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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Humans used to hunt mammoths, and these fuckers don't even have a thick layer of fur armor. We used to hunt mammoths, because we were so fucking good at it we killed every last one of them.

I'm using my knife and making an atlatl, some spears smeared in shit, and I'm going hunting. Every time this bastard goes to sleep, he's getting a spear with a side of gangrene lodged in him. Fucker's missed out on 60 million years of techtree development, and has no reply to ranged strikes.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's always funny when people overestimate their own ability to fight an animal.

Yeah bro i could fight a gorilla.

I don't think i could, honestly, but spears and shit from the hut would be my best guess. Or wait until it sleeps and ram it through the eye with full force and run like a motherfucker. In movies they often spear big animals and they live for a long time and cause havoc, i would assume a spear through the brain isn't good no matter the size.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a fossil of a t-rex that's believed to have been very old when it died (like, 28ish). It had evidence of injuries all over it, including having been stabbed through the back of the skull and into the brain by another T-rex's tooth (the scar was old and healed, so it survived being bitten in the brain)

I wouldn't bet on anything but a long drawn out campaign against it

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like the ideas here but I fail to see where you guys get the spears from. We only get a knife and food, which presumably doesn't come with a long stick.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

I'd order marshmallows and hope for the best. Honeatly in my brain i just found a stick an the knive is magically attached to it.

[–] mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A band of hunters was needed to take a mammoth down. Not a single person. And frequently they used traps to immobilize the animal before killing it from some distance with spears and stones.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I have a month, a place to avoid retaliation, the target can't run away or effectively hide, and no creature in its entire evolutionary history has ever seen a ranged attack before. Each time I hit it, it weakens snd slows as it bleeds, expends energy, and fights infection.

I like my odds with the sleepytime atlatl poo-spear better than being 1 of 20 guys trying to peel a mammoth off from a herd in random terrain.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The real problem is we dont know what a live T-Rex looks like. It could have fur or feathers, it could have wings or wild talons on its hands. What are the odds their arms are as useless as we think they are for real?

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

I'd assume they're more like a flightless bird, like an emu. Those get on perfectly fine with just two legs and a long neck, and some of the recently extinct flightless bird species seem pretty terrifying at just a couple hundred kg.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't care if is has feathers, or long grabby arms, I'm waiting for it to fall asleep, and chucking a spear at it, and running, every single time until it dies of bloodloss, gangrene, or exhaustion.

Does the T Rex even understand what I did? Ranged attacks didn't exist for 65 million years after it went extinct, does something that evolved to hunt slow, armored herbivores have any response to ranged hit and runs? The many species of megafauna humans hunted to extinction before the invention of writing suggests no.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Issue I see here, can you make good enough spears and throw them hard enough that they actually pierce its skin? Making megafauna-hunting-grade stone age weapons isn't that easy.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For $500 million, I'm willing to craft an atlatl and spend a month finding out!

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

I wonder what it would sleep like. I imagined it laying down, but if it sleeps like a chicken, it's infinitely harder i think. Maybe befriending it and betraying it

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Well you'd only have a knife based on the post, so you'd have to throw it and retrieve it, and it wouldnt stay sharp forever. These are all issues with a spear too. I'm sure a T-Rex could out run you as well. Best bet might be to conserve energy and hope the dinosaur starves first.