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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 123 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is only mind blowing because popular media likes to show every dinosaur at once. Like there's a lot of things depicting stegosaurus fighting T-Rex; but these animals never would have met. They're from entirely different periods.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 96 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How dare you suggest DinoTrux lied to us!!!

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

If gasoline is made from dinosaurs, what did the Dinotrux run on?

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 weeks ago

The blood of their enemies!!!

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Jurassic drugs!

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

DinoTrux drove the earth for such a long time BP Oil^®^ existed while DinoTrux drove the earth.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 24 points 2 weeks ago

You can tell because non of them has feathers.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

We live closer to the time of T-Rex than T-Rex lived to the time of Stegosaurus.

67 million years separate us from T-Rex.
83 million years separate T-Rex from Stegosaurus. (150 million years between us and Stegosaurus)

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

on a similar note: When cleopatra lived, the pyramids were already ancient

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Cleopatra lived closer to t-rex than us

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

You were born after cleopatra died 🫠🤑👻

Follow me for more Greece facts.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Technically correct, just as yesterday was closer to the formation of the moon than today is.

[–] kunegis@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Only if we assume they can't be ressurected

[–] user1919@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

how? cleopatra was born in 69 BC, last trex died around 65 million years ago

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

What i meant is that cleopatra was closer in time to t-rex than we are to t-rex

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There were still mammoth when the pyramids were being built.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This makes me wonder if there is any possibility that someone who worked on the pyramids knew what roast mammoth tasted like. I suspect the possibility is 0 due to geography, but maybe someone got sick of being cold and happened to be an architect?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are people around right now who know how roast mammoth tastes.