William Reid
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Speculative fiction, fantasy and horror writer who also loves traveling, reading, cooking and taking care of his two kids. He grew up in Idaho and now writes of places as far away from his roots as possible from his home base in Seattle.
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Dinosaurs: The Earth's GOAT
The Stegosaurus lived longer before the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T-Rex lived before us. Think about the implications of that for a minute. Stegosaurus roamed the earth around 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period. That was already the second geologic period of the dinosaurs. (The Triassic kicked off 100 million years before ol' Stegs popped up). T-Rex didn't appear until the end of the Cretaceous period 85 million years later. And then us homo sapiens, the planet's snot-nosed Gen-Zers, rolled in less than three hundred thousand years ago, 65 million years after the final episode of Dinosaurs. Even including Neanderthals and other hominids only gets us about half a million years closer. If you go with the broadest possible definition and say mammals, our species has only been on top since well after the dinosaurs got meteored.
By William Reid5 years ago in FYI
The Economy Should Look Like Fallout
First, some clarification. I don't think the planet needs to suffer a nuclear war. I'm not advocating an economic system based on bottle caps as currency. Technology shouldn't be limited to vacuum tubes and aesthetics shouldn't be stuck in the 1950s. And God forbid anyone advocates war with China or rampant mutation from radiation and disease.
By William Reid5 years ago in Trader
