"Thagomizer" is now the proper scientific term for those tail spikes.
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Thagomizer
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Thagomizer
Remember that old Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson?
"Thagomizer" is now the proper scientific term for those tail spikes.
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"Thagomizer" is now the proper scientific term for those tail spikes.
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in omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro
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ipsa scientia potestas est
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Nuclear Navy Warwolf
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in omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro
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ipsa scientia potestas est
Re: Thagomizer
On a slightly related note, Gary Larson also had a species of louse named after him: Strigiphilus garylarsoni[/i]
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Ah yes. The one contribution to science by the late Thag Simmons. 
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People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)