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TheGreenGolem, to bewowed in A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right)

So many broth!

kyden, to bewowed in A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right)
@kyden@lemmy.world avatar

It’s amusing when you can say “human for scale” instead of banana.

tygerprints,

Here's the same bone, compared to a coffee bean. And now, next to a quarter. And now next to a rum-soaked twinkie. For science.

jlow, to bewowed in A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right)

Love the “human for size” part ^__^

tygerprints, to bewowed in A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right)

Again, I'm just floored (so is the person in the photo!) by this kind of thing. To think such gigantic reptiles once populated this planet, for realsies. I mean if that doesn't sound like something out of the most way out kind of science fiction. And yet we had no idea such creatures existed until fossils began turning up around the 1820s.

Can you imagine what kind of plays Shakespeare would have written about dinosaurs if he'd known about them? But even suggesting that thunder lizards once existed on earth would probably have landed you in the stocks back then.

SpaceNoodle,

The fossils were always turning up, paleontology just didn’t really take off until then.

tygerprints,

I'm sure that's true - I wonder how early the earliest fossil of a dinosaur was actually unearthed, and if people even had an inkling what it meant.

massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

Here be dragons.

SpaceNoodle,

People had good guesses millennia ago, but they also sometimes thought they were dragons

tygerprints,

To me the fact that they belong to dinosaurs is almost as fantastic and awesome as if they DID belong to dragons. I've always found dinosaurs to be kind of hard to accept as a reality, especially when you stand next to those gigantic bones or visit a display of animatronic ones and realize, "these things once were actually real and alive."

SpaceNoodle,

How is it harder to accept the closer you are to evidence?

But yeah, dinosaurs were basically dragons, just with worse luck.

theshatterstone54, to linux in Poll: GUI framework for widgets/apps in Wayland

I’ve played around with (only played around with, I haven’t done any actual development with either but I’ve heard they’re similar) GTK, QT and Tk (actually tkinter from Python), and QT seems the most intuitive. It just feels right to me, compared to the others.

FartsWithAnAccent, to bewowed in A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right)
@FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social avatar

Holy shit, that dinosaur had a person for a leg!

3ntranced,

No no no, you misunderstood, the lady pictured has both a triceratops and elephant femur. A marvel of modern medicine!

pewgar_seemsimandroid, to 196 in RULE - Rim Unot Lsure Eifthisfitshere (I hope you had a stroke from reading that :3)

no

x4740N, to 196 in Th(rule)eads

No, fuck off zuck

Go and zuck a dick

Franzia, to 196 in RULE - Rim Unot Lsure Eifthisfitshere (I hope you had a stroke from reading that :3)

Thanks :3:3:3:3

KaleDaddy, to memes in By existential comics. The second best thing on the internet.

Similar to the “open door” idea in stoicism. I.e. you always have a choice, your choices might just be terrible. (The open door in the original story is a metaphor for suicide, because even that is always n option, its just almost always a worse option than whatever else)

jsh, to linux in Poll: GUI framework for widgets/apps in Wayland

Electron 😎✨️

ikidd,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Settle down, Satan.

KingJalopy, to bewowed in A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right)

Why is she laid out on plastic?

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

To make you think racist thoughts about how tall the bones are.

feedum_sneedson,

Don’t be weird.

TheLobotomist,
@TheLobotomist@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

At least not THAT weird

feedum_sneedson,

That specific kind of weird, I suppose I meant. It’s fine to be weird, I’m weird.

HootinNHollerin, to iasip in Do you think I've destroyed the edge on my toe-knife or is it savable?
@HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s a poop knife now

Alcatorda, to comicstrips in By existential comics. The second best thing on the internet.

I’ll bite… What’s the #1 best thing on the internet?

SnokenKeekaGuard,
@SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

LEMMYYYYY

dangblingus, to bewowed in A Triceratops femur (left) compared to that of an African elephant (right)

Rude! That lady isnt fat at all!

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