds. A
> larger mammal could roam and hunt aggressively, preying on young
> dinosaurs.
>
> Originally, scientists believed that mammals remained small because
> larger dinosaurs were hunting them. Only after dinosaurs went extinct
> by 65 million years ago did surviving mammals begin to grow larger,
> they reasoned.
>
> Now, the presence of larger mammals is reversing some of the
> speculation. The Liaoning region already is famous for its trove of
> small feathered dinosaurs and early birds.
>
> "Maybe small dinosaurs got larger or got off the ground to avoid
> rapacious mammals," wonders Duke University paleontologist Anne Weil.
>
> Deep Impact is carrying the most powerful telescope ever sent into deep
> space. It will remain with the mothership when the impactor springs
> free the day before the comet strike, and will observe the event from a
> safe 300 miles away. NASA space telescopes like the Hubble will view
> the collision, along with ground observatories and amateur astronomers.
>
Ok, reading this post was alot like speed channel surfing on a TV with a
cable box that only picks up National Geographic channel and Nasa TV while
knowing that SOMEHERE is a channel showing MASH.
Dammit, I *still* need more coffee this morning.
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