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The HS2 works as you head into and out of Birmingham New Street are really quite impressively monumental. Though I’m a little surprised how rusted the brand new bridge frames look - I guess they’re COR-TEN and it’s deliberate to save the cost of keeping them painted.

The BBC reporting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... literally mentions an infected farmer having to “squat” in the middle of his field !!

Example pettable ankylosaur

Looking at what Dinomania can do today, and at the current Chinese focus on biomechanical-inspired robots, I expect an entirely plausible baby triceratops petting zoo event at Universal Studios Beijing by 2040, with a plausible T Rex roboting around in the background #dinoconuk

The arc of shops with the walkway in front of the artificial lake: #dinoconuk definitely setting itself up for the Jurassic World fans. Lake so far appears mosasaur-free, and a reassuring absence of large pterosaurs.

Would it be possible to make a Prehistoric Planet-like thing set in the actual Jurassic, or would anyone with the money to produce it reckon that they could not risk the audience reaction when so many people have Cretaceous favourite dinosaurs?

Usually convention hotel clashes are hilarious, but here we have fifteen hundred dinosaur enthusiasts at #dinoconuk in green lanyards and a comparable number of people in red lanyards from the Midlands Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon, and I don’t think this will be the cause of any whimsy at all.

#dinoconuk haul from @introvertebrates.bsky.social, www.patreon.com/SpeedThief, and Gert van Dijk of planetfuraha.blogspot.com

Impressive animatronics and large-scale costumes walking the halls at #dinoconuk

Homeric Ethiopia was likely further north than the modern country, nearer modern Sudan, and Sudan across the Red Sea to Arabia has been a trade route forever - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethiopia is intriguing.

The awkwardness of ‘is that a Professor Challenger cosplay or is tweed and waxed moustache just the way he vibes’

Waiting for the opening ceremony. Truly spectacular selection of dinosaur T-shirts here at #dinoconuk : the hot pink “Big Bony Club” ankylosaur my favourite so far.

Lots of platforms let you buy ETFs but not trade options; so an ETF which is an option in a wrapper makes some sort of sense, and I could absolutely imagine putting 5% of a portfolio into such things the same way people buy lottery tickets.

You can aim to treat it as a public good to be nurtured, but that doesn’t stop the planning process for a new reservoir from taking a decade. I expect to have grandkids to take to Doddington Water by the time they’ve got round to building Doddington Water.

I can absolutely imagine the tragic alien-perspective 1970s story based on this biology, as the aliens realise that their biological drive to be super aggressive and super horny to try to get the species through whatever caused this bottleneck so dire as to wipe out big bull elephants is kicking in

The three young bulls killed something like fifty rhinos between them before someone brought in six much larger bulls and they went out of musth almost at once www.bbcearth.com/news/teenage...

Apparently it’s much more of a problem among isolated working Asian elephants than among wild African ones - basically old bull elephants help young bull elephants through it, about the one time it was observed in African wild elephants was when all of a herd except three young bulls were shot.

I just read a great long oral history of Terminator 2, where what was very clear was that they were one team with one vision and one storyboard defined early on. vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/t...