Uhh, about 83 million years separated these two species.
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XOXOX@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
negativenull@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
T-Rex had only 2 fingers. This shows three, so this is likely a really fast Allosaurus
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s a lesser known relative Datassosaurus which was a thicker allosaur
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Are you suggesting that time magic is real? The thought had crossed my mind too.
Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s a helluva grudge
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Best comment on lemmy today.
MTK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
" Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence"
But honestly, I think this is intuitive and reasonable so I accept it as factual.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That checks out.
“When you don’t have any data you have to use reason.” - Richard Feynman, some guy who watch science shows a lot
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
“Door donot” - Yoda, talking fast
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
There is overwhelming evidence that this didn’t happen in the Jurassic era: Stegosaurs had been extinct for tens of millions of years at that point.
The theropods (“possibly”) electrocuted contemporary dinosaurs, not dinosaurs that had gone extinct 100 million years earlier.
droans@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Yes, but there’s zero evidence the dinosaurs didn’t have time machines.
blx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There will be if they decide to invade our era tomorrow
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
You were’t there man, you didn’t see what I saw!
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Technically incorrect. There are no feathers.
Zacryon@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
“There is no evidence that this didn’t happen.”
This line of reasoning is the same way religions “argue”.
There is also no evidence that this did happen.
So I assume that it’s wrong until undeniably proven otherwise by the scientific method.
AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I believe you have explained the joke.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Somebody find a grand jury to indict this sandwich!
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On the one hand you are right, on the other hand, especially paleontology is basing their facts on very, very shaky evidence and a massive amount of extrapolation.
So I assume that it’s wrong until undeniably proven otherwise by the scientific method.
So you assume everything is wrong? Because in fact, that’s not how the scientific method works at all.
Outside of the very few fields that are pure and untouched by reality, like e.g. maths, there are no proofs, and certainly no undeniable proofs in science. Everything is “just” a theory and is used until proven wrong or otherwise refined. Usually a theory with a decent amount of evidence, but nothing is proven beyond deniability in science. That’s religion you are thinking about.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t this also result in archaeologists saying everything was for spiritual reasons or that we don’t know what it was for? Like sure, I don’t know exactly how it was used but I can take a pretty good guess! This isn’t even limited to dildos either.
Adalast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One of my favorite stories about this was from an archeological investigation in housing where they found several homes where knives had been stored in the rafters of the house and all of the men in charge we debating on the religious explanations about how weapons and knives would have had to have been reveared to have been stored so high in the home. One of the female grad students walked in and looked at them all like they were idiots and said it was to keep them away from the children. There are no records of what the men had said in reaction.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m)?
Looking around, electric eels can do 860V, which is well short from the 15kV needed to gap 0.5m of air at sea level.
I mean, we can always claim it was possible but lost, but then again we can also claim that for magic or animal teleportation.
Tire@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s actually not ionizing the air. It’s spraying a conductive gel that the electricity rides to the prey. That’s why it’s important to hold it down to the ground to make sure it has good contact with the earth.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Uuh, nice - that sound like it would work.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
The force dude. Its pretty obvious the t-rex is a sith lord.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 weeks ago
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s no evidence that there’s not
LwL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just out of pedantry: Water has terrible conductivity. Blood is less terrible though and in any case air is far worse than either, so point stands
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Pure water is a terrible conductor, but water with dissolved ions is a pretty good conductor, and that’s mostly (maybe always, since things like Sodium an Potassium ions tend to be pretty important in various processes, though IANAB so maybe there are exceptions) the water inside living beings.
huf@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
yes, but it’s extremely complicated and bulky. first, you have to have a naked ape. then that ape has to invent science and modern technology. then it has to build an electric grid, and then eventually this becomes possible…
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Well, it’s not actually a “biological” mechanism, though by some definitions of the word one might call it a “natural” mechanism ;)
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Jurassic Sith
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
pyre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ai slop
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Used science to make a meme, people upset. Repost someone else’s content, happy. I see a lot of depression in our futures.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Karl Popper’s falsifiability says we only need to prove this didn’t happen once.
Your move, denialists.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Huh. I don’t quite remember this Nasreddin Hoca story growing up, but I’m sure the snake says something really clever
peyotecosmico@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
But we aren’t completely sure
Lembot_0004@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Flateartheners: the same way as there is no proof the Earth wasn’t flat earlier. And gods are hiding in the cats’ asses. And vaccines cause trumpism. No proofs, therefore it is TRUE!
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Those flatearth weirdos would rather admit that the Earth is hollow than that it’s a normal (albeit flawed) full sphere.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Creationism be like:
hopesdead@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
We don’t know that they developed space travel and left Earth either.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Sorry we all know the thunder lizard is brontosaurus, and thunder comes from lighting that’s just good science
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Is this slop or just sloppy? What’s with the little green arm behind the lightning and the weird meaty stego neck?
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is why stegosaurus should have waited for backup from the council before trying to arrest T. Rex.
toynbee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is very pleasing to know I wasn’t alone in this thought.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why didn’t the stegosaurus fire when it feared for its life??