The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 04 Sep 19:39
https://mander.xyz/post/37319017

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limer@lemmy.ml on 04 Sep 19:46 next collapse

The parrot I asked insists she is still existing

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 20:03 next collapse

They didn’t have HVAC though?

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 04 Sep 20:04 next collapse

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

stoy@lemmy.zip on 04 Sep 20:17 next collapse

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

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

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 04 Sep 20:19 next collapse

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

unconsequential@slrpnk.net on 04 Sep 20:31 collapse

I mean people ate them so I’d say you know the answer to that…

Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 00:40 next collapse

Bro this is stressing me out I’m gonna go snort some of granpappies mummy stash.

I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org on 05 Sep 14:08 collapse

Teriyaki flavored?

hansolo@lemmy.today on 05 Sep 07:32 collapse

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

Well, I mean, I can probably only guarantee no more than 3% dinosaur.

Zink@programming.dev on 05 Sep 14:59 collapse

Whoa whoa, if my car is getting a larger percentage of incidental dinosaur from its refined petroleum products than the percentage of incidental spider legs and rat shit I myself am getting from my processed food products, I am going to be totally jealous.

hansolo@lemmy.today on 05 Sep 17:35 collapse

I know! And you should be. Industrial standards in the Carboniferous Period were seriously lax. All the upper management and lawyers were trilobites!

Zink@programming.dev on 05 Sep 18:43 collapse

It was a rough time back then. But a simpler time…

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 04 Sep 20:39 next collapse

Algae?

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 04 Sep 20:41 collapse

Your car runs on algae?

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 04 Sep 20:44 collapse

Yes.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 04 Sep 20:47 collapse

Weird. I’ve just been shoving dinosaur bones into mine. 🤷‍♂️

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de on 04 Sep 20:57 next collapse

Paleontologists hate this one weird trick!

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 04 Sep 20:52 next collapse

Must be diesel. If you can get it to combust under high air pressure, a diesel will probably run off it.

rozwud@beehaw.org on 05 Sep 00:17 collapse
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 21:00 next collapse

Well… its mostly plant and fungus goo actually

Still.

BurgerBaron@piefed.social on 04 Sep 22:23 collapse

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

tanisnikana@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 20:14 next collapse

I don’t even have a thagomizer.

ZeroCool@lemmy.ca on 04 Sep 20:39 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://i.ibb.co/yF3RfLSy/IMG-3497.jpg">

salty_chief@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 01:13 next collapse

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

general_kitten@sopuli.xyz on 05 Sep 06:00 next collapse

dinosaurs never became oil/coal

bigboitricky@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 06:38 next collapse

not with that attitude

RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz on 05 Sep 08:14 next collapse

Useless shits

salty_chief@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 08:55 next collapse

Look I just learn stuff that college teaches me okay. So decaying trees, plants and animals (dinosaurs) are the primary source of oil. Oil is being made daily based on decaying organic material. This is why the planet has so much of it.

Nima@leminal.space on 05 Sep 12:47 collapse

some of them likely did, given the current theory of how oil happens. dead organic material is dead organic material.

there’s just more vegetation than animal matter.

RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz on 05 Sep 08:15 next collapse

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

antrosapien@lemmy.ml on 05 Sep 17:46 collapse

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

InvalidName2@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 12:47 collapse

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

mienshao@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 20:55 next collapse

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…

Hegar@fedia.io on 04 Sep 20:49 next collapse

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.

negativenull@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 21:27 collapse

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

10,000 vs 6,000 (ish)

bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 05 Sep 00:01 next collapse

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

tyler@programming.dev on 05 Sep 01:23 collapse

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

OK it’s 11250!

negativenull@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 01:40 collapse

It really is the bird’s world still

protist@mander.xyz on 04 Sep 21:05 next collapse

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

TheBat@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 21:20 next collapse

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

MeThisGuy@feddit.nl on 04 Sep 21:38 next collapse

like probably a third of this world?

TheBat@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 00:53 collapse

Even they benefit from modern inventions in some way. Only the Sentinelese and other such uncontacted peoples can be considered independent of modern lifestyle.

