Re: Kraken vs. Ichthyosaurs

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

Well I hope the authors enjoy their 60 minutes of fame through the 
already being written books and soon to be broadcast 2 hour special on 
the Mythology, er Science, Channel about the Kraken.  May they receive 
unending emails, phone calls, and letters from cryptozoologists, alien 
hunters,  and other true believers of such dreck.

Than again, there are strings of sauropod distal caudals on the quarry 
face at dinosaur that also look very similar to octopus arms.

Dan


On 10/11/2011 12:37 AM, Vivian Allen wrote:
> It's a joke. Whether or not it's an INTENTIONAL joke is another matter.
>
> Viv
>
> On 11 October 2011 08:13, John Wilkins<john.s.wilkins@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > It's churnalism based on an unpublished proposal by the McMenamins
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense/
> >
> > On 11/10/2011, at 5:02 PM, Tim Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Ian Paulsen<birdbooker@zipcon.net>  wrote:
> > >
> > > >   This story has been making the news rounds today:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense/#more-80848
> > > >
> > > > Is it for real or is it a joke?
> > >
> > >
> > > No, it's real.  The deplorable standards of journalism, that is.
> > > That's certainly real.  The ichthyosaur-eating kraken is so much
> > > bullsh*t.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Tim
> > --
> > John Wilkins | john@wilkins.id.au
> > Associate, Philosophy, University of Sydney; visiting fellow, UNSW
> > "Were all men philosophers, the business of life could not be executed, and
> > neither society, nor even the species, could long exist." William Smellie, 1791
> > Species: A history of the idea http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11391.php
>
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