[11:58
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
find it hard to believe this sucker flew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
[12:10
PM]
Plummetus
Icarus
"Most
fossil examples are found in shattered collections of bones at the
bottom of cliffs."
[12:11
PM] Mr. Blue:
heh
So
they think it leaped off cliffs and soared in updrafts or whatever,
but how'd it get to the top of cliffs?
Walked?
Was
there a ski lift?
I
don't know how something that is possibly 400+ pounds gets off the
ground without propulsion of some kind
[12:15
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Looks
like it could walk or climb
[12:15
PM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
it could walk on all 4s
But...
walk through woods or jungle and up a mountain or cliff just to jump
off?
[12:20
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Jump
and flap
[12:22
PM] Mr. Blue:
it'd
have to get a really fast running start from the ground, like an
airplane taking off to get lift, or it just did not fly
That's
just my absolutely unfounded and uneducated opinion
[12:23
PM] Mr. Brown.:
That
would mean it was in a middle evolutionary stage
like
it did fly, but then grew bigger. Still has the wings but walked
around, maybe swam
[12:23
PM] Mr. Blue:
Like
an ostrich
[12:24
PM] Mr. Brown.:
Yeah
[12:25
PM] Mr. Blue:
i
don't think peacocks fly very well either
[12:27
PM] Mr. Blue:
maybe
it was just like a crane or heron and just kept getting bigger and
bigger
and
there is a bias for larger specimens in terms of archaeology since
smaller ones aren't as likely to last.. doesn't mean they were big
all the time, maybe just for a brief period but those are the
specimens that were more likely to survive so that's what we're
finding now
That's
why people think dinosaurs were all huge but most were small
[12:28
PM]
We'll
find out it was aquatic and moved around like a Manta ray
[12:28
PM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[12:28
PM] Mr. Brown.:
I
was thinking aquatic
diving
bird
[12:29
PM] Mr. Blue:
it's
just hard to believe.. 400 lbs.?
ostriches
weigh 250 and can't fly for shit
emus
are 80 lbs. and can't fly
they
used to be able to.. but lost that ability the larger they got
although
there are also flightless birds that are tiny
Like
the kiwi
That
reminds me that Australia fought a war against emu.. and *lost*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
[1:13
PM]
Chinese
movie - Last night's feature was either "A Chinese Tall Story"
or "A Journey to the West" depending on if you are looking
at the box, the menu or the credits.
[1:13
PM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[1:16
PM]
Probably
the most bonkers film I own that I really enjoy.
Saw
the trailer play about 300 times during a gaming convention across
the aisle and had to have it.
Hadn't
gotten it off the shelf in ages. neither Mrs. Silver nor Silver
Junior had seen it.
"Its
weird. It's so weird that I have included this sheet of notes I
wrote for Ed Burkert to explain some of what the heck is
happening...which I'll now read."
It
has theology.
It
has philosophy.
it
has fantasy.
It
has sci-fi
It
has action, magic, monsters, spoofs, anachronisms, joy, pain, comedy,
tragedy...
It
can be completely realistic and outrageously over the top
So...if
either of you wanna borrow it.
I
was going to bring the DVD in but was too distracted over lunch.
[1:51
PM] Mr. Blue:
Sounds
interesting
do
you remember what that older sci fi movie was you lent to me once?
it
was *like* Flash Gordon but worse
[1:52
PM]
Yes.
Need it?
[1:53
PM] Mr. Blue:
No
i just couldn't remember the title
[1:54
PM]
Chiefly
a fave for the Earth really wanting the ragtag heroes to save the
world yet refusing to help them do it.
[1:57
PM] Mr. Blue:
ahh
[1:57
PM]
"We're
going to need this."
"No! Save us all without it! Screw you!"
"Well, we have to have this."
"You're our only hope but to Hell with you!"
[2:17
PM]
So..."Bell"
Over
lunch we got to "What do you want for dinner?"
Silver
Junior "I'd say but you'd say no."
Mrs.
Silver "Taco Bell?"
"No"
"Wendy's
Bell?"
"What?
no."
Mrs. "McDonald's Bell?"
"No!"
"Long John's Bell?"
Mrs. "KFC Bell?"
“What?!?"
This
went on til I came back to work.
