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    Squishy, yet interesting:
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    Or this, if we just need to take a break and have a laugh:
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    Thanks Barn. Really appreciate Styx. I find him to be very multi-dimensional in his thinking. Another tip I've found which is helpful, and is kind of in the same vein as your original post. When trying to sort out if someone is a controlling Cluster B type, just try telling them "No".
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    Thanks from me also. I've been looking for something like this.
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    Actually, yes and no. At the surface and at one atmosphere, all the air breathing, waterborne creatures have to deal with is how their Body Mass Index impacts their bouyancy. The animals which live deeper, have to deal with increased water pressure for every atmosphere they descend into. Question is, how would decreased gravity impact the Atmospheric Threshold?
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    http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Metaphysics-One-Many-Infinite-Finite.htm
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    Reminds me of one of my favorites: https://www.google.com/search?q=art+forms+in+nature+by+ernst+haeckel&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMkLa5v4zaAhVM6Z8KHQH8AGEQsAQIaA&biw=1638&bih=828 Barn, I couldn't get your first link to work.
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    Yeah, hard to know what to believe without digging down ten miles under the articles. Does your wife also have a visa?
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    Sean, I just found this: http://usa-television.com/donald-trump-signs-a-visa-free-travel-policy-for-south-africa/ I know it's not much, but it's a start. Sure would love to see help for folks like you and your wife as part of the USA's immigration reform. Maybe even set up a sponsorship by US families willing to help displaced SA's get on their feet in our country. I can't imagine the stress you are living under right now. You have a friend in me.
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    This brings to mind something else I've been wondering. What is the possible affect on water in a reduced gravity environment? How much would gravity impact the Atmospheric Conversion? This is something all scuba divers and deep sea explorers must learn about in order to avoid the dreaded bends upon resurfacing or being crushed in their submersibles. I originally learned about this long ago when I took a scuba class. Here is some basic info: https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/nemo1998/education/pressure.html If we study the water experiments in space in a non gravity environment, it appears that a living being would simply be suspended in water and be able to move about freely with little to no pressure. But what about water in the oceans of the earth if gravity was less at the time of the dinosaurs? Would it affect sea levels? Ice crystals? I haven't been able to find any research, probably due to the fact that a lesser gravity experiment would be difficult to accomplish. I think lesser gravity would change the Atmospheric Conversion Formula, but not remove the need for it as a zero gravity environment might. In studying the sea dwelling animals of the past and present, whales have reduced their bone structure to a minimum and have enough blubber to make them neutral in water. I notice this myself when my Body Mass Index changes. More fat and I become more neutral, easily floating without having to move in order to stay afloat, thus saving energy. If my fat ratio is down, I lose bouyancy and have to keep more air in my lungs (not fully exhale) to compensate and/or keep moving (expending more energy) to stay afloat. A greater muscle and bone ratio to fat in some aquatic prehistoric animals would be much more functional in lesser gravity, depending upon the impact lesser gravity had on Atmospheric Conversion. If anyone can find a water in lesser gravity (not zero) experiment, please post it.
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    Welcome Ludera! I'm fairly new here also, and female. Your line of work is fascinating to me. I've been a big fan of Ray Harryhausen's stop motion animation since I was a kid. In retrospect, special effects is a field which I would have loved to have entered at a young age. Still planning on doing some game modding. One of my stepsons is involved in CGI work. Amazing how things have progressed over the years. If I remember correctly, it was around the time of the making of Jurassic Park that there was a huge shift from stop motion and puppets, to CGI. It sounds like you've had a chance to explore the world and I'm interested to hear about your journeys. I'm glad you found your way here. Digger
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    Greetings Sean. Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised to find this forum too. I also started out following him on YouTube. Lots of great brains and good conversations here. South Africa. Things sound pretty volatile and dangerous there right now. I'd be interested in your take on things, if you're comfortable talking about it. Stay safe man.
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    Just found this. Presenting Dracula, the largest Pterosaur ever. Recently found in Romania:
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    Here is another Expanding Earth related audiocast from Legalise Freedom: Fascinating channel.
