Today, when an eartqhuake occurs, scientists around the world can be notified electronically in minutes, and emergency responders can move almost as rapidly. Previously, in large countries where the population density is sparse, it could take days to weeks for news of such a disaster to reach those capable of providing large scale aid.
In ancient China a brilliant scientist called Zhang Heng came up with a solution, he created a machine that could tell officials when and in which direction an earthquake had struck. In 132 AD Zhang produced a machine called the “Dragon Jar”.
i saw you the other day dragon of the aragon region fiery as hell 🔥 fast as lightning⚡️ you told me loudly you were celebrating your birth and were calling all dragons to gather around i could hear you my old friend, for dragons hear dragons ▫️ (Train poem 9/17) Heading west from Barcelona to Bilbao, I got to see some of the vast and beautiful land of Spain. It reminded me of the Badlands in South Dakota, USA. I thought I saw a fiery dragon somewhere in the region of Aragon.
A sphere of fluorescent amber from the Dominican Republic (see https://www.facebook.com/TheEarthStory/posts/588657784528603) has been carved in the Chinese style into a sphere with rampant sky dragon couchant, presumably flying above the waves of an unknown sea that have been ingeniously carved to form a base.
Look, if you had a computer program designed to use the skeletal structure of a T-Rex to reconstruct its walk, at some point wouldn’t you also decide to make it breathe fire? I think we all would.
Snapped during the 2015 eruption of Holuhraun in Iceland (see http://bit.ly/2k1oNqU) the flowing lava streams around the already frozen rock while delineating the beast below whose fiery breath formed the island…Draco or mantle plume causing the European and American continental plates to slowly slide apart at the Mid Atlantic ridge, the beauty of this moment is pretty close to perfect.
Many of you may still remember the amazing 100-million-year-old
nodosaur found in Alberta, Canada, that resembled a dragon (if you have
spent the last 3 months in a bunker, you may want to check this link http://bit.ly/2ujChCO).
The spectacular fossilized remains were once an herbivore dinosaur that
lived during the Cretaceous and was quickly buried under the muddy
seabed of an ancient sea after its
death. Although this dinosaur was quite unfortunate, these conditions
were auspicious to preserve the nodosaur with an incredible detail where
we can not only see its bones, but also stomach content and armor with a
three-dimensional shape, which is quite uncommon, since fossils are
usually preserved flattened.
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