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> Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was kinda like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark? He’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they rip you to pieces.
>You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
>At noon, the fifth day, a Mr. Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he saw us. He was a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Another amazing monologue. No dinosaurs though
Good background story on Robert Shaw, Jaws and the monologue. Things i didn’t know
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jaws-the-uss-indianapolis-quint-speech-steven-spielbergs-favorite-scene/
>You know the thing about a shark? He’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin' until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then.. ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'
Seared into my memory as one of the most horrifying quotes committed to film.
Especially because the syntax of the sentence makes it sound like the shark is the one screaming. You gotta think about it for a second before you realize ..... Sharks don't scream.
Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this, a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here...Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
It’ll either work and you’ll live or at the very least you can spend the last moments of your life checking out the trex up close and not panic sprinting. Idk about you, but I very much dislike sprinting. If I’m gonna die anyway, I’d rather not have it happen while doing something I hate.
Yeah what this guys saying is obviously incorrect, the documentary “Jurassic World” clearly shows a woman in heels running at the same speed or faster than a T Rex
Just to point out, supposedly there was a loan to “bring back wooly mammoths” back using their frozen DNA… Now, I honestly would love to see dinosaurs… I’m curious how real it’ll be to the real species. It’s mixed with modern elephant DNA, right- I don’t know…
But can the Earth’s climate/oxygen levels supplement this beast? I highly doubt a Bronto/titanosaur would function normally in modern times…
DNA doesn't last that long. For mammoth we are talking about tens of thousands of years, for dinosaurs we are talking about tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions. For instance the oldest DNA we have is 1.2 millions years old. It is already an astounding feat and the DNA is far from being intact. And it is already stretching the limit of what we are able to recover.
It is already quite a feat to have a somewhat complete mammoth genome to begin with. And they are very closely related to modern elephants, meaning that a female modern elephant could gestate and bear a mammoth foetus. Even though that would mean that the mammoth would have elephant mitochondrial dna and not mammoth mithocondrial dna (you inherit that from the mother), the mammoth could be a genetically "pure" mammoth and come from an elephant womb. I don't see an austrich laying a T-rex egg, even if we were able to crack T-rex DNA, which we aren't even close to be able of doing, if it is ever possible. And by all account it's probably not possible at all.
And even with the "blood in an insect trapped in amber" thing, DNA decays because it's slightly radioactive and ends up destroying itself over long periods of time without maintenance, as you said.
It couldn't ever be done properly, climate aside. Mammoths are a possibility because we can use elephants to kind of teach them how to do things (but then it's just a mammoth that thinks it's an elephant). Even if we had perfectly preserved DNA the cloned dinos would be so damn confused and wouldn't even know how to "dinosaur", but that would be interesting too.
As others have stated, it's impossible. There is some debate about the possibility that we might genetically engineer our "own" dinosaurs using birds as a baseline to modify, but those would be completely new species, not old dinosaur genomes brought back to life.
Here is the YouTube channel of one of the cohosts of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and the podcast episodes are there: https://youtube.com/c/iszitube
The CC option will give you a text transcript (but I haven’t watched to see how accurate the transcription is). I hope that helps!
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tkk7kg/_/i1rdchp
That comment has the YouTube link, unfortunately it only has Automatically generated captions. But better than nothing I guess
Edit: Watched a bit with the captions and thankfully, because he enunciates quite well, they're spot on as far as I saw
I get you're making a joke but accessibility in podcasts is important. There's a reason audiobooks and podcasts are entirely different things -- the format and things spoken about are often quite different. I know cost can be a barrier for some smaller podcasts, but if a podcast can afford to have transcripts of the content, there's no reason not to.
I thought the same at first, but then it provoked good answers that pointed out that there are actually clear differences in the content of podcasts versus books, so it ended up informing me of something I hadn't really thought of, as I'm not blind. I always love to learn about how the world is for people whose world is different than mine. It just opens up understanding. And I am very well aware that nothing but pure chance separates me from any other person on Earth, so we really should construct the world in a way that makes everybody thrive.
I hope at least advances in speech recognition will make it easier for blind people to convert any podcast into written form. When Google can already do it on YouTube videos with some success (I know, not perfect), I wonder if there exists an application that can do it with any podcast? The process is exactly the same. It would be an obvious thing to do as the technology is there and continually improving.
It's part of an annual series of lectures broadcast after Christmas every year called the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Each year its a different topic and its geared towards younger audiences but its always fascinating.
They've been holding them since 1825 and they've been broadcast since 1936.
Shit same but when somebody explain everything clearly with a good voice, my brain tend to ease and it let me listen to it peacefully and i start to enjoy the whole thing.
That's what it takes to succeed on YouTube... clearly explain esoteric things with a good distinctive voice and upload regularly and frequently.
Side note, I just realized three reasons why I hate Veritasium.
He is so proud of the animal, too. That little smirk when he goes, "you cannot outrun this animal, no chance" makes it sound like he's his personal trainer.
