• starik@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    Scientists are the ones who figured out that dinosaurs had feathers. Whenever science is proven wrong, it’s with more/better science.

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        5 hours ago

        No. Not weird. Dangerous. Only people in the world, who get to hold a “told ya so” sign, while civilisation and humanity burns, out of their own hubris

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      17 hours ago

      Science success story:

      Aboriginal religions generally hold that long ago in the Dreaming times, the world was cold, there was less water, and the coast was further away. You used to be able to walk to many of the islands around the Australian coast, because there were land bridges.

      White people generally assumed these stories were mythological fiction, because white people are often racist and intolerant. However, science eventually figured out that 10,000 years ago, there was an ice age. The polar ice caps were bigger, and the ocean was shallower. Those land bridges were found under the modern ocean through satellite imaging. Aboriginal religions were right, and science proved that these religious histories had been preserved and kept accurate for 10,000 years!

      Science wins again!

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      22 hours ago

      They even know the colouration of a bunch of them, like this Sinosauropteryx:

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        21 hours ago

        One of the reasons I would love to travel to the future is to see all the ways that people and science are confidently incorrect about depictions of dinosaurs now, and how they’re depicted like 300 years in the future. Even within my lifetime, we’ve gone from slow, fat lizard turds to something realistic like this lil’ guy. Amazing stuff.

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          You might also get to see incorrect depictions of animals from our time that are extinct in the future, depending on how much information is lost between now and then.

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          I share your sentiment but I’d rather go back and see for myself. The future is completely unknown, who knows if you’d land right on the front line in WWIII. At least in the past I have a vague idea of what parts of time to avoid landing in.

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            You could say the same for the past, we don’t know when dinosaur World War 2 was, perhaps you’ll meet dinosaur Elon Musk and have to talk to him, it’s a hell of a risk.

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        I’m glad it was so happy when it died. Doing itsy little walk, my cat does that when he has successfully captured the elusive ball of foil.

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      14 hours ago

      While true about the proto feathers dinosaurs had, the mis id of their species as reptiles lives on to this day. Half the population doesn’t even know they are from birds, and were warm blooded.