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Is this slop or just sloppy? What's with the little green arm behind the lightning and the weird meaty stego neck?

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is why stegosaurus should have waited for backup from the council before trying to arrest T. Rex.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Uhh, about 83 million years separated these two species.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    T-Rex had only 2 fingers. This shows three, so this is likely a really fat Allosaurus

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    " Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence"

    But honestly, I think this is intuitive and reasonable so I accept it as factual.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There is overwhelming evidence that this didn't happen in the Jurassic era: Stegosaurs had been extinct for tens of millions of years at that point.

    The theropods ("possibly") electrocuted contemporary dinosaurs, not dinosaurs that had gone extinct 100 million years earlier.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Jurassic Sith

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

    Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?

    Looking around, electric eels can do 860V, which is well short from the 15kV needed to gap 0.5m of air at sea level, plus that animal's skin would need to be crazy insulating for all that power to not just go down the most highly conductive way possible (all the nice conductive water all the way down to the ground contained in the animal itself) instead of having to ionize 0.5m or air.

    I mean, we can always claim it was possible but lost, but then again we can also claim that for magic or animal teleportation.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?

    The force dude. Its pretty obvious the t-rex is a sith lord.

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  • Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?

    Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Just out of pedantry: Water has terrible conductivity. Blood is less terrible though and in any case air is far worse than either, so point stands.

    We can get past that particular issue if the electric dinosaur was jumping such that its victim has the shortest air gap

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pure water is a terrible conductor, but water with dissolved ions is a pretty good conductor, and that's mostly (maybe always, since things like Sodium an Potassium ions tend to be pretty important in various processes, though IANAB so maybe there are exceptions) the water inside living beings.

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  • Technically incorrect. There are no feathers.

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  • Karl Popper's falsifiability says we only need to prove this didn't happen once.

    Your move, denialists.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • Sorry we all know the thunder lizard is brontosaurus, and thunder comes from lighting that's just good science

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  • But we aren't completely sure

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    We don’t know that they developed space travel and left Earth either.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Creationism be like:

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I AM THE PARK!

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