Comment on Bunnies are metal

starik@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Klear@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They even know the colouration of a bunch of them, like this Sinosauropteryx:

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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One of the reasons I would love to travel to the future is to see all the ways that people and science are confidently incorrect about depictions of dinosaurs now, and how they’re depicted like 300 years in the future. Even within my lifetime, we’ve gone from slow, fat lizard turds to something realistic like this lil’ guy. Amazing stuff.

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    • ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You might also get to see incorrect depictions of animals from our time that are extinct in the future, depending on how much information is lost between now and then.

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    • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I share your sentiment but I’d rather go back and see for myself. The future is completely unknown, who knows if you’d land right on the front line in WWIII. At least in the past I have a vague idea of what parts of time to avoid landing in.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You could say the same for the past, we don’t know when dinosaur World War 2 was, perhaps you’ll meet dinosaur Elon Musk and have to talk to him, it’s a hell of a risk.

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    • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Travelling to the (far) past would give you certainty though.

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      • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, but I might also become a snack.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m glad it was so happy when it died. Doing itsy little walk, my cat does that when he is successfully captured the elusive ball of foil.

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Science success story:

  Aboriginal religions generally hold that long ago in the Dreaming times, the world was cold, there was less water, and the coast was further away. You used to be able to walk to many of the islands around the Australian coast, because there were land bridges.

  White people generally assumed these stories were mythological fiction, because white people are often racist and intolerant. However, science eventually figured out that 10,000 years ago, there was an ice age. The polar ice caps were bigger, and the ocean was shallower. Those land bridges were found under the modern ocean through satellite imaging. Aboriginal religions were right, and science proved that these religious histories had been preserved and kept accurate for 10,000 years!

  Science wins again!

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• charokol@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This kind of “scientists are so stupid” mindset is so weird

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  • edwardbear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. Not weird. Dangerous. Only people in the world, who get to hold a “told ya so” sign, while civilisation and humanity burns, out of their own hubris

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• Flower@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But first somebody had to make a movie with the wrong data, making the whole field cool enough to get funding to found out they were wrong.

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• bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While true about the proto feathers dinosaurs had, the mis id of their species as reptiles lives on to this day. Half the population doesn’t even know they are from birds, and were warm blooded.

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I ain’t no monkey!

    Ugh, lol

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh? Dinosaurs are reptiles in any system of classification I know of.

    I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at but it sounds like you’re referring to the fact that, cladistically, birds are dinosaurs. But there were non-bird dinosaurs, and what this all means for the clades is just that all birds are reptiles.

    Of course normally we are not speaking cladistically. In that context, birds are not dinosaurs, but dinosaurs are still reptiles, and reptiles excludes birds.

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    • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Birds are ancestors of dinosaurs. They were warm blooded, any split with reptiles happened long since. Jesus Christ.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Birds are descendants of dinosaurs.

        It doesn’t make sense to talk of “splits” unless you presume a cladistic view, which I explicitly did not. The point of a split is ill-defined unless you’re talking about a clade.

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