Server Team 20100803 meeting minutes

[Paul Graydon]

  On 08/03/2010 03:04 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 07:43:22 pm Mathias Gug wrote:
>> ==== Magical powers ====
>>
>> ttx bragged about the fact that he could take on a triceratops with his
>> bare hands and the power of his look. jiboumans shattered ttx dreams
>> reminding him that science had proved triceratops didn't actually exist.
> I'm pretty sure it was the Brontosaurus that didn't exist.
>
> Scott K
>
Correct, but nitpick-able ;)  Brontosaurus was the name given to what 
was thought to be a new Genus but later identified to be part of the 
Apatosaurus genus, so it's name was changed. Brontosaurus is accepted as 
a synonym though just so folks could argue whether the Brontosaurus ever 
existed or not[1]  (amusingly, Brontosaurus makes it into the default 
dictionary Thunderbird is using, but Apatosaurus doesn't).

Triceratops is definitely real, but whether ttx could take one on with 
his bare hands and the power of his look is well beyond my ken, never 
having met either.

Paul

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatosaurus