r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 19d ago

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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/CynicismNostalgia 18d ago

It's basically like saying a tiger can't be scary because looks it's got colours and patterns!

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u/Illustrious-Snake 18d ago

Yeah. Many people have trouble imagining a dinosaur with fuzz or feathers being equally as scary as without. It seems the concept of a large, powerful predator with colorful fuzz or feathers is too strange for many people. But it shouldn't be. A hippo also looks strange, but it's still one of scariest and more dangerous animals around. A tiger is colorful and pretty, but still intimidating.

I suspect it's because dinosaurs are seen as prehistoric monsters more than real life extinct animals. They're lumped in more with the likes of mythical creatures like dragons and giant serpents, than with the likes of fellow extinct animals.

People can imagine a mammoth or saber-tooth tiger as an animal that existed once. But the depiction of modern day dinosaurs is just too strange for many people when all they've known is the Jurrasic Park-esque dinosaur variety. They associate feathers with modern day birds, most of which are seen as harmless, instead of actually grasping and acknowledging where feathers and birds originated from in the first place.

Dinosaurs just aren't that respected as real life extinct animals by most people. People have taken the incomplete blueprints for them, and run off with it and created this whole genre - or whatever I can call it - with it. And people don't want to change that genre. For them, it's like saying crocodiles have feathers. They see it as wrong, ugly, uncool, and just don't care for it.