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	DRANGONS!!! WHAT
kitten Fish Guru Meow? Posts: 2266 Kudos: 2194 Votes: 19 Registered: 18-Nov-2003	It was completely based on a "what if" premise. I thought it was quite well done, really. If y'all watch it from the beginning, it tells ya that. I personally think they came up with interesting theories as to how something so big can fly, and how they spit fire. The "what if" theory was based on how almost every culture in the world has some dragon legends, despite the fact that they never interacted before. The website for the show is [link=http://www.dragonsarecoming.com]http://www.dragonsarecoming.com" style="COLOR: #9900FF[/link]. ~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~
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Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	Do they really? Asian dragons: Wise, majestic creatures of goodness. Coming from the heavens, they have a serpentine appearence. Sporting barbels, elk horns, and fur like that of an overgrown canine, they are lacking in most reptilian characteristics. Old World (Euro) dragons: Dark, evil creatures with a distinctive reptilian body structure, remeniscent of a modern dinosaur. A long extended neck is present, and they breath fire. Wings are also commonplace. As can be seen, the two "major" classifications, if you will, of dragons look nothing alike. Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 23-Mar-2005 02:04
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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	but when u put together all the piece how come they all equal or vary from a creature that is simullar.
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Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	I'm pretty sure you didn't ask "what if"; rather, you wondered why these cultures all wrote of dragons. My answer was that they don't. Each culture speaks of an entirely different organism, but roughly translated into English, they are labelled simply as "dragons".
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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	umm.. it is just one of those question, what if.
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Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	Which cultures? Many cultures have spoken of dragons, true, but the extent to which they are similar is the fact that they are large, scaly retilians. Chinese depicted dragons as large, benevolent beings, whilst Europeans saw them as evil monsters--in a similar fashion, African "dragons" were seen as derivatives of snakes.
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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	but how can u explain that cultures that never had any cultural diffussion all told about dragons? don't u think they were alive at one point.
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tribblehappy Enthusiast Posts: 221 Kudos: 283 Votes: 41 Registered: 23-Jun-2003	My personal theory on why so many cultures believe in Dragons? Dinosaur fossils. Find one of those (and some of them are easy to find, like in Drumheller for example) and if you didn't know better, you'd think dragon. Especially the winged ones. Especially in ancient cultures. And if an explorer happens to come back from an exotic locale with large reptiles, he could interpret them as dragons. I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!
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djtj Fish Master Posts: 1764 Kudos: 885 Votes: 49 Registered: 20-Feb-2003	Oh the future is wild. How I hated that one. Acid-puke spitting walrusses that are really birds? Sounds like something out of a commic book. Although we can't forget the animal olympics. The wirlygig beetle was set up!
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Cup_of_Lifenoodles Fish Guru Posts: 2755 Kudos: 1957 Votes: 30 Registered: 09-Sep-2004	I think all of animal planet's CGI series are rather lame. Both in "THE FUTURE IS WILD" and "DRAGONS", as I watched, I cringed at the impossibilities of such species in regard to the limits of animalian physiology. Though the series were definitely imaginative and beautifully rendered, I really can't see myself watching them over again. Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 21-Mar-2005 21:08
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djtj Fish Master Posts: 1764 Kudos: 885 Votes: 49 Registered: 20-Feb-2003	Chris, the autopsey was pretend. It is kind of interesting how the dragon myth spread, but I am more inclined to believe in something like bigfoot or Nessy than dragons. The explanations were very interesting, especially since were talking about imagination. Whoever wrote this was no dummy.
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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	i was watching animal plant and they said that they found a real dragon frozen in the ice. is this true or a tv segement that is made up. i don't think so b/c they showed a clip of people in an ice cave and the frozen dragon.
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Corydoran Enthusiast Posts: 269 Kudos: 370 Votes: 1217 Registered: 27-Sep-2004	I think I saw on another Animal Planet show that in Anglo Saxon culture (and subsequently countries/ cultures influenced by the British Empire), the idea of dragons came from African crocodiles. For cultures that had dragon myths before the British reached them, I'm assuming they based the stories on shallow dinosaur skeletons or derived them from human archetypes of monsters and the such.
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Rob1619 Fish Addict Posts: 763 Kudos: 619 Votes: 626 Registered: 01-Sep-2004	Hmm..interesting. I think that there is no dragons,but it can have been a kind of dinosaur We still find new speices of animals all the time. I belive on day we will find something interesting in the deep of the sea.we only know a few percentage of the deep sea.just wait and one day we will have better equipment to go really deep and then we will see if there is something we have never seen before I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.
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Doedogg Banned Posts: 408 Kudos: 737 Votes: 445 Registered: 28-Jan-2004	kind of lost my interest pretty quickly... guess I wasn't in the mood. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. ~ Mae West
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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	yea that is what i was about to say. let me know what u think.
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Doedogg Banned Posts: 408 Kudos: 737 Votes: 445 Registered: 28-Jan-2004	I'm watching the repeat. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. ~ Mae West
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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	hey
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djtj Fish Master Posts: 1764 Kudos: 885 Votes: 49 Registered: 20-Feb-2003	I'm watching it now. You dumb butt. You got me all excited. That's pretty cool though. it just goes to show that some people have way too much time on their hands.
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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	o yea. in the last part, i think they said that they build on an idea of what if.... BUT how do u explain that culters that never interacted with eachother all knew about dragons? didn't it say that they did an obtopise on the dragon. idk, i will have to keep checking the paper. Last edited by bettachris at 20-Mar-2005 20:36 Last edited by bettachris at 20-Mar-2005 20:38
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