Norwegian atheist's velicoraptor trike

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Reminds me of one of my favorite shirts.

Edit: fixed link, @noahdjango
However, still sort of a dead link since it leads to the old woot offering - it might still be in the top 20 offeringā€¦
Edit I see that they are selling it againā€¦

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Which is it: Is he an atheist or an artist? Fine, I guess he can be bothā€¦

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Are you sure heā€™s an atheist? Because a lot of the crazier Creationist types are entirely cool with the idea of humans riding dinosaurs:

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Dogmatic religious education? In Norway? This is a side of Norway I have never heard about.

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That article didnā€™t even mention the triceratops with a saddle.

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that
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awesome

[@crenquis ā€“ ā€œshirtsā€ dead link? just me?]

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cataclysmic climate change killed the dinosaur shirt page.
(not working for me either - nor is the link the the artistā€™s page from it)

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hmm it is working now - http://shirt.woot.com/offers/villainous-victorian-velociraptor
I wonder if this thread revived it?
also found the artistā€™s deviant art page:
http://polysoup.deviantart.com/art/Villainous-Victorian-Raptor-155676580

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Am I the only one disappointed that the artist didnā€™t hook the legs up to the wheels so it would look like the 'raptor was running?

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Where are the feathers? Raptors had feathers dammit!

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I lived for a while in Oslo. I donā€™t recall ever seeing a church. However, there is this in front of the universityā€™s mathematics building:

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Oslo is fairly light on churches luckily. Well, there are plenty of churches but they arenā€™t much usedā€¦ (http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_over_kirker_i_Oslo). About 72% of the population in Norway (http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateisme) answered they donā€™t believe in a personal godā€¦

But the west-coast, where the artist lives, is basically the Bible-belt of Norway. Some people even queued up overnight for a new translation of the bible a few years agoā€¦

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Totally worth it. The translator managed to both stay true to the original and breathe new life into the characters. Take Lotā€™s conversation with Eve at the Last Supper, for instance. Such emotion!

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Where are the feathers?

[I see Iā€™m not the only one with that issue. But the earliest known Dromeosaurs had *flight* feathers, and itā€™s a good bet that the later ones retained feathers. I canā€™t see how featherless reconstructions persist. Itā€™s like people like Velociraptor as an icon, but donā€™t check up on the research on Dromeosaurs as actual animals.]

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ā€˜So, Eveā€¦ how about we put a little salt on that apple?ā€™

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Thatā€™s just morbid. Even for someone who grew up reading Grimmā€™s

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It just got it. Itā€™s a VELOCIRAPTOR VELOCIPEDE. Dā€™oh!

I know, I knowā€¦

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This design has been around since 2006ā€¦ at least.

http://www.cafepress.com/velociraptoronbicycle