October 29th, 2007
Time for a change
I find myself listening less and less to albums these days, preferring instead to throw everything on shuffle. I think it might be the thrill of not knowing what’s coming.
Soon though, those crazy scientists will be re-arranging history. There have been rumblings for some years now that we might once again have woolly mammoths roaming around.
So, I suppose, what I mean to ask is, ‘If you could have anything that has gone before appear now, what would it be?’
Philip J Schadenfreude on 
Just last night I was discussing with my wife how cool it would be to still have megatheriums wandering the wilds of Canada.
Newton, ftw.
he’s contributed more to physics than Einstein
Be careful that you get young Newton, though. Like Elvis the difference between young Newton and old Newton is vast.
Dropbears became extinct 30K yrs ago.
I want em back.
Natural predator of the human!!!!
Something about the thought of a few hundred kilo’s of pissed off marsupial lion falling outta a tree at ppl that intrigues me…….
But really, I wouldn’t want anything of the past back, I’d prefer to expend resources on the future.
What are you talking about Ben? They never left! That’s the reason no Australian walks under a tree.
hey guys, dont be mean. some people actually believe in drop bears. i mean, um, i totally have a drop bear colony in my backyard.
Megatheriums are pretty cool – a 5 ton creature with almost bullet-proof hide and a rather unsavory odour… reminds me of the time I met Brian Blessed. He was hanging from a tree in our local park, swiping down at passers by, shouting the phrase, ‘Gordon’s alive!’.
Newton isn’t that disimilar. Joseph’s right, we sometimes refer to the ‘Janus faces’ of Newton. On one side a coherent scientist dedicated to empirical proof and on the other side a religious nutter prone to bouts of paranoia… I’d have him round for dinner though.
Right, I’m off to do some research about Dropbears.
Matriarchal poly-amorous communistic societies?
I would love to try the first Twinky.
I’m not sure what was in them
(perhaps banana cream?) but they’ve
changed the formula since then.
Drop bears are only the coolest creature to exist.
They are scary and lethal.
I once watched a cadet wipe vegemite behind his ears in an attempt to repell them.
Dropbears
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4409039.stm
OK, so that article says nothing about them dropping out of trees, but apparently the marsupial lions used the falling outta trees as their main strategy.
There are some major flaws in this tactic, tho it has some benefits.