[deleted] on 04 Sep 21:50 collapse

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captainlezbian@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 04:26 collapse

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

shalafi@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 05:57 collapse

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

captainlezbian@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 07:20 collapse

Idk sponges go hard dude

Gustephan@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 21:07 next collapse

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

noxypaws@pawb.social on 04 Sep 23:28 next collapse

birds reading this:

<img alt="closeup shot of a secretary bird’s face, they’re looking downward and their prominent eyelashes make them look kinda sad" src="https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/dde8484f-2796-422f-9564-fc94f5b7561f.png">

funkajunk@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 23:36 next collapse

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

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 00:40 next collapse

Beastiality?

funkajunk@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 02:51 collapse

It’s spelled “bestiality”, because it’s the best

Soup@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 02:03 next collapse

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

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca on 05 Sep 02:18 next collapse

Check out the anime called Aggretsuko.

shalafi@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 05:24 next collapse

They’re called secretary birds.

HR! This post right here!

noxypaws@pawb.social on 05 Sep 17:29 collapse

wait til you see their legs and feet :P

hansolo@lemmy.today on 05 Sep 07:36 collapse

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.

DrDystopia@lemy.lol on 04 Sep 23:30 next collapse

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.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 04 Sep 23:35 next collapse

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.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Sep 06:50 collapse

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

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 04 Sep 23:57 next collapse

By what metrics?

You do not have thagomizer.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 05 Sep 02:05 next collapse

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

T156@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 03:38 next collapse

But sure, some bones on your ass I guess.

Exactly. Why live?

Cypher@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 08:51 collapse

We can.

Can you?

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 05 Sep 13:33 collapse

Yes, yes and haven’t tried.

Malgas@beehaw.org on 05 Sep 03:54 collapse

RIP Thag Simmons.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Sep 06:47 collapse

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)

Typhoon@lemmy.ca on 04 Sep 23:38 next collapse

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

captainlezbian@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 00:47 collapse

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?

Zink@programming.dev on 05 Sep 14:55 collapse

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?

captainlezbian@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 00:45 next collapse

Idk my ancestors survived the k-pg event

s@piefed.world on 05 Sep 01:45 next collapse

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?

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 04:29 next collapse

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

RedditAdminsSuckIt@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 05:36 next collapse
nailbar@sopuli.xyz on 05 Sep 08:00 next collapse

Oh yeah? Well how big is your thagomizer?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 10:44 next collapse

c… can we touch thagomizers?

nailbar@sopuli.xyz on 06 Sep 10:24 collapse

Yes, but only once

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca on 05 Sep 11:38 next collapse

RIP Thag Simmons.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 16:56 collapse

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

mriormro@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 11:27 collapse
echodot@feddit.uk on 05 Sep 05:47 next collapse

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

Michal@programming.dev on 05 Sep 05:56 next collapse

Bro, have you seen “Don’t look up”?

BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz on 05 Sep 09:06 next collapse

Have you seen this DiCaprio movie where we all die ?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 12:15 collapse

That was about climate change.

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Sep 11:35 collapse

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

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works on 05 Sep 08:48 next collapse

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

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 09:09 next collapse

Nature is pretty scary

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 12:15 collapse

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

mriormro@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 11:25 next collapse

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

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works on 05 Sep 11:57 next collapse

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

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

HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 12:49 collapse

I learned about ghost month from you, thanks 💜

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works on 05 Sep 17:11 collapse

Its coo coo crazy how much people here believes it here. This morning I saw a row of businesses, about 8 store fronts, was outside praying and burning “spirit money”. Employees are forced to pray as well.

HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 17:30 collapse

That’s nuts, that’s like one of those examples that’s either “ppl coming together in a sense of community and bonding” or “being trapped in forced servitude to the societal expectations around you.” Depends on the person experiencing it what it feels like ig. I never understood the forcing ppl to pray, like “you know that’s not how that works, right?” Performative time wasters 😂

DancingBear@midwest.social on 05 Sep 12:10 collapse

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

Beryl@jlai.lu on 05 Sep 09:25 next collapse

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

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 12:14 collapse

Are sharks the best example?

InvalidName2@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 12:45 collapse

No. Sharks are not dinosaurs.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 16:04 collapse

Sharks have been around for over 450 million years.

RedFrank24@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 11:35 next collapse

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

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 12:13 next collapse

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

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 05 Sep 13:38 next collapse

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

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 18:49 collapse

The dinosaurs are doing quite well. Corvids in particular…

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 05 Sep 15:05 next collapse

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

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 15:12 collapse

A rocket fueld by dinosaurs

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 05 Sep 18:29 collapse

Now that’s T-Bagging

Eddbopkins@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 19:26 next collapse

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

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 19:37 collapse

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