Sunday, May 18, 2014

Brown v. Board of Education and Dinosaurs

I'm seeing a lot of posts about how today is the anniversary of the court decision that made education "equal" because "separate but equal" was bullshit, especially towards tax-payers who have every right to the same damn treatment from public education. However, that was yesterday, so you're a day late. Regardless, it seems like just a year ago slavery was abolished in the United States, because Mississippi finally ratified the 13th amendment. 
Where am I going with this? Right, dinosaur bones. So they found a huge femur in Argentina which increases the largest size of a dinosaur. Apparently, people still believe the Jurrasic Park styled reptiles that go trouncing around on the screen are accurate depictions, but they've claimed for years that this is inaccurate and they looked more like a bucket of KFC. People get all excited about discoveries of ancient dino bones, and honestly, why shouldn't they? But digging up bones and understanding them are not the same thing. The last thing we need is someone having a giant leg bone and nothing else, and then assuming the entire creature was a certain height. Maybe it was a legasaurus, which looked like a giant leg and hopped around? 

The Madonnasaurus is still 
the biggest dinosaur in Argentina.