What's Coursera? ( I know what a course is ! )
Coursera is a website where universities and other institutions from all over the world offer free, online courses that anyone can join... I think many of them have an option where you can pay money to get actual course credit or an official certificate of completion or something, but if you just want to learn something for your own enjoyment, you can do the free version.
https://www.coursera.org/
I think it's a brilliant idea, I might do something else on there. Couldn't resist the one on dinos though!
Ha! I'm making a
digital drawing right now in Photoshop PS4 of
Bronotsauruses! : D 
In fact I thought at one point that I might add a different dino in there as well. So I had to look up
The Three Ages (Dinos) to make sure I
wasn't putting 2 species of dinos
that didn't exist at the same time! 
ANd when the hell did they CHANGE the Name of the
Bronosaurus to A_______ -
what ever the hell they renamed it ?!??
h(ave to look that up)
Cool! I'd love to see it when you're done.
You're a lot more careful about Mesozoic continuity than a lot of movie makers of the past have been!
I know Jurassic Park was meant to be dinos from all different time periods together, but a lot of people don't even think about how they weren't all around at the same time.
Stegosaurus died out over 100 million years before
Tyrannosaurus evolved! So bravo for that.
Well,
Brontosaurus didn't really get re-named... what happened was that two different species of dinosaur were described and named within a few years of one another, back in the 1800s (
Brontosaurus and
Apatosaurus), but they were each known from fragmentary skeletons and
Brontosaurus lacked a skull. Years later, another skeleton of
Brontosaurus was discovered, this time including the head, but then they realised that it was the same as
Apatosaurus's skull, and they were actually the same species. And because
Apatosaurus was named first, the name of Brontosaurus was consigned to the palaeontological scrap-heap, and
Apatosaurus is the official name of what used to be called
Brontosaurus.
BUT... if that wasn't confusing enough, there has apparently been more research on the big sauropods and I'm not sure if it's the same family as
Apatosaurus or another one, but it might be that two species have been lumped together and given one name in the past, which might need to be split up and another name assigned, and I think it would be awesome if they ended up using
Brontosaurus again, cos it's one of the best dinosaur names.
Thunder lizard!!
I can't even remember what
Apatosaurus means... probably "boring lizard".
The
only Major thing I've
done Wrong-o is putting in
Genric Modern Day Plants.
Now this was supposed to be a fairly quickly done piece....but....
While I KNOW that the tree types back then were ferny-like ( not sure about palms - check on that) I didn't realize there was NO Grass-
Just little ferns on dirt ground and bigger ones for bushes and at least one other species plant-wise for some ground cover and maybe small bushes! lol
There were plenty of green things (we assume they were green back then, anyway!) to cover the ground, mosses and club mosses (I don't even know what they are, but all the dino books talk about them) and so on, so if you have green stuff at ground level you can just tell everyone it's club mosses.
As for palm trees, google tells me that there were no palms in the Jurassic period, which is when our friend
Apatosaurus was roaming around. I think they must have evolved in the Cretaceous... they are flowering plants.
I reckon as long as you don't have anything obviously flowering (or grassy or palm-ish), you'll be fine.
Have I told you about Peter Trusler before? He's an Australian artist who specialises in doing scientific illustrations of extinct critters and indeed entire environments - he's very very detailed in getting all the plants right in his paintings, even things like the angle of the sun at whatever latitude the depicted animals were inhabiting!
Yep, The Airborne Toxic Event is their real name. I discovered them back when NLOTH came out and U2 did a "guest-DJ" event in a couple different US cities. On one of the nights they each picked out part of the radio's setlist, and Adam picked the track "Sometime Around Midnight". I looked them up via Amazon and ended up buying the whole cd.
That is a memorable band name, all right! I enjoyed that song you posted too. I'll have to check out more of their stuff.
Probably just post a Bono picture or something.
I hit 10k sometime around midnight. (And thank you for the Adam love. 
thanks, jeevey and JJ !
ouch! 
over years off & on ( way more in the first several years) I can't get esp curved line to be smooth!!! There "wiggly"! |:<
....LOL
