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TheDinosaurDave

@TheDinosaurDave@sauropods.win

I love my Scifi, my Lego, and my dinosaur fossils. I have made almost 100 lego fossils.
You can also find me on Blue Sky - @thedinosaurdave.bsky.social

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TheDinosaurDave, to random
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Just a few points of interest covered so far...
And by a few i mean ive covered everything in NSW and the ACT. Im almost finished with VIC as well.
Any suggestions for anything in between Adelaide and Perth to check out?
Want to see pictures? Enjoy
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ml-yvsz33Ph2DmK3_1KkSx9Ybj4IiS1N

TheDinosaurDave,
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@llewelly to be fair, Australia is an elaborate hoax :p
And do far immalmost 3 weeks into my 8 week road trip and im just getting started. Lucky for me theres plenty of time left to get to winton to meet my parents in the middle of may haha

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This week for we have another that .

This one I would rate as medium. This is a ceratopsian is a juvenile representative of its species, and might be dubious as a result.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

The body was designed by Kongzilla and modified heavily by me into something new.

TheDinosaurDave, to random
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Got a look at a replica of thr holotype of . Whats everyone's thoughts on it? I was dubious about it before, and more so now. Here are some of the images. I feel its not from the right place or time to be a ceratopsian. And given how relatively generic the bone looks it could be almost anything. More images here - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Mi5-AwIigcxqfP71lsgkuwJsxrMljoJY

Close up of the replica bone
Close up of the replica bone
Close up of the replica bone

TheDinosaurDave,
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@llewelly kinda. Its superficially looks like a Leptocerarops. The issue is that Leptoceratops like 50 million years later on an unconnected continent. Itd be like finding a rhino shull next to a T. rex.
Is it interesting and weird, yes, would it be cool, also yes, do we need more fossils, always. But i think its a massive rush to a conclusion to place a ceratopsian in Australia off one bone, with zero other evidence.

RSMacKinnon, to climate

Mar 10 EWE: Australia — Millions of Aussies impacted by severe heatwave sweeping multiple states. https://www.news.com.au/national/weather/bom-severe-heatwave-high-fire-danger-forecast-for-victoria-south-australia-and-tasmania/news-story/d311b5134cf53e2bbc99403e07a3b0c9

TheDinosaurDave,
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@RSMacKinnon lucky me, im on a round Aus road trip, im just south of Canberra and was meant to head of Melbourne yesterday, but i stopped because its a public holiday down there... oh im in a tent
I would have melted... haha

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This weeks is

Lawrence Lambe discovered the first Centrosaurus in the early 1900.

The name, much like the similarly sounding Kentrosaurus, is derived from the Greek 'kentron' meaning pointy. It does not refer to the single horn, which wasn't found until much later.

A bonebed found in Alberta contains hundreds of individuals of varying ages. It appears they all drowned while crossing a river.

Skull ROM 767 from Dinosaur Provincial Park

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This week for we have another that .

This one I would rate as easy. This is a ceratopsian is one of the most well known and beloved of all ceratopsians.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

The body was designed by Kongzilla and modified heavily by me into something new.

TheDinosaurDave, to Canberra
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Day 4 of the road trip took me to
Lot of fun, images below
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C47QhdIKThFmd0_-vlJZWYBo_6eqTY5F

TheDinosaurDave, to roadtrip
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Day 1
From to .
Here are the things i seen along the way
Ill be posting updates in here daily for those who want to come with, so to speak
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ml-yvsz33Ph2DmK3_1KkSx9Ybj4IiS1N

drmambobob, to apple
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My doesn't detect my external monitor any more after I installed some updates... It's drawing power from the USB-C connection but isn't detecting the display. Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm on Monterey so the fix I found on the support page doesn't seem to be available on my mac...
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchla25b377d/mac

TheDinosaurDave,
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@drmambobob if its uni issued then its probably got some heavy software locks on it. Reach out to uni IT, if its an actual person in the building, they might be willing to help if you show them some kick ass fossils haha

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This weeks is

The only known fossil material of Albertaceratops was found in 2001. It was described formally in 2007 by Michael J. Ryan. He found it was one of the most basal centrosaurines.

Other specimens were thought to have been found in the Judith River Formation, but they were later revealed to be Medusaceratops instead.

