Another Primitive Dinosaur with Mounted Rocket Launcher
Reader Lee sent me a link with this picture:
Never forgets... to kill!
Does seem like another attempt at the idea behind a dinosaur with a rocket launcher on it. The elephant is one of the most dinosaur like of the mammals — right next to the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus — and the current largest extant land animal (since we don’t have dinosaurs), so I guess it works in a pinch. I believe Hannibal actually used the dinosaur with rocket launcher concept when he led elephants to attack Rome. I don’t know if history recorded how that turned out.
Anyway, working with elephants does seem like a good start while we’re perfecting genetically resurrecting dinosaurs. If we want to get America out of the slump its in, we have to dream big — dinosaurs with rocket launchers big.
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May 26th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
I also works as a great symbol for the Republican party.
May 26th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
But, we have tanks. Really cool tanks. With even cooler guns.
May 26th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Son of Bob:
Tanks can’t climb trees. Or make baby tanks.
May 26th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
It didn’t work out so well for Hannibal. After struggling to get the elephants through the Alps, Hannibal found out the hard way that elephants can stampede backward as well as forward. A lot of his own men got trampled.
May 26th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Way to go Poindexter! Put a .30 caliber on an Elephant but don’t bother to armor up the beast. What a tool! So you are riding along shooting up everything in sight and some wise acker (sniper) sticks one bullet into the side of the Elephant and through the heart. Whoops! Your “runnin” and “gunnin” days are over! I’d suggest at least some Kevlar body armor that would allow the elephant to like to ninja moves and jump up and down on evil doers until they are smashed into the earth would be appropriate!
So which dinosaur? I am signing up for the first T-Rex! He will be my “boy” and I will have him fully trained for combat and for chasing down and crushing liberals and Chevy Volts and such! I will let him eat whatever he catches so that won’t be a problem. I’m going to put a doggie fence up so that he get’s a mild shock if he tries to wander off my property and then I will go out and yell…”Bad Boy” to which he will whimper and crawl back into his Dino. House that I will build him! I’m going to name him Shock and Awe or Doom for short!
May 26th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Graze an ear with that thing and your buddies will be picking your remains out from between the elephant’s toes.
May 26th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwcZSFUmQlo Dino Riders, dinosaurs with many various weaponry (including rocket launchers) on their backs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcvTxmAo9e8 Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, Triceratops with dual grenade launchers launchers on its back that you ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHA6NQCoffM Also somewhat badass, elephants vs medieval rocket launchers set to rock music from Medieval Total War 2
May 26th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Bunch of nay sayers! It’s a prototype. Modifications have to be made. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic elephant. Dumbo will be that elephant. Better than he was before. Better…stronger…faster.
May 26th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
I saw Yosemite Sam try that one time. Didn’t turn out well. Plus the rabbit got away.
May 26th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Hmm, just think of the size of the earplugs you need when you take him to the range for target shooting.
May 26th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Kevlar and titanium armoured dinosaurs with rocket launchers should be our moon landing project. Elephants can the Mercury end of things, the dinosaurs Apollo. “Tnats one small step for a dinsaur, one giant squish for terroristkind”.
May 26th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Well we know we are not getting dinosaurs with rocket launchers out of the clown currently occupying the white house. Heck, he hasn’t even delivered my unicorn yet.
Personally I am holding out for the hybrid between Triceratops and Argentinosaurus. Now there would be a dinosaur!
May 26th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I wouldn’t want to be on that elephant’s back when that gun goes off.
That guy may be a Darwin Award winner.
May 26th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
To heck with the terrorists. Turn these bad boys loose on the commies and socialists, i.e., the Democrats and the inner city whiners and gimmies.
May 26th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Let’s be practical about this. WHICH dinosaurs should we use as mobile rocket launching pads? Triceratops? He’s got his own tripod. Come on, people! Don’t hate, innovate!
May 26th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
That looks like John Browning’s 1895 Machinegun. I took a photo of his prototype here: https://picasaweb.google.com/aaronhorrocks/BrowningMuseum#5244877345915456738
May 28th, 2011 at 1:29 am
Just strap a ton of C-4 to that pachyderm and point him at the enemy and tell him, “They have Peanuts!”.
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