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[–] late_list@piefed.zip 86 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 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 38 points 5 months 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 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Master@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

ICE raid on sauropod housing...

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Excuse me, would you please be so kind to point me in the direction of all these sauropod hypothetical natural disaster posts? Which comm? This is the first I see, but, granted, I've been busy lately

[–] radix@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That never happens to Thor-opods.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 11 points 5 months ago

This one was probably pretty Thor afterwards.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago
[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 months ago

how lightning when not electricity been yet

not even gorge wash was been there

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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 things taller than them.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 10 points 5 months 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.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months 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.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

AI. There were no cameras back then

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 months ago

Maybe those, actually. Lemme ask Chatgpt to make sure

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months 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.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

What's this Digimon.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what you get for being tall, longass

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I would point out that they also have long asses.

[–] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

There can be only one

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe Sauroposeidon had a long trident to channel this power

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

[–] Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

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