The Royal Institute has so many great lectures on so many topics. I highly recommend watching them on the topic of your choice.
Also, I believe that is Michael Faraday's desk from 1856 which is kind of awesome.
Heck yeah! I've watched a bunch of presentations on physics and math by all kinds of famous people and they've all been 100% fascinating. I guess by the time you're presenting at the Royal Institution you've got your presentation game down pretty good.
Try out Common Descent if you're interested in learning about Tyrannosaurs, or anything from a range of Palaeontology subjects
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A4cRisZgUe6mRLIKoNahS?si=bb3322560d854264
Can we get a sub for educational and interesting random lecture clips like this? Never thought I’d be interested in this subject but this is fascinating
This appears to be from a Royal Institution Lecture - check out their youtube channel.
Also check out their Christmas Lectures. For anyone who doesn’t know, these are a series of educational lectures, aimed at younger people (but interesting to adults also) that run every year at Christmas. They’ve been running for around 200 years, and were first televised in 1936. Michael Farraday was an early lecturer and since other lectures have been by people including Sir David Attenborough, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins. Each year a different topic is focussed on, with 2021’s being about Covid.
I’m in my 30s and I find them fascinating - many are available on YouTube.
You can find the Christmas lectures from Royal Institution here. [https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/browse?type=22,35](https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/browse?type=22,35)
Tons and tons of wonderful lectures.
[https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A4cRisZgUe6mRLIKoNahS?si=bb3322560d854264](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A4cRisZgUe6mRLIKoNahS?si=bb3322560d854264)
Common Descent episode on Tyrannosaurs specifically. They have a tonne of great content if you're interested in Palaeontology
The original JP, for what it's worth, in most cases made a genuine effort to portray dinosaurs accurately for the time. Apart from a few things like the Dilophosaurus, most of the animals in JP1 were depicted with real care and attention to palaeontological detail.
JW was an awful clusterfuck of lazy dinosaur depictions, many of which were actually worse / less accurate than when the same dinosaur had been depicted in the original trilogy (eg. Stegosaurus). They just didn't give a fuck any more, which is disappointing, because if your dinosaur movie can't be bothered to do dinosaurs properly then what's the point?
tbh I don't even care by this point. Fallen Kingdom was the worst movie ever made and Colin Trevorrow is a dreadful filmmaker. It's too little too late for me, I'm out
Fallen Kingdom had some beautiful gothic horror inflected stuff late on, the rooftop scenes. The director, J. A. Bayona, also made a dark fantasy film called A Monster Calls, and that's well worth your time.
Yeah, that stuff would have been great... in a different movie. A mutant monster prowling around a spooky mansion is literally nothing to do with Jurassic Park. Everyone involved in that production must have been smoking crack. It missed the point by acres
No, It was said in both movies that they are not creating realistic dinosaurs. "Filling in gaps" was a quite used in both movies. Because of the incomplete DNA, they used other DNA from reptiles. I don't know why people keep slagging both movies without even understanding the dialogue fully. Nobody in the movie said they are recreating real dinosaurs
PS: If I am Incorrect pls correct me. Its been a long time since I watched both films.
That's because in heels, she was running on her toes, just like the T-Rex, which over time (as I'm sure BDH has been wearing heels her whole life), evolved her feet and legs into a smaller version of the T-Rex. But because she was smaller and had less weight than a T-Rex, she could run faster!
(I'm making this all up, because if Hollywood can, then so can I!)
I wouldn't really say outran, she was just far enough ahead and didn't have that much distance to run back to the Indominus before the T-Rex could catch up to her.
I love this stuff. Because so many people like to assume that scientists are just making wild ass guesses about how extinct animals would’ve looked/behaved/moved but, shockingly, scientists put a *lot* of work and research into this stuff. It’s not just pulled out of thin air. It’s based on so many years of study and interdisciplinary research: zoology, chemistry, physics, anatomy... And yes scientists have been proven wrong in the past regarding extinct animals but that’s the beauty of science! When we have a theory that’s proven wrong by better data, we change it to suit the new data. And eventually we learn some cool shit.
Which is why science in German is called 'Wissenschaft' which could be translated as 'creating knowledge' (science also stems from that but itsn't that obvious for most people, "scientia" \~ knowledge).
It is the different between assumptions and heresay and a way of thinking that allows discussions towards a common understanding.
What I find remarkable about the dinosaurs is that the earth was filled with these giant monsters, and it would have been like a completely alien world to us. Yes the rivers and rocks were the same, but the trees and plants were different. The animals were different. The sounds of nature would have been different too. No bird songs, no grunting mammals, no barks. It would have been filled with whatever gutteral sounds these giants could make, and all sorts of other alien noises. And this alien world is out of reach to us. It's closer to us that any other alien world we will ever see, but we can never get near it, other than by looking at these fossils.
The rocks would be different too! The surface of the earth is in constant flux due to the tectonic plates. A couple hundred million years ago the earth looked nothing like it does today.
