[tied] Re: Medieval Dragons, dog/snake, Greek Dragons

From: tgpedersen
Message: 17818
Date: 2003-01-20

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> > Unfortunately the only dinosaurs that have ever coexisted with
man
> on this planet are birds. All other dinosaurs died out tens of
> millions of years before man. The "general assumption of scholars"
is
> extremely well founded in this respect.
> >
> > Also, dragons hardly look like any dinosaurs known to science.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marsha Brown" <mbrow28@...>
> > To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:30 PM
> > Subject: [tied] Re: Medieval Dragons, dog/snake, Greek Dragons
> >
> >
> > > Much as I hate to lurk and run,
> > > I have to ask,
> > > am I the only one who thinks that, contra the general
> > > assumption of scholars,
> > > the widespread existence of dragon imagery and stories
indicates a
> > > recollection of a time when men and dinasauars coexisted on the
> planet?
> > >
> > > Marsha Brown

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "John <jdcroft@...>" <jdcroft@...>
wrote:
> There were 4 tonne Monitors (Genus Megalanus) related to the Komodo
> Dragon, that coexisted with Australian Aboriginal people here at
the
> time of their arrival here (part of the extinct Megafauna). It was
> amn ambush predator and was suspected as living near waterholes.
>
> An Australasian Urheimat for Dragons ;-)
>
> Regards
>
> John
>

Aha! Oho! Just what I suspected. Now I will become completely
intolerable.
There is of course also the old association of salamders with fire
(unless it was halitosis, which I learn is common among Komodo
dragons).

BTW all those geologists etc who imagine a doomsday scenario after a
meteoritic impact have no imagination and should be reading Calvin &
Hobbes (eds.) more. A long time back a neighbor of mine demonstrated
what happens when you fire a pump gun down into an unopened beer can.
Never have I seen so much beer in so short a time. Unfortunately the
well-paid geologists think the meteor impact will be that of a yellow
pea from a blowpipe on a football rather than that of a shotgun into
a water melon. What happens if the meteor is large and fast enough to
penetrate the earth's mantle, eg. under an ocean? Someone pulled the
plug on the world's oceans to the furnace below: which runs out
first? Is there water in the oceans enough to quench the fire within:
no. Is there fire enough to turn the entire contents of the oceans to
steam: yes. Everybody, except those on the mountains get steamed.

BTW the physiological differences between mammals and reptiles are:
heat regulation, separate lung section of blood circulation (reptiles
are "blue children", their hearts lack the separtion of chambers),
fur (perhaps). In other words: mammals developped in the reptile
period as specialised to mountains (cold; thin air). Because of the
Yucatan impact most animals were steamed and most of the atmosphere
was stripped off and pressure fell to that formerly of high altitudes
(big rock into pond: splosh, and very little water left).

Torsten