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| Xarx |
 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:36 pm |
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As I travel with the Borg and Angels and various other intelligence - through
creation and various animals and creatures - the only way to learn and know a
species is to be born among them and live with them.
Naturally we take the form of the creature or animal - as now - I may look
human but I am not human at all.
Chickens were one of the many forms of life we lived among. Born as a chick
but somehow being subconsciously aware that I was not really a chicken - I
grew up amongst chickens.
There is a certain pecking order among chickens - and a due respect. The
clucking noises may be only clucking noises to you - but to chickens they
reverberate and resonate on a certain level known only to chickens. It is
like a language - but more an understanding.
Of course we make the best endeavour not to be detected or spotted as an
intruder - in much the same way no one has spotted me amongst humans.
I learnt how to cluck and indeed even laid eggs. I do things to the best of
my ability and always aim for perfection so when I laid an egg I duly sounded
the triumphant "Qua qua qua qua qua KAAAAA" that is essential as a chicken to
announce this remarkable feat.
As I was not really a chicken and do have an atrocious sense of humour - one
day I did the "Qua qua qua qua qua KAAAAA a bit too loud - a bit too
perfect - and rather than be the inconspicuous chicken I was aiming for - I
found ALL the other chickens were watching me!"
It would be on a level of discovering among humans that I was no less than
the Messiah - such was the inordinate respect and amazement of other
chickens.
Thus one of my names as a Borg is "Chicken extraordinaire" to mark my great
success in the world of chickens.
Regards
Xarx of Borg |
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| Sir Frederick |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:47 pm |
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Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur. |
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| Xarx |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:53 pm |
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"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
You say evolved dinosaurs - some say evolved Jews all coming from Adam and
Eve - others say humans came from water and were once particles and have no
connection to dinosaurs.
Some say aliens planted humans on Earth as an experiment.
Some say the whole thing is a delusion.
Some say that some humans are angels and some are not human at all.
There is no evidence that birds come from dinosaurs.
There is no evidence that you were or were not once either a potato or a
piece of seaweed.
There is no evidence or proof of anything at all.
Whatsoever.
Any evidence or proof is at the whim of the intelligence that can make any
evidence or proof verifiable at any given time dependant upon precisely what
they wish anyone to know or not know.
And when they present their "proof" you will know absolutely that it is true!
Even if it is a pack of garbage and gobbledegook.
They can do this you see.
Xarx of Borg |
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| Immortalist |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:09 pm |
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On Apr 30, 4:53 pm, "Xarx" <x...@neoncity.com> wrote:
Quote: "Sir Frederick" <mmcne...@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
You say evolved dinosaurs - some say evolved Jews all coming from Adam and
Eve - others say humans came from water and were once particles and have no
connection to dinosaurs.
Some say aliens planted humans on Earth as an experiment.
Some say the whole thing is a delusion.
Some say that some humans are angels and some are not human at all.
There is no evidence that birds come from dinosaurs.
There is no evidence that you were or were not once either a potato or a
piece of seaweed.
There is no evidence or proof of anything at all.
Whatsoever.
Any evidence or proof is at the whim of the intelligence that can make any
evidence or proof verifiable at any given time dependant upon precisely what
they wish anyone to know or not know.
And when they present their "proof" you will know absolutely that it is true!
Even if it is a pack of garbage and gobbledegook.
They can do this you see.
Xarx of Borg
Oh, now something has to be known absolutely before we can pick it as
the best theory? That seems like a contradiction since so far we have
not found anything that we can know with absolute certainty. Even that
the sun will rise tommorrow is just a really good theory. If you look
at all the evidence for evolution it is hands down the winner of other
theory killers.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gm_n76Dsl0c
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution |
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| Immortalist |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:14 pm |
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On Apr 30, 5:20 pm, "brian fletcher" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: "Sir Frederick" <mmcne...@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
You wouldnt be related to Sir Fredrick Flintstone by any chance  !!!
BOfL
If your Wilma
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KiKVxg0rNKc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FZ9X5u48CRU |
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| brian fletcher |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:20 pm |
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"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Quote: Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
You wouldnt be related to Sir Fredrick Flintstone by any chance !!!
