Spyke
lemmy.ca

Wait, why would a T-rex fight Cleopatra and the pyramids?

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lemmy.world

They just have a born hatred of regular shaped objects. They don't like order and seek to destroy it.

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Johannoreply
feddit.de

They were ancient when she was ruling Egypt

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lemmy.world

Exactly, she would be better represented riding a monocycle than having anything to do with the pyramids.

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lemmy.eco.br

I was thinking the same. People are probably mixing up the being alive during the construction of the pyramids with coexisting with them. Even us today coexist with the pyramids and could be accurately pictured around them.

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lemmy.world

Lincoln certainly knew of the pyramids, but is rarely depicted with them

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midwest.social

I don't know that most people can tell the difference between an Allosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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tubarucoreply
lemm.ee

never did, they just didnt have the organ that most panthers use to roar, or even anything similar.

most non-avian dinosaurs could only do deep and hissing sounds, similar to today's crocodiles. the exceptions to that being parasaurolophus and that one ankylosaurid that might have an organ similar to the one birds use to make sounds (though still not roaring)

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sbvreply
sh.itjust.works

Don't get me started on the general public's recognition of the Somosaurus.

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MNByChoicereply
midwest.social

I apologize, but is that spelled correctly? I am finding several variations of the spelling with wildly different creatures.

Simosaurus versus Siamosaurus versus Sonorasaurus

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Zagorathreply
aussie.zone

And yet I can't get the damn AI to get anything close to the scene in trying to get it to draw for me for my D&D campaign, being one that could conceivably exist in the real world.

Google's is especially hilarious. Even just the word "waterfall" and it complains that it would be against the terms of service.

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zarquonreply
lemm.ee

They are so much fun. On a related note I've broken my wrist twice since discovering that.

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Over 10k miles here, not a scratch. My brother though, he's biffed it at 45mph. Got back up and kept riding. These things are awesome

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It took him a few tries to get confident on the electric unicycle.

And his arms didn't protect him when he fell.

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That’s just ridiculous, goofy, supercilious, absurd, laughable, comical, ludicrous, chucklesome, and risible.

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if you made a movie where George Washington defeated the British with tactical nukes while wearing a cowboy out it would still be more accurate than Braveheart

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Same for cavemen fighting dinosaurs, since humans came along long after dinosaurs went extinct. Not that I don't love Ray Harryhausen's work.

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midwest.social

So what's the verdict, are the electric unicycles cool? Have they broken the curse? They do look cool, and you better be wearing the full motorcycle getup if you know what's good for you, because they're fast as f too.

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s_s
lemm.ee

Dimetrodon is my favorite dinosaur.

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s_sreply
lemm.ee

Tetrapod animals (those with four limbs) are all thought to be related.

This group includes two main divisions amniotes and non-amniotes. Amniotes produce young in eggs with four distinct layers (one of which is the Amnion) which makes them well-adapted for surviving on land. Frogs and Salamanders are examples of non-amniote tetrapods.

Amniotes are a large group which are divided into groups based on the number of openings in their skulls near the temples. The two surviving groups in today's animals are synapsid (one pair of openings) which includes all mammals. And diapsids (two openings) which includes all modern reptiles and birds.

The Mesazoic Era (the age of the Dinosaurs) was 250 million years ago (Ma) to 65 Ma.

Dimetrodon was a synapsid that lived about 295 Ma. So it's not really in the right evolutionary family to be a dinosaur, and it lived long before dinosaurs.

It superficially resembles a large lizard (but in reality it's a closer relative to mammals than any true dinosaur).

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