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The "Dinosaurs Are Cool" Thread

Amepix

Amepix

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Vanessa Howl said:
They don't have to be smart: just willing to kill you.

Hell, even dinosaurs that wouldn't ACTIVELY try to kill you are pretty horrifying: a brontosaurus is more likely to just step on you and kill you by mistake then to actively murder you.

I love dinosaurs but I REALLY hope we never find a way to bring them back.
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Hope when we do, there's better security measures than Jurassic Park/World
 
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Amepix said:
Hope when we do, there's better security measures than Jurassic Park/World
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No it won't. There will always be a jerk who wants to sell unique material, breaking the security system and putting humanity at risk. People are absolutely unreliable.
Sorry, dinosaurs, we shouldn't.
 
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Vanessa Howl said:
Thems too big and too dangerous to both us and the wildlife that would have to fight them for food if they ever were let loose.
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It is interesting. Such an animal as a sheep causes great harm to the pastures on which it grazes. Sheep have small feet. Damn it, I wonder how fast herbivorous dinosaurs will trample perennial weeds with their huge feet. After all, they can create favorable conditions for desertification. I don't know, it's scary. Their weight can destroy the soil.
 
Vanessa Howl

Vanessa Howl

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Amepix said:
Yeah, and they'll probably be breathless most of the time due to today's oxygen levels.
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That's actually a fair point: if the dinosaurs were to even SURVIVE being brought back then they would have to be WAY smaller than they used to be since all that air was why they were so big in the first place.
 
Vanessa Howl

Vanessa Howl

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Eyleifr said:
It is interesting. Such an animal as a sheep causes great harm to the pastures on which it grazes. Sheep have small feet. Damn it, I wonder how fast herbivorous dinosaurs will trample perennial weeds with their huge feet. After all, they can create favorable conditions for desertification. I don't know, it's scary. Their weight can destroy the soil.
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It IS quite the thought experiment: how would dinosaurs compare to today's animals and it do to the planet if they did. ecosystems are critical and throwing giant lizards into the mix could do quite a bit of damage to a awful lot of them.
 
Vanessa Howl

Vanessa Howl

Damsel Of Darkness
Amepix said:
Can I have a pet raptor then? Ooooh! Gimme!
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I said smaller, not no less dagger toothed.

They may be smaller but they're still undomesticated as all hell so even the smallest you could find would still not like you and want you dead (CATS barely tolerate us).XD
 
Amepix

Amepix

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Vanessa Howl said:
I said smaller, not no less dagger toothed.

They may be smaller but they're still undomesticated as all hell so even the smallest you could find would still not like you and want you dead (CATS barely tolerate us).XD
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I'll raise it from birth! I'll be it's papa! That should do something, right?
 
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Know what. Many people don't like the continuation of the cartoon The Land Before Time, but I do. 3-4 continuation films were very good. These cartoons were my favorites, and I'm ready to review them again.
 
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Amepix said:
That should do something, right?
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A philosophical question. Who are dinosaurs more like today's crocodiles or birds? Birds are tamed, crocodiles are soulless death machines.
 
Vanessa Howl

Vanessa Howl

Damsel Of Darkness
Amepix said:
I'll raise it from birth! I'll be it's papa! That should do something, right?
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It MIGHT...but so might raising a lion or a gator from birth.

Dinosaurs have NO experience with humans as a species so they are not genetically conditioned to see humans as anything more than prey.
 
Vanessa Howl

Vanessa Howl

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Eyleifr said:
Know what. Many people don't like the continuation of the cartoon The Land Before Time, but I do. 3-4 continuation films were very good. These cartoons were my favorites, and I'm ready to review them again.
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I like me some Land Before Time, but it went on FAR past what is reasonable for any movie series.>_<
 
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Vanessa Howl said:
Dinosaurs have NO experience with humans as a species so they are not genetically conditioned to see humans as anything more than prey.
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But raptors are social predators. Theoretically, if you take one raptor and take care of it from the moment it hatches, it can perceive you as a parent. But he's still dangerous.
I think it's something between a wolf and a crocodile. It's too dangerous to check. But social animals have more intelligence and are better at making contact.
 
Vanessa Howl

Vanessa Howl

Damsel Of Darkness
Eyleifr said:
But raptors are social predators. Theoretically, if you take one raptor and take care of it from the moment it hatches, it can perceive you as a parent. But he's still dangerous.
I think it's something between a wolf and a crocodile. It's too dangerous to check. But social animals have more intelligence and are better at making contact.
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Fair point. But a big part of that would be your ability to show you're the dominate one because, while it may be fine when it's a baby it would be a LOT harder to control when it get's big enough to cause some damage. Key to controlling a social animal is to prove you're the leader and that would be MUCH harder with a dinosaur who is going to be naturally dangerous, strong and be too new to humanity to do what you say (even your DOG will sometimes ignore you and we've had those for millions of years so imagine if your pet DINOSAUR decided to ignore you).
 
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