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Howdy. Yes there are investigations into the psychology of clothing. Here's a few: Clothing and dress Psychological aspects.

There's a limit, but only number of votes not number of members voted. I think it's 3 or 4 per day. ? Also a down vote limit and according to staff it is currently 3 per day.

I was away and missed the negativity. I can't imagine it given my sunny disposition. Thanks for the correction. As to Mugbook, it's used by criminals as well if reports I have heard are to be trusted. E.g., someone posts about a vacation, and wonder of wonders their home is burglarized. I grant you I am older than dirt, but some of this social media stuff just seems wrong in any age. As long as the dangers are understood and measures taken to protect people, give it a try I guess. Just remember that, in the words of Robert Frost, good fences make good neighbors.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, gang aft a-gley. ~To a Mouse, by Robert Burns Seems to me a typical course load in terms of hours is about the same for college as for high school. Whether you're that person that plays sports in their free time or does math research, I don't think college will burden you above what you are already shoulder. Good luck!

Sounds like a stretch. Think about how small the Colorado River is in relation to the Grand Canyon. The water really isn't "cutting away the rock" as often portrayed, rather the water carries away the rock that weathers off the canyon sides and rolls downhill into the river. Moreover this goes on over millennia and so no sudden flow of anything is necessary. Time will tell I suppose.

I caught fire and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.

Sounds like a great tool for stalkers, predators, spies, thieves, and other such nefarious folk. But I'm no social network butterfly so I could be mistaken.

On the premise that bigotry has been a significant contributing factor to violence worldwide and throughout history, the historical worldwide reduction in violence is indicative of a reduction in bigotry as well. Slow? Yes. Sure? No. Real? Yes. Eileen FitzGerald: World is better than we think Moreover... Contrary to appearances, social science statistics show a remarkable worldwide decline in violence

I did not misspeak.

Slowly, at least. And not surely. So it is. So it is not. Precisely why I posted. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

The question is what is the world going away from and the answer is bigotry.

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Fine. Obviously you are right and I am wrong. Can't win them all.

Did you not read my acknowledgement of this in the previous post, or did you just want to take another poke at me after Delta's? I'll read that over and see if I can root out what I heard/misheard on the Cosmos program. But still, these are side issues that I was asking you for clarification on and they don't have any bearing on the lack of evidence for dino diets. You said Since your whole premise in this thread is to pit survivability of today's mammals against dinosaurs and this because of how different they are, it seems rather unjustified to make the assumption you do. Basically then, anything anyone wants to assume is as good as the next person's assumption. Fine; mammals would win because I think so. PS Those sauropod hollow bones were in the vertebrae according to your link, not the limbs that support the weight as you implied when you said :

My bad; I misread that. Nonetheless, since we don't know about dino eating habits, comparing modern large animals to them is without a basis in facts. Now, do you have something more substantive to add than catching me in a grammatical error?

Edit: misread >>Uhm...koalas aren't big and have a highly specialized diet. I don't see any evidence that bigger means more selective. Do you have a reference? So since we don't know about dino diet, we're just going to ignore it in your scenario [and pretend it's not a factor]? If you could give a link I could read what you read and see if our understanding is equivalent. On the breathing and without a link just now -but forthcoming- they mentioned on the last Cosmos that dinos got big in part because there was a lot more oxygen in the atmosphere. Hollow bones on dinos? Seems contrary to my understanding of animal physiology, but I'll look something up on it unless you have a ready reference. I suppose all-in-all anything we want to claim is good insofar as this is all speculation. Still, I've heard it said that even in Speculations we need to keep things on a sound scientific basis. And for the record, dinos taste like fish.

It's relevant because as I said you have no reason to assume they didn't have specialized diets. That is part-and-parcel of your 'no idea if...'. Yes we see varied diets now, but we also see specialized/restricted ones. The scenario you laid out of the portal and sudden introduction does not bode well for adaptation which requires considerable more time than a single generation. So if an introduced dino already had a varied diet, it might do well enough to battle it out with mammals, but if that dino had a specialized diet it might just serve the mammals as carrion. On the egg laying, we have the example of turtles which produce many eggs that they bury and abandon. Dinos with a similar habit might do as well as turtles in that regard were they to come through the portal. I was referring to your concession in regard to my koala evidence. Here... A further perspective on animal diet below. While pondering that, I found myself wondering what dino meat tastes like? I can't believe I ate the whole thing! Generalist and specialist species

Roger concession. Symbiosis? Did I miss that conversation? I'll review. Another point on herbivore's diets is that if animals were so adaptable then it seems to me zoos would not have to pay so much attention to providing specialized diets.

On the koalas, I find a different view. Koalas I don't accept the idea that any old herbage will do for any-and-all herbivores when we see so many examples of specialization/adaptation among not only mammals but birds, and reptiles. That animals vary their diets to some degree is no evidence they can survive for long without whatever source is their mainstay.

I think you misunderstood Dimreepr. He was conceding that cattle eat more/other than grass. Nonetheless, the two mammal examples I gave have very restrictive vegetative diets and my point about not knowing about the dinosaurs stands.

There's no reason to assume they wouldn't though either. Maybe cattle/grass wasn't the best example, but what about koalas and eucalyptus or pandas and bamboo? We really have little to no basis to judge what sort of dietary preferences or restrictions dinosaurs may have had beyond clues in their dentition.

I did study Big O notation a couple decades ago, but I didn't pursue programming and so it's never been of much use or interest to me. This is not to say that I don't recognize its value of course. When I need code for my mathematic probing I get someone to write it for me and then just use it and give the programmer the benefit of the doubt that the code is as efficient as they can make it. Big numbers mean big time and I'm content to hurry up & wait. Imagine Fermat's or his contemporaries' amazement at the computing power we all take for granted on our desktops. Further imagine their chagrin at the ratio of porn to math use. Oy vey ist mir.

Have you done a web search? Have you read the responses since your last post? If not, please do. If so, please respond to them.

This case has all the earmarks of an alien craft from the Zeta Reticuli system conducting a survey.