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    That is your choice in exercising your free will. Actually, it does not. It compares the largest four legged animals of today with the largest four legged animals of the prehistoric past. However, in the Legalise Freedom audiocast, Stephen does mention squirrels at one point as part of his interview. In order to make rational comparisons of the animals of today with the animals of the past, we should compare the animals which are the most similar to each other along with the environments in which they existed. Creatures of the sky, land, water, underground, and also the arboreal animals are best compared with their closest prehistoric counterparts. Also, there is a lot of evidence in the relatively more recent past of animals which exist today having distant "cousins" which were quite larger. Examples would be Titanoboa, Super Crocs, Megaledon, Mastodons, Paracerathierium, Giant Slothes, Short Faced Bears, Pelagornis Sandersi, Argentavis, the Terror Birds... This is a good point. Exploration of your argument can be found in the Legalise Freedom audiocast. Even with everything which has been taken into account to make prehistoric creatures lighter, it's not enough. Gravity still remains the primary force which governs the size of animals of the past, present, and possible future. Hahaha. (<---Not sarcastic laughter. Just had an image of flying mice trying to carry a one pound coconut...in present day gravity, of course). Yes, optimism for weight and anatomy are important in all forms of nature. Nature is thrifty. Nature will not allow an animal to grow to a size in which every step or flap of a wing would be a struggle and/or burn more calories than an animal could consume in order to stay alive and keep moving.
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    This just in...a new protest is being organized by the leaders of the indoctrinated and brainwashed young SJW's to take away our freedom to own pug dogs. Seems it's been determined that by taking away our pugs, they will end all comedy material coming from those who can still have a laugh at it all. Next, they will track down all members of of the NPA (National Pugowners Association) through their registries and confiscate these evil, furry little bastards. It is recommended to download all of your favorite "Hitler Rant Parodies" now, before a pug creeps in there and causes them to be banned by the YouTube Comedy Police. That is all.
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    Ofd, I get what you're saying here. This was covered in the Legalize Freedom Channel discussion I provided in the second post of this thread. Stephen Hurrell is a Mechanical Engineering Designer. In the interview he talks about the Scale Effect of increased weight on supporting structures. Here is a page which contains a diagram of this principle as it would apply to dinosaurs: http://www.dinox.org/sizelimit.html Did you listen to the audio cast?
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    Dolphin blows a brain bubble: Hey girl, didn't know you could do that in a non aquatic environment.
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    http://www.halexandria.org/dward126.htm
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    Odf provided a question which helped me expand on some questions of my own. Thanks Odf. As far as conservation laws, let's talk about the conservation of energy regarding animals moving about in their environments. Animals are shaped to fit their environments. Land, sea, air, or underground, there is plenty of evidence in the shapes of animals and how they move in their particular environments to confirm this. Gravity is a significant force which we all must take into account with every step we take as land animals. I see both a structural conflict in dinosaurs moving about in earth's present gravity, and a conflict in their conservation of energy which would not exist in a lesser gravity. Did you actually read and listen to all of the links provided in this thread? Would you like to provide some arguments by the opponents of this theory?
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    I would never try to replace the word "evil" with anything because that's the beginning of moral relativism and determinism. Allow some people to be called "toxic" (an environmental poison) versus evil (someone who willfully does immorality or does actions that results in immorality) and why not simply go all kinds of solipsistic and presume nothing outside yourself is real and everyone but you (or including you) is a reactive robot? I know that might sound like a slippery slope... But by God aren't there a whole lot of true slippery slopes? The first step to curing something is to call out the disease by its proper name. Evil people are not "toxic" (i.e. passive agents without free will) but EVIL (i.e. they choose to do evil things). Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise, you ought to view as trying to own you or control you for some purpose or another. Yes. Slippery slopes seem to surround us every time we attempt to climb to the top to see how far we can look past the trees. Four sided pyramids suck. For me, the word evil brings to mind "The devil made me do it". Biblical temptation and the like. Makes me think of exorcism. A rose by any other name, still has nasty thorns.
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    Going ape over slight of hand: PS Yes. Not a monkey.
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    Perhaps the third option is to keep them in confinement but alive in order to study them? Most of the time, I substitute the word "evil" with the word "toxic". The definition of the word toxic indicates someone as being poisonous, dangerous, or harmful to others. In nature, the words evil or toxic don't have much meaning since animals generally only cause harm to other living beings they view as Foes=Adversaries or Food=Consumables or Resources. In fighting my way back from the brink and the damage my own toxic family took me to, I found the breakthrough moment happened when I took a step back and started studying them like bugs. I set aside my personal position as a victim in their world and took on a more clinical stance. In talking with other survivors of toxic family dynamics, I have found they also had their breakthrough moment when they did the same.
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