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Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#21 - 2012-08-11 23:59:10 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Raptor literally means bird of prey. It is not an "almost bird" (not to mention birds are dinosaurs).


Dromaeosauridae are bird-like. but not birds yet.


Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs. The only living ones, besides crocodiles, which are far more loosely related.

You might also be interested in knowing that nearly every case of fossilized skin imprints of dinosaurs found showed signs of feathers.

T-Rex probably looked more like this.


Bird-like.

Katrina Oniseki
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#22 - 2012-08-12 00:03:05 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Raptor literally means bird of prey. It is not an "almost bird" (not to mention birds are dinosaurs).


Dromaeosauridae are bird-like. but not birds yet.


Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs. The only living ones, besides crocodiles, which are far more loosely related.


Not naming it for what it was to become. make your own list.
Alexzandvar Douglass
Motiveless Malignity
Deepwater Hooligans
#23 - 2012-08-12 00:04:16 UTC
Question is, when am I going to get the Tier 2 or 3 version of the drake named "The Dragon"
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#24 - 2012-08-12 00:06:21 UTC
Alexzandvar Douglass wrote:
Question is, when am I going to get the Tier 2 or 3 version of the drake named "The Dragon"

Right-click: set name
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#25 - 2012-08-12 00:10:29 UTC
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:


Not naming it for what it was to become. make your own list.


Raptor: A bird of prey.
Alexzandvar Douglass
Motiveless Malignity
Deepwater Hooligans
#26 - 2012-08-12 00:12:27 UTC
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
Alexzandvar Douglass wrote:
Question is, when am I going to get the Tier 2 or 3 version of the drake named "The Dragon"

Right-click: set name


But it's still a drake, part of a drake fleet.

A dragon, part of a Dragon fleet sounds much more bad ass.
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#27 - 2012-08-12 00:14:39 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:


Not naming it for what it was to become. make your own list.


Raptor: A bird of prey.


Yeah, and Merlin was a wizard. Multiple meanings? What is this sorcery!
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#28 - 2012-08-12 00:18:22 UTC
Alexzandvar Douglass wrote:
But it's still a drake, part of a drake fleet.

A dragon, part of a Dragon fleet sounds much more bad ass.


Pretend they mean a european dragon and not a duck. Drakes are dragons too.
Luc Chastot
#29 - 2012-08-12 00:19:17 UTC
http://youtu.be/xwqIGV53BrQ?t=1m44s

Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#30 - 2012-08-12 00:30:34 UTC
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:


Not naming it for what it was to become. make your own list.


Raptor: A bird of prey.


Yeah, and Merlin was a wizard. Multiple meanings? What is this sorcery!


It isn't a case of "multiple meanings". "Velociraptor" means "swift bird of prey" or "swift predator". Raptor is Latin, FYI. The word significantly predates the discovery of the velociraptor.
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#31 - 2012-08-12 00:32:17 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
It isn't a case of "multiple meanings". "Velociraptor" means "swift bird of prey" or "swift predator". Raptor is Latin, FYI. The word significantly predates the discovery of the velociraptor.


and
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#32 - 2012-08-12 00:35:55 UTC
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
It isn't a case of "multiple meanings". "Velociraptor" means "swift bird of prey" or "swift predator". Raptor is Latin, FYI. The word significantly predates the discovery of the velociraptor.


and


Beginning to suspect you aren't the sharpest knife.
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#33 - 2012-08-12 00:39:14 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:

Beginning to suspect you aren't the sharpest knife.


Only because your unfounded argument over nothing is going nowhere.
vj salurhgasjvn
Doomheim
#34 - 2012-08-12 00:41:55 UTC
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:

Widow - sad lady
Badger - don't give a
Charon - avid boater



after a long day, this had me laughing hard. +1 interwebs to you good sir
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#35 - 2012-08-12 00:44:44 UTC
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:

Beginning to suspect you aren't the sharpest knife.


Only because your unfounded argument over nothing is going nowhere.


You simply don't understand it.

Raptor has a definite meaning. The dinosaur Velociraptor was given its name specifically because of what it meant. And you seem to think Raptor refers specifically to the dinosaur that contains the word in its name.

It is just as stupid as thinking that the Amazon rainforest was named after Amazonsaurus, or that the sun was named after Helioceratops.
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#36 - 2012-08-12 00:45:29 UTC
vj salurhgasjvn wrote:
Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:

Widow - sad lady
Badger - don't give a
Charon - avid boater



after a long day, this had me laughing hard. +1 interwebs to you good sir


Although come to think of it, there's no reason why a Widow can' t be a happy lady...
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#37 - 2012-08-12 00:48:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Roll Sizzle Beef
Akirei Scytale wrote:
You simply don't understand it.

No u.
The list was a design decision by which had no criteria other than possible pure avians and some silliness. A general term for a large group of birds was overshadowed in my eyes by a genus of dinosaurs.
Roll Sizzle Beef
Space Mutiny
#38 - 2012-08-12 00:50:51 UTC
Ptraci wrote:

Although come to think of it, there's no reason why a Widow can' t be a happy lady...

That crossed my mind.
Lord Arakkis
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#39 - 2012-08-12 00:55:35 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahrokh

Literally the first google result.


Makes the most sense as most Caldari ships are named after birds.

Your still a child in the eyes of the universe
Lyrrashae
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#40 - 2012-08-12 00:58:17 UTC
I hope they name the next new Caldari ship "Serval."

It would somewhat fit (there already is a ship named directly after a cat), and just sounds cool.

Ni.
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