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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do they know they weren't taking off? Maybe they were able to fly without wings!

Awesome fact btw

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then there'd be one really deep print as they kicked off.

[–] yogurtwrong 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But what if they had a organelle which generated helium and made them slowly float

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Hydrogen.

You can't generate helium unless you have a fusion reactor.

Actually, nuclear powered flying T. rex sounds cool, so let's go with it.