Lego Albertaceratops

VPS_Reports, to random

I will not vote for Biden and I urge everyone I know to abstain from voting for him or Trump. They are the same. This is a dual-party fascist state. Biden is a 21st Century Hindenburg. I previously felt a need not to give presidential voting advice publicly. Today changed that. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-biden-collide-split-screen-trips-border-immigration-spotlight-rcna140899?taid=65e1095ae6aea10001992eb2&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

TheDinosaurDave,
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@VPS_Reports But theyre not the same. Biden has done a heap of good over all, esp compared to trump.
THe biggest issue is see is if trump gets back in project 2025 will be in place to fully take over the country and full on genocide groups of people they dont like.
There seriously isnt a level of alarmed we cannot be at at this point. Any republican win, anywhere, is a step towards totalitarianism. We are at the tipping point for the whole world. There is no power that could remove a fascist USA

paulfoerster, to bluesky
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I can‘t believe they finally did add support on . How much time did that take again? 🤔

Not that I‘m pretty active there anyway… 🤣

TheDinosaurDave,
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@paulfoerster finally the hashtags work :D
And people thought it was wierd i was usingthem even though they were not working yet

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This week for we have another that .

This one I would rate as easy. This is a ceratopsian on the larger end of the ceratopsian scale..

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This is based on the original set Triceratops, modified by me into something else

TheDinosaurDave, to random
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The other day I made a very crude guessing game where you guess the name of an extinct animal, and itll show you the closest common classification.
This is an updated version of that game. But its far from perfect.
Its also coded in HTML so anyone can edit it in a text editor.

Full explanation in the second post
1/2

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZiS4MfUOMeZdL5W9iH_vFGDtRpXqyyWN

TheDinosaurDave,
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To be fair, i kinda cheated generating the list. I used chatgpt to do that part. So any classification errors can be blamed on it. I will be manually expanding and checking all 500 of them soon
Try it here.
Theres a full list of animals in the game, the game itself, and a check list you can use as a guide to identifying them if you need it.
All of these will be updated as i add more things. Atm this is just proof of concept.

TheDinosaurDave,
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Did a quick hotfix on the files if anyone wants to get them again.
Let me know how you go, and how many guesses it takes you to fine the right answer :D

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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YouTube "skeptics" have been on a journey away from science for a long time and now some of them are legit asking if the moon landing was faked.

(this is what happens when you follow your audience as they drift to the right and off of the deep end.)

I would encourage their old nemesises on fundie YouTube to take a victory lap... but now they just agree with each other. (?)

Where have all the true rational warriors gone!

TheDinosaurDave,
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@tncowart @futurebird another good voice, not on youtube but podcasts, is Serious Inquires Only and Where theirs woke. Both are made by the same person and his wife, with proper good research.

TheDinosaurDave, to python
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I made a very very crude extinct animal guessing game.
Basically you can either run the code manually by following the instructions or try the compiled exe file which is the same thing.
Biggest known bug is its case sensative. Im new to and couldn't get my head around how to fix that

Basically you type the species name and itll tell you the common point in the evolutionary history.
For example if its Triceratops then Carnotaurus would give dinosauria as a clue

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZiS4MfUOMeZdL5W9iH_vFGDtRpXqyyWN

TheDinosaurDave,
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At some point i would like to add graphics.
I imagine it showing a tree of life similar to metazooa.
Maybe an image of the animal starting off covered or blurry that slowly becomes clearer over time.
Idk food for thought
Let me know any issues ir changes youd like

TheDinosaurDave,
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@tero thanks ill try that tomorrow when i get a chance.

AnnaAnthro, to Quebec
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    TheDinosaurDave,
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    @AnnaAnthro oh i hope they get a chance to touch on this on Opening Arguments Podcast

    TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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    This weeks is

    Euoplocephalus was found in 1897 in Alberta.

    In 1902 it was named . But that was found already be the name given to an insect (like most cool names).

    In 1910 it was changed to Euoplocephalus.

    In 1971 Walter Coombs concluded that all anklyosaurid remains from the of North America belonged to Euoplocephalus.

    Recently paleontologists have reverted several back to their own species.

    Replica Euoplocephalus fossil

    TheDinosaurDave,
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    @mike i was quite impressed when i seen the model as well. And its the perfect size to sit on your desk when u maie it.

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