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[–] late_list@piefed.zip 57 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What's with all the posts subjecting sauropods to hypothetical natural disasters latey? Lightning strikes, tornadoes, what cataclysms will they be asked to theoretically endure next? A massive asteroid impact, planet wide increase in volcanic activity, a global cooling event triggered by particulate matter in the atmosphere? I mean where does it all end?

[–] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When running out of natural disaster, manmade objects could be next: sauropods hitting a powerline, trying to walk under a bridge that's too low, being arrested for eating plants of people's balconies...

[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

That one scene from Hangover, but instead of a giraffe it's some sauropod

[–] Master@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

ICE raid on sauropod housing...

[–] radix@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That never happens to Thor-opods.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

This one was probably pretty Thor afterwards.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago

how lightning when not electricity been yet

not even gorge wash was been there

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder if it would kill them or just shock the absolute shit out of them?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

Humans can survive lightning so I mean why not, but I'm also interested in the probability.

2 options, given that they coevolved with tall trees, it'll likely lives in places with trees taller than them, so they were safe from lightning.

Another option, is that they frequently got hit if walking in a clearing, and therefore evolved to survive lightning.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just like giraffes, the reason they had their long neck was to reach the foliage of tall trees. They've lived in a place full of think taller than them.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure some or most of the sauropods had long necks to sweep areas without needing to love their bodies as far for each bite, similar to swans and geese and other long necked birds. Some likely did it for height, like the Brachiosaurus, but their body structure is more upright like a giraffe. Diplodicus and others were more horizontal.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

AI. There were no cameras back then

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not even those ones where you hold the tray of flash powder?

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe those, actually. Lemme ask Chatgpt to make sure

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes. All visual artifacts that predate the invention of the camera are AI. This is a well-known phenomenon, and I have an issue of me discussing it with Al Einstein and Ben Franklin.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

What's this Digimon.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Can I get a whole album of these guys getting hit with all kinds of natural disasters? I imagine they would fare well in a flood or tsunami. Their necks would do a rubber pencil during an earthquake.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what you get for being tall, longass

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would point out that they also have long asses.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

God, smiting dinosaurs one by one: "This is taking forever! There's got to be a better way..."

[–] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

There can be only one

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe Sauroposeidon had a long trident to channel this power

[–] Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

For some reason it just hit me how gross long-necks look...

Stand back 3 wolf moon, we've got two sauropod lightning.