• @[email protected]
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    153 days ago

    Hang on. Is he showing this is proof that ancient civilizations had shrinking rays and could turn tiny dinosaurs into rocks, and build them into arches?

    • DarkThoughts
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      63 days ago

      The argument here is that humans lived among dinosaurs. Probably some creationist meme where Earth is just a few thousand years old.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      63 days ago

      I’ve heard stupider. Unfortunately.

    • Dojan
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      I think the spines are part of the background, a bush or a tree or something. Also saw an elephant. Elephant standing in front of a bush.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      Who knows? Maybe just an imaginary creature with some fins on its back that happens to look like a dinosaur. The problem is that armchair archaeologists think “this looks like that” has significance when it usually doesn’t.

  • @Dkarma
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    133 days ago

    Literally an elephant with a bush behind it

    • @Klear
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      To me it looks like this thing:

      That was added in the 90s when the cathedral was undergoing renovation.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      93 days ago

      That is entirely possible. AI pictures have been fooling these nuts lately. Sometimes they even say they’re AI.

      Right there in the lower left-hand corner.

  • @MehBlah
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    73 days ago

    Of course because there is no way the craftsman who made that couldn’t have used artistic license. Or for that matter never observed fossils.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 days ago

      My nephew has a bunch of depictions of dinosaurs in his room.

      The only logical conclusion is that dinosaurs have roamed the earth within the last 6 years.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      We honestly have no way of knowing (unless this is some sort of common religious iconography, which it might be) what whoever carved it was thinking and why at this point. But I think ‘dinosaur’ is probably the worst answer.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      And and below it is a Muppet mermaid.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      Sit on it, Potsie! It’s a dinosaur if I say it’s a dinosaur!