Sushi
Bell sounded good to me though
[2:37
PM] Mr. Blue:
(Case
#) Speaking of bells
Not
that interesting but came in right when you started discussing bells
[3:04
PM]
"Well
we have A bell. We picked up a surplus one from Notre
Dame. It's about 10' tall and weighs 1000 pounds. How's
Tuesday for that?"
[3:04
PM] Mr. Blue:
heh
"comes
with an ugly guy to ring it for you"
[3:05
PM]
heh
"Real
conversation piece!"
"He's
deaf...we just attach electrodes to him. He loves abuse."
[3:06
PM] Mr. Blue:
reminds
me.. the movie 1492 w/ Gerard Diepardieu as Columbus is underrated
That
reminded me of the scene where they're hoisting the bell into the new
church
[3:06
PM]
Portrayed
him as the ignorant violent bastard he was?
[3:06
PM] Mr. Blue:
Well
many complained it sugar-coated it or made him seem more capable and
more forgiving than he was
but
i didn't see that
[3:07
PM]
Guess
that means he was much worse than you'd even imagined
[3:09
PM]
Last
topic! Forgotten from yesterday...lunch walk stuff. "So
if I was to do a script for Gattica 2..."
"Would
I make it about Jerome's genetic issues leading to the ruin and
destruction of the space program? Or them finding out almost
immediately that he was defective the moment anything unprepared for
went wrong, and the rest of the film is him trying to evade capture
and his rendering in the bio-support vats?"
[3:16
PM] Mr. Blue:
I
only vaguely remember the plot
[3:18
PM]
Parents
had a natural instead of genetically controlled child.
[3:19
PM] Mr. Blue:
Ah
yeah, he was 'flawed' by future standards and wanted in a space
program, so he swapped profiles with a eugenic guy that was disabled
in an accident
Progress
of society, that makes you a second class citizen...liability.
Not permitted to do anything advanced. Became a janitor despite
his brilliant mind.
[3:20
PM]
And
he left genetic clues at work by mistake and the police were trying
to figure out who it was...and he was right in the middle, using his
dodges
And
the hero of all us blobs of inferiority manages to beat The Man and
got his ticket to space.
The
End
So
Gattica
2
It
either goes one of two ways
1.
They trust him completely because he got through, and one day he
loses his last pair of contact lenses and can barely see and F's
something up.
2.
He couldn't bring enough (any?) supply of pee and blood with him and
he fails a test and they recycle him because his genes are garbage.
I
like option one because it'd be fun to see a quadrillion dollar
program and thousands of lives lost so he could have his dream.
[3:29
PM] Mr. Blue:
One
big flaw i recall was Ethan Hawke himself
He
has not-perfect teeth. That'd be a dead give-away
[3:32
PM]
"Jerome.
We did a facial structure analysis and realized no parent would
make...that..."
If
they went with the (Swedish?) imposed genetic evolution model, the
giveaway would be that he was taller than 2'.
[3:40
PM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[3:40
PM]
I
still have that article somewhere
[3:40
PM] Mr. Blue:
If
they did a Gattica 2 they'd need to cast Elizabeth Debicki
[3:41
PM]
We're
too successful biologically...we keep getting bigger
Meanwhile
needing more resources.
[3:41
PM] Mr. Blue:
I
think if it were parent-designed eugenics and not like, government or
society mandated, we'd just keep getting taller.
Nobody
would want their kid to be even 'average' height - they'd just keep
tacking on inches
[3:42
PM]
But
with a program to do it, humans could be bred down to about that size
and retain full intelligence and potential for more.
And
a standard roasting chicken could feed about 200 people
(Looks
up Elizabeth...)
[3:43
PM] Mr. Blue:
She
was in GotG 2
She
was the gold lady
She's
6'3" too
[3:44
PM]
She
doesn't look real
Not
Tilda Swinton not real
Not
Linda Hunt not real
But
not-a-native-of-this-earth not real
[3:44
PM] Mr. Blue:
She
looks like one of those CGI composites like "this is what the
average woman in Denmark looks like"
I
think we decided that I have a thing for tall girls because it's my
genes trying to auto-correct themselves
[3:45
PM]
Taylor
Swift was going with an uncannily smooth and symmetric thing for a
while, but this is...more.
I
think you have a thing for tall girls...and short girls...and elfin
girls...and female lady woman girls...
Because
you are male, and you don't have one.
Biology...bah
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