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Welcome The New Moderator

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  • 26-10-2009 1:44pm
    #1
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭


    You might have noticed that I havent had as much time for upkeeping the forum lately so I have enlisted some help.

    So please, give a warm welcome to our new moderator, marco_polo!

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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Cheers Galvasean,

    It was delighted to be asked and very pleased take this on.

    Having put up a couple of hundred post in the EU forum post Lisbon, I have been posting relatively lightly on boards recently. Having experienced more of the real world again recently, I now realise it is not all it is cracked up to be and I am looking forward to uping my contributions to this forum again. :D

    Marco.


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    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Welcome along marco_polo :)


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    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    What? Him? Are ya having a laugh?

    Naw... bloody good choice and a good contributor too.:D




    Then again me and Galvasean are mods. Nuff said really........:eek:

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Go on marco, tell us, what's your favourite dinosaur and/or prehistoric creature?


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Go on marco, tell us, what's your favourite dinosaur and/or prehistoric creature?

    My absolute all time favourite is the lowly Trilobite. The number of different varieties and the length of time that they lasted is truely awesome.

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    Aside from that what probably most holds my interest would be mammal evolution, I grew up in awe of extinct megafauna such as Mammoths, Sabretooths etc (Not forgetting the Irish Elk either).

    More recently I have become interested in living and extinct marsuipals mammals and how they evolved to fill the ecological niches of the placental mammals more familiar to us europeans. Nice diagram of a few examples on the last page here.

    And Dinosaurs as well of course ;). Although I need to do some brushing up and will be addressing this on my next bulk book order from Amazon.

    As for a favourite dino? I found this website which sums up my feelings nicely.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,897 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    marco_polo wrote: »
    My absolute all time favourite is the lowly Trilobite. The number of different varieties and the length of time that they lasted is truely awesome.
    +1 for Trilobites, they have amazing eyes

    Scallops still have the prettiest eyes though


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    +1 for Trilobites, they have amazing eyes

    Scallops still have the prettiest eyes though

    Intresting.

    Things I learnt today +1 :)


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