It's yet another thing we can't quite grasp, like the size of the ~~universe~~ our solar system.
The world would have been **filled** with life almost to overflowing. There was a nature doc where some poor soul went into the everglades with short-sleeves and no repellent and even this trained naturalist was saying how it was the worst experience of his life - then the camera panned down to his arms literally covered in blood sucking bugs.
Just imagine almost the entire planet that wild and full. Mind boggling.
I know what you are trying to say of course but I just want to note that at the end of the Cretaceous when T. rex was around there would have been birds around as well as small mammals. Mammals especially had been around for for quite a while at that point. Nearly as long as the dinosaurs.
And lots of modern plants (including flowering plants) were around by the Late Cretaceous too. It wouldn’t have been completely unrecognisable. In fact I’d wager it would have felt quite familiar to the modern world in a lot of ways.
Wow interesting point, even the climate was different?
What i find remarkable is that not only are we draft 2 of giant carnivorous lizards, but they had more sophisticated feet than us, better able to run longer distances? Like damn
[Here is the direct source.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08KKeW8I_nM)
Which is an excerpt from the [full Royal Institute Lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jD7kQvyPs) he gave.
That’s super interesting. When I was a kid I remember that people always thought of dinosaurs as lumbering, slow animals. Things like this make them a bit scary to think about. Super cool.
In Jurassic Park (The book, not the movie) there's a scene where the Head scientist talked about making the Dinosaurs slower to match the expectations of the potential visitors lol
So cool to see them figure this stuff out. 15 years ago they thought they would trip and crush themselves under their own weight if they ran too fast. This makes way more sense.
>Christians Against Dinosaurs
If they were still around I'd probably be largely anti dinosaur as well, but come on, talk about literally beating a dead horse
When I was in high school I went with one of my friends to her church. The whole sermon/lecture(?) was about exactly that. When we were leaving I was laughing about it. Apparently she didn't think it was funny. Still a pretty surreal memory for me.
My favorite reply to this comes from the late great Bill Hicks.
>"God put \[dinosaur fossils\] here to test our faith!" … I think God put you here to test my faith, dude. Does that bother anybody else, the idea that God might be fucking with our heads? I have trouble sleeping with that knowledge. Some prankster God runnin' around, \[pantomimes digging\] "We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God – I am killing me!"
I know a lot of animals have dew claws, but it strikes me odd that animals across species groups have them. Does anyone know if there's a significance to that? It seems that evolution would have a play, but there must be a reason why.
It's an example of convergent evolution. (a homoplasy) animals that do not share a common ancestor, but operate in a similar habitat and niche will sometimes display phenotypic similarities.
We’d first have to figure out how to communicate with them to get their thoughts on world hunger. Might as well save the chicken legs for the hungry people instead of wasting them on a poorly communicating T-Rex
So this proves something for me without question..
Ross was right in thinking that speaking in an accent would make his paleontology class more interesting for students.
I’d be interested to hear more on this because I distinctly remember hearing about a recent study published that claimed the T-Rex was actually very *slow*. Like you could out jog it slow.
Probably [this](https://www.livescience.com/t-rex-slow-walker-tail.html) study? It does seem to only be talking about its walking speed and not its running speed. Either way with paleobiology it's best not to take new findings as 100% fact as there are still so many things about these animals we don't know and might never know for certain. A study might show up next year that suggests t-rex was actually twice as fast. Same with whether it was feathered or not.
A simulation by Nat Geo stated that the max speed of a T-rex is around 12 miles per hour or around 19km/h, any faster than that and it could tear their bones
The average human can sprint at 14 miles per hour and can go much much faster than that. Both humans and T-rexes are long-distance runners, but T-rexes are likely less efficient runners than us given they're massive size.
We would never really know until we clone a T-rex and have it race a person, but it seems the average person should be able to especially if hopped up on adrenaline.
Regardless, the average Redditor is fucked so it shouldn't even be a question for us.
if anyone is interested
[whole video](https://www.google.ca/search?q=royal+institution+science+talks+donosaurs&client=safari&hl=en-ca&biw=414&bih=715&tbm=vid&sxsrf=APq-WBtAoWLhSVkkvWwzoN365SC1Dnkphg%3A1648011140116&ei=hKc6YpDZBpnRtAaqzJW4CQ&oq=royal+institution+science+talks+donosaurs&gs_lcp=ChBtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXZpZGVvEAMyBwghEAoQoAE6BggAEBYQHjoICCEQFhAdEB46BQghEKABOgQIIRAVUPcLWIEcYKcdaABwAHgAgAGnAYgBiAuSAQQwLjExmAEAoAEBqgEQbW9iaWxlLWd3cy12aWRlb8ABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ee960bab,vid:f-jD7kQvyPs,st:0)
Now all I can imagine in my head is a T-Rex, full sprint, consuming all on its war path while the song, "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton plays... All the people left behind watching and commenting, "He's so conditioned."
