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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, what man would want to harass her if she had two bitey bois on leashes.

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

[–] big_onion@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think most movies could benefit from adding velociraptors.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You need to check out The VelociPastor.

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[–] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But can the velociraptors be pets?

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[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ilex@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

Who tf wouldn't want to be a velociraptor?

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Quite cool with it.

[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 :(

[–] Kittenstix@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We already have chickens, chickens are fucking terrifying. We just need to make them bigger then BAM! velociraptor 2.0.

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[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years 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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If someone was against the world shown in this image, I'd have to wonder what weird hell their idea of a perfect world is.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the crossroads between terrified and aroused?

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago

At last, bird-kind gets its revenge.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Clever girl.

[–] SqueezeMeMacaroni@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 years ago

Looks pretty rad to me

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

where's my required free gay healthcare ?

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Yes. Yes it is.

[–] beq@feddit.ch 10 points 2 years ago

The bowties are top!

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a link to the original art and artist?

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Is this supposed to be against atheism? This seems almost like they're actively encouraging people to become atheists... I want a pet veloceraptor!

[–] momtheregoesthatman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pray tell, what is there not to like here? I'm befuddled.

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

A christian thought they were dunking on atheist with that caption. Bless their heart.

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

so cool with it

[–] FReddit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't know. I'm allergic to cats.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

You’re my boy blue.

[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We were so preoccupied figuring out if we could that we didn't consider if we should.

[–] CosmicApe@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

I figured it out, we definitely should.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I wish atheist wanted this. Everyone would already have converted

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I think this is the kind of world we already have.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I want people to be able to walk their velociraptors without judgement.

[–] tentaclius@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Can confirm. I'm an atheist and this world rocks!

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Lizard Pope would be down with this

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