? ?So, a couple of weeks back I watched one of those CGI Cartoon flicks from the Jurassic Park franchise that seem bent on outlasting the dinosaurs themselves. (COME ON SPACE ROCKS!!!? LOL) Besides all of the utterly ridiculous Kiddy Fare "Action Packed" high-jinks (this one included "Pet" raptors saving the humans from the BAD dinos!? LOL) I noticed that it seemed that every one of these flicks had two things in common with nearly every museum display and Hysterical Channel "Documentary" I have ever seen. =
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? ?And I started thinking = Now THAT seems a bit . . . ODD!?
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? ?Your "average" African Elephant eats about 600 lbs. of food and drinks about 50 gals of water per day. EACH. -- They also walk about 50 miles per day looking for munchies. --- The average herd can be as large as 100 critters.?
? ?They also have no issues with uprooting trees and trampling everything under foot to get at those munchies.?
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? ?NOW, "upscale" THAT to one of those "Majestic Herds" of TITANIC Dinos (mixed or singularly) so often seen in one of those flicks placidly and contentedly indiscriminately eating their way across the screen.?
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? ?The Eggheads figure that just one of those (SUPER MASSIVE Sauropod) class critters would eat an average of > 2,000 lbs < of vegetation. With the "Lesser" plentiful Grazers (Stegosaurs, Triceratops, Ankylosaurs, Etc.) eating at least as much as an African Elephant. And the vast variety of smaller dinos (Duckbills, Corythosaurs, ETC!!!) eating about as much as a cow or horse (@26 plus lbs./day).?
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? ?NOW, picture a mixed herd of HUNDREDS (If not THOUSANDS!) of each of these classes of Salad Snakers wandering into one of those "Lush Jurassic Jungles" the same way you see in one of those movies or in a scene of their modern equivalents on the African continent.?
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? ?Anybody who has spent any time around grazing animals knows all about the dangers of OVERGRAZING any area. So, HOW THE HECK could the mixed and varied vegetation of grasses, shrubs and trees have kept up with their appetites and Bull-In-A-China-Shop meanderings even if it grew as fast as grasses???? --AND-- do so for the MILLIONS of years that these critters were around before that Space Rock showed up??? (I've got plenty of doubts and theories about THAT as well!!!)?
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? ?> I < HIGHLY DOUBT THAT IT COULD!!! === They would have completely denuded the land no matter how many miles that they wandered. Eating themselves right into extinction!!!!?
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? ?Yeah. I know. The typical Eggsplanation of = the T-Rexes and their cousins were there to "Help Maintain The Herds". === BULLSHITE!!!?
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? ?PREDATORS ARE FREAKING LAZY. = How many and how often have you ever heard of or seen a full pride of Lions or others attack and bring down an adult African Elephant, Rhino, or Hippo??? === Even > IF < T-Rex operated in PACKS (which I highly doubt, as having seen absolutely no evidence or even Egghead "theories" of such) HOW MANY TITANOSAURS which were so proportionally much LARGER than a Lion vs an Elephant, could these Dino Predators have ever hoped to kill and eat????
? ?NO SIR! Just like those Lions, or Wolves, or Bears, or Etc., of our time, they would AMBUSH the EASIER and SMALLER prey first and foremost. And probably not even FINISH that meal in one sitting!!!?
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? ?STARVATION ~ MIGHT HAVE ~ acted as a better controller for limiting their numbers > BUT!!! < the Eggheads have found Titanosaur Nesting Grounds where SEVERAL HUNDRED females laid clutches averaging > 25 Eggs EACH <!!! === THAT IS ONE FRACK OF A LOT OF POTENTIAL SUPER MASSIVE CRITTERS!!! == These things weren't worried about running out of food anytime soon!!!?
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? ?So, > I JUST DON'T GET IT <??????? NONE of this makes even a lick of sense! And, search as I might, I can't find any Eggheads who have even BOTHERED to look at this question of Veggies versus Hungry-Hungry Dinos to come up with anything approaching even an Egghead "rational & logical" Eggsplanation. === WTH?????
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? ?MAYBE > IF < somebody "suggested" that this conflict of prehistoric flora vs fauna might have affected the planet's CLIMATE we could get some answers. . . . . But probably NOT since they wouldn't have any HUMANS to go pointing fingers at for a few MILLION YEARS more.
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? ?--UNLESS--, of course, the Eggheads are willing to "reevaluate" their Timelines (ONCE AGAIN) and want to claim that Humans AND Dinosaurs actually DID COEXISTED AT THE SAME TIME!!!??
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? ?--OR-- that TIME TRAVEL > IS POSSIBLE < and that someday Humans will be REQUIRED to issue tags for Dino Hunts just to "SAVE THE PLANET"!!!!!! (I can smell those McDino Burgers and McBronto Ribs cooking already!!!)?
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? ?--OR-- that the Xenoes (or Martian Atlanteans!) have been here LOOOOOOONG AGO doing it for us!!!!!!!?
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? ?Now ain't THAT more FUN to contemplate than > IF < we'll be seeing "Proof Of Life" regarding the Pervert-In-Chief??????
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Keep Er FUN! & WEIRDZ!!!
Dan G
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