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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.
Yes, but there’s zero evidence the dinosaurs didn’t have time machines.
There will be if they decide to invade our era tomorrow
You were’t there man, you didn’t see what I saw!
Creationism be like:
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to 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)?
Looking around, electric eels can do 860V, which is well short from the 15kV needed to gap 0.5m of air at sea level.
I mean, we can always claim it was possible but lost, but then again we can also claim that for magic or animal teleportation.
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.
It’s actually not ionizing the air. It’s spraying a conductive gel that the electricity rides to the prey. That’s why it’s important to hold it down to the ground to make sure it has good contact with the earth.
Uuh, nice - that sound like it would work.
There’s no evidence that there’s not
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.
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
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.
yes, but it’s extremely complicated and bulky. first, you have to have a naked ape. then that ape has to invent science and modern technology. then it has to build an electric grid, and then eventually this becomes possible…
Well, it’s not actually a “biological” mechanism, though by some definitions of the word one might call it a “natural” mechanism ;)
Jurassic Sith
“There is no evidence that this didn’t happen.”
This line of reasoning is the same way religions “argue”.
There is also no evidence that this did happen.
So I assume that it’s wrong until undeniably proven otherwise by the scientific method.
On the one hand you are right, on the other hand, especially paleontology is basing their facts on very, very shaky evidence and a massive amount of extrapolation.
So I assume that it’s wrong until undeniably proven otherwise by the scientific method.
So you assume everything is wrong? Because in fact, that’s not how the scientific method works at all.
Outside of the very few fields that are pure and untouched by reality, like e.g. maths, there are no proofs, and certainly no undeniable proofs in science. Everything is “just” a theory and is used until proven wrong or otherwise refined. Usually a theory with a decent amount of evidence, but nothing is proven beyond deniability in science. That’s religion you are thinking about.
I believe you have explained the joke.
Somebody find a grand jury to indict this sandwich!
Doesn’t this also result in archaeologists saying everything was for spiritual reasons or that we don’t know what it was for? Like sure, I don’t know exactly how it was used but I can take a pretty good guess! This isn’t even limited to dildos either.
One of my favorite stories about this was from an archeological investigation in housing where they found several homes where knives had been stored in the rafters of the house and all of the men in charge we debating on the religious explanations about how weapons and knives would have had to have been reveared to have been stored so high in the home. One of the female grad students walked in and looked at them all like they were idiots and said it was to keep them away from the children. There are no records of what the men had said in reaction.
We don’t know that they developed space travel and left Earth either.
Huh. I don’t quite remember this Nasreddin Hoca story growing up, but I’m sure the snake says something really clever
Technically incorrect. There are no feathers.
But we aren’t completely sure
" Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence"
But honestly, I think this is intuitive and reasonable so I accept it as factual.
That checks out.
“When you don’t have any data you have to use reason.” - Richard Feynman, some guy who watch science shows a lot
“Door donot” - Yoda, talking fast
Sorry we all know the thunder lizard is brontosaurus, and thunder comes from lighting that’s just good science
ai slop
Used science to make a meme, people upset. Repost someone else’s content, happy. I see a lot of depression in our futures.
This is why stegosaurus should have waited for backup from the council before trying to arrest T. Rex.
Why didn’t the stegosaurus fire when it feared for its life??
It is very pleasing to know I wasn’t alone in this thought.
Uhh, about 83 million years separated these two species.
That’s a helluva grudge
Best comment on lemmy today.
T-Rex had only 2 fingers. This shows three, so this is likely a really fast Allosaurus
It’s a lesser known relative Datassosaurus which was a thicker allosaur
Are you suggesting that time magic is real? The thought had crossed my mind too.
Flateartheners: the same way as there is no proof the Earth wasn’t flat earlier. And gods are hiding in the cats’ asses. And vaccines cause trumpism. No proofs, therefore it is TRUE!
Those flatearth weirdos would rather admit that the Earth is hollow than that it’s a normal (albeit flawed) full sphere.
Karl Popper’s falsifiability says we only need to prove this didn’t happen once.
Your move, denialists.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Is this slop or just sloppy? What’s with the little green arm behind the lightning and the weird meaty stego neck?