• FuglyDuck
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    641 year ago

    I… would love a world with velociraptors for pets. (Though they’d just be larger chickens… without the wings)

    I would also love a world where women felt safe and comfortable enough to walk around like that. It’d be nice to worry about if a smile and waive is seen as friendly or threatening.

      • FuglyDuck
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        I concede that… they would be an effective deterrent, yes.

        I’m not sure they’d be all that easy to train, though. On a scale of dogs-to-cats, I assume they’re as dumb as your Goldie and as stubborn as the typical cat.

        • @somethingsnappy
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          51 year ago

          Dumb as a greyhound, and as stubborn as you typical Saber tooth tiger. Doesn’t sound fun. It will eat a 12 pack of batteries and then slay you.

          • FuglyDuck
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            51 year ago

            … is it bad if it makes me want a murder chicken even more?

          • qyron
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            41 year ago

            It will eat a 12 pack of batteries and then slay you.

            Hitachi may want to have a word with you on that sentence.

      • FuglyDuck
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        21 year ago

        Somebody who likes being bitten?

  • Draconic NEO
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    A more accurate depiction of raptors would have them with feathers, they’d basically look more like large birds, but with normal jaws and teeth instead of beaks.

    Also many of the classical depictions, also known as skin wrapped or shrink-wrapped aren’t really great because they don’t attempt to depict the animal how they were by reconstructing they just draw skin over the structure of the bones, which is very wrong living things have cartilage and structure in their bodies that aren’t bone so we constructing from bone requires imagining and attempting to recreate that structure while using the bone structure as a starting point.

    • @madcaesar
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      61 year ago

      Another meme really made me think about this, how would scientist in the future reconstruct a hippo? How accurate would we be with just the skeleton?

      And how accurate are we now with dinosaurus?

      • Draconic NEO
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        61 year ago

        Really depends on how they do it if they do the shrink wrapping technique it’ll be just as bad, if they try and use context clues and imagination it’ll probably be a bit better, probably never 100% unless they find fossilized flesh (which is extremely rare).

        As for how accurate it is with dinosaurs it’s gotten better, discovery of certain fossilized feathers has given clues to how they looked, even allowing us to theorize about what colors some of their feathers might have been because the pigments in feathers have different Crystal structures, so in a well preserved fossilized feather they can see the shapes of those structures, obviously the color is long gone but because those shapes are unique to the pigments they can infer what color it was.

        There are small details that are never going to be quite right, we have though come a long way from where we were.

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          I think it also depends on the mammals that exist in this hypothetical future. If there is a similar species they would likely use it as reference. What’s the deal with dinos? They have teeth, tails, and eggs so people were like “lizard”?

          More and more we think bird because of the evidence of feathers but what if feather boas were just the style back then?

      • @ilex
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        41 year ago

        So my fan fiction IS based in science! Do you think they were good kissers? I like to think so.

  • Margot Robbie
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    261 year ago

    Note to self: sequel to movie I can’t promote right now needs velociraptors.

    • @big_onion
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      111 year ago

      I think most movies could benefit from adding velociraptors.

        • @[email protected]
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          I explained the plot to someone and they thought I was just making it up on the fly. I’m not that skilled.

      • @Klear
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        11 year ago

        Not just movies.

      • prole
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        Have you seen the documentary called Jurassic World? Some strikingly hansom man was able to do it.

      • @Kittenstix
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        21 year ago

        A surprising number of people have chickens as pets, you bet your damn ass people would want velocihens as pets.

    • @neanderthal
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      11 year ago

      How about a terrible mid 00s style low budget scfy channel movie? Barbie vs Dinosaurs. Harley Quinn vs Dinosaurs would work too. It is such a terrible idea it’s hilarious IMO.

      • Margot Robbie
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        21 year ago

        Why not Queen Elizabeth I or Tonya Harding or Naomi vs dinosaurs?

        Those would be funnier.

        • @neanderthal
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          21 year ago

          Tonya Harding would be great. They could do all sorts of ridiculous scenes using ice skates as weapons.

  • @PetDinosaurs
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    211 year ago

    What is the original context of this?

    Even aside from cartoon physics and so many other ridiculous things, I’m not sure what the criticism is.

    • @Asimo
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      41 year ago

      I can’t work out what this image is about. Is it Pro atheism or against it?

  • @ilex
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    191 year ago

    So I get the leashes and lingerie, but why were the men turned into dinosaurs?

        • @Daft_ish
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          61 year ago

          Historically accutate? Abraham Raptor?

          • Flying Squid
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            21 year ago

            They were chicken-sized. Not quite the threat as in the movies.

            • Liz
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              51 year ago

              For people who don’t know, therapods about that size did exist, they just weren’t called velociraptors. Why the movie decided to give those things the wrong name, I’ll never know.

              • @thalience
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                21 year ago

                “velociraptor” rolls off the tongue way better than “utahraptor”

        • @ilex
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          11 year ago

          Oh definitely the Jurassic Park ones. Who wouldn’t want to be bossed about by Chris “Dances with Dinosaurs” Pratt while a bunch of men stand around and film it?

  • ekZepp
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    171 year ago

    Quite cool with it.

  • AnonTwo
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    161 year ago

    We successfully domesticated raptors? Sounds like religion brought us to the wrong timeline.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    As cool as this is, unfortunately it’s the young earth creationists who tend to believe we lived alongside dinosaurs. No cool pets for us :(

  • @FordBeeblebrox
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    131 year ago

    Totally cool with it. Cat in the window is probably not so jazzed about the velociraptors though

  • @NatakuNox
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    121 year ago

    What’s the crossroads between terrified and aroused?

  • @Death_Equity
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    121 year ago

    She should be on roller skates or a skateboard so the raptors can pull her. That way she won’t mess up her slippers and won’t have to work as hard.

    I mean those things can only run at like 30mph or less right? Maybe one of those off-road skateboard would be better to handle the sidewalk buckles.

  • Thelsim
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    1 year ago

    Is she marrying the raptors? The rose petals are giving me a wedding vibe :)
    edit: the raptors are getting married, I mean.