Talk:2362: Volcano Dinosaur - Revision history

TenGolf MathHacker at 20:06, 5 January 2024

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Nitpicking: taxonomy

2023-11-19T16:14:28Z

taxonomy

108.162.215.176: :We don't know if COVID-19 can infect dinosaurs. (Probably not, it seems to only infect mammals.)~~~~

2020-09-24T06:12:01Z

:We don't know if COVID-19 can infect dinosaurs. (Probably not, it seems to only infect mammals.)~~~~

SDSpivey at 21:00, 23 September 2020

2020-09-23T21:00:45Z

141.101.99.153 at 20:14, 23 September 2020

2020-09-23T20:14:49Z

Bischoff at 19:35, 23 September 2020

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JBYoshi: Comment

2020-09-23T17:30:52Z

Comment

Rtanenbaum at 13:19, 23 September 2020

2020-09-23T13:19:47Z

Justhalf: Add calculation for the percentage of comics using [CITATION NEEDED] joke

2020-09-23T09:33:42Z

Add calculation for the percentage of comics using [CITATION NEEDED] joke

162.158.183.205 at 09:15, 23 September 2020

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	:Well, I ''tried'' to build my luxury hotel and backpacker's hostel in the woodlands that grew over the old Indian Burial Ground that they burnt all those witches in, but my builders said they were still too busy building the secret government bunker for extradimensional gateway research and development of an RNA-based immortality serum for the military. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 20:14, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		:Well, I ''tried'' to build my luxury hotel and backpacker's hostel in the woodlands that grew over the old Indian Burial Ground that they burnt all those witches in, but my builders said they were still too busy building the secret government bunker for extradimensional gateway research and development of an RNA-based immortality serum for the military. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 20:14, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
	:We don't know if COVID-19 can infect dinosaurs. (Probably not, it seems to only infect mammals.)[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.176\|108.162.215.176]] 06:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)		:We don't know if COVID-19 can infect dinosaurs. (Probably not, it seems to only infect mammals.)[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.176\|108.162.215.176]] 06:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Chronostratigraphy update: 125 million years ago was in the Barremian age in the Lower Cretaceous.

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 ::True, but is a 100,000,000th cousin that different from a 100,000,001th cousin? [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 11:25, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 ::Why would birds be closer relation than reptiles, since the dinosaurs were reptiles? [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 21:00, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 :::One might wade in caustic lakes, except when it flies to its feeding grounds, the other breeds in icy wastes and be flightless but a superb swimmer in freezing oceans. And if there's a large intestate estate needing to be inherited then be prepared for legal challenges! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.198|162.158.155.198]] 11:47, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 :::Just in case, if you have a parrot you should ask it if its family has any stories of a great-to-the-millionth uncle who went missing around the time of an eruption. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 13:37, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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	Why would 2020 not be a good year to dig it up and potentially let it free? 2020 is the perfect year for that. Let's get all the scary stuff over with so we can move on. I say we use the remaining three months of the year to open as many sealed graves, haunted houses and such things as possible. [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		Why would 2020 not be a good year to dig it up and potentially let it free? 2020 is the perfect year for that. Let's get all the scary stuff over with so we can move on. I say we use the remaining three months of the year to open as many sealed graves, haunted houses and such things as possible. [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
	:Well, I ''tried'' to build my luxury hotel and backpacker's hostel in the woodlands that grew over the old Indian Burial Ground that they burnt all those witches in, but my builders said they were still too busy building the secret government bunker for extradimensional gateway research and development of an RNA-based immortality serum for the military. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 20:14, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		:Well, I ''tried'' to build my luxury hotel and backpacker's hostel in the woodlands that grew over the old Indian Burial Ground that they burnt all those witches in, but my builders said they were still too busy building the secret government bunker for extradimensional gateway research and development of an RNA-based immortality serum for the military. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 20:14, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
		+	:We don't know if COVID-19 can infect dinosaurs. (Probably not, it seems to only infect mammals.)[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.176\|108.162.215.176]] 06:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

