How long until T-rex meat spoils?

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:28 pm

Paleontologists cracked open a not quite fossilized Tyannosaurus bone and found plenty of soft tissue with blood and whatnot inside. Everyone's going crazy about the possibility of extracting DNA.
This isn't rare. More fossils have intact tissue, but people don't want to drill or saw into them.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/ (pics included)

Seems like a bunch of bullshit. If they can't seem to clone a Tasmanian tiger, which hasn't been extinct for 100 years AND they have whole specimens, then a dinosaur comeback is even less likely. DNA is no longer viable after a certain amount of time.

Artkill · Post by **Artkill** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:29 am

JURASSIC PARK!!!!!

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:35 am

THOUGTHLESS COMMENT!!!!!!!

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:20 am

I want an evil robo dinosaur of my own.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:14 am

It'll still probably let biologists learn a lot of really important things.

Too bad biologists are pussies and biology is bullshit.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:34 am

The chances of extracting DNA that will be tangibly useful for anything scientifically worthwhile are infinitesimally small. Woo yay !

Artkill · Post by **Artkill** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:51 pm

my biology teacher is a fat 41 year old man who lives with his mother and al lot of cats. He looks like a giant penguin and he is the biggest asshole that ever lived.

Dexter · Post by **Dexter** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:11 pm

My biology teacher's name was Dr. Cunnilingus.

Actually I think it was something like Kunigellis but no one could pronounce it the way he wanted us to, so we just called him Dr Cunnilingus.

You just spend 10-15 seconds of your life reading that story. You'll never get that time back. You could have been spending that time telling your mother you love her, or planting flowers. Don't you feel like a loser now?

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:15 pm

My mother's in a coma, and flowers tend to wilt when I touch them. You've gotta try harder than that.

Artkill · Post by **Artkill** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:41 pm

My mother hits me, and im deathly alergic to flowers.

Dexter · Post by **Dexter** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:45 pm

Maybe if you told her you loved her she'd wake from the coma and/or stop hitting you?

Artkill · Post by **Artkill** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:46 pm

No, she hits me because I told her I love her.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:05 am

I had a girlfriend who did that until the restaining order was put on me.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:29 am

Dexter wrote:My biology teacher's name was Dr. Cunnilingus.

They must be twins. TWINS !

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:04 am

Spazmo wrote:It'll still probably let biologists learn a lot of really important things.

Too bad biologists are pussies and biology is bullshit.

Pfft, 'least we're better then you faggy physic & chemistry bitches.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:42 am

Biologists can make slow working poisons and genetical diseases which torment lives forever, while chemists can make bombs and other various things that blow up, while physicists make weights that make things go splat...

*sigh*

So many interesting choices... hard to choose

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:59 pm

Stainless wrote:Pfft, 'least we're better then you faggy physic & chemistry bitches.

Well, shit, I could just assign nigh-random latin names to stuff and call it science too. For instance, I'm going to call this keyboard a clavicular interface. See? I'm a computer scientist now!

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:18 pm

Works for me.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:10 pm

Spazmo wrote:
Stainless wrote:Pfft, 'least we're better then you faggy physic & chemistry bitches.
Well, shit, I could just assign nigh-random latin names to stuff and call it science too. For instance, I'm going to call this keyboard a clavicular interface. See? I'm a computer scientist now!

This gives me an idea. A Diablo Science name generator.
"Iterative Phase Feedback Clavicle of Chemosynthesis".

Aegeri · Post by **Aegeri** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:54 am

While an interesting discovery, it won't provide any useful genetic information but will tell us something about the animals tissue types.