Please welcome another imaginary friend

In summary, DrPaleo is an imaginary friend who is a renowned Prehistoric Archaeologist and is considered America's most hated Archaeologist due to his stance against unfounded personal theories. He has been compared to Brad Pitt in "Fight Club" and has a book published with Cambridge University Press. He is well known and respected in archaeologic circles and has been featured in National Geographic and peer-reviewed journals. He is currently on a dig, but promises to say hi. He is also known as one of the top imaginary friends on the forum.
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Please welcome another imaginary friend!

This time, he's a renowned Prehistoric Archaelogist, also considered America's most hated Archaeologist because he stands up against unfounded personal theories (fits right in here).

He was compared (in a 1999 article in Scientific American) to Brad Pitt in "Fight Club". He has a book out with Cambridge University Press and is working on publishing his second, and is very well known and regarded in archaelogic circles. He can be found in National Geographic as well as many peer reviewed journals.

Let's all give a warm welcome to DrPaleo.

He is currently on a dig, but promises to say hi. Really. :rolleyes: He promised. :blushing: I'm not making him up. :frown:
 
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Welcome DrPaleo!

Why was he compared to Bread Pitt in fight club?
 
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Kurdt said:
Why was he compared to Bread Pitt in fight club?
Because he's imaginary ?
 
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Kurdt said:
Welcome DrPaleo!

Why was he compared to Bread Pitt in fight club?
He explained it to me, but I'm too tired to remember. (surgery, meds and all that) Perhaps he will explain. Perhaps a bit headstrong? :-p
 
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humanino said:
Because he's imaginary ?
You're my imaginary friend too, don't forget.

My other imaginary friend Red Rum, is preparing to climb Mount Kilamanjaro. Really.
 
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Evo said:
You're my imaginary friend too, don't forget.
I did not mean to offend, neither did I mean to spoil Fight club to anyone who has not seen it. I look forward to read from such an interesting new member of PF ! I don't know if we already have an archaeologist.
Evo said:
My other imaginary friend Red Rum, is preparing to climb Mount Kilamanjaro. Really.
My imaginary girlfriend is in Tadjikistan. What are we doing ?
 
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humanino said:
I did not mean to offend, neither did I mean to spoil Fight club to anyone who has not seen it. I look forward to read from such an interesting new member of PF ! I don't know if we already have an archaeologist.
No, you really are one of my top imaginary friends. :!)

(I've never seen Fight Club). :rolleyes:
 
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Evo said:
No, you really are one of my top imaginary friends. :!)
Your imaginary friends hope you are really doing better :smile:
Evo said:
(I've never seen Fight Club). :rolleyes:
Oooops :redface:
 
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Welcome to PF, DrPaleo!

What's the difference between imaginary and virtual?
 
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Evo said:
This time, he's a renowned Prehistoric Archaelogist,
Is that your way of telling us he's old? :rolleyes: :biggrin:

Let's all give a warm welcome to DrPaleo.
Welcome DrPaleo! What type of fish do you like? Did Evo explain this to you yet?

He is currently on a dig, but promises to say hi. Really. :rolleyes: He promised. :blushing: I'm not making him up. :frown:

Let us know if he finds your other imaginary friends while digging. :biggrin:
 
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Why did I type Bread instead of Brad? Is he really imaginary in fight club? I never noticed.
 
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humanino said:
My imaginary girlfriend is in Tadjikistan.

Cool - what's she doing there? My (actual) parents lived in that part of the world for a while - in Kyrgyzstan. They loved it (except the food - too much horse meat ). The mountains are beautiful!

*Meanwhile, back in the thread...*

My hubby's best friend is an archeologist...if he and his archeologist pals are representative of the breed, they tend to be a bit strange.

He'll fit right in here :smile: .
 
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lisab said:
What's the difference between imaginary and virtual?
I think "virtual" refers to something which exists in reality but does not have actual physical support, whether "imaginary" is not real.
Kurdt said:
Why did I type Bread instead of Brad? Is he really imaginary in fight club? I never noticed.
Never mind, I was confusing with a cartoon I saw the other day :rolleyes:
 
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lisab said:
Welcome to PF, DrPaleo!

What's the difference between imaginary and virtual?
When Red Rum didn't turn up for days after I introduced him, everyone said he was my imaginary friend. :cry:

Moonbear said:
Is that your way of telling us he's old? :rolleyes: :biggrin:
He's my age, so <cough> yeah. :blushing:

Welcome DrPaleo! What type of fish do you like? Did Evo explain this to you yet?
Ooops!

Kurdt said:
Why did I type Bread instead of Brad? Is he really imaginary in fight club? I never noticed.
I was hoping someone would tell me!
 