BOfL |
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| brian fletcher |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:22 pm |
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"Xarx" <xarx@neoncity.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
You say evolved dinosaurs - some say evolved Jews all coming from Adam and
Eve - others say humans came from water and were once particles and have
no connection to dinosaurs.
Some say aliens planted humans on Earth as an experiment.
Some say the whole thing is a delusion.
Some say that some humans are angels and some are not human at all.
There is no evidence that birds come from dinosaurs.
There is no evidence that you were or were not once either a potato or a
piece of seaweed.
There is no evidence or proof of anything at all.
Whatsoever.
Any evidence or proof is at the whim of the intelligence that can make any
evidence or proof verifiable at any given time dependant upon precisely
what they wish anyone to know or not know.
And when they present their "proof" you will know absolutely that it is
true! Even if it is a pack of garbage and gobbledegook.
They can do this you see.
Xarx of Borg
And the meassage is "beware of they"...They are, which is why they behave
so.
Just mutual dependancy, as children are.
BOfL |
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| Mark Earnest |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:58 pm |
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"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
Is there really such a thing as backward evolution?
From the quite dominant kings of the world to the frying pan? |
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| monkfish |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:09 pm |
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Mark Earnest wrote:
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"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
Is there really such a thing as backward evolution?
From the quite dominant kings of the world to the frying pan?
What do you mean by 'backward'?
From the perspective of complexity and population,
it might not be backward at all.
--
monkfish * The best way to handle spams is to ignore them. But if you must
reply to them, you should at least set the followup-to header to something
other than your own newsgroup. |
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| turtoni |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:57 pm |
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On Apr 30, 7:47 pm, Sir Frederick <mmcne...@fuzzysys.com> wrote:
Quote: Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
i saw that article too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEcrgKKN6zo |
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| Mark Earnest |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:59 pm |
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"monkfish" <monkfish@nowhere> wrote in message
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Quote: Mark Earnest wrote:
"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
Is there really such a thing as backward evolution?
From the quite dominant kings of the world to the frying pan?
What do you mean by 'backward'?
From the perspective of complexity and population,
it might not be backward at all.
Think of the glorious T-Rex that terrorized all the world, becoming a scared
chicken that ends up in the Colonal's Recipe.
That is about as backward evolution as it can get, IMHO. |
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| brian fletcher |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:49 pm |
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"Mark Earnest" <gmearnest@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"monkfish" <monkfish@nowhere> wrote in message
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Mark Earnest wrote:
"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
Is there really such a thing as backward evolution?
From the quite dominant kings of the world to the frying pan?
What do you mean by 'backward'?
From the perspective of complexity and population,
it might not be backward at all.
Think of the glorious T-Rex that terrorized all the world, becoming a
scared chicken that ends up in the Colonal's Recipe.
That is about as backward evolution as it can get, IMHO.
Meat is meat !!!
BOfL |
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| Sir Frederick |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 12:17 am |
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:53:59 GMT, "Xarx" <xarx@neoncity.com> wrote:
Quote:
"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
You say evolved dinosaurs - some say evolved Jews all coming from Adam and
Eve - others say humans came from water and were once particles and have no
connection to dinosaurs.
Some say aliens planted humans on Earth as an experiment.
Some say the whole thing is a delusion.
Some say that some humans are angels and some are not human at all.
There is no evidence that birds come from dinosaurs.
There is no evidence that you were or were not once either a potato or a
piece of seaweed.
There is no evidence or proof of anything at all.
Whatsoever.
Any evidence or proof is at the whim of the intelligence that can make any
evidence or proof verifiable at any given time dependant upon precisely what
they wish anyone to know or not know.
And when they present their "proof" you will know absolutely that it is true!
Even if it is a pack of garbage and gobbledegook.
They can do this you see.
