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[-] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 year ago
[-] salty_chief@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

dinosaurs never became oil/coal

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[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

I don’t even have a thagomizer.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 39 points 1 year ago

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

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 year ago

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

The dinosaur's curse for not letting them rest in peace....

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Paleontologists hate this one weird trick!

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[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well... its mostly plant and fungus goo actually

Still.

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 36 points 1 year 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.

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago

By what metrics?

You do not have thagomizer.

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[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year 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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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 32 points 1 year ago
[-] funkajunk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They're called secretary birds.

HR! This post right here!

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year 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.

[-] limer@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

The parrot I asked insists she is still existing

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

They didn’t have HVAC though?

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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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[-] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah? Well how big is your thagomizer?

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[-] s@piefed.world 10 points 1 year 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?

[-] Beryl@jlai.lu 10 points 1 year 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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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 7 points 1 year ago

Bro, have you seen "Don't look up"?

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[-] Hegar@fedia.io 8 points 1 year 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.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

10,000 vs 6,000 (ish)

[-] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 1 year 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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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Idk my ancestors survived the k-pg event

[-] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year 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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[-] mienshao@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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…

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year 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

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

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

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