Dinosaurs and colonisation...

POSTED BY: TheGerg
UPDATED: Thursday, September 22, 2005 22:08
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THEGERG

Monday, May 23, 2005 12:50 AM

It's been bugging me! In the 'Serenity' episode, Wash has two dinosaurs who are off to colonise a planet. But then, the predatory dinosaur, falling foul of his baser meat-eating instincts, cruelly attacks the poor plant-eater!

But what species of dinosaur were they?

Furthermore, if humans have colonised all the planets in the Serenityverse, what animals do you think they brought with them? especially as aliens are nowhere to be seen! Did some idiot bring the classic western sidekick, the rattlesnake? And if so, lots of people would get bitten, so why bring it?

BIKISDAD

Monday, May 23, 2005 1:23 AM

Did you see any rattlesnakes on the show? I think that answers that question.

Without looking at the dvd (so this is from my faulty memory), I think the veggie dino was a stegosaurus. It's more difficult to say what the carnivore was exactly because there were quite a few species that had that T. Rex/Allosaurus look.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

ZOID

Monday, May 23, 2005 10:14 AM

bikisdad:

I think you nailed it: Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex. Somewhere on his console, I suspect, is the third member of every dinogeek's Holy Trinity... Triceratops.

Things may be different in the future ("Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?": name the movie and character) in which Firefly is based. Based on the undoubted 500+ years of continuing success with the Jurassic Park franchise, other dinosaurs may replace the Original Trinity, such as the Velociraptor, Deinonychus or Ozzy Osbourne...

Paleontologically,

zoid

P.S.
And I'm sure that 500 years hence they could always dig up Stevie Nix, since the fossil has already prepared itself in alcohol. *Ducks a two-weeks overipe tomato thrown from the audience* Hey there goes Stevie now! Okay, not nice picking on the girl, I know: She's just a child of her times. I was just trying to be 'fair and balanced', vis Ozzy. Geezer on one scale, lush on the other, and since they weigh about the same...

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AURAPTOR

Monday, May 23, 2005 10:31 AM

Quote:
I suspect, is the third member of every dinogeek's Holy Trinity... Triceratops.

So, where would you put the infamous Brontosaurus, if not in the dinogeek's (ahem) Holy Trinity?

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SHINYSEVEN

Monday, May 23, 2005 1:41 PM

Did you see any rattlesnakes on the show?

No! Because I sacrificed them!

ROCKETJOCK

Monday, May 23, 2005 2:11 PM

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Originally posted by TheGerg:
Did some idiot bring the classic western sidekick, the rattlesnake? And if so, lots of people would get bitten, so why bring it?

A balanced ecology would probably require a certain amount of predators, otherwise you end up with the classic "rabbits in Australia" problem.

Of course the terraformations on Firefly have generally been characterized as being pretty slapdash/quick-and-dirty, especially off the core worlds, so who knows?

"Do you know what the definition of a hero is? It's somebody who gets somebody else killed." -- Zoë Warren

SIMONWHO

Monday, May 23, 2005 2:54 PM

Doc Brown in BttF, obviously.

Anyway, I'd be surprised if they didn't keep full DNA records of every creature they could lay their hands on, to clone them at a later date, even if they didn't take live specimens with them on the long journey to the new galaxy.

PERIDIDDLE

Monday, May 23, 2005 5:47 PM

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
Doc Brown in BttF, obviously.

PFFT, you beat me to it! *Muttermumble*

Wash prolly has more than just the three dinosaurs, for it wouldn't be fair just to have a t-rex, stegosaurus and a triceratops (I was on the verge of writing 'three-horn' instead. I'm probably the only one here young enough to still like The Land Before Time and not be too ashamed to admit it, though, so...) I'd be amused to see his collection...Let's not forget, he also has plastic palm trees!

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ZOID

Monday, May 23, 2005 8:06 PM

perididdle:

You could always hop into your DeLorean and get it right before DocWho.

Of course, first you'd have take the DeLorean back to a time when they still had DeLoreans... Temporal paradoxes are sooo tricky!

v/r,
-zed

P.S.
Points go to SimonWho. Maybe too easy, but I thought it might be too obscure for most to get; so I trivialized it.

ZOID

Monday, May 23, 2005 8:15 PM

AURaptor queried:

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So, where would you put the infamous Brontosaurus, if not in the dinogeek's (ahem) Holy Trinity?

Ummm... In the gas tank of the Escalade? Along with a couple primordial forests, and that damned spotty owl if she screws up and builds her nest too close to the well.

Petrochemically,

zoid
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