There is overwhelming evidence that this didn’t happen in the Jurassic era: Stegosaurs had been extinct for tens of millions of years at that point.
The theropods (“possibly”) electrocuted contemporary dinosaurs, not dinosaurs that had gone extinct 100 million years earlier.
Yes, but there’s zero evidence the dinosaurs didn’t have time machines.
There will be if they decide to invade our era tomorrow
You were’t there man, you didn’t see what I saw!
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
Looking around, electric eels can do 860V, which is well short from the 15kV needed to gap 0.5m of air at sea level, plus that animal’s skin would need to be crazy insulating for all that power to not just go down the most highly conductive way possible (all the nice conductive water all the way down to the ground contained in the animal itself) instead of having to ionize 0.5m or air.
I mean, we can always claim it was possible but lost, but then again we can also claim that for magic or animal teleportation.
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
It’s actually not ionizing the air. It’s spraying a conductive gel that the electricity rides to the prey. That’s why it’s important to hold it down to the ground to make sure it has good contact with the earth.
Uuh, nice - that sounds like it would work.
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
The force dude. Its pretty obvious the t-rex is a sith lord.
T-Sidious Rex!
Darth Tyrannosaurus.
There’s no evidence that there’s not
Just out of pedantry: Water has terrible conductivity. Blood is less terrible though and in any case air is far worse than either, so point stands.
We can get past that particular issue if the electric dinosaur was jumping such that its victim has the shortest air gap
Pure water is a terrible conductor, but water with dissolved ions is a pretty good conductor, and that’s mostly (maybe always, since things like Sodium an Potassium ions tend to be pretty important in various processes, though IANAB so maybe there are exceptions) the water inside living beings.
More like an ok conductor, but yea that’s what I meant with the blood (and whatever other ways water exists in our body). Though even pure water is more conductive than air by orders or magnitude.
Well, once you ionize it air is a great conductor ;)
Jurassic Sith
This is why stegosaurus should have waited for backup from the council before trying to arrest T. Rex.
Why didn’t the stegosaurus fire when it feared for its life??
It is very pleasing to know I wasn’t alone in this thought.
Creationism be like:
Uhh, about 83 million years separated these two species.
T-Rex had only 2 fingers. This shows three, so this is likely a really fat Allosaurus
It’s a lesser known relative Datassosaurus which was a thicker allosaur
I love learning about new dinosaurs!!
Are you suggesting that time magic is real? The thought had crossed my mind too, but I dared not to speak of it.
That’s a helluva grudge
Best comment on lemmy today.
Is this slop or just sloppy? What’s with the little green arm behind the lightning and the weird meaty stego neck?
" Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence"
But honestly, I think this is intuitive and reasonable so I accept it as factual.
That checks out.
“When you don’t have any data you have to use reason.” - Richard Feynman, some guy who watch science shows a lot
“Door donot” - Yoda, talking fast
Technically incorrect. There are no feathers.
Huh. I don’t quite remember this Nasreddin Hoca story growing up, but I’m sure the snake says something really clever
We don’t know that they developed space travel and left Earth either.
Karl Popper’s falsifiability says we only need to prove this didn’t happen once.
Your move, denialists.
But we aren’t completely sure
Sorry we all know the thunder lizard is brontosaurus, and thunder comes from lighting that’s just good science
Flateartheners: the same way as there is no proof the Earth wasn’t flat earlier. And gods are hiding in the cats’ asses. And vaccines cause trumpism. No proofs, therefore it is TRUE!
Those flatearth weirdos would rather admit that the Earth is hollow than that it’s a normal (albeit flawed) full sphere.
