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▲ 7 r/aislop

I have my suspicions

This is a screensaver on the smart TV in the holiday home I'm staying at, and after a few days we had a proper look and realised it's a bit sus. Pretty sure the trees are marking the national parks in the order they were established, except #1 is in Maine (the first NP was Yellowstone in Wyoming) and whilst they do go up to #63, it's missing #2, #45, #48, #54, and #56. Otherwise could believe it to be a genuine piece of digital art, but these details have us doubting it.

u/RetroRaiderD42 — 7 days ago
▲ 16 r/thechase

Q. Did Henry VIII Know What a Smilodon Was? /s

Whilst Monday's episode was satisfying w/three of them beating the Final Chase for £9k, it could have been £99k had the fourth player, who'd done great in her Cash Builder, not flunked the question "In the 1500s, what was the largest mammal in Europe? Aurochs, Woolly Mammoth, or Sabre-Toothed Cat."

When the question was read I'd thought it might be tricky if they were counting eg brown bears and you had to guesstimate which one's larger; instead you had one animal folks may not know of (the aurochs was the wild ancestor of domestic cattle, went extinct c. 1600s) and two that folks definitely know about and which are synonymous w/"Ice Age animals, which are now extinct."

So naturally the contestant picked... C. Sabre-Toothed Cat.

Going to take a while to get over that one. 😅

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u/RetroRaiderD42 — 10 days ago
▲ 7 r/walkingwithdinosaurs

Walking With Music Ranking Thread VIII – The Giant Claw & Land of Giants

This is Day 8 of the Ben Bartlett Memorial Walking With Music Rankings. For the preamble, see the first post, but these are daily votes on the best piece of music from each episode in the Walking With series composed by Ben Bartlett.

The votes are in, and Battle of the Salt Plains is the winner from The Ballad of Big Al.

I'm handling the Chased by Dinosaurs episodes differently as none of the music has been officially released and the Unreleased Score uploads combine the music into "Titles" and "Score" for each episode and I haven't the time to split them out specially for this, so consider this the general thread for talking about/voting on the music from The Giant Claw and Land of Giants:

The Giant Claw (Titles)

The Giant Claw (Suite)

Land of Giants (Titles)

Land of Giants (Suite)

u/RetroRaiderD42 — 15 days ago
▲ 12 r/walkingwithdinosaurs

Walking With Music Ranking Thread VII – The Ballad of Big Al

This is Day 7 of the Ben Bartlett Memorial Walking With Music Rankings. For the preamble, see the first post, but these are daily votes on the best piece of music from each episode in the Walking With series composed by Ben Bartlett.

The votes are in, and The End of the Dinosaurs is the winner from Death of a Dynasty. 

Here’s the music from The Ballad of Big Al, a Walking with Dinosaurs special:

The Fossil

Young Allosaurus (BBC/Bartlett/Original)

Unsuccessful Hunt/The Tar Pit

Battle of the Salt Plains

The Female Allosaurus

A Fatal Accident

The Dead Allosaurus

u/RetroRaiderD42 — 17 days ago
▲ 9 r/walkingwithdinosaurs

This is Day 4 of the Ben Bartlett Memorial Walking With Music Rankings. For the preamble, see the first post, but these are daily votes on the best piece of music from each episode in the Walking With series composed by Ben Bartlett.

The votes are in, and Stormy Weather is the winner from Cruel Sea.

Here’s the music from Giant of the Skies, Episode 4 of Walking with Dinosaurs:

Giant of the Skies inc. His Last Flight & The Ornithocheirus

Flight of the Ornithocheirus inc. Flight (Part I)

Secret Flight inc. A Stranded Pterosaur/Flight (Part II) & Flight (Part III)/The Breeding Ground

Iguanodon Chase inc. The Utahraptors (Part I) & Bully Pterosaur/The Utahraptors (Part II) & The Utahraptors (Part III)

u/RetroRaiderD42 — 20 days ago