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The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    One axiom of science always comes to mind when things like this get posted: matter cannot be destroyed, only rearranged

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  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Well they did have thumbs Soo I kinda think we are better then a stegosaurus

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But could the dinosaurs DO THIS? Straps myself to a rocket and blasts off the planet into space

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    • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A rocket fueld by dinosaurs

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Now that’s T-Bagging

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  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not fair to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs got hit by a meteor, humans are destroying themselves.

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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The dinosaurs are doing quite well. Corvids in particular…

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah. I’ve seen those Flintstone documentaries. They had all the consumer mod cons.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’d think it’s us with the peanut-sized brains.

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  • ZeroCool@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen enough Jurassic Park franchise movies to know that at least some dinosaurs had bills.

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    • salty_chief@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t worry mankind and animals are the next fuel for the future cars!

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      • antrosapien@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What a poetry Mankind on a killing spree for oil ending up becoming the oil

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The ultimate fantasy of causing the extinction of a whole village by driving to work

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      • general_kitten@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        dinosaurs never became oil/coal

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  • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t even have a thagomizer.

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  • Beryl@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stegosaurus really isn’t the best example of a long lasting clade of dinosaurs. These losers didn’t even make it to the Cretaceous !

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are sharks the best example?

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      • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No. Sharks are not dinosaurs.

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    not better than a stegosaurus

    By what metrics? I challenge any dinosaur from any species to a banjo duel and I’ll show you all who’s better.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      By what metrics?

      You do not have thagomizer.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        A stegosaurus cannot build microcontrollers, rocket engines or nuclear explosives. We can. But sure, some bones on your ass I guess.

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      • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        RIP Thag Simmons.

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    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I challenge any dino to a fighting duel and I’ll show you who’s superior. Oh wait, they all dead? That’s right bitch! They all dead. (banjo sounds during my mic drop pls)

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The boy can’t spell “you’re”. We don’t need to challenge him on the content. Similarly, if the tenor can’t hold the first note, we don’t need to stay for the performance.

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So “you’re” argument is that dinosaurs would win when it comes to a spelling contest? (it’s your)

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  • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    birds reading this:

    closeup shot of a secretary bird’s face, they’re looking downward and their prominent eyelashes make them look kinda sad

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    • funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why do I feel some kinda way about that sexy ass bird?

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      • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        wait til you see their legs and feet :P

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re called secretary birds.

        HR! This post right here!

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      • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Those lashes + whatever the fuck Disney and Looney Tunes were up to

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Beastiality?

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      • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Check out the anime called Aggretsuko.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Birds when humans talk about dinosaurs going extinct like they just vanished: “Am I joke to you?!”

      plumage and pecking and pigeons and chicken tenders

      Humans: I mean… sometimes, yes.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If they’re so great, how come I use their goo to spend 4 hours a day stuck in traffic?

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That goo, once burned is what is causing global warming.

      The dinosaur’s curse for not letting them rest in peace…

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      • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The goo is trees that were buried before bacteria and fungi learned to eat hydrocarbons. 0% dinosaurs.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Man… Imagine how fucked we would be if we burned mummies!

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Algae?

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your car runs on algae?

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hope some future species burns our liquefied matrix black corpse goop, it's what we deserve.

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    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well… its mostly plant and fungus goo actually

      Still.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, we have brains we can use to spot and destroy all redirect incoming asteroids. So yeah I am. Also stegosaurus was long extinct by the time of asteroid impact.

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    • Michal@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bro, have you seen “Don’t look up”?

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      • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Have you seen this DiCaprio movie where we all die ?

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That was about climate change.

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My brain cannot do that, I don’t think I can even move a pencil with my brain. Should I go to the doctor?

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  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stegosaurus died out long before the K-T extinction event. They weren’t even good enough to survive to that point.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah aren’t they one of the few animals that was actually a dinosaur and actually from the jurassic that people think of when they think of jurassic dinosaurs?

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Do people ever actually think of the Jurassic period though, or do they just live in a society where Jurassic Park and Jurassic World have made that period’s name synonymous with dinosaurs?

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think I’m a little better than a stegosaurus.

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    • RedditAdminsSuckIt@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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    • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh yeah? Well how big is your thagomizer?

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      • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You can’t see it but that’s only because It’s cold I swear.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        RIP Thag Simmons.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        c… can we touch thagomizers?

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    • mriormro@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • limer@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The parrot I asked insists she is still existing

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They didn’t have HVAC though?

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bruh, reading through this thread, I’m low-key having an existential crisis thinking about the timeline where that extinction event didn’t happen. No humans, no tech, no video games.

    Dinosaurs rule forever?

    What if my soul got incarnated as a dinosaur, what is it like?

    Just chillin’?

    Idk

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    • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry I can’t come in to work today I have to molt

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    • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yo dog. I know it’s 鬼月. This time of year, everyone in Taiwan to think about mortality.

      My suggestion is to think about what you want to accomplish if you don’t have to think about survival.

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      • HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I learned about ghost month from you, thanks 💜

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    • mriormro@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Souls aren’t a thing and there is no reincarnation so you’re fine.

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    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nature is pretty scary

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Alternatively, be amazed at how much we’ve tamed.

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  • s@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    people still think we’re invincible

    Who? The peons concerned about climate change and ecosystem collapse? Or the billionaires injecting kids’ blood into themselves, launching rockets to colonize Mars, or begging for donations to get them into the right afterlife?

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idk my ancestors survived the k-pg event

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  • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except dinosaurs weren't taken out and some species like chickens probably have more biomass than ever.

    I think that's the more horrific scenario anyway - we cause a massive catastrophe but like the end of a slasher franchise, we're still around to do it all over again.

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    • negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are most species of birds (dinosaurs) alive today than there are mammal species

      10,000 vs 6,000 (ish)

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The bird count is over 11k now! I think something like 11300ish. Let me look it up.

        OK it’s 11250!

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      • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        All wild mammals combined are about 1/10th the biomass of humans.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Many humans would absolutely survive an event like the K-T extinction, between technology and eating bugs and fungi. Many more would die though

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah we’re a bit large but we’re adaptive generalist omnivores. Add canned goods and it feels likely some people would make it

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Humans are the toughest fucking animals this Earth has ever seen. Lemmings not so much.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d like a quick death please. I don’t want to live in a world without modern conveniences.

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        like probably a third of this world?

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      • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Holy shit I just opened this app and this is the most pathetic thing I’ve read today

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  • mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What if I told you the dinos did not get taken out and are, in fact, flying above your head as we speak? The pigeons are waiting for you…

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  • Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idk about yall but I am better than a stegosauraus. Im social (allegedly), intelligent (allegedly), and my thagomizer is magnificent (undeniably)

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