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| What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,277 Views) | |
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Dec 8 2014, 12:07 AM Post #3346 |
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| Ignacio | Dec 8 2014, 12:26 AM Post #3347 |
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Well i wouldn't count that as paleontology
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 8 2014, 08:01 AM Post #3348 |
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It's a disgrace to paleontology. Anything involving Ken Ham or Answers in Genesis is an insult to paleontology! |
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| Yi Qi | Dec 8 2014, 08:11 AM Post #3349 |
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Not only paleontology, the sheer existence of Ken Ham is an insult to human intelligence. Edited by Yi Qi, Dec 8 2014, 08:11 AM.
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| Similis | Dec 8 2014, 10:35 AM Post #3350 |
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IMO considering work of Ken Ham to be in any part Paleontology is an insult to Paleontology... I honestly even prefer Peters, because with him it's at least obvious he's waging a war on intellectual honesty to get money. With Ham I'm not sure if it's genuine delusion or a clever ploy. Edited by Similis, Dec 8 2014, 10:36 AM.
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| babehunter1324 | Dec 8 2014, 12:13 PM Post #3351 |
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The fact that the developers in Avalancha Studios had the nerve to claim that this:![]() (That's supposed to be a Utahraptor) And this: ![]() Is somehow more accurate that the dinosaurs portrayed in Hollywood... Because they had feathers (Nevermind how wrong the coverage and placement is, let alone the models beign extremely inaccurate). Just my 2nd post on the forum
Edited by babehunter1324, Dec 8 2014, 12:56 PM.
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| Luca9108 | Dec 8 2014, 02:41 PM Post #3352 |
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This is annoys me
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| stargatedalek | Dec 8 2014, 03:58 PM Post #3353 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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IMO those are still far more accurate than nearly any Hollywood movie dinosaurs |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 8 2014, 04:01 PM Post #3354 |
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Plus that looks like a fairly old image to me. Speaking of which, it annoys me how neanderthals are always depicted as dumb, brutish savages when they were probably no less intelligent than Homo sapiens. |
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| Incinerox | Dec 8 2014, 04:05 PM Post #3355 |
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It annoys me when paleontologists flip out over movie dinosaurs that aren't accurate. They're movies. Anatomical accuracy is almost always 2nd priority in movie monster making. #1 is ALWAYS giving a monster's personality a visual context. It almost always ends up becoming hypocritical on the angry mob's part anyway. Like how everyone flips over the accuracy/inaccuracy of Jurassic Park's genetically incomplete dinosaurs, yet nobody DARES question how a 20ft tall gorilla could support itself in King Kong, for example. I'd save those rants for movies/series that intend to be factual. Like Jurassic Fight Club... *shudder* Edited by Incinerox, Dec 8 2014, 04:06 PM.
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 8 2014, 04:15 PM Post #3356 |
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Not to mention that most of JP's dinosaurs (with the exception of the Dilophosaurus) weren't actually terribly inaccurate for 1993. |
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| Brach™ | Dec 8 2014, 05:32 PM Post #3357 |
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Oh no..... Thats Peter Cullen narrating the NG thing.
Edited by Brach™, Dec 8 2014, 05:32 PM.
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| Nomis | Dec 8 2014, 07:48 PM Post #3358 |
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It all makes sense
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| Brach™ | Dec 8 2014, 10:07 PM Post #3359 |
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Ken Ham is a cancerous joke everywhere outside of the deep south and I'm eager for ZionEagle to downvote this as well, seeing as how he's willing to downvote everything disparaging Ham man but not make an actual argument. |
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| Similis | Dec 9 2014, 04:07 AM Post #3360 |
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While in general I have no problem with movies like JP being monster movies utilizing dinosaur popularity to get more money, I see where they're coming from. Paleontology is brought down to a level of unimportance unless society can get kicks off of it through various forms of amusement. Paleontologists get hate for finding feathered dinosaurs because they don't fit into the 'awesome monster' idea that films like JP have planted in the minds of general audience or because they don't fit into political/ideological picture people have in mind of what dinosaurs should look like to validate their views. And in the end, while general public is not that much important to the field, I just don't think paleontology deserves this. It helped us learn loads about past and the most it gets in popular media is a caricatural depiction in a monster movie every few years or so. I find it... sad. |
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