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 : But some living birds will be fewer generations removed from that dinosaur than others [[User:Jeremyp|Jeremyp]] ([[User talk:Jeremyp|talk]]) 08:57, 22 September 2020 (UTC).
 ::True, but is a 100,000,000th cousin that different from a 100,000,001th cousin? [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 11:25, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 :::One might wade in caustic lakes, except when it flies to its feeding grounds, the other breeds in icy wastes and be flightless but a superb swimmer in freezing oceans. And if there's a large intestate estate needing to be inherited then be prepared for legal challenges! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.198|162.158.155.198]] 11:47, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 :::Just in case, if you have a parrot you should ask it if its family has any stories of a great-to-the-millionth uncle who went missing around the time of an eruption. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 13:37, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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	Why would 2020 not be a good year to dig it up and potentially let it free? 2020 is the perfect year for that. Let's get all the scary stuff over with so we can move on. I say we use the remaining three months of the year to open as many sealed graves, haunted houses and such things as possible. [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		Why would 2020 not be a good year to dig it up and potentially let it free? 2020 is the perfect year for that. Let's get all the scary stuff over with so we can move on. I say we use the remaining three months of the year to open as many sealed graves, haunted houses and such things as possible. [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
		+	:Well, I ''tried'' to build my luxury hotel and backpacker's hostel in the woodlands that grew over the old Indian Burial Ground that they burnt all those witches in, but my builders said they were still too busy building the secret government bunker for extradimensional gateway research and development of an RNA-based immortality serum for the military. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 20:14, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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	:There are 358 links to that page from actual comics (excluding redirect, talk pages, etc.). Since we have 2,362 comics, that's around 15% of the explanations. Quite high, but I guess not really overused, especially since it's not annoying. [[User:Justhalf\|Justhalf]] ([[User talk:Justhalf\|talk]]) 09:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		:There are 358 links to that page from actual comics (excluding redirect, talk pages, etc.). Since we have 2,362 comics, that's around 15% of the explanations. Quite high, but I guess not really overused, especially since it's not annoying. [[User:Justhalf\|Justhalf]] ([[User talk:Justhalf\|talk]]) 09:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
	::Links or pages? Some pages, like this one, have multiple links to it. [[User:JBYoshi\|JBYoshi]] ([[User talk:JBYoshi\|talk]]) 17:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		::Links or pages? Some pages, like this one, have multiple links to it. [[User:JBYoshi\|JBYoshi]] ([[User talk:JBYoshi\|talk]]) 17:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Why would 2020 not be a good year to dig it up and potentially let it free? 2020 is the perfect year for that. Let's get all the scary stuff over with so we can move on. I say we use the remaining three months of the year to open as many sealed graves, haunted houses and such things as possible. [[User:Bischoff\|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff\|talk]]) 19:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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	I'm only who feeling that [CITATION NEEDED] joke is overused by now? In every second comic there is [CITATION NEEDED] at least once. We have around 450 pages with that, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/285:_Wikipedian_Protester [[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.205\|162.158.183.205]] 09:15, 23 September 2020 (UTC) LauLain		I'm only who feeling that [CITATION NEEDED] joke is overused by now? In every second comic there is [CITATION NEEDED] at least once. We have around 450 pages with that, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/285:_Wikipedian_Protester [[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.205\|162.158.183.205]] 09:15, 23 September 2020 (UTC) LauLain
	:There are 358 links to that page from actual comics (excluding redirect, talk pages, etc.). Since we have 2,362 comics, that's around 15% of the explanations. Quite high, but I guess not really overused, especially since it's not annoying. [[User:Justhalf\|Justhalf]] ([[User talk:Justhalf\|talk]]) 09:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		:There are 358 links to that page from actual comics (excluding redirect, talk pages, etc.). Since we have 2,362 comics, that's around 15% of the explanations. Quite high, but I guess not really overused, especially since it's not annoying. [[User:Justhalf\|Justhalf]] ([[User talk:Justhalf\|talk]]) 09:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
