Draconic_NEO
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- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
To be fair it’s a chicken which is 12 meters tall, if you’ve ever seen chickens killing and eating bugs it seems cute but if they were that big they would not be cute at all, it would be terrifying. Little birds are only cute and unintimidating because they’re small.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
That’s a good idea, have several different interpretations.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
Of course it’ll be wrong, my point is to try making it look more like a living thing than a living skeleton. When comparing skin wrapped designs to living creatures (even mythical ones) they just look wrong. Most creatures don’t look shrink wrapped. Really imagining what prehistoric animals is more art than science, you use science to try and know roughly what they looked like but that’ll only get you so far, you need to use imagination or creativity.
I mean we can create depictions of mythical animals that have never lived and will never live, why not use some of that skill to try and depict prehistoric creatures in a way that’s more life-like, because the shrink wrap technique isn’t more accurate, it’s lazy, not believable, and also aesthetically unappealing.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
I think that many of the people who do depictions of prehistoric creatures lack imagination so they do the bare minimum they possibly could to “imagine” the skeleton as a living creature. Imagination is absolutely required to get a good depiction of them that looks lifelike and not creepy and unrealistic.
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 week ago:
Like this?
- Comment on magic box rule 3 months ago:
The designs probably haven’t fundamentally changed all that much from their older versions.
- Comment on billions & billions 4 months ago:
Not sure, I guess the idea is that in the film they were saying they faked the space race to get the Soviets to work harder and waste money, but it doesn’t really make sense and I think that’s the whole point. It’s meant to be absurd propaganda.
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Which is why in the movie, cooper isn’t at all mad that his daughter got into a fist fight with some kids over them believing and denying the original real textbooks which explain how man did actually land on the moon.
- Comment on billions & billions 4 months ago:
What are you talking about, we all know the lunar landings were faked to bankrupt the soviets /j
Seriously though, best bet for long distance space exploration just like they said in that movie is to find a wormhole. It’s probably the only real way to travel across the universe in any reasonable amount of time.
- Comment on To deter predators... 4 months ago:
Well it will make them cold if you put it down there.
- Submitted 5 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 31 comments
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 5 months ago:
Would Anomalocaris actually do well in the modern world. I feel like they probably wouldn’t do so well in the modern ecosystems of much more evolved marine creatures. Would get out-competed very quickly, and likely face plenty of other challenges. Being out-competed is likely the reason they went extinct in the first place.
- Comment on Pringhouls 5 months ago:
Unfortunately reality doesn’t always work out the way maths intended it to. Almost all the ones I’ve gotten had many of them broken. Makes for slick marketing though.
- Comment on Chemistry of Pumpkins 5 months ago:
I think the only thing that is really pumpkin about pumpkin spice is the association with pumpkin pie. Pumpkin on its own doesn’t have much flavor though so it would taste like whatever you put on it. If the combination weren’t used in Pumpkin pie as much as it is, it probably wouldn’t even be called pumpkin spice.
- Comment on bitey 5 months ago:
It’s averaged out, the real values are in a range, they just took the average between them.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 5 months ago:
All 3 states exist at the same time, rapidly alternating between them.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 5 months ago:
Don’t fluids conform to the shape of their container? In a sense they would all be conforming.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
Was going to say exactly that, not all lead came from radioactive decay. So this kind of ruins their debunk, Earth’s age has been measured by the amount of lead.
- Comment on ... 5 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on ... 5 months ago:
Let’s also not forget that Scientists are also humans. Humans with their own beliefs and biases which do get transferred into studies. Peer review can help reduce that but since peers are also humans with their own biases, but also common biases shared amongst humans it’s not bulletproof either.
There will always be some level of bias which clouds judgement, or makes you see/think things that aren’t objectively true, sometimes it comes with good intention, others not so much. It’s always there though, and probably always will be. The key to good science is making it as minimal as possible.
- Comment on ... 5 months ago:
I mean those things didn’t change, it was just about how research was manipulated by money and human biases.
- Comment on what goes around 11 months ago:
Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.
- Comment on Just asking questions 11 months ago:
It’s only science if you’re willing to accept the conclusion the observations lead you to even if they prove your idea wrong, because the point of science is to learn and gain understanding, and that is done by being wrong about things and investigating to find the correct answer.
It’s no longer science if you’re not willing to accept the conclusions because they prove your idea false, which ultimately is the problem that happens with science deniers, they are unwilling to accept being wrong.
- Comment on Oxygen 11 months ago:
Good point, though it still won’t melt all at once though it takes time to melt and boil (not much time but still takes time).
- Comment on Oxygen 11 months ago:
It won’t float away if you freeze it first, of course it will sublimate away but not all at once.
- Comment on Oxygen 11 months ago:
I can do at least 45 seconds up to a full minute.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 11 months ago:
This is science memes, what about this post do you find similar to egg_irl?
- Submitted 1 year ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on high rise 1 year ago:
It does seem nice but I hear the association fees there are insane.
- Comment on Hooray, we're back! So what happened? 1 year ago:
It’ll be harder for most people who don’t know how to set profile picture using the API or network requests field, since the way the Lemmy Frontend is done it requires Uploads in the Frontend, but doesn’t actually require them to set the image (just a URL to the Image, I have mine set to a Codeberg Repo containing the images, allows me to change them whenever I choose, and also guarantees stability since image hosts can be fiddly and also allows Tor users to see them more easily (many image hosts have connection issues under Tor, causing connectivity to be inconsistent).
