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Mammals vs. Saurians!

Category: Humor
Posted on: February 15, 2010 3:08 PM, by PZ Myers

Teach the controversy.

(via Bizarro)

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Posted by: Ströh | February 15, 2010 3:16 PM

I love the simultaneously sad and surprised look on the dinosaurs. They didn't see that one coming.

Posted by: Rox | February 15, 2010 3:18 PM

Now we will have to start an expedition to find the lost dino ark! Start making donations, people!

Posted by: Michelle R | February 15, 2010 3:21 PM

Aw yea. I'm converted.

Posted by: Glen Davidson | February 15, 2010 3:21 PM

Wait a minute, though, that's natural selection.

No doubt that's the reason why it was covered up for so long.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

Posted by: Thebear, just an agent of peas | February 15, 2010 3:24 PM

Duh! Obiously the explotion was severe enough to scatter the bones and the dino ark all over the world.

And since it was the will of the sky doggie the bones spread to make it look like they died on the spot.

So trying to find the dino ark is pure folly and defies the will of dog.

Posted by: tomarctomet | February 15, 2010 3:25 PM

Bloody mammals...

Posted by: Xenithrys | February 15, 2010 3:27 PM

Hey! What are those dumb birds doing on our ark? That makes our ark polyphyletic and the other one paraphyletic!

Posted by: Thebear, just an agent of peas | February 15, 2010 3:30 PM

Xenithrys:
Again it's the will of Dog:

He needed chickenbones for the other dogs to choke on so he can be the only Dog!

Posted by: Zeno | February 15, 2010 3:41 PM

I am quite certain that doubters and scoffers will mock the heavy artillery on Noah's ark as inconsistent with the technology of the era. They forget that Noah's Flood is a great miracle. In the midst of such a great miracle, what is to stop God from equipping Noah with weaponry otherwise not seen before the 20th century? Nothing!

That's pretty rock-solid argumentation, I tell you.

#10

Posted by: David Marjanović | February 15, 2010 3:46 PM

Tsk, tsk. Sauria is an outdated name for the lizards-except-snakes. That doesn't include the dinosaurs, even though Owen seems to have thought so in 1842.

#11

Posted by: Ströh | February 15, 2010 3:58 PM

Wonder why there's dynamite in the water too. In case they miss? Not to mention the piece-of-cake-with-horns under Noah's ark.

#12

Posted by: Daft Greg | February 15, 2010 4:02 PM

Teach the controversy!

#13

Posted by: Shadow | February 15, 2010 4:03 PM

Doesn't the shot look long? With that arc, and how close the two ships appear, the shell should miss.

Greek fire would have been a better choice.

#14

Posted by: Desert Son, OM | February 15, 2010 4:06 PM

I'm a little worried (concerned troll is concerned) about the implications of the mammalian ship being armed with what appears (to my admittedly untrained eye) to be a Flugzeugabwehr-Kanone Acht-komma-acht Zentimeter.

Was the Krupp Company contracted for ark armaments?

Still learning,

Robert

#15

Posted by: tomarctomet | February 15, 2010 4:06 PM

David @#10,

Except, of course, some authors (e.g., Gauthier) use Sauria for Archosauria + Lepidosauria, so it is still a legitimate term and would contain Dinosauria.

#16

Posted by: ursa major | February 15, 2010 4:10 PM

Initially I was looking for the reptiles space ships and high powered energy beam weapons but realized I was thinking of the Silurians who would have taken care of that fool Yahweh and the boat.

*Ursa remembers to bow in direction of Morris, Chants the name of PZ (mhbef)and partakes of Beer and Bacon in Remembrance of Him.

(mhbef) = (may he be eaten first)

#17

Posted by: Ian | February 15, 2010 4:14 PM

@Shadow #13: The dino-ark is farther away than it looks...it's all a trick of perspective, based on your brain assuming that the ships are about the same size, when, given the size of dinosaurs, theirs would have to be much bigger. Hence the rather flat arc.

#18

Posted by: sudomabinusri | February 15, 2010 4:14 PM

What are those dumb birds doing on our ark?

Well obviously, the birds saw which way the wind was blowing, and moved. I mean, they got wings and all, and Noah doesn't appear to have had to foresight to include anti-aircraft guns on the Ark.

#19

Posted by: mothra | February 15, 2010 4:19 PM

Sure blows Ken Ham's 'theory' of Dinos living with man (after the flood) out of the water.

