This is one in the "ThisisAMAzinJim!!!" category that the tv-addict avid couchpotatoes, elderly in need, the top-end obese and the handicapped will love to order...
Say- How big were Opabinia and Hallucigenia...? Are we talking inches or feet here...? I mean, dino's sometimes give me the creeps, but to think that something like Opabinia swam the oceans at a same size of a modern Great White shark.....?
Very interesting to see these R2D2's evolve into the real thing as technology gets better and better. And then one fine day somewhere in the future, someone will proudly present a reallife R2D2 that has as much intelligence and capacities as the movie-character. That'll truly be a Wow-Moment.
The biggest pandemic of them all is Humanity itself- It kills plants and animals indiscriminately and it leaves a trail of destruction behind on this planet that will be seen for tenthousands of years after the last human has gone. The only thing that makes bigger devastation on this planet is a meteorid strike like the one that perhaps blasted away the dinosaurs.
Are we talking inches or feet here...? I mean, dino's sometimes give me the creeps, but to think that something like Opabinia swam the oceans at a same size of a modern Great White shark.....?
...There goes my peaceful sleep.....
To decimate something means to kill one in ten, from the Roman military punishment ---
Sure you can: In that case you have killed 1/40th of the population. ;-)
Respect.