Poll of the Day > No one ever talks about dinosaur ghosts

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Someone should get a Ouija board out this Halloween and make contact with T-Rex.

Not me though.

That is because they are all dead. Dino souls die and become ghost peppers. We learned that back in middle school.

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I'm sure Chuck Tingle has made a few dinosaur ghost novels.

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I've heard people talk about them before.

It often ties into the theory that ghosts have a "half-life" of sorts and slowly decay over time, which is why most ghosts are only people from the last few hundred years or so, and not Neanderthal ghosts or ancient Sumerian ghosts or the like.

Or conversely, you can go with the Christian philosophy that says animals don't have souls, and thus, cannot become ghosts.

Or you could go with the actual explanation, which is that ghosts don't actually exist and it's all BS anyway.
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What do you think clouds are

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Some characters on Animal Crossing: New Horizons bring them up every now and then.

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I remember hearing about stories of dinosaur ghosts in Albertas badlands.

It was in an old Ghost stories of Alberta book that my dad had.

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Mead posted...

What do you think clouds are

Unicorn farts.
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Why would they have ghosts, they didn't believe in Jesus

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Ouija boards are limited to spirits that are good at spelling and know the english alphabet. A T-Rex meets neither of those conditions.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I've heard people talk about them before.

It often ties into the theory that ghosts have a "half-life" of sorts and slowly decay over time, which is why most ghosts are only people from the last few hundred years or so, and not Neanderthal ghosts or ancient Sumerian ghosts or the like.

Or conversely, you can go with the Christian philosophy that says animals don't have souls, and thus, cannot become ghosts.

Or you could go with the actual explanation, which is that ghosts don't actually exist and it's all BS anyway.

this post sent me down a weird Google rabbit hole

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There are famous dinosaur ghost stories, so clearly people talk about them some of the time. However, animal ghosts in general are rarer than people.

If you really want to bring up something I've never heard address, let's talk about mosquito ghosts.

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cloud are their ghosts, they cant hold the shape cause theyre too pissed off and horny to concentrate

so they just keep flipping out and causing weather

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Mead posted...

cloud are their ghosts, they cant hold the shape cause theyre too pissed off and horny to concentrate

so they just keep flipping out and causing weather

OMG.

The word "Brontosaurus" literally means "thunder lizard".

The truth was in front of us the whole time, and we were too blind to see it!
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Non-dinosaurs can't see dino-ghosts.

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Rotpar posted...

Non-dinosaurs can't see dino-ghosts.

unless they are scaleborn or have a Triassic subtype

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The time of dinosaurs has been harvested for fuel. We have been powering our society for over a century on ghosts of earths past.

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Firewood18 posted...

The time of dinosaurs has been harvested for fuel. We have been powering our society for over a century on ghosts of earths past.

Yeah, but we'll all be fuel for some other species someday, and the circle of life continues.

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Mead posted...

Rotpar posted...

Non-dinosaurs can't see dino-ghosts.

unless they are scaleborn or have a Triassic subtype

You can also use special glasses, as shown in this documentary:

http://youtu.be/8oQrOtPZuCY?t=162
http://youtu.be/Zdwq3jdvZDI?t=30
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The word "Brontosaurus" literally means "thunder lizard".

And "Brontosaurus" never existed so that particular name is ghost to begin with.

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Dinosaur ghosts go in my gas tank

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wpot posted...

And "Brontosaurus" never existed so that particular name is ghost to begin with.

Brontosaurus did exist. I imagine you're hearkening back to outdated dinosaur "facts" from the 1990s, which you might have learned via Power Rangers.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/

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wpot posted...

And "Brontosaurus" never existed so that particular name is ghost to begin with.

now they do exist though

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Is that official? So now it's back as a slightly less impressive version of an Apatosaurus...but with a cooler name? Mind blown.

Well, there's some way to extend the ghost analogy further there but I don't have the time to think it up. :)

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wpot posted...

Is that official?

yes

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Zeus posted...

outdated dinosaur "facts" from the 1990s, which you might have learned via Power Rangers.

I learned most of mine from Transformers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtGdfulu5KI


And also from this:

http://gamebooks.org/Item/2584/Show
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I had a book that came with a cassette tape

It said that the T-Rex was taller than a skyscraper, and I was just like, yeah

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Well they would be about 10,000 times older than any other ghost...

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Where do you think earthquakes come from? Do you really believe it's some "tectonic plates"?

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