Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

Bombshell news from Chinese researchers has registered barely a whimper in the American press this weekend. Over 3,000 dinosaur footprints have been found in China. Here in the USA, bigfoot researchers feel lucky if they find one big sasquatch footprint, but here are thousands of dinosaur footprints. What more evidence do we need that dinosaurs are still alive and breeding in Asia?

I note that Agence France Presse attempts to distract from the discovery by claiming that the footprints are “believed to be more than 100 million years old”. But who exactly believes such a thing, AFP won’t say. That’s mighty curious, I think. When I find a footprint, do I assume that it’s millions of years old? No! I assume it’s recent.

So, we can presume that these thousands of dinosaur footprints are recent, unless evidence to the contrary is found. AFP is unable to cite any such evidence.

Why are French journalists so loathe to admit that dinosaurs are running helter skelter across modern day China? Is national jealousy at the root of the coverup, or something more sinister? What do the French have to profit from the news of living dinosaurs remaining a secret?

Furthmore, what are all those dinosaurs doing in China? Does the dinosaur revelation help to explain how Chinese sweatshops are able to produce shoes, shirts, and other products so inexpensively?

If you don’t hear anything more about the living dinosaur story, count that as a confirmation that the dinosaurs really do exist, and are too valuable to be made common knowledge.