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[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 102 points 1 month ago (2 children)

cloaca

I mean didn't we know this already, though?

Also Calvin is right

What if God was a chicken and dinosaurs were his chosen people, and we just happened to get the story right?

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if messages from god can't travel faster than the speed of light so we are receiving prophecy meant for long dead and far off civilizations

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So He's all knowing, except for the laws of physics He created?

[–] hexabs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ever paint yourself into a corner of a room?

Maybe we got one of those special ed gods

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago

Hey now, its his first gig as a god, cut him some slack. Sure, he forgot to add special admin overrides to the physics simulation but he's doing the best he can to fix the mess he created and bring the project back on track!

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 points 1 month ago

Goddamn Demiurge!

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You think every developer knows every single line of code they write?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's omniscient. He knows EVERYTHING

*according to their storybook

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe he knows everything because he wrote it all but can't friggin remember 1/4 of it now that its been a few aeons?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Developers aren't all-knowing. But God supposedly is. That by definition includes knowing how everything he created works, and what everything is doing at any given point in time and space.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

But you realize that's how the average person sees developers, so you can see how thinking god being omniscient is a bit of a fallacy?

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

If they don't need to travel faster than light why should they

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Explains why worship leaders always devolve into that high pitched bugling-thing they do.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Speaking in tongues is just a dialup tone?

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 month ago

multipurpose hole

😏

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The dinosaur's derrière is so well preserved, researchers could see the remnants of two small bulges by its "back door," which might have housed musky scent glands that the reptile possibly used during courtship — an anatomical quirk also seen in living crocodilians, said scientists who studied the specimen.

How do you know they weren't testicles? I wonder if it's possible that dinosaurs started out with external testes that migrated inward as the climate cooled.

None of the reproductive soft tissues (like a penis) were preserved. So the researchers can't say whether the dinosaur was male or female. Even so, this dinosaur likely had copulatory sex, unlike some birds that bump butts when they do a "cloacal kiss" during reproduction, Vinther said.

Why? Too big? Body the wrong shape? Not flexible enough? I'm actually curious about this. It's been a question I've had for a long time but I feel like I never get a satisfactory answer. I know a lot of paleontology is guesswork based on extant/recently extinct species, and that a lot of the guesses involve "cloacal kissing" due to the fact that most birds and many reptiles reproduce that way. However, theropods, the seemingly most likely candidate for the "cloacal kissing" route due to their suspected relationship with modern birds, had ridiculously big tails which were likely feathered. To me, that raises the question of whether or not theropods truly started the tradition of "raising tail" among birds, or if they were more like ducks but reduced tail size made obscenely large, prehensile penises obsolete because they could go cloac-to-cloac. The tails seem like they'd be too big to "go cloac-to-cloac".

Also, since I did a quick Google search to try and find the answer before posting, here is some dino porn, courtesy of the BBC

Hot theropods in your area!

Big Sauropod Rails Scaley MILF

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've kept birds (ducks, chickens, guineas), so I'm familiar with the term cloacal kiss, and I follow what you're saying here, and I'm also in agreement that I wish there were more information here.

But I just need you to know, chopping that final A off cloaca made me incredibly, viscerally uncomfortable.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago

But I just need you to know, chopping that final A off cloaca made me incredibly, viscerally uncomfortable.

You're gonna regret giving me this level of power.

Sadly though, as wonderfully upsetting as it might be, I can't take credit for that expression; I stole it from Jabroni Mike.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

testes that migrated inward as the climate cooled

I hate it when they do that

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Of course the Big Black... Of course the British Broadcasting Corporation has images of dinosaurs copulating

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 33 points 1 month ago

as are all buttholes, mr scientist

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 24 points 1 month ago

Bad Dragon is definitely studying this.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

I hate you. Upvoted.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 23 points 1 month ago

they had that picture locked and loaded

god bless furries

[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago
[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Remember to not judge whole group by degeneracy of one or two members. Not all paleontologists are fascinated by multipurpose dinosaur buttholes. It’s just a vocal minority.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, they're all agreed, and they've all requested plaster casts for... Office related reasons.

I asked for mine to be silicone.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Let me guess, you're a paleontologist?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's goin' in a Ze Frank video.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but holes are...sorry, buttholes are...

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jerry you can't just shift the word as you please

Jerry is chaotic neutral.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Wow, what an asshole."

[–] match@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago

furbot search dinosaur butthole

[–] Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

I'm expecting a new Bad Dragon toy to be in the works

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Holy what a dogshit website

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This reminds me of an Shortwave episode.

Which was actually interesting, once they got through all the crappy puns.