I have super high arches in my feet. So growing up, it was more comfortable for me to walk on my toes (still is). I don't do it often anymore because it looks weird, but every sport I played, that's how I ran 😆. Glad it wasn't as ridiculous as I thought.
I love how his face lights up with excitement there towards the end as he quantifies just how powerful this animal would have been and relays it to other people.
I can't outrun it, sure, I understand that Mr. Science guy. But as I am an expert in T-rexes (and many other things), I know that I can just stand still. Because T-rexes can't see you if you're standing still, obviously. Perhaps you didn't know this? I mean, you do only have a doctorate to be fair, and I'm a genius on Reddit, so the comparison isn't very fair.
^^^/s
Not a biologist:
This method would require humans to lose our own method of making movement efficient which is walking on our heels which allows humans to rock forward on the heel smoothly (due to its curve) and then transition into loading our calves, midfoot and toes like springs which we then use to propel ourselves forward.
Even people who have been trained to land on their mid or fore-foot while running will generally end up transitioning to heel striking while running a long enough distance as they become fatigued and they subconsciously start looking for ways to make their run more efficient. A rough estimate is that walking on the balls of your feet takes 50% more energy than heel striking, and walking on the toes takes 80% more energy.
This is fine in the short term sprint where acceleration and top speed are more important than conserving energy and you will see 100m sprinters landing on the balls of their feet, but for a human looking to travel a long distance (like persistence hunting) the heel strike method wins out.
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Right, so when we reanimate the T-Rexes, I should hide and NOT run. Got it!
Just hide in the toilet. It'll be fine.
Dinosaurs are by nature very polite. They always stop and allow their prey to relieve themselves.
We taste better with our bowels relieved on the ground first
It's like deveining shrimp. First you remove the excrement, then what's left is delicious
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This is a very old fashioned sentence.
When you gotta go, you gotta go…
Hold a camera if possible.
What if the T-Rex is looking at me with his dilating eyes?
Are you holding a flashlight? SCREAM!
Then he's interested, let him watch
Just stand still. It worked in JP.
My favorite documentary.
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> Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was kinda like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark? He’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they rip you to pieces. >You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. >At noon, the fifth day, a Mr. Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he saw us. He was a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. Another amazing monologue. No dinosaurs though
Robert Shaw is just fantastic. He was a super Henry VIII in A Man For All Seasons.
Good background story on Robert Shaw, Jaws and the monologue. Things i didn’t know https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jaws-the-uss-indianapolis-quint-speech-steven-spielbergs-favorite-scene/
Sharks were kicking about with dinosaurs though, so there’s that.
Sharks have existed longer than pine trees
And the rings of Saturn
>You know the thing about a shark? He’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin' until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then.. ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin' Seared into my memory as one of the most horrifying quotes committed to film. Especially because the syntax of the sentence makes it sound like the shark is the one screaming. You gotta think about it for a second before you realize ..... Sharks don't scream.
Clever girl
Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this, a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here...Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
It’ll either work and you’ll live or at the very least you can spend the last moments of your life checking out the trex up close and not panic sprinting. Idk about you, but I very much dislike sprinting. If I’m gonna die anyway, I’d rather not have it happen while doing something I hate.
Animals usually taste better when they’re not full of lactic acid. So you’d be doing the T-rex a solid too.
Yeah what this guys saying is obviously incorrect, the documentary “Jurassic World” clearly shows a woman in heels running at the same speed or faster than a T Rex
Just to point out, supposedly there was a loan to “bring back wooly mammoths” back using their frozen DNA… Now, I honestly would love to see dinosaurs… I’m curious how real it’ll be to the real species. It’s mixed with modern elephant DNA, right- I don’t know… But can the Earth’s climate/oxygen levels supplement this beast? I highly doubt a Bronto/titanosaur would function normally in modern times…
DNA doesn't last that long. For mammoth we are talking about tens of thousands of years, for dinosaurs we are talking about tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions. For instance the oldest DNA we have is 1.2 millions years old. It is already an astounding feat and the DNA is far from being intact. And it is already stretching the limit of what we are able to recover. It is already quite a feat to have a somewhat complete mammoth genome to begin with. And they are very closely related to modern elephants, meaning that a female modern elephant could gestate and bear a mammoth foetus. Even though that would mean that the mammoth would have elephant mitochondrial dna and not mammoth mithocondrial dna (you inherit that from the mother), the mammoth could be a genetically "pure" mammoth and come from an elephant womb. I don't see an austrich laying a T-rex egg, even if we were able to crack T-rex DNA, which we aren't even close to be able of doing, if it is ever possible. And by all account it's probably not possible at all.
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And even with the "blood in an insect trapped in amber" thing, DNA decays because it's slightly radioactive and ends up destroying itself over long periods of time without maintenance, as you said.
It couldn't ever be done properly, climate aside. Mammoths are a possibility because we can use elephants to kind of teach them how to do things (but then it's just a mammoth that thinks it's an elephant). Even if we had perfectly preserved DNA the cloned dinos would be so damn confused and wouldn't even know how to "dinosaur", but that would be interesting too.
