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Dragons: What if they did exist?
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umop_3pisdn
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methos75 said:
Serpent imagery might have a relatively perennial spot in our "collective unconscious". My experience mirrors this as I had this same feeling before I knew much of Jung's work. Jung mentions it in his Red Book.
Mr.Squirrel
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params7 said:If they existed we'd be dead.
That red dragon's a bitch. Soon as I level up enough I'm gonna fuck him up
umop_3pisdn
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Wurms, probably, but still I wouldn't say that those aren't serpent-like.
TacticalFox88
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Surprised there has been no Reign of Fire reference
The Technomancer
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See, when I hear Wurm I think Magic, in which they look like this:hteng said:
CrunchyFrog
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really gaf? no mention yet of
Most prominent example of a realistic take on dragons and their effects on the modern world, even down to a scientific explanation as to how they breath fire.
Most prominent example of a realistic take on dragons and their effects on the modern world, even down to a scientific explanation as to how they breath fire.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=29049383&postcount=39TacticalFox88 said:
BlueTsunami
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hateradio said:
You'll probably only excite it!
sixteen-bit
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you're playing dark souls already?bdizzle said:
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methos75 said:
Every ancient cultures found dinosaur bones.
Heck, an elephant skull probably started the cyclops myths.
The_Technomancer said:See, when I hear Wurm I think Magic, in which they look like this:
yea, i used to think wurms are serpent like too because it sounds like worm but according to Wiki wurms are the 4 legged ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_dragon
and Wyverns are the 2 legged ones.
victreeb3l
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speedpop said:
hey man, i was a 15 yr old on a fantasy kick with a very active imagination
Meus Renaissance
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Ether_Snake said:
The dinosaur fossil is the predominant, and strongest imo, hypothesis that explains this. However what I'd like to know is how they all interpreted a reptilian creature (with descriptions of scales) that breathed fire from them.
In the 19th century, there were legends and rumours of a hairy 'man beast' and it was only in the early 20th century these were discovered; the gorilla. Here's hoping for that find in a glacier somewhere!
davepoobond
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then they would fly into space and live on another planet.
Alligatorjandro
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If dragons existed we'd all get ate
ThoseDeafMutes
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The Goblin Man of Norway.
Similar sort of thing to what OP is talking about, except... not dragons, and arguably a cooler / more plausible discovery.
Similar sort of thing to what OP is talking about, except... not dragons, and arguably a cooler / more plausible discovery.
~Devil Trigger~
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Meus Renaissance
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ThoseDeafMutes said:
Seems to have been marketing on Microsoft's part for Too Human, according to Google
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/03/28/530895.html
ThoseDeafMutes
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Meus Renaissance said:
Yeah I know. The Goblin is the Goblin character model from in the game. I've said it over on Gaming-Age a couple of times now, but I think the ideas behind Too Human were fucking amazing, which really made it hurt when the game sucked so bad and the story of the game was just meh.
Meus Renaissance
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ThoseDeafMutes said:
But how is the discovery of a high tech mechanical humanoid thousands of years old more plausible?
Stating they were based on Fossils alone is a bit iffy. for starters the Indonesians myths about Dragons were based around the Komodo Dragon, an animal thought to be myth till 1912. There is also ample evidence that the Australian aborigines dragon myths are derived from prehistoric encounters with a true horrifying beast, Megalinia a 23 foot long monster Monitor Lizard. the same goes for other mythological Beast such as the Unicorn which many now believe was based around encounters with Elasmotherium. There is more actual encounters that myths such as this came about due to human interaction with large now extinct beast, that just finding fossils
ThoseDeafMutes
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Meus Renaissance said:
It would never happen, but the notion that technological civilization has already risen and fallen on Earth at some point in what we know as our prehistory (but during which time our brains were just as developed as they are now, there were several hundreds of thousands of years between "modern man develops" and "recorded history begins") is fairly tame, except that we have no evidence that it did. Certainly there was a possibility of developing technology (they had the brains for it, the hands for it etc), but again, we should have expected to see their remnants if they did exist.
The fire-breathing dinosaur that survived to coexist with humans has the same problem (no real evidence, where evidence should expect to be found of an animal that is supposed to have existed a mere couple of thousand years ago), then another in that no animal has ever been known to breathe fire, nor is it clear how that could have evolved if they did, nor is there evidence of related but different systems in living animals.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Is abload playing up? That gif is taking aeons to load for me.
ThoseDeafMutes
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DennisK4 said:
Worse. Australian internet.
Usually it's fast for me though. I'll have to check for problems on my end.
I was watching a documentary about ancient civilizations I think in Natgeo before. They said what really baffles scientists/historians is there are cultures that never ever came in contact with each-other. They never knew each-other existed, and were around thousands of years apart. Yet drew pictures of "dragon" like creatures identical to each-other. They still have no idea how.
Black-Wind
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I remember watching this y ears ago.
I believe they existed and that they still do.
Theres so many things in this world that we are still finding and learning about. Hell, just a few days/ weeks ago they discovered another completely isolated tribe.
So yeah, They may not be the huge beast of tales and they may not shoot out fire ... but I think they can be out there.
I believe.
I believe they existed and that they still do.
Theres so many things in this world that we are still finding and learning about. Hell, just a few days/ weeks ago they discovered another completely isolated tribe.
So yeah, They may not be the huge beast of tales and they may not shoot out fire ... but I think they can be out there.
I believe.
TekkenMaster
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what is that GIF from?
Meus Renaissance
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TekkenMaster said:
Game of Thrones. Best TV since Spartacus
ThoseDeafMutes
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TekkenMaster said:
Reign of Fire.
Dennis is a cunt for spoiling Game of Thrones, lol.
HiroProtagonist
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ThoseDeafMutes said:
seriously.
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