Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru 222
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Douglas Roberts points out as "obvious Linux fodder" the coverage of a study just published in PNAS claiming that, on fossil evidence, giant penguins once stalked the plains of Peru. One species goes back over 40 million years and its members were as large as modern king penguins. They were warm adapted. Members of another species, 30 million years ago, stood 5 feet high and made their living spearfishing with their 1-foot beaks. Here's an artist's impression.
I for one blah blah (Score:5, Funny)
Now that that's out of the way, we can actually have a serious discussion about this
(just kidding)
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Is it ok if we imagine a Beowulf cluster of them first?
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I wonder how they taste (Score:2)
This proves it... (Score:5, Funny)
I guess there is no way we're going to have a serious discussion on this subject.
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But do they run Linux????
But foolishly, expecting serious conversations on /. is about as likely as hitting the Lottery. Possible, but not bloody likely.
End of the line. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:End of the line. (Score:5, Funny)
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seriously, just stop.
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Giant Ancient Penguins are Linux fodder? (Score:4, Funny)
Damn.
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Re:Giant Ancient Penguins are Linux fodder? (Score:4, Funny)
Starting to look that way.
Know any good sites I can bittorrent a life from?
Stalked ? (Score:5, Funny)
Category? (Score:2)
Re:Stalked ? (Score:5, Funny)
Tiny polar bears. Those penguins could eat several per day.
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Prodigious Penguins Populated Prehistoric Peru
rj
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Yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yes, but... (Score:5, Funny)
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Run, at that size with a waddle gait? No, they only 'roamed' Linux.
Crap (Score:5, Funny)
Oh is that so???
And in other more recent news fossil evidence found England has indicated that 60 million years ago
apples grew to a astounnding circumference of 2 metres...... Fodder for Mac-Fanboys
obligatory Monty Python (Score:5, Funny)
Second Old Woman: Looks like a giant 5 foot tall prehistoric penguin.
First Old Woman: No No No not what's on the television set - I mean what programme?
40 million years? (Score:2)
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More than 40 million years? Yes - 60M!! (Score:2)
Of course, this comes with the "well that's f'n obvious" tagline of "The oldest penguin fossils yet found suggest that at least some ancestors of modern birds survived the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs." Duhh. They're here now, their ancestors must have survived.
I apologize (Score:4, Funny)
suggested name.. (Score:2)
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2. Torvaldosaur
Shameless plug (Score:5, Interesting)
about Penguins (Score:3, Informative)
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Footprint too big (Score:3, Funny)
beowulf check, overloards check, oh you forgot... (Score:3, Funny)
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There was even Monty Python reference and "did it run Linux?"...
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Don't forget:
And:
Netcraft confirms that all giant penguins are dead.
And last but not least:
The last one was killed after Steve Ballmer threw a chair at it and swore "I'm going to f***ing kill the giant penguins"
Those were a lot funnier in my mind. And they weren't even very funny there...
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Global Warming. (Score:5, Funny)
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You mean basic natural instincts, that ALL animals have? Growth is a biproduct of reproduction, and reproduction is performed by, you know, everything.
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Pingo Sapiens? (Score:5, Funny)
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Way cool! (Score:5, Funny)
Can they be taught basic police dog techniques?
Or, better yet, martial arts?
I mean, you put a sharp metal edge on those... wings and you've got, well, something that rocks.
Hah! Marching Penguin Bladed Wing Attack! Pow!
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If you teach them Tae Kwan Leep, they can give BillG and StevieB a boot to the head.
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BMO
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Wasn't there something like that in one of the Street Fighter games?
Artists impression (Score:5, Funny)
Or else they would have gone extinct. Oh wait. Never mind.
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Aside from that, their primary defense in water is the ability to swim jolly fast, not hide. On land they wouldn't be able to get up to anything more then a frantic waddle. No matter what colour you are that's not going to be helpful. Escape to water is about the only thing that'd work.
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http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&clien
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http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/little_pied
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This is true; one only has to look at the herds of zebras floating on icebergs in the artic to confirm this is the case...
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Giant penguins with... (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. (Score:2)
But did they sing or tap dance to a Prince soundtrack or have Morgan Freeman, God Himself, provide narration?
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Indeed they did. That's why they had to die.
But were they of the electric variety? (Score:2)
See Ensign Oates' frank adult death struggle with the spine-chilling giant electric penguin...!
Oates looks up in horror, a shadow crosses him. Reverse shot of model penguin (quite small, about a foot) which lights up and looks electric. The penguin is close to the camera in the foreground and appears huge. Oates looks around desperately then starts to undress. Shot of penguin throwing tentacle. Half-nude Oates struggles with it. Intercut a lot of phoney reverses. Oa
They probably left (Score:4, Funny)
better than giant balmers (Score:2)
Star Control (Score:2)
Cormorant? (Score:2)
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This would have been more worthy of Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
But if you want to own one... (Score:2)
New distro (Score:2)
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Why so big? (Score:2, Interesting)
Is this the natural selection process or something? Things start small then being big is an advantage so things just keep getting bigger and bigger until it collapses with a medium size winning out?
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"Linux fodder"? (Score:2)
SOYLENT LINUX IS GIANT PENGUINS!
lameness filter etc. leave it to slashcode to ruin a perfectly cromulent jokememe.
these days, however... (Score:2)
End of patent problems? (Score:2)
Was this a serious article? (Score:2, Funny)
Yum yum (Score:2, Funny)
2) Breed and let frolic 'free range'.
3) Stir fry.
4) ?????
5) Profit!!!
Miskatonic University's Paebody Expedition... (Score:2, Insightful)
v.m
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It it just me, or does the Debian spiral look like a tentacle if you squint just right?
WOW - The symbolism (Score:2)
Five (5) feet high! This is a big bird! So what is Microsoft's mascot? A fish perhaps?
Nobody expects the penguin inquisition! (Score:2, Funny)
Guess you'd call that... (Score:4, Funny)
rj
All of the body parts would be enlarged (Score:2, Funny)