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lisab said:
what's she doing there?
I wish I knew :rolleyes:
She did not go for the eclipse, since she did not even notice...
Anyway, it does not appear to be too close to the Afghanistan border, neither to Pakistan, nor China...
 
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Umm, W T F?
 
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Moonbear said:
What type of fish do you like?
How about Coelacanth ? Seems appropriate for a specialist of prehistory.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/images/070522-coelacanth_big.jpgNot[/URL] the one with the hat !
 
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humanino said:
How about Coelacanth ? Seems appropriate for a specialist of prehistory.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/images/070522-coelacanth_big.jpgNot[/URL] the one with the hat !
Oh, that's a lovely coelacanth, much nicer than the rotting ones I've seen. :approve:
 
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Damn hippies and their magic mushrooms...
 
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Howers said:
Damn hippies and their magic mushrooms...
Eric Cartman ? Is that you ?
 
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humanino said:
Eric Cartman ? Is that you ?

No, I passed the fourth grade.
 
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Kurdt said:
Is he really imaginary in fight club? I never noticed.

Are you serious? Did you even watch the movie?:confused:
humanino said:
Never mind, I was confusing with a cartoon I saw the other day :rolleyes:

It's okay to "spoil it" for them...the movie's been out for a freakin dog's age now!
 
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{Waves to Evo's imaginary friend} Greetings, hope you had good weather for your dig.
 
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Welcome, most imaginary Dr Paleo and I love fair fights, about Martin's overkill hypothesis for instance.

Unfortunately, the https://www.physicsforums.com/memberlist.php?&pp=30&order=asc&sort=username&ltr=D&page=75

droz - 09.21.07 - 2
drp85 - 01.17.08 - 1
drPaZQaL - 01.21.04 - 4
DrPepper - 06.14.07 - 2

Perhaps waiting for the confirmation?
 
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Saladsamurai said:
Are you serious? Did you even watch the movie?:confused:

It was kind of on in the background once on TV and I missed the first 20 minutes or something.
 
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Welcome DrPaleo!
 
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He apologizes that I kept him on the phone too long tonight and promises to say hi tomorrow night.

If, not, he'll be banned.
 
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Can someone be banned before he even created an account !?

DrPaleo, our prehistoric fish has been expecting you ! :-p
 
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humanino said:
Can someone be banned before he even created an account !?

DrPaleo, our prehistoric fish has been expecting you ! :-p
His publisher has accepted the new title for his second book.

The original tiltle was something like "The Great Megafauna Extinction". The publisher thought it was too highbrow and wanted something the average American would understand.

Ok, so I thought "megafauna - faun- BAMBI!

I suggested "The Killing of MEGA-BAMBI!

I guess that was shot down. :frown:
 
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Would the great mega fauna extinction be a subject for an archeologist? Then it would be predictable that the role of homo sapiens is going to be highlighted. However the http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/extinction/Day1/bytes/MartinPres.html has been challenged rather convincingly.

Also the "great megafauna extinction" would need to cover world wide area between 40,000 and 6000 before present (BP), while the alleged great Clovis murdering was to be confined to North America between http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5815/1122. This calibrates with INTCAL04 to ~12,950 to ~12,830 calendar year. So not 250 years but a mere 120 years.

Climate wise this period is the true mystery interval as it is highly ambigous if it is either the start of the Younger Dryas or if it preceeded the Younger Dryas (which I'm convinced of). This seems to be the real cold and soaking wet period attributed to the Younger Dryas. In reality it seemed that the Younger Dryas reversed suddenly to super aridity around 12,680 Calendar years BP, which elicited several authors to propose a split up of the Younger dryas in two parts. All in all, probably not something you would like to encounter, as it might have lead to your extinction.

The steep gradient of the radio carbon dating is probably related to anomalous atmosphere - ocean interaction which dovetailes with several oceanic observations of carbon dating basin age shifts. So it would be defendable to assume that the oceans played a major role in these mysteries.

It was also a period of increased volcanic activity in Iceland and otherwise dormant volcanic areas in Europe (Eifel in Germany and Massif Central in France)

What am I doing here? To early to fight I guess. Let's discuss this later.
 
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Hummm... Shouldn't we wait till AFTER someone signs up to welcome them? :rolleyes:
 
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yeah...imagination is cool

hello DrPaleo
 
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Yeah, Evo's imagination is all evil green rays, motherships and killer fluffy animals. :rolleyes:
 
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Kurdt said:
It was kind of on in the background once on TV and I missed the first 20 minutes or something.

Apparently, the last 20 minutes were missed too.
 
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Moonbear said:
Apparently, the last 20 minutes were missed too.

You can tell I wasn't paying too much attention :-p.
 

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