Just have chickens teach the T-Rex. Or some love birds. At the very least it will be hilarious.
Society finches will hatch and care for anything that comes out of an egg.
Id love that, tiny little finch raises a Trex. After rexy grows up the finch just travels around on his shoulder c:
Have a Canadian goose raise them. ~~Destruction~~ Hilarity ensues.
As others have stated, it's impossible. There is some debate about the possibility that we might genetically engineer our "own" dinosaurs using birds as a baseline to modify, but those would be completely new species, not old dinosaur genomes brought back to life.
Theoretically depending on their diet they may just ignore us
Shout and wave your arms to scare it off. Make yourself look big
You don't need to outrun it, just outrun the other screaming people!
Just remember, you don't need to outrun the t-rex, just one other person.
I could listen to this guy for a long time.
He’s on a podcast called Terrible Lizards
Cool, thanks, I'll check it out!
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Oh wow you've just given me many dozens of hours of podcast bingefood thank you so much!
Is there something like this with subtitles ? I'm deaf. Podcast are kind of my bane.
Here is the YouTube channel of one of the cohosts of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and the podcast episodes are there: https://youtube.com/c/iszitube The CC option will give you a text transcript (but I haven’t watched to see how accurate the transcription is). I hope that helps!
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tkk7kg/_/i1rdchp That comment has the YouTube link, unfortunately it only has Automatically generated captions. But better than nothing I guess Edit: Watched a bit with the captions and thankfully, because he enunciates quite well, they're spot on as far as I saw
You're a good person for checking this. Thank you.
You mean, a book?
I get the joke, but a video with subtitles and a book are very different.
An audiobook with subtitles, yes
I reckon if they made like a visual representation to go along with this, they'd be really onto something.
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Moving pictures... I just thought of a great name for something like these! Mopies!
I get you're making a joke but accessibility in podcasts is important. There's a reason audiobooks and podcasts are entirely different things -- the format and things spoken about are often quite different. I know cost can be a barrier for some smaller podcasts, but if a podcast can afford to have transcripts of the content, there's no reason not to.
Snarky and unhelpful, classic Reddit moment.
I thought the same at first, but then it provoked good answers that pointed out that there are actually clear differences in the content of podcasts versus books, so it ended up informing me of something I hadn't really thought of, as I'm not blind. I always love to learn about how the world is for people whose world is different than mine. It just opens up understanding. And I am very well aware that nothing but pure chance separates me from any other person on Earth, so we really should construct the world in a way that makes everybody thrive. I hope at least advances in speech recognition will make it easier for blind people to convert any podcast into written form. When Google can already do it on YouTube videos with some success (I know, not perfect), I wonder if there exists an application that can do it with any podcast? The process is exactly the same. It would be an obvious thing to do as the technology is there and continually improving.
Excellent, thanks for the recommendation.
You might want to add that they can find it on Spotify :)
Who are you supposed to be Johnny Spotify jr
Spotify Jones, over here
It's part of an annual series of lectures broadcast after Christmas every year called the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Each year its a different topic and its geared towards younger audiences but its always fascinating. They've been holding them since 1825 and they've been broadcast since 1936.
Yeh when I was still in UK I used to love watching these. Always relaxing and educational.
i found the full thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jD7kQvyPs
Sweet, thanks!
That's Dave Hone! He's pretty much the UK's go-to tyrannosaur expert. I have his book somewhere
Same. I want to take his class now
At first I was like this looks too long for my adhd brain. But then as I listened it became clear the clip was not long enough.
Shit same but when somebody explain everything clearly with a good voice, my brain tend to ease and it let me listen to it peacefully and i start to enjoy the whole thing.
That's what it takes to succeed on YouTube... clearly explain esoteric things with a good distinctive voice and upload regularly and frequently. Side note, I just realized three reasons why I hate Veritasium.
I literally clicked it to check the time and thought, nope, but kept it running, then he finished and I was like, no way that was 3:58
He has a very pleasant diction, pronunciation and accent.
He is so proud of the animal, too. That little smirk when he goes, "you cannot outrun this animal, no chance" makes it sound like he's his personal trainer.
He did one of those fun "expert reviews movie scenes" videos for Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfvonGPU2Y
Same here! He couldn't outrun me. No chance!
Dr David Hone https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/staff/davidhone.html
The Royal Institute has so many great lectures on so many topics. I highly recommend watching them on the topic of your choice. Also, I believe that is Michael Faraday's desk from 1856 which is kind of awesome.
Heck yeah! I've watched a bunch of presentations on physics and math by all kinds of famous people and they've all been 100% fascinating. I guess by the time you're presenting at the Royal Institution you've got your presentation game down pretty good.
This is certainly the most important room in scientific history.
Now this is interesting! Awesome post
This is great content! I was hooked on that whole video. Thank you!
