Do I get to choose the food and can I use it towards the production of improvised weapons, including chemical and bio weapons? Can I stay in the hut and throw things outside the hut?
If yes, sure.
Anon has a proposal for you
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SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 28 minutes ago
bstix@feddit.dk 2 hours ago
Keep feeding the t-rex with my unlimited supply of food. It will overeat and get lazy.
I’ve seen it happen with birds. If they eat too much you can just walk over and pick them up.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
lol, I think within the last week here on Lemmy there was a story from someone working at an animal rescue about a hawk that got too fat to fly. It had been nomming on some local free-range chickens and someone found the too-fat-to-fly hawk and called the rescue.
jdr@lemmy.ml 6 minutes ago
I’m also too fat to fly 🥲
vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 37 minutes ago
The dangers of all-you-can-eat buffets
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The T rex must sleep at some point. Find a big artery close to the skin surface, sever it. Watch it bleed out to death.
Or just stay in the hut and enjoy one month of free food and rent.
radix@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Research suggests a T-Rex would need 50-100k kCal/day. Even if it ate a whole cow before starting, it would be hurting a week in.
Maybe it could survive the month, but would probably be severely malnourished at that point.
In any event, there is no mention of what happens if I fail to kill it. Does the experiment just end and I go home empty handed, or does the magic hut disappear and we fight it out to the death?
crank0271@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Can I keep the hut?
marduk@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
A hut, in *this economy? *
The only reason they can offer 500 million is because of the crypto sponsorship
blarth@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
I implore anyone thinking of trying this to consider that the Tyrannosaurus rex measured up to 43 feet long, stood about 12 to 13 feet tall at the hip, and weighed roughly 4 to 9 metric tons. Its skull alone could weigh up to 600 pounds, and it had a bite force estimated at 35,000 to 57,000 newtons.
You would be better off with a TSA-approved blade against a Bengal tiger. There is no amount of strategic planning that can compensate for your being so incredibly outclassed that you’d have a better chance at building the first antigravity spaceship in your invincible hut within that same month.
Anyway, I would still probably try, for $500M.
Glowstick@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You would never take it in a straight fight, but there’s a very good reason why humans absolutely dominate every animal on earth - our intelligence. The original post is too light on details, but in basically every scenario there almost certainly is some possible way to win that could be figured out.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 3 minutes ago
there’s a very good reason why humans absolutely dominate every animal on earth - our intelligence
Gonna have to slight disagree on this one. I’ve always found out ability to organize and communicate in generalist situations to be far more valuable than individual intelligence (though that’s also nothing to shrug at compared to other animals).
Naw, part of me is wondering if you’d be more likely to succeed in a 1-on-1 with the knife or a 3-on-1 unarmed. I still can’t think of a good strategy, but I feel like wed stand a better chance that just any one of us out there.
iocase@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Punji sticks. Mw use poop and sharpness. Give big lizard tiny microbe. Big infection. Me eat meat and watch it slowly die painful horrible death weak from no food or water.
GardenGeek@europe.pub 1 hour ago
why humans absolutely dominate every animal on earth - our intelligence.
We like to think that about ourselves, but in my opinion, that’s not the whole truth. After all, there are other intelligent life forms as well (though it’s certainly debatable whether they’re just as intelligent, “differently” intelligent, or simply less intelligent). The key reason why we, in combination with our intelligence, dominate the planet is, in my opinion, cooperation within social groups beyond the (extended) family. Religions, states, laws… all mental constructs we use to ensure that we can cooperate within massive groups. As far as I know, no one else does this.
In our scenario here, this crucial component is missing: While a human is (quite likely) more intelligent than the T-Rex, he is, after all, just one individual, and his true strength lies in the community. If we were to place 50 people together in this setting, I believe there would be significantly less doubt about the outcome.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Also our ability to run long distances. I have no idea on the speed of a T-Rex, but it may be possible to have it chase you long enough to wear it out.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
the Tyrannosaurus rex measured up to 43 feet long, stood about 12 to 13 feet tall at the hip, and weighed roughly 4 to 9 metric tons. Its skull alone could weigh up to 600 pounds, and it had a bite force estimated at 35,000 to 57,000 newtons.
BUT!
our intelligence
I could take it in a fight.
Cursed_Fig@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
no mention of the T Rex being provided food, so
I wait in my tent until it is practically dead of hunger or thirst, then I stab it
PineRune@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No mention of you being provided food either…
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Literally says “you will be provided food”.
Jilanico@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Whenever the trex is far from the hut, taunt it into charging me, then run to safety. Do this all day, everyday for a month. Let it exhaust itself. Consider dirtying the knife and planting it blade pointing up outside the hut door as a makeshift infectious caltrop. Either it dies of exhaustion or infection.
dnick@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Can a t rex live a month without food? If they can, then absolutely not.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 hours ago
Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Your torso is gonna be RICH!!!
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
perfect plan.
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
If at the end of the time, I was able to walk free without consequence, I would take the challenge, and spend time observing the behaviour of the beast. How fast does it move? How deeply does it sleep? Does it go torpid? Does it overheat?
I feel like there may be a way to do it. If not, well, i had a month of vacation.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 hours ago
Is all that is in the area: trex, you and the hut? No were else to hide…
I hide in the hut stabbing at its nose, it moves far enough away, I taunt it back, rinse and repeat.
I dies of blood loss.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
The DnD door strats
reader@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
fake: trex and humans did not coexist
gay: op is gay
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Spend the entire time digging a hole and building a cover. Then try to trick it into the hole where hopefully it gets stuck and starves
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I mean, could a T-Rex eat a human due to it’s size and mobility issues? You might be able to slowing stab it to death if it doesn’t step on you.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 hours ago
The mobility issues seem to be greatly overstated
It might not be able to run, but it’s still fast, and seemingly built like a handcart. Newer research suggests it could turn and lunge very quickly
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
That’s really interesting! Can you send me an article about that?
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I got curious so I briefly looked into it. Here’s a fun article: usefulbs.com/…/why-would-a-tyrannosaurus-rex-be-p…
ODuffer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
A 10 inch hunting rifle, yes.
CMahaff@lemmy.world 14 minutes ago
I think some of the other suggestions are better, but my first thought was burying the knife in its food supply (assumings it’s being given like entire dead cows or something) and hoping it takes a big enough bite to swallow it.
I imagine that blade going through the digestive track has a good chance to kill it.