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Those jurassic world movies are the problem
Seeing “Sue” the tyrannasaur’s skeleton at the Chicago Field Museum is pretty impressive. Last time I was there, she was still in the main hall. You walk in and this thing is towering over you, making you just a little glad you didn’t exist 67 million years ago because you are a perfectly sized snack for a 12 meter long T-Rex.
Fuckin’*
I watched Jurassic World: Rebirth the other day (it’s alright). It’s such an odd franchise - one that seems to have lost faith in its own premise. There’s this meta assumption that audiences are bored with dinosaurs (I’m not), and that the solution to this imagined problem is to mutate them (it really isn’t, it’s invariably just silly).
I also don’t care that dinos couldn’t really survive in the modern climate - that’s what the whole ‘suspension of disbelief’ thing is for.
“bUt EaRtH iS oNlY sIx ThOuSaNd YeArS oLd!1!”
Never understood the dino fascination of some people
I think what makes them interesting to a lot of people is 1. they dominated the world back then and 2. there’s a lot of room for imagination because we know comparatively little about them. How they lived, how exactly they evolved, what they looked like, sounded like. It’s anyone’s guess and some consider that kind of guessing fun. The lack of definitive answers also means there’s always a chance of groundbreaking new discoveries. A fossil with intact pigments for example is to the paleontologist scene what getting ones rocks off while high on crack is to the layman. And then 3. the Jurassic Park franchise got a lot of people hooked.
they were giant bird lizards that got murdered by space, what’s your fucking problem
And I never understood sports fascination of some people
most people are into something that most people find boring
Does a dinosaur taste like a chicken or a lizard/fish?
i’d imagine ostrich is the closest comparison, maybe alligator for the slow moving ones
were they lizards or birds?! Idk anymore. Everyday they say something different
You’re really going to let the flat earthers redefine dinosaurs.
They even tried to make Pluto not a planet. Pfftt
You want to know why I find it boring? Where are there ding dongs??? You expect me to watch/read about these things and never see their ding dongs? NEVER!!!
my biggest problem is that for animals that still existed artists could not get them right.
So scientist/artist getting anything right about stone-bone chicken-asaurus seems highly unlikely to me.
you do realize these are
- in a very specific artstyle, people back then were perfectly capable of drawing realistic stuff if they wanted
- drawn based on like, maybe fourth-hand accounts, they obviously managed to draw things they saw in day to day life without issue
right?
like, how would you manage if i gave someone a vague description of an animal that sounds made up, and then they told you what to draw?