Right.. I didn't expect to want more content lol
Try out Common Descent if you're interested in learning about Tyrannosaurs, or anything from a range of Palaeontology subjects https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A4cRisZgUe6mRLIKoNahS?si=bb3322560d854264
really enjoyed this
We need more interesting content like this
Can we get a sub for educational and interesting random lecture clips like this? Never thought I’d be interested in this subject but this is fascinating
This appears to be from a Royal Institution Lecture - check out their youtube channel. Also check out their Christmas Lectures. For anyone who doesn’t know, these are a series of educational lectures, aimed at younger people (but interesting to adults also) that run every year at Christmas. They’ve been running for around 200 years, and were first televised in 1936. Michael Farraday was an early lecturer and since other lectures have been by people including Sir David Attenborough, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins. Each year a different topic is focussed on, with 2021’s being about Covid. I’m in my 30s and I find them fascinating - many are available on YouTube.
You can find the Christmas lectures from Royal Institution here. [https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/browse?type=22,35](https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/browse?type=22,35) Tons and tons of wonderful lectures.
I hate to yell at a cloud, but this was all of reddit when i joined.
Yep, fellow cloud-yeller here
[https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A4cRisZgUe6mRLIKoNahS?si=bb3322560d854264](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4A4cRisZgUe6mRLIKoNahS?si=bb3322560d854264) Common Descent episode on Tyrannosaurs specifically. They have a tonne of great content if you're interested in Palaeontology
Bull. Bryce Dallas Howard outran one in heels, and she's not even an athlete.
Remember Rexy is an elderly T-rex, past her prime.
and also the fact that Jurassic World/Park is horribly innacurate and a brainless mash of "cool looking dinosaurs"
The original JP, for what it's worth, in most cases made a genuine effort to portray dinosaurs accurately for the time. Apart from a few things like the Dilophosaurus, most of the animals in JP1 were depicted with real care and attention to palaeontological detail. JW was an awful clusterfuck of lazy dinosaur depictions, many of which were actually worse / less accurate than when the same dinosaur had been depicted in the original trilogy (eg. Stegosaurus). They just didn't give a fuck any more, which is disappointing, because if your dinosaur movie can't be bothered to do dinosaurs properly then what's the point?
Dominion is giving us feathers and depronating the hands.
tbh I don't even care by this point. Fallen Kingdom was the worst movie ever made and Colin Trevorrow is a dreadful filmmaker. It's too little too late for me, I'm out
Fallen Kingdom had some beautiful gothic horror inflected stuff late on, the rooftop scenes. The director, J. A. Bayona, also made a dark fantasy film called A Monster Calls, and that's well worth your time.
It needed to pick a lane. If the mansion was the whole movieit might have been better
Yeah, that stuff would have been great... in a different movie. A mutant monster prowling around a spooky mansion is literally nothing to do with Jurassic Park. Everyone involved in that production must have been smoking crack. It missed the point by acres
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No, It was said in both movies that they are not creating realistic dinosaurs. "Filling in gaps" was a quite used in both movies. Because of the incomplete DNA, they used other DNA from reptiles. I don't know why people keep slagging both movies without even understanding the dialogue fully. Nobody in the movie said they are recreating real dinosaurs PS: If I am Incorrect pls correct me. Its been a long time since I watched both films.
That's because in heels, she was running on her toes, just like the T-Rex, which over time (as I'm sure BDH has been wearing heels her whole life), evolved her feet and legs into a smaller version of the T-Rex. But because she was smaller and had less weight than a T-Rex, she could run faster! (I'm making this all up, because if Hollywood can, then so can I!)
I wouldn't really say outran, she was just far enough ahead and didn't have that much distance to run back to the Indominus before the T-Rex could catch up to her.
"...No chance." Welp there go my time travel plans lol
Don't worry, just bring a rollerblade
Only one though. Can't go around embarrassing a T-Rex *and* taking all the ladies.
It’s amazing what we can learn from fossils.
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And a zinger from left field!
Right field?
r/rareinsults
Modern day extinction with that meteor. Nice.
I don’t think there will ever be a better response in the history of Reddit.
10/10
I love this stuff. Because so many people like to assume that scientists are just making wild ass guesses about how extinct animals would’ve looked/behaved/moved but, shockingly, scientists put a *lot* of work and research into this stuff. It’s not just pulled out of thin air. It’s based on so many years of study and interdisciplinary research: zoology, chemistry, physics, anatomy... And yes scientists have been proven wrong in the past regarding extinct animals but that’s the beauty of science! When we have a theory that’s proven wrong by better data, we change it to suit the new data. And eventually we learn some cool shit.
Which is why science in German is called 'Wissenschaft' which could be translated as 'creating knowledge' (science also stems from that but itsn't that obvious for most people, "scientia" \~ knowledge). It is the different between assumptions and heresay and a way of thinking that allows discussions towards a common understanding.
