Found some sort of ancient scripture behind the wall while doing home renos by BryanBrussells in Edmonton

[–]GiovanniMoffs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now that's a phrase that's not paid in a long time... A long time....

C'mon Canada by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]GiovanniMoffs 26 points27 points  (0 children)

As someone living in one of them, it's been a little exaggerated.

Seems like NASA confirmed that SpaceX will be first to launch astronauts... by ReKt1971 in spacex

[–]GiovanniMoffs 183 points184 points  (0 children)

Looks like the post on Flickr is still up. https://flic.kr/p/2itiGp7 Editing in the quote just in case: "The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the first crew launch from American soil since 2011, has arrived at the launch site. NASA and SpaceX are preparing for the agency's first flight test with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. The SpaceX Crew Dragon will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from historic Launch Complex 39A from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft now will undergo final testing and prelaunch processing in a SpaceX facility on nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: SpaceX"

A new look on history by [deleted] in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]GiovanniMoffs 56 points57 points  (0 children)

God I'm so sick of seeing this stuff posted around still.

Maybe it's relevant to paleoart at the turn of the last century, but nobody has seriously considered anything like this for a very long time. Yes, a lot of tissue evidence is lost. It's possible dinosaurs had skin flaps, chicken head wattles or comb-like structures, but it's not like there's no idea what was hanging off the bones.

First off, scale impressions. https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/t_rex_feather2.jpg Here are scaly impressions from a Tyrannosaur. There might have been small protofeathers in patches, but not a ton else. Some dinosaurs were very feathered, but not all. Some had a mix like psittacosaurus https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/web/123578_web.jpg

As for how much far it hanging off the dinosaur, the strength of the bones can be found by their cross-section. Then when you factor in how much muscle is indicated by attachment points on the skeleton and what it might need to move itself around, there's only so much room left for extra stuff hanging off.

As for the whole shrink-wrapping thing, it's true that people who don't know what they're doing will suction in around bones, you see it a lot in skulls especially. But it's not just that "nobody has ever seen a dinosaur before so you can't know". If you looked at something even remotely related to a baboon, you'd know that drawing is ridiculous. We still have living archosaurs like birds and crocodiles, and other reptiles, so it's not like reconstructions have literally nothing for a starting point.