Shower thoughts

[Maria Sirona]

Yes but Austria is a version of the german Österreich, Süderreich starts different

[cubinator]

Sustria

[kerbiloid]

On 7/1/2022 at 8:41 PM, Maria Sirona said:

Yes but Austria is a version of the german Österreich, Süderreich starts different

Österreich is to the East from Süderreich because East is to the right from South.

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[Maria Sirona]

Yes but it's also to the right of the North.

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[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, Maria Sirona said:

Yes but it's also to the right of the North.

Then the prehistorical Bavarians would call it NordÖsterreich, as wiki says that it's named due to its position from Bavaria.

[Pixophir]

Austrian Coat of Arms is the eagle.  Austria is latinised from Germanic. First mentioned in the mid 12th century or so, meaning what is now lower Austria. The term goes back to ancient Germanic, a predecessor of the family of Germanic languages. The appendix -austar stands for "eastern". It was later (14th century onwards) expanded to the whole of Austria. In high/late Medieval, Austria was a fiefdom of the Holy Roman Empire.

Of course there are more details through time and space, too much for a casual forum post.

The similarity with "Australia" is incidental.

 

Edited July 4, 2022 by Pixophir
Clarification to avoid confusion with later history

[kerbiloid]

Why do they portray T-Rex as a daytime chasing predator, and argue if it was a scavenger?

Based on its mass (much greater than a tonne), it should stay warm and active all night long.
So it would be a nightmare, sneaking through the night forest and gathering sleepy smalle dinos without efforts.

[Pixophir]

Because functional morphology :-)

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, Pixophir said:

Because functional morphology :-)

What'the functionally morphologic difference between the hunted dino caught walking or sleeping, or between the hunted dino gathered sleeping ond a dead dino gathered lying?

[ColdJ]

@kerbiloid They probably had poor night vision and so like most birds slept at night and hunted in the day.

[kerbiloid]

Just now, ColdJ said:

@kerbiloid They probably had poor night vision and so like most birds slept at night and hunted in the day.

 The birds have poor night vision because they fly. So, the night vision is anyway useless for them.
T-Rexes didn't fly.  So, they didn't necessary have bad night vision.

Also, there is a lot of night birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nocturnal_birds
Maybe T-Rexes are kiwis or nightingales. (Because to imagine an owl-like T-Rex sneaking in the night is too creepy.)

And there is predawn, when the T-Rex was probably still active, while smaller ones were  cold and sleepy.

A predawn predator.

[ColdJ]

@kerbiloid. Well we have no proof either way. Also they may have liked their meat warm and since most of the things they hunted were cold blooded and very still at night, they probably prefered them warmed up and moving in the day time.

[Pixophir]

2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

What'the functionally morphologic difference between the hunted dino caught walking or sleeping, or between the hunted dino gathered sleeping ond a dead dino gathered lying?

The shower question was how do we come to the conclusion that Trex was a daylight hunter and not a scavenger.

Enter functional morphology, one of the oldest disciplines of applied science there is. It studies an organism's structures and how they fit in an ecological niche. As such, we can't reverse the argument and address a situation like "what do we need for an organism to work in a given setting", that doesn't work because there are always multiple solutions (e.g. flight), and no body function is isolated from the rest of the organism (example sabre teeth and a long flexible neck).

Now a few arguments: TRex is clearly not a herbivorous animal, too slender (intestines won't fit), bipedal and well balanced so a fast runner though top speed unclear, Jurassic Park scene "object in mirror are closer than they appear" probably exaggerated, teeth can't chew on green stuff, also no grass at that time (available energy), teeth backwards curved, sharp and pointy. Forward looking eyes that work best in daylight, though we can't exclude that they'd refuse a midnight snack when one came along and the moon was bright enough. Also we don't know their olfactory abilities.

But there's more, like coprolites (petrified poop) with bones in them, a shed tooth in the carcass of a hunted animal somewhere, and even cannibalism among them.

Now, that was a lot for the shower :-)

Edited July 7, 2022 by Pixophir

[Pthigrivi]

They should have just let Picard be gay. Bi at least. Such a missed writing opportunity.

Edited July 7, 2022 by Pthigrivi

[kerbiloid]

16 minutes ago, Pixophir said:

Now a few arguments: TRex is clearly not a herbivorous animal, too slender (intestines won't fit), bipedal and well balanced so a fast runner though top speed unclear, Jurassic Park scene "object in mirror are closer than they appear" probably exaggerated, teeth can't chew on green stuff, also no grass at that time (available energy), teeth backwards curved, sharp and pointy. Forward looking eyes work best in daylight.

But there's more, like coprolites (petrified poop) with bones in them, a shed teeth in the carcass of a hunted animal somewhere, and even cannibalism among them.

This just proves that they were eating meat, but this is obvious itself.

But why film hunting Trexes, or Trexes eating rotten meat, when they can be local Cloverfield monsters appearing from the darkness of the blurry predawn light to heartlessly take a helpless stanned raptor, desperately dreaming about the coming sunny morning to warm up?

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(Caution, creepy)

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Edited July 7, 2022 by kerbiloid

[Pixophir]

Popular culture is one thing :-)

But true, we can't categorically exclude whether any carnivorous dinosaur scavenged from time to time. I believe there is one work hinting to a triceratops that might have been in a state of decay when a TRex felt hungry. But that cannot be generalized and it was not their main ... income.

 

Edited July 7, 2022 by Pixophir

[kerbiloid]

This mosquito got me, flying between me and the desktop display.

This scum is obviously attracted by the bright spot of the monitor with random pattern on it.
(Otherwise it would be attacking me, instead).

What if create some kind of a mosquito attracting pattern generator.
A software, or even built-in in the GPU.
(Like the "epilepsy-caution" animated pictures, but hypnotizing mosquitoes.)

These undercreatures, this junk of the nature, would gather at the monitor from the whole room, and we could clap them with hands all at once.

[Vanamonde]

You ever wonder if Luke resented that Leia got to be a princess of a lush, rich world while he was stuck scrubbing farm equipment on a hot desert world? 

[StrandedonEarth]

59 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

You ever wonder if Luke resented that Leia got to be a princess of a lush, rich world while he was stuck scrubbing farm equipment on a hot desert world? 

By the time he learned he had a spoiled sister, he was deep enough into the Jedi way to have no room for such emotions…

May as well ask if 3P0 resented getting his memory wiped repeatedly while Artoo was allowed to remember everything…

Edited July 11, 2022 by StrandedonEarth

[Minmus Taster]

that age old question that haunted generations, is cereal a soup?

[kerbiloid]

It's a kind of tyurya.

Spoiler

Just from fancy boxes.

[Maria Sirona]

Based on the .RU (in cyrillic) at the end of the addtess that seems like a russian traditional food. The name, tyurya, gives more of a central asian vibe

[kerbiloid]

2 hours ago, Maria Sirona said:

Based on the .RU (in cyrillic) at the end of the addtess that seems like a russian traditional food. The name, tyurya, gives more of a central asian vibe

"тюря" /t^ju-r^ja/ 
For Russian ear sounds like a Slavic colloquial diminutive form,

"-ря" - a typical archaic / rural / colloquial diminutive suffix.

"тю-" - unknown root, but something small / insignificant itself.

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But of course, "cereals" instead of "tyurya" gives +10 to Restore Power skill.

[kerbiloid]

If one is expecting a big nuke nearby, he can blast a lesser nuke in between and easily hide in the shadow of the smaller mushroom cloud.

[TheSaint]

9 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

If one is expecting a big nuke nearby, he can blast a lesser nuke in between and easily hide in the shadow of the smaller mushroom cloud.