Re: [PHP] Getting WAY OT now Re: PHP Brain Teasers

Hi,

Tedd Wrote :-

> At 11:00 PM -0400 7/5/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:44 -0400, tedd wrote:
> >> At 4:48 PM -0400 7/5/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >> >On 7/5/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
> >> >>On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:04 -0500, Kaleb Pomeroy wrote:
> >> >>> Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
> >> >>
> >> >>The egg, fish were laying them long before chickens walked the earth :)
> > > >
> > >
> > > But actually, it was dinosaurs.
> >
> >Ummmmm... fish predate all land creatures according to evolution....
> >that's not to say something with eggs didn't predate fish, but I'm too
> >lazy to go look.
>
>
> Yes, but I was talking about predecessors to the chicken, like
> Archeopteryx (one of the first feathered dinosaurs), which is/was (my
> education is dated) believed to be the predecessor of birds.
>
> As far as eggs are concerned, they predate fish considerably.

As far as I'm aware, eggs don't predate anything. How could they - they
don't have legs or mouths so couldn't eat anything if they could run to
catch it :-)

TTFN



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On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:19 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tedd Wrote :-
>
> > At 11:00 PM -0400 7/5/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > >On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:44 -0400, tedd wrote:
> > >> At 4:48 PM -0400 7/5/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> > >> >On 7/5/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
> > >> >>On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:04 -0500, Kaleb Pomeroy wrote:
> > >> >>> Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
> > >> >>
> > >> >>The egg, fish were laying them long before chickens walked the earth :)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > But actually, it was dinosaurs.
> > >
> > >Ummmmm... fish predate all land creatures according to evolution....
> > >that's not to say something with eggs didn't predate fish, but I'm too
> > >lazy to go look.
> >
> >
> > Yes, but I was talking about predecessors to the chicken, like
> > Archeopteryx (one of the first feathered dinosaurs), which is/was (my
> > education is dated) believed to be the predecessor of birds.
> >
> > As far as eggs are concerned, they predate fish considerably.
>
> As far as I'm aware, eggs don't predate anything. How could they - they
> don't have legs or mouths so couldn't eat anything if they could run to
> catch it :-)

Don't confuse predation with predate :)

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/predate

Cheers,
Rob.
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On 7/6/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:19 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tedd Wrote :-
> >
> > > At 11:00 PM -0400 7/5/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:44 -0400, tedd wrote:
> > > >> At 4:48 PM -0400 7/5/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> > > >> >On 7/5/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
> > > >> >>On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:04 -0500, Kaleb Pomeroy wrote:
> > > >> >>> Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >>The egg, fish were laying them long before chickens walked the earth :)
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > But actually, it was dinosaurs.
> > > >
> > > >Ummmmm... fish predate all land creatures according to evolution....
> > > >that's not to say something with eggs didn't predate fish, but I'm too
> > > >lazy to go look.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, but I was talking about predecessors to the chicken, like
> > > Archeopteryx (one of the first feathered dinosaurs), which is/was (my
> > > education is dated) believed to be the predecessor of birds.
> > >
> > > As far as eggs are concerned, they predate fish considerably.
> >
> > As far as I'm aware, eggs don't predate anything. How could they - they
> > don't have legs or mouths so couldn't eat anything if they could run to
> > catch it :-)
>
> Don't confuse predation with predate :)
>
> http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/predate
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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>

An article I just read this morning is quite fitting for this
exact discussion:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/0...19-502-ak-0000


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At 3:19 PM +0100 7/6/07, David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
>Tedd Wrote :-
> > As far as eggs are concerned, they predate fish considerably.
>
>As far as I'm aware, eggs don't predate anything. How could they - they
>don't have legs or mouths so couldn't eat anything if they could run to
>catch it :-)

Oh yeah, what about Pacman?

But then again, eggs also "predate" Pacman too!

In a morphological sense, there are, and have been, egg-shaped
critters that prey on other critters. The microscopic world is filled
with them.

Cheers,

tedd
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At 10:32 AM -0400 7/6/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
>
> An article I just read this morning is quite fitting for this
>exact discussion:
>
>http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/0...19-502-ak-0000


Not a bad article, but just speculation based upon the Geological
assertion that "The present is the key to the past." For most
things, it works reasonably well -- but, we don't know for sure.

For example, several hundred million years from now when mankind is
history and some alien paleontologist is looking through the rock
record and stumbles across the fossilized remains of a penguin, he
might speculate that these critters had to be the fastest animals on
earth to get those short wings to work.

Cheers,

tedd

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