• Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

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

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      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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        8 days ago

        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?

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

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    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.

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    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?

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    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.

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    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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    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

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      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.

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          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.

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            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 😂

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

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    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…