#20

Posted by: DesertHedgehog | February 15, 2010 4:22 PM

@14---

Exactly! A German 88mm gun on the mammal ark? Using a Nazi gun to shoot at reptiles? Surely the political overtones are...disquieting... But then--- David Irving and David Icke...all the same, right?

#21

Posted by: DownHouse | February 15, 2010 4:35 PM

Why is there a slice of blueberry pie and a stick of dynamite floating in the ocean?

#22

Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/a/xnK7TG0Lo5mL8GKo5hytRqwpHvFihEl7Eat3.EjEEeCYqC8fHRcH#05c76 | February 15, 2010 4:42 PM

DownHouse #21

Why is there a slice of blueberry pie and a stick of dynamite floating in the ocean?

Those are Bizarro trademarks - they appear regularly, and for no apparent reason.

Lithified Detritus

#23

Posted by: Bunkie | February 15, 2010 4:53 PM

That's bizarre.

#24

Posted by: Ströh | February 15, 2010 4:57 PM

#14: Come on, you can never go wrong with an 88! How could the good ol' nazi ever be wrong?

But the projectiles profile looks a bit dodgy. Guess it could be a YahwehTech® CJI-5000 GENOCIDE round retrofitted to the 88's barrel with a sabot. Yeah, I'm a sucker for divine weaponry.

#25

Posted by: Janine, The Little Top Of Venom, OM | February 15, 2010 5:19 PM

If you turn it onto Sci-Fi (I refuse to use their new name.) right now, you can watch the lizards get their revenge. V is on. I was just talking to my sister about it. We are both suppressing the memory of rampant big hair.

#26

Posted by: yaussid | February 15, 2010 5:31 PM

Bah! Not enough orgies on the dino-ark. I mean it should be obvious that those heathens clearly provoked Noah, nay, GOD HIMSELF.

And lo, the howitzer of the lord shone upon them...

#27

Posted by: Desert Son, OM | February 15, 2010 5:32 PM

Of course, upon further reflection, it is incontrovertible fact that mammals, after all, did develop the 88.

Maybe that's even more reason to be concerned.

Still learning,

Robert

#28

Posted by: Desert Son, OM | February 15, 2010 5:38 PM

And lo, the howitzer of the lord shone upon them...

"And humbly did Noah cast his eyes upon the distant vessel, and the Power of the Lord came into Noah, and he spake these words: fire for effect!"

Still learning,

Robert

#29

Posted by: Paul Burnett | February 15, 2010 6:14 PM

Desert Son (#28) wrote: "...Noah...spake these words: fire for effect!"

And we also know that at least one of the dinosaurs must have been named "Will"...because Noah also spake "Fire at Will!"

#30

Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/a/7IW3Q_E3tsKloSlnYxkYxNayMxiHG7hu.xyaWoTqcg--#e7f3e | February 15, 2010 6:16 PM

@ #14 Desert Son, OM,

Low bid always wins the contract. Even back then.

plumberbob

#31

Posted by: Athena | February 15, 2010 6:22 PM

Hmmm...Wonder if there are any special verses engraved on the barrel of that gun?

#32

Posted by: Desert Son, OM | February 15, 2010 6:32 PM

Athena,

Hmmm...Wonder if there are any special verses engraved on the barrel of that gun?

Nice. No doubt present day Arktillerists think the words engraved would have been in English, too.

plumberbob,

Low bid always wins the contract.

Good point.

Still learning,

Robert

#33

Posted by: thedolcelife#276f1 | February 15, 2010 6:39 PM

#11/#22 - notice the "4" above "Dan", the cartoonists name. He put four easter eggs in this comic. Sometimes they are a bit more hidden. Slice of pie, K2 (K squared - his children), Dynamite (first appeared after 9-11-01) and the fish tail.

Other notable eggs: Rabbit, upside down bird, eyeball, alien, shoe, arrow.

Wikipedia article on it explains a bit more and has a great 7 symbol comic.

#34

Posted by: Daft Greg | February 15, 2010 7:50 PM

@ #12 - Ug, me no read post, me just look at pretty picture.

#35

Posted by: Peter H | February 15, 2010 10:49 PM

If this is truly "mammals vs. saurians," the presence of birds on the mammals' ark suggests complexities not yet explored.

#36

Posted by: Nick | February 16, 2010 1:36 AM

First Crusade? Kinda looks like it.

#37