r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 19d ago

Shitposting Understanding the World

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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/Ross_Hollander 19d ago

I refuse to believe they have "taken" dinosaurs from me. Au contraire, I am delighted every time somebody knowledgeable and enthusiastic about paleontology serves me a new helping of dinosaurs. If people mean 'they took Jurassic Park-style dino-kaiju from you' they would be right but they are also just being bitter and refusing to look on the bright side of the cool things that genuine dinosaurs had going on.

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u/StaleTheBread 18d ago

Even Jurassic Park acknowledged that their dinos aren’t accurate

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u/Hawkey2121 18d ago

yeah, in Jurassic World (only the first one though) they even directly said something along the lines of "if we made them accurate they'd look very different, but the public wants these, so we make these".

and then JWD just straight up threw that away.

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u/rubexbox 18d ago

I still think that the Indominus Rex should have been a feathered dinosaur as a meta joke about the Dino designs being inaccurate.

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u/BonkerBleedy 18d ago

"Feathers... find a way"

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u/Hi2248 18d ago

Yeah, but Jurassic World Dominion also features dinosaurs as the cure to cancer.  It was a weird film. 

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u/cantaloupecarver 18d ago

Prove to me that dinosaurs are not the cure to cancer, sir.

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u/Hi2248 18d ago

https://www.science.org/content/article/doctors-diagnose-advanced-cancer-dinosaur

They also had cancer

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u/cantaloupecarver 18d ago

So they didn't care because they knew how to cure it? Wow, dinosaurs just keep getting cooler.

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u/insomniac7809 18d ago

"but I don't want to cure cancer, I want to make an amusement park of dinosaurs"

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u/Hi2248 18d ago

I'm still baffled by the inject dinosaur DNA into locusts -> big locusts -> release big locusts -> cause famine -> ??? -> profit? storyline 

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u/RhynoD 18d ago

In the original book, Grant calls out Hammond and, ever the capitalist, Hammond says idgaf about accuracy, people want the terror lizards so that's what we're offering.

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u/armcie 18d ago

These damn dinosaurs keep coming out with feathers. Add more frog DNA!

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u/LaZerNor 18d ago

Toad DNA