{"id":619,"date":"2007-02-18T08:43:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T08:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2007\/02\/18\/bug-hunt\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T08:43:26","slug":"bug-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2007\/02\/bug-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the trailers for yesterday&#8217;s episode of <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/primeval.itv.com\/\">Primeval<\/a><\/cite> I wondered whether they were going to give any explanation of how the giant arthropods could survive in our atmosphere, and pleasantly they did &#8211; oxygen rich air leaking through the <del>rift<\/del> <ins>anomaly<\/ins> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carboniferous\">Carboniferous<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then they go and spoil it by having the good looking bloke use a blowtorch right in front of the <del>rift<\/del> <ins>anomaly<\/ins> with no side effects what so ever. If the oxygen levels were high enough to affect the soldiers then wouldn&#8217;t any flames also be affected?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they doubled the size of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthropleura\">Arthropleura<\/a>. There <em>could<\/em> be a larger species that simply hasn&#8217;t been found in the fossil record yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Science aside, it&#8217;s fun tea time nonsense, but the geek is very annoying and only Douglas Henshaw shows any signs of actually being able to act.<\/p>\n<p>One last thing. We&#8217;ve all been conned. On the ITV web site for the series there&#8217;s a list of creatures. Have a look and see if you spot whats missing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coelurosauravus<\/li>\n<li>Scutosaurus<\/li>\n<li>Gorgonopsid<\/li>\n<li>Giant Spiders<\/li>\n<li>Arthropleura<\/li>\n<li>Mosasaur<\/li>\n<li>Hesperonis<\/li>\n<li>Dodo<\/li>\n<li>Parasite<\/li>\n<li>Pteranodon<\/li>\n<li>Agnurognathus<\/li>\n<li>Predator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not one of those is a dinosaur. <strong>No dinosaurs.<\/strong> Weren&#8217;t we promised dinosaurs? But all we get is arthropods, synapsids, and birds (I know birds <em>are<\/em> dinosaurs). <strong>Give us some proper dinos!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the trailers for yesterday&#8217;s episode of Primeval I wondered whether they were going to give any explanation of how the giant arthropods could survive in our atmosphere, and pleasantly they did &#8211; oxygen rich air leaking through the rift anomaly from the Carboniferous. Then they go and spoil it by having the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,9,12],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinosaurs","category-science","category-tv","tag-primeval"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-9Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}