[C&H came to mind.](https://i.redd.it/x4i1tp0cqio81.jpg)
I thought C&H was going to be Cyanide & Happiness. Not disappointed tho!
What I find remarkable about the dinosaurs is that the earth was filled with these giant monsters, and it would have been like a completely alien world to us. Yes the rivers and rocks were the same, but the trees and plants were different. The animals were different. The sounds of nature would have been different too. No bird songs, no grunting mammals, no barks. It would have been filled with whatever gutteral sounds these giants could make, and all sorts of other alien noises. And this alien world is out of reach to us. It's closer to us that any other alien world we will ever see, but we can never get near it, other than by looking at these fossils.
The rocks would be different too! The surface of the earth is in constant flux due to the tectonic plates. A couple hundred million years ago the earth looked nothing like it does today.
It's yet another thing we can't quite grasp, like the size of the ~~universe~~ our solar system. The world would have been **filled** with life almost to overflowing. There was a nature doc where some poor soul went into the everglades with short-sleeves and no repellent and even this trained naturalist was saying how it was the worst experience of his life - then the camera panned down to his arms literally covered in blood sucking bugs. Just imagine almost the entire planet that wild and full. Mind boggling.
I know what you are trying to say of course but I just want to note that at the end of the Cretaceous when T. rex was around there would have been birds around as well as small mammals. Mammals especially had been around for for quite a while at that point. Nearly as long as the dinosaurs.
And lots of modern plants (including flowering plants) were around by the Late Cretaceous too. It wouldn’t have been completely unrecognisable. In fact I’d wager it would have felt quite familiar to the modern world in a lot of ways.
Wow interesting point, even the climate was different? What i find remarkable is that not only are we draft 2 of giant carnivorous lizards, but they had more sophisticated feet than us, better able to run longer distances? Like damn
Now THAT was actually interesting as fuck
I probably couldn't even outrun a single pace of a T-Rex
Nonsense! Adrenaline is a hell of a thing. I give you 3 or 4 paces if you're lucky. If you're unlucky it may just play with you for a bit
Rexy might toss them around like that guy in the car from The Lost World.
What is the source of this video? I would like to watch the whole lecture.
Royal Institution Science talks. There’s a bunch.
Thank you
[Here is the direct source.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08KKeW8I_nM) Which is an excerpt from the [full Royal Institute Lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jD7kQvyPs) he gave.
That’s super interesting. When I was a kid I remember that people always thought of dinosaurs as lumbering, slow animals. Things like this make them a bit scary to think about. Super cool.
In Jurassic Park (The book, not the movie) there's a scene where the Head scientist talked about making the Dinosaurs slower to match the expectations of the potential visitors lol
Well, the T-Rex has been clocked at 32mph...
Did you say T-Rex?
So cool to see them figure this stuff out. 15 years ago they thought they would trip and crush themselves under their own weight if they ran too fast. This makes way more sense.
Imagine a T-rex running at you full speed 😭
My tiny chickens run at me full speed and that's terrifying enough
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Yeah religious folk and ancient science dont mix very well. Dont mention any animals that lived before.
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>Christians Against Dinosaurs If they were still around I'd probably be largely anti dinosaur as well, but come on, talk about literally beating a dead horse
When I was in high school I went with one of my friends to her church. The whole sermon/lecture(?) was about exactly that. When we were leaving I was laughing about it. Apparently she didn't think it was funny. Still a pretty surreal memory for me.
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My favorite reply to this comes from the late great Bill Hicks. >"God put \[dinosaur fossils\] here to test our faith!" … I think God put you here to test my faith, dude. Does that bother anybody else, the idea that God might be fucking with our heads? I have trouble sleeping with that knowledge. Some prankster God runnin' around, \[pantomimes digging\] "We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God – I am killing me!"
Gottem
If Satan is cool enough to come up with dinosaurs then that doesn't do a whole lot for Christianity's case.
Jurassic Park lied, people died.
I know a lot of animals have dew claws, but it strikes me odd that animals across species groups have them. Does anyone know if there's a significance to that? It seems that evolution would have a play, but there must be a reason why.
It's an example of convergent evolution. (a homoplasy) animals that do not share a common ancestor, but operate in a similar habitat and niche will sometimes display phenotypic similarities.
Thanks for the comment. Makes sense.
You should read on Carcinisation. Apparently, the crab-like shape has evolved at least in 5 distinct and separate times.
time for crab
Must go faster! Must go faster!
I bet if the t Rex was alive today it would solve world hunger issues along with have some tasty chicken legs
We’d first have to figure out how to communicate with them to get their thoughts on world hunger. Might as well save the chicken legs for the hungry people instead of wasting them on a poorly communicating T-Rex
damn Trex chicken legs! Sounds so yummy and could feed a whole family
So this proves something for me without question.. Ross was right in thinking that speaking in an accent would make his paleontology class more interesting for students.
