Wind speeds

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I like that dinosaur photographs like this are intentionally black-and-white because it was before colour cameras were invented

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I appreciate it, but I’m honestly sick of the slop police.

    I don’t like the idea of being tricked by AI either, nor the impact AI has on the environment, but I the slop police everywhere, and don’t add much to the conversation. The whole thing is generally tiring.

    Pointing out ‘hey bro, this is AI’ and still discussing the post would be a better approach in my book. Not all doctored images are slop either - Photoshop exists and was how shitposts were made for a really long time. We still discussed those posts, and how silly they were.

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    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      but I’m honestly sick of the slop police.

      I’m getting sick of all the AI slop.

      Don’t post slop and you won’t have to deal with slop police ;)

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    • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Counterpoint: Not adding much to conversation is the point. Don’t feed the troll. Don’t eat the slop. For real convo use real things not corrupted by slopmachines.

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    • wraekscadu@vargar.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Advice: Ignore these folks. Fuck “police” even if they are on the left of the political spectrum.

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• mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They would still be pelted by debris and die very painfully

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  • Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its kinda weird that they havent found more dinosaurs underneath trailer parks.

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    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Huh?

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• phar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tornados have picked up things heavier than sauropods. If it was a big enough tornado, that sucker is airborne.

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  • cloudshouter@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s less the weight and more density to surface area. This is square cube law territory. A human can be lifted by a 65 mph wind, a cow apparently takes 140-280. At that rate large sauropods would exceed theoretical earth wind speeds. What trips people up is thinking in terms of just weight. A double wide trailer with furniture can hit over 30 tons but is mostly air. A large sauropod is significantly heavier, solid, made of more dense materials, and more aerodynamic.

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    • phar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is it density to surface area or aerodynamics? If it can lift a packed 120 ton train, I would think it can lift a 40 ton sauropod, unless maybe the airflow around it stops the lift?

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It brings up the question of whether and where tornados formed on ancient contents. If I recall correctly they’re really not common outside of North America as they need a pretty particular set of geographical and weather conditions to form.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think tornados are actually that uncommon. North America’s tornado alley is special, but even Germany has roof-destroying tornados every year - they just aren’t as big or as frequent.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah. Add far as I understand, the dinosaur fossils we pull out of the great plains are there because that was the shore line of the Western Interior Seaway. I would expect a massive Seaway to mess up whatever conditions create Tornado Alley.

    Also, even within Tornado Alley, the prevalence of big tornados is extremely sensitive to localized quirks of geography. Certain places, like Moore, OK, have been hit with F4 and F5 events several times, while apparent safe zones just a few miles away get hit rarely at all.

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  • cloudshouter@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    North central Pangea might have been a contender.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Some grad student is going to get access to a wind tunnel for this meme

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• lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “It isn’t THAT the wind is blowing, it’s WHAT the wind is blowing.”

  • Ron White

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• mynameisbob@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  creative thinking… I am hollaring 🤣

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