		+	::Links or pages? Some pages, like this one, have multiple links to it. [[User:JBYoshi\|JBYoshi]] ([[User talk:JBYoshi\|talk]]) 17:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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 :::::Compounding would indeed increase the value, but wouldn't inflation decrease the value?  The value after 125 million years should depend on which factor is outpacing the other, on average.  Also, bird species with short generations would be more distantly related than bird species with long generations. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.89|162.158.107.89]] 23:49, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 :::::That would depend upon many things, like how it turns out if progeniture is the basis of branch-prioritisation (male/female-preference giving different results to the absolute version) and sallic (including semi-sallic and quasi-sallic) rules which could see an entitlement even dive back up out of the avian branch and down into any other sprawl of the tree-of-life... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153|141.101.99.153]] 01:27, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 I'm only who feeling that [CITATION NEEDED] joke is overused by now? In every second comic there is [CITATION NEEDED] at least once. We have around 450 pages with that, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/285:_Wikipedian_Protester [[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.205|162.158.183.205]] 09:15, 23 September 2020 (UTC) LauLain
 :There are 358 links to that page from actual comics (excluding redirect, talk pages, etc.). Since we have 2,362 comics, that's around 15% of the explanations. Quite high, but I guess not really overused, especially since it's not annoying. [[User:Justhalf|Justhalf]] ([[User talk:Justhalf|talk]]) 09:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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	:::::That would depend upon many things, like how it turns out if progeniture is the basis of branch-prioritisation (male/female-preference giving different results to the absolute version) and sallic (including semi-sallic and quasi-sallic) rules which could see an entitlement even dive back up out of the avian branch and down into any other sprawl of the tree-of-life... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 01:27, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		:::::That would depend upon many things, like how it turns out if progeniture is the basis of branch-prioritisation (male/female-preference giving different results to the absolute version) and sallic (including semi-sallic and quasi-sallic) rules which could see an entitlement even dive back up out of the avian branch and down into any other sprawl of the tree-of-life... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 01:27, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
	I'm only who feeling that [CITATION NEEDED] joke is overused by now? In every second comic there is [CITATION NEEDED] at least once. We have around 450 pages with that, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/285:_Wikipedian_Protester [[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.205\|162.158.183.205]] 09:15, 23 September 2020 (UTC) LauLain		I'm only who feeling that [CITATION NEEDED] joke is overused by now? In every second comic there is [CITATION NEEDED] at least once. We have around 450 pages with that, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/285:_Wikipedian_Protester [[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.205\|162.158.183.205]] 09:15, 23 September 2020 (UTC) LauLain
		+	:There are 358 links to that page from actual comics (excluding redirect, talk pages, etc.). Since we have 2,362 comics, that's around 15% of the explanations. Quite high, but I guess not really overused, especially since it's not annoying. [[User:Justhalf\|Justhalf]] ([[User talk:Justhalf\|talk]]) 09:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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	:::::Compounding would indeed increase the value, but wouldn't inflation decrease the value? The value after 125 million years should depend on which factor is outpacing the other, on average. Also, bird species with short generations would be more distantly related than bird species with long generations. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.89\|162.158.107.89]] 23:49, 22 September 2020 (UTC)		:::::Compounding would indeed increase the value, but wouldn't inflation decrease the value? The value after 125 million years should depend on which factor is outpacing the other, on average. Also, bird species with short generations would be more distantly related than bird species with long generations. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.89\|162.158.107.89]] 23:49, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
	:::::That would depend upon many things, like how it turns out if progeniture is the basis of branch-prioritisation (male/female-preference giving different results to the absolute version) and sallic (including semi-sallic and quasi-sallic) rules which could see an entitlement even dive back up out of the avian branch and down into any other sprawl of the tree-of-life... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 01:27, 23 September 2020 (UTC)		:::::That would depend upon many things, like how it turns out if progeniture is the basis of branch-prioritisation (male/female-preference giving different results to the absolute version) and sallic (including semi-sallic and quasi-sallic) rules which could see an entitlement even dive back up out of the avian branch and down into any other sprawl of the tree-of-life... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.153\|141.101.99.153]] 01:27, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
		+	I'm only who feeling that [CITATION NEEDED] joke is overused by now? In every second comic there is [CITATION NEEDED] at least once. We have around 450 pages with that, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/285:_Wikipedian_Protester [[Special:Contributions/162.158.183.205\|162.158.183.205]] 09:15, 23 September 2020 (UTC) LauLain