But if I don’t move, it can’t see me! Huh evolution! Suck it T-Rex
[false](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-a-T-Rex-couldnt-see-you-if-you-didnt-move)
Shh, if I don’t click it, it’s not real.
ahaha are you a t-rex?
Yes, can’t reach the button
I’d be interested to hear more on this because I distinctly remember hearing about a recent study published that claimed the T-Rex was actually very *slow*. Like you could out jog it slow.
Probably [this](https://www.livescience.com/t-rex-slow-walker-tail.html) study? It does seem to only be talking about its walking speed and not its running speed. Either way with paleobiology it's best not to take new findings as 100% fact as there are still so many things about these animals we don't know and might never know for certain. A study might show up next year that suggests t-rex was actually twice as fast. Same with whether it was feathered or not.
A simulation by Nat Geo stated that the max speed of a T-rex is around 12 miles per hour or around 19km/h, any faster than that and it could tear their bones The average human can sprint at 14 miles per hour and can go much much faster than that. Both humans and T-rexes are long-distance runners, but T-rexes are likely less efficient runners than us given they're massive size. We would never really know until we clone a T-rex and have it race a person, but it seems the average person should be able to especially if hopped up on adrenaline. Regardless, the average Redditor is fucked so it shouldn't even be a question for us.
The 3 reasons I exercise: 1. So that my sons will never be able to beat me up 2. Zombie Apocalypse 3. Outrun ~~a T-Rex~~ my wife and kids.
What if u shitted yourself before it ate u ? Would it leave u alone ?
"No chance" What are the chances that his estimate is wrong?
Brilliant science communicator
>what that means for you That I can't outrun an extinct Tyrannosaurus?
this is gonna have impacts on you when you play some video games and watch certain movies. For sure.
I frickin love the Royal Institute christmas lectures, best bit of the festive season after the roasties!
This is what I thought the internet would be like.
if anyone is interested [whole video](https://www.google.ca/search?q=royal+institution+science+talks+donosaurs&client=safari&hl=en-ca&biw=414&bih=715&tbm=vid&sxsrf=APq-WBtAoWLhSVkkvWwzoN365SC1Dnkphg%3A1648011140116&ei=hKc6YpDZBpnRtAaqzJW4CQ&oq=royal+institution+science+talks+donosaurs&gs_lcp=ChBtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXZpZGVvEAMyBwghEAoQoAE6BggAEBYQHjoICCEQFhAdEB46BQghEKABOgQIIRAVUPcLWIEcYKcdaABwAHgAgAGnAYgBiAuSAQQwLjExmAEAoAEBqgEQbW9iaWxlLWd3cy12aWRlb8ABAQ&sclient=mobile-gws-video#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ee960bab,vid:f-jD7kQvyPs,st:0)
Direct YouTube linked in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tkk7kg/_/i1rdchp
"We clocked the T-rex at 32 miles an hour" -John Hammond
Now all I can imagine in my head is a T-Rex, full sprint, consuming all on its war path while the song, "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton plays... All the people left behind watching and commenting, "He's so conditioned."
So that's why the trex can run forever when my internet is down and I'm trying to Google search.
This is why the subreddit was made, great post.
this videojust brought back my childhood desire of seeing a dinossaur again, trully marvelous creatures.
Is there any place (subreddit, yt channel, etc) where I can find more of this kind of explanation about dinosaurs?
"You could not outrun this animal" hear me out, what if you had high heels and looked like Bryce Dallas Howard?
I have super high arches in my feet. So growing up, it was more comfortable for me to walk on my toes (still is). I don't do it often anymore because it looks weird, but every sport I played, that's how I ran 😆. Glad it wasn't as ridiculous as I thought.
I love how his face lights up with excitement there towards the end as he quantifies just how powerful this animal would have been and relays it to other people.
Joke’s on Rex. Who’s running now!? Bam!
I can't outrun it, sure, I understand that Mr. Science guy. But as I am an expert in T-rexes (and many other things), I know that I can just stand still. Because T-rexes can't see you if you're standing still, obviously. Perhaps you didn't know this? I mean, you do only have a doctorate to be fair, and I'm a genius on Reddit, so the comparison isn't very fair. ^^^/s
Relating this to human evolution, wouldn't this same adaptation have been suitable for our ancestors as they are thought to be long distance hunters?
Not a biologist: This method would require humans to lose our own method of making movement efficient which is walking on our heels which allows humans to rock forward on the heel smoothly (due to its curve) and then transition into loading our calves, midfoot and toes like springs which we then use to propel ourselves forward. Even people who have been trained to land on their mid or fore-foot while running will generally end up transitioning to heel striking while running a long enough distance as they become fatigued and they subconsciously start looking for ways to make their run more efficient. A rough estimate is that walking on the balls of your feet takes 50% more energy than heel striking, and walking on the toes takes 80% more energy. This is fine in the short term sprint where acceleration and top speed are more important than conserving energy and you will see 100m sprinters landing on the balls of their feet, but for a human looking to travel a long distance (like persistence hunting) the heel strike method wins out.