• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Well… As they point out in the World movies the creatures were never dinosaurs. They were generic chimeras that looked like dinosaurs.

    I never understood the whole “They’re making a weapon” plotline though. Unless the weapon makers are either nihilists or libertarians. Oh!

    Edit: caveat, I’ve only seen one of the world movies and then a trailer for one of the others.

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      2 days ago

      I read somewhere that if we could bring back a dinosaur, it wouldn’t survive long, because of the oxygen concentration in our atmosphere. Is it true?

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        I may have heard a similar thing on a video that compared an elephant sized mouse with a mouse sized elephant.

        Neither could survive because evolution designed their bodies for the relative pressure they exist in. This is also related to how fast their hearth beats go.

        Human sized bugs could not exist for the same pressure reason also.

        Disclaimer: i am as much an expert on this as are you. Source is the internet. Possibility Kurtzgesagt.

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        Depends. Something from 125 to 200 millions years ago would probably struggle. Maybe you can put them on a mountain? But that’s probably too cold. But again, Jurassic Park dinosaurs are a mix of animal DNA, contemporary and older.

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      There would definitely be some people in the Pentagon that would try to weaponize velociraptors after seeing what they’re capable of. Dogs are used in war, and there have been attempts to use dolphins and other animals.

      An animal that can go into buildings, open doors and methodically search rooms? Yeah they’d definitely be putting some DARPA money into seeing if they could be trained to go into combat situations.