For Sunny :D Moooo!

[Onyx]

http://www.hemmy.net/2007/07/16/belg...ible-hulk-cow/

[stoke]

Damn ... now i'm hungry!

[Sminty]

Question is, how does the meat taste? Looks like it would be a bit tough to me.

Hmmm...Imagine some body builder getting hold of that enzyme...I mean there are some freaks out there already...maybe they have it already.

PS...did you see the poor dog?
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/07/07/big-...ible-hulk-dog/

[Flatty]

Question is, how does the meat taste? Looks like it would be a bit tough to me.

Hmmm...Imagine some body builder getting hold of that enzyme...I mean there are some freaks out there already...maybe they have it already.

PS...did you see the poor dog?
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/07/07/big-...ible-hulk-dog/

I reckon the meat tastes just fine - we are after the muscle anyway. The critics that want to do away with the breed should be silenced. It would make more sense to get rid of the rest of the cows that produce less muscle & therefore economise on the actual amount of cows per square kilometer & thus contributing substantially to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

You know, a Chinese scientist has postulated that the dinosaurs actually wiped themselves out due to the amounts of methane gas they released into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer at the time. We're sitting in a similiar situation at the moment & I think we have over 1 billion cows on the planet. Scientists are seriously trying to find ways to reduce their emissions & there have even been inventions designed to harness these emissions to produce electricity.

So don't fart, do your bit for the ozone!

[FallenAngelZA]

onyx that is one big moo cow

[Askari]

Dinosaurs farted themselves out of existence? Good lord man, that is preposterous! Have you any idea how many dinosaur farts that would take??? One ancient volcanic eruption in those days would've released more methane into the atmosphere than all the dinosuars that ever walked the planet.

Everyone knows that that it was a cataclysmic event that ended the dinosaurs rule.

[Tresbien]

I'm doing my bit to keep down the cow population on the planet - how about you?

[Flatty]

Askari, you really must remember that old homo-erectus was probably the lowest life-form on the food chain at the time. We were probably running around hunting bunnies in the dark for fear of being swallowed whole by T-Rex, or the other bloody things with wings,long beaks & incisors the size of my you know-what. (No snide remarks now, but lets just assume it's big).

In probability there were probably millions of the buggers in those days & can you imagine how many humans would have to fart to equal just one of Mr T-Rex. Anyway, it isn't my theory, I just read the stuff.

Who said it was a cataclysmic event that wiped them out anyway? Have you got proof? I know we didn't wipe them out because we only got smart enough when the aliens landed, interbred with homo-erectus & wallah: homo-sapiens. This happened about 40 000 years ago & the transition from homo erectus to homo sapiens took only a couple of hundred years, so please explain that.

Anyway, who cares if the dinosaurs farted themselves to death, or if they were wiped out in the fallout from an asteroid hitting earth? Our problems are now....peace, bra...flowers & that stuff...save the earth, save the whales, harpoon a fat chick, whatever - stop playing PC games cos you're depleting the ozone??????

[Askari]

Flatspin

I am not disputing the incredibleness of just one T-Rex fart. Musta been the worst morning lifting the duvet experience ever.

I do however think that the sum of all said farts still would be out shadowed by a few volcanic erruptions.

There is no absolute proof on the extinction, just evidence and clues. The evidence suggests that the vanishings happened within a year. Extreme case of 'cattle mutilations' perhaps as a precursor to the impending genetic manipulation of erectus by alien beings? Although erectus didnt appear till much later when all the nasties were gone bar a few crocs, lizards and sharks.

A theory that I personally like is the one about an extra planet in our solar system that has such a long and narrow elliptical orbit that on its furtherest point on the orbit it is so far from earth that it is lost in the cosmos but when it comes back past earth it is so close as to have a massive gravitational pull that the oceans bubble on the side of the planet its passing then release back as the force is lost creating a deluge. It also interfers with the other planets and the asteroid belt causing havoc and earth strikes from meteorites.

This is what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs (they werent generally good swimmers apart from said crocs, turtles and sharks: aha, makes sense now hey? oh and Nessie)

It it also what caused the biblical flood except Noah wasnt just a faithful servant of God he was a genetic scientist par excellence! And the ark was more a submarine laboratory than a ship thing.

This 'Planet X' is known as NiBiRu. There is also an ancient tablet from West Africa (forget details now) showing the Solar System remarkably well PLUS an extra planet. Yes, there was a tropical rainforest dwelling tribe of telescope makers and astronomers thousands of years ago in west africa.

And yes we are the result of genetically modified homo erectus. The Bible hints at this in Genesis and the ancient Babylonians go into far greater detail.

[Sminty]

Errr...Skari...the leading theory isn't an extra planet its a piece of floating debris about the size of jupiter that came from the belt of asteroids outside of our solar system. They aren't entirely uncommon to have orbits that bring them well into the solar system. The main theory is that the incidence of a 'volcanic tide' coupled with a huge comet wiped out the dinosaurs.

As for the homoerectus...errr...flatspin, a 4 year old would be able to tell you that dinosaurs and any form of mamalian ancestor to the humans never co-existed.

What's rather interesting is that the Dinosaurs were not the only mass-extinction. The dinosaurs only got better press (proving that bigger is, indeed, better ). There have actually been an impressive amount of mass extinctions that have happened in the course of the history of the earth. Each time this happened life re-emerged with a greater diversity.

As for the flood story...well that only happened around 4-5 thousand years ago. An interesting thing about it is that this is also only about 1 000 years after any form of written history can be found (Not counting cave paintings). Most organised religions around the world have a flood story in their history all pointing to around the same time. Its one of the few stories that most religions have in common. What interests me is that while humans (or homosapien) where supposed to have populated the earth hundreds of thousands of years ago, how come its only the last 6 000 years that we have seen rapid growth in 'civilisation'?

And onto the cows which sparked this whole thing. The reason I asked if the meat may be tough is because while meat is muscle its weak muscle that makes for tender meat. Those extra muscles look like they cause straing and also stress...a stressed beast tastes yuck. So doesn't help you grow extra muscle and traditional cow meat becomes more valuable as a result (by the way this is both why veal is so tender and expensive and why I would not eat it ever).

My feeling is that money and effort spent on trying to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses and the depletion of the ozone layer is just delaying the inevitable so that we can make it future generations problems? I would rather see the money and effort spent on researching means of re-plenishing the world's ozone layer...hmmm...a world wide aircon...now that sounds like the ticket! Except the government would get the remote...that would suck.