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Anon has a proposal for you (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 104 points 4 days ago (24 children)

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.

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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (16 children)

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.

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[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 42 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

Punji sticks. Me 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.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's a lot of digging to do while a T-Rex is prowling around.

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 child)

It's got to sleep sometime. Dig a hole while it's sleeping. Doesn't have to be a hole that the whole dinosaur can fall into, just deep enough to step on a punji stick:

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago

Fair enough. Also I really appreciate this art.

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[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 3 points 3 days ago

I had similar thinking, but limited the group to 3 (some hopeleslly low number).

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 3 points 3 days ago

Convo about what animals we could fight in a 1 v 1 fight came up, and a buddy chimed in with some solid piece of wisdom on the matter:

"If you think you're gonna lose, then you're gonna lose. Thinking you can win doesn't guarantee a win, but its impossible to win if you don't think you can."

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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I said a straight fight. Meaning just body fighting against body plus a short knife. There's tons of other ways to kill an animal. Poison collected from plants or other animals, starvation, dehydration, traps, pits, fashioning arrows, spears, causing infections, and on and on

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Due to the mass of T Rex (4-6 tons) it would theoretically top out at 10-15mph, the same run speed of a trained marathon runner putting some effort in. An athlete could outrun a T Rex briefly, and the exertion would probably dissuade it from chasing for long.

T Rex predated upon slow, large herbivores. I think a hit & run tactic would eventually wear it down.

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[–] SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

That works on things that run away. It could just eat you if it can beat you in a sprint.

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You mean sacrifice 2 so one can escape right?

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Lol, not the intention.

I'm thinking of trying to start some kind of rope making operation in the hut (VERY wild card assumption that the resources for this would be available). If you and your two buddies could make enough rope to hog tie the Rex, then successfully did the thing while it slept, maybe you could also build some level of choker for it to suffocate the beast?

Idk, but I know that'd be a lot of rope. Gotta get multiple people on the task.

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[–] Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

That might work. You could probably use multiple people to set up a trap and bait the beast in. There are definitely more options when you have more people to work with.

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[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago (1 child)

After comparing dinosaurs to feet and British money I still have no idea how big it is, but I believe you it's dangerous.

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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago

1 meter = 3 feet

(approximately)

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

I’ll try it for free after reading Cloaca Guy’s idea.

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[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Bro, you have no idea how alpha I am.

And I do MMA.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Humans hunted wooly mammoths to extinction, and we'd do the same to T Rexes. 7 tons of mass is all well and good until a monkey who spent the last evening whittling a spear chucks it into your side from dozens of meters away.

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[–] DamoclesDurden@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Teams of humans hunted mammoths. This is just you vs a murder chicken the size of a whale.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 1 point 3 days ago

It's actually a single murder chicken the size of a mammoth, who can't retaliate to ranged attacks once I'm in my shelter, nor run away from me. I like my odds way more than team hunting mammoth herds.

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