[extropy-chat] Pickled Dragon

[Stephen J. Van Sickle]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 22:54, Kevin Freels wrote:

> Yes, but have you ever seen the umbilical cord in a chicken egg?

No.

There is a structure called the chalazae that anchors the yolk to the
shell that might look like one, but it is not an umbilical cord.

> Chickens are a bird. Birds are descendants of dinosaurs.

Possibly.

> Would a dinosaur have had an umbilical cord? 

No.  No belly button, either.

> If so, why not
> a dragon?

What makes you think dragons are related to dinosaurs?

> Of course, I am not using this to state that the dragon is real, only
> that the presence of an umbilical cord alone is not enough to conclude that
> it is a fake.

I know that if I pulled everyone's, someone's would come off.

sjv