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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

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 11 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

A PBS show mentioned they might also have had lip-like beaks.

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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] big_onion@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I think most movies could benefit from adding velociraptors.

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[-] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

But can the velociraptors be pets?

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[-] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago
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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Quite cool with it.

[-] ilex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Who tf wouldn't want to be a velociraptor?

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Depends are we talking Jurassic Park Velociraptor or historically accurate Velociraptor?

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Historically accutate? Abraham Raptor?

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[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Foxfire@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago

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 16 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

At last, bird-kind gets its revenge.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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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[-] SqueezeMeMacaroni@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago

Looks pretty rad to me

[-] beq@feddit.ch 11 points 1 year ago

The bowties are top!

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yes. Yes it is.

[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is she marrying the raptors? The rose petals are giving me a wedding vibe :)
edit: the raptors are getting married, I mean.

[-] rants_unnecessarily@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Clever girl.

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

where's my required free gay healthcare ?

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] momtheregoesthatman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year 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!

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What's the crossroads between terrified and aroused?

[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

so cool with it

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Yes.

I'd also like a world in which more of the people who demonize atheists learn how to fucking spell "atheist". I can spell "pathetic evangelical Christian crybaby asshole".

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If they can't spell "atheist" they also can't spell "theist."

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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FReddit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You’re my boy blue.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I wish atheist wanted this. Everyone would already have converted

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CosmicApe@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I figured it out, we definitely should.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

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