everytime I hear about children of the corn I think about the guy I met at comic con who actually lived in the town they filmed that movie at, and on the farm where they filmed in the corn.
he was a teenager at the time and him and his friends would get drunk on moonshine and rustle the corn and let the air out of the tires of the production team’s trailers and shit.
and now there’s Wikipedia pages about how the children of the corn set was haunted and they thought they angered god but it was really just drunk hillbillies
I don’t like adding to posts but I also have a funny story like this, so I was watching the movie the Blair witch which takes place in burkettsville maryland, which to me is so funny because that is were my grandfather lives and the town is literally just old people and cows with their main street consisting of a post office. Well anyway he told me that after it came out people were coming in like bus loads to the town to find the witch and my grandfather lives up in the Mountain area and people were up in his property trying to find the witch and it made him angry so he went out and hung up stick people and stacked rocks and it freaked the people out so they started thinking something was out there when really it was my 80 year old Italian grandpa who wanted people out of his woods.
We had ghost hunters come to a historic house in my town to film and if you think every high school kid in town respectfully stayed at home that night instead of going to fuck up that filming you’re dead wrong.
this is comforting, actually, sometimes paranormal things are just a bunch of bored people dicking around in the woods.
being a republican is never counterculture lol no matter how much everyone else around you hates you
I have a few mutual friends with her (her name is Arianna Rowlands btw and she is very vocal about her views) and she’s rude af
i can feel her evil energy now
i'm relatively new to this "realizing that most modern day depictions of dinos in media are inaccurate" and I've been wondering, what is "shrink wrapping" a dinosaur? is it just not putting enough muscles on the skeleton?
Sort of, yes. In many cases muscle is left off; real animals also have things like fat, thick skin, thick feathers/fur, and air sacs that fill in a lot of the space. For reference, here’s how big an owl’s skeleton is compared to the living creature:
However, partially out of an attempt to “show that they know the skeleton” and partially out of just not knowing better, people who reconstruct fossil animals don’t pay attention to this, and just stretch skin over the bones. Like this:
No real (living) animal would look like that! It has literally no muscle, no fat, no fuzz. It doesn’t have room for jaw muscles or a digestive tract, so it can’t eat; the air sacs that would’ve been in and around the skeleton are gone, so it can’t breathe; it has no muscles in its arm or shoulder, so it can’t fly.
bats do look like this
and it would be safe to assume that pterodactyls didnt have fur considering it is believed that it was super hot back then
hell the reason the owl looks like that is because its super cold where they live
Good points! Scepticism is always good, and you shouldn’t take what you read at face value without questioning it.
If you took the fur off of a bat, you’d see that they actually have a lot of muscle. If you look at hairless bats (and yes, that’s an actual species!) you can see just how muscular it actually it is!
Birds are the same way, and so it’s probably safe to say pterosaurs were too. There’s a difference between being lightweight and just not having any muscle, fat, or organs.
See the fused area of the back behind the shoulders and in front of the ribcage? That’s there the muscles anchored to connect to the wings. Wings are big and there’s a lot of air resistance to lift them up and down, so there’s gotta be a lot of muscle to do that - especially on such a large animal. You’ll see similar structures on bats and birds.
Bats also differ from pterosaurs in the way they breathe - bats breathe like we do, with lungs, but pterosaurs had extensive air sac systems, more like birds. Tied to this, giant pterosaurs also had extremely light hollow bones. They could thus afford to be a bit bulkier than bats.
There are multiple pterosaur fossils that show hairlike structures called “pycnofibres”. You can see them yourself, if you don’t believe me:
We don’t have any evidence of larger pterosaurs LACKING these, and there’s no reason to think that they did lack them. An animal that has such large surface area-to-volume ratio is going to have trouble with heat being lost to the environment. The heat of the mesozoic varied from time to time and from place to place, but it’s true that it was generally warmer; however, flying animals still experience greater body heat loss from wind. It’s the same reason old-timey fighter pilots wore big leather-and-fur coats, not t-shirts and shorts.
And don’t forget - lots of owls do live in hot, arid places, and they’re just as covered in fluff!
Hope this answered your questions!
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I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
