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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Oct 20, 2018 8:29:04 GMT
What do you like best about dinosaurs? For me, it's their amazing variety of shapes and sizes. Some were as small as the average house cat while others were as tall as 3-storey buildings (or possibly even taller).
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Post by bricabrach on Oct 26, 2018 10:15:31 GMT
For sure their variety in size and other qualities is amazing. And a new dinosaur is discovered almost weekly, adding to this variety. To me, though, the best part is — and this grates on me even while I’m saying it — the very best about prehistoric dinosaurs is that ... they’re gone. This allows us to exercise imagination! It would be fun to see living dinosaurs in a zoo somewhere— oops, that was Jurassic Park. Some time ago a deer ran into my car from the side -- the deer walked away (laughing, I insist!) while my car suffered $3.5K damage. If that were a T. rex ... the damage to my car would be the least of my worries. "Crunchy outside, chewy center," or something like that. Even herbivores would be eating crops and making who knows what sort of nuisance. It would be cool if we could ride them, etc. like in Dinotopia -- but the behavior of many humans today would make that unlikely. They're not living the Codes out here!
But since dinosaurs are extinct yet we get to find the bones ... we have Dinotopia and a whole slew of dino media. Model dinos. Animatronic dino parks. This forum. And many other good things I've not thought of. So enjoy the prehistoric world without worry that it will eat you!
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Oct 27, 2018 1:12:32 GMT
The Codes of Dinotopia 1. Survival of all or none. 2. One raindrop raises the sea. 3. Weapons are enemies, even to their owners. 4. Give more, take less. 5. Others first, self last. 6. Observe, listen and learn. 7. Do one thing at a time 8. Sing every day. 9. Exercise imagination. 10. Eat to live, don't live to eat. 11. Don't p.... No-one knows what the last code is, but according to some Dinotopians, the final code is "Don't pee in the bath", a reference of dinosaurs' dislike of humans who have a lack of cleanliness. Technically speaking, we still have dinosaurs with us. The birds we see in our parks and gardens every day are modern feathered dinosaurs.
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Post by magicmuggle01 on Nov 5, 2018 12:49:10 GMT
I think I'd have to go for the power they displayed.
The fact that they were able to survive for millions of years in a hostile environment.
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