Xarx of Borg
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424140418.htm
Molecular Analysis Confirms Tyrannosaurus Rex's Evolutionary Link To Birds
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2008) —
Putting more meat on the theory that dinosaurs' closest living relatives are modern-day birds, molecular analysis of a shred of
68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein -- along with that of 21 modern species -- confirms that dinosaurs share common
ancestry with chickens, ostriches, and to a lesser extent, alligators.
The work, published in the journal Science, represents the first use of molecular data to place a non-avian dinosaur in a
phylogenetic tree that traces the evolution of species. The scientists also report that similar analysis of 160,000- to
600,000-year-old collagen protein sequences derived from mastodon bone establishes a close phylogenetic relationship between that
extinct species and modern elephants.
"These results match predictions made from skeletal anatomy, providing the first molecular evidence for the evolutionary
relationships of a non-avian dinosaur," says co-author Chris Organ, a postdoctoral researcher in organismic and evolutionary biology
at Harvard University. "Even though we only had six peptides -- just 89 amino acids -- from T. rex, we were able to establish these
relationships with a relatively high degree of support. With more data, we'd likely see the T. rex branch on the phylogenetic tree
between alligators and chickens and ostriches, though we can't resolve this position with currently available data."
The current paper builds on work reported in Science last year. In that paper, a team headed by John M. Asara and Lewis C. Cantley,
both of Beth Israel Deaconess Medi-cal Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), first captured and sequenced tiny pieces of
collagen protein from T. rex. For the current work, Organ and Asara and their colleagues used sophisticated algorithms to compare
collagen protein from several dozen species. The goal: placing T. rex on the animal kingdom's family tree using molecu-lar evidence.
"Most of the collagen sequence was obtained from protein and genome databases but we also needed to sequence some critical
organisms, including modern alligator and modern ostrich, by mass spectrometry," says Asara, director of the mass spectrometry core
facility at BIDMC and instructor in pathology at HMS. "We determined that T. rex, in fact, grouped with birds -- ostrich and chicken
-- better than any other organism that we studied. We also show that it groups better with birds than modern reptiles, such as
alliga-tors and green anole lizards."
While scientists have long suspected that birds, and not more basal reptiles, are di-nosaurs' closest living relatives, for years
that hypothesis rested largely on morphological similarities in bird and dinosaur skeletons.
The scraps of dinosaur protein were wrested from a fossil femur discovered in 2003 by John Horner of the Museum of the Rockies in a
barren fossil-rich stretch of land that spans Wyoming and Montana. Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State Univer-sity (NCSU) and
the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences discovered soft-tissue preservation in the T. rex bone in 2005; Asara became involved
in analysis of the colla-gen protein because of his expertise in mass spectrometry techniques capable of se-quencing minute amounts
of protein from human tumors. While it appears impossible to salvage DNA from the bone, Asara was able to extract precious slivers
of protein.
The current work by Organ and Asara suggests that the extracted protein from the fossilized dinosaur tissue is authentic, rather
than contamination from a living spe-cies.
"These results support the endogenous origin of the preserved collagen mole-cules," the researchers write.
Organ, Asara, Schweitzer, and Cantley's co-authors on the Science paper are Wenxia Zheng of NCSU and Lisa M. Freimark of BIDMC.
Their research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Paul F. Glenn Foundation, and
the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Adapted from materials provided by Harvard University. |
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| Mark Earnest |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:18 pm |
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"brian fletcher" <bigfletch8@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Mark Earnest wrote:
"Sir Frederick" <mmcneill@fuzzysys.com> wrote in message
news:kt0i141rohcnpbai9b6r37cp20tiodookn@4ax.com...
Chickens are evolved dinosaurs, as are all birds.
Present day lizards and reptiles are much more distant
relatives. Maybe KFC should be KFD for Kentucky Fried
Dinosaur.
Is there really such a thing as backward evolution?
From the quite dominant kings of the world to the frying pan?
What do you mean by 'backward'?
From the perspective of complexity and population,
it might not be backward at all.
Think of the glorious T-Rex that terrorized all the world, becoming a
scared chicken that ends up in the Colonal's Recipe.
That is about as backward evolution as it can get, IMHO.
Meat is meat !!!
BOfL
Right, its eat or be eaten. |
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