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[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Why wouldn't they lower their head to vomit? Everything does...

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Perhaps through the evidence of a crater, and it's depth in the type of ground in which it was found, is enough for scientists to determine these creatures actually threw up fully erect, not unlike the night I lost my virginity.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

threw up fully erect

It's called an orgasm

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 3 points 2 days ago

I've had my orgasm all over the kitchen floor after downing a litre of mead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Or it threw up over the ledge; a lot of animals puke over the edge of something

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[–] credo 14 points 4 days ago

Sometimes you just don’t have time man.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

how else would you crush your enemies with vomit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Speak for yourself

[–] victorz 2 points 3 days ago

I elongate my neck when I puke, like a turtle. Not sure about you. I do however bend over by the waist/hips.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Hate to be that guy and ruin everyone's fun but this is science memes, dinosaurs like that would not have there head up like that. They rarely raised there head above there shoulders.

According to Kent Stevens, computer-modeled reconstructions of the skeletons made from the vertebrae indicate that sauropod necks were capable of sweeping out large feeding areas without needing to move their bodies, but were unable to be retracted to a position much above the shoulders for exploring the area or reaching higher.

Yeah, that classic image of tall sauropods 🦕 is probably wrong. Also like someone else mentioned they wouldve probably lowered there head anyway to vomit.

[–] ikidd 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I'm impressed that you managed to misspell "their" every time there. The only correct spelling was in the quoted text.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So I went and stalked them. They largely ignore that ‘their’ exists, which is amazing, since their texts are otherwise near-perfect English.

A few examples of their using ‘their’: 1

[F]or the police to chase their had to be a reasonable suspicion […]

2

Their approval among there base of shias has only gone up since the conflict started

3

[…] let people know about their bias […]

[–] victorz 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Like, I want to up vote the fact checking, but I want to down vote the careless grammar. I'm so torn.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Make a second account and do both.

[–] victorz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Make a new account and do two (three) pieces of work instead of no work for the same net result. 🤔🎱🙂‍↔️

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly! Maximum effort for no result.

It's like a management position

[–] victorz 1 points 2 days ago

Well you got me there. And I bet it pays considerably more too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

+1 for consistency.

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[–] Meron35 24 points 3 days ago

Actually, the science does not seem to be settled, with there being controversy about the specific neck posture.

Sauropod neck posture - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropod_neck_posture

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Same thing with giraffes.

It's a huge misconception of unrealistic biomechanics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That giraffe is drinking.

When they're not intentionally bending down to reach something low down like a water hole, they look like this:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is vertical propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Look I can keep posting photos I've taken of giraffes all day. All you have to say is "please post more giraffe pics"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice deep fake! You can't trick me!

[–] flames5123 7 points 3 days ago

Are you talking about puking or just how they hold themselves? Because if it’s the later, have you ever been to a zoo? They clearly walk around with their necks held at like a 60-45 degree angle up from their spine. We can look up pictures of this in modern day too.

[–] Neon 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Giraffes literally have a rubber-like band tht keeps their head vertical at rest.

So yes, they do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let me guess, next you're gonna claim the Egyptians already invented rubber bands to keep their brachiosaurs upright? Not falling for it.

[–] Neon 4 points 3 days ago

Almost. They actually stole it from the Aliens that they enslaved to build the pyramids.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do we even know if they were capable of vomiting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seeing how both us and birds can vomit, probably. I imagine that developed very early. If you eat something harmful, you're dead if you can't vomit. If you don't have the brainpower to identify safe and harmful things, you're pretty screwed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Didn' know birds can vomit. Horses can't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Horses are probably the single most fucked up animal on the planet, with maybe the sole exception of Przewaski's horse. Seriously we fucked them up so badly, like im pretty sure if every dog was a badly fucked up as horses they would be a hybrid of American bulldogs, Bull terriers, and chihuahuas.

This is to say never use a horse as a barometer for anything when it comes to standard functions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Huh. I might be totally wrong. I thought they could but I'm not really that knowledgeable on that.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Some things you just don't want to be remembered by history for.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Brachiosaurus puke crater" is an excellent band name

[–] motor_spirit 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Sold out. Tetrapod Vomit Divot is still playing down the street, however.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

"Puke crater" alone describes the magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Try explaining that one after death.

"How'd you die? I got eaten by a T-Rex!"

"I, um well, I...I was going for a walk to find food and I know following this big guy who never eats the lower stuff is great, he cant reach it and the bugs that fall off the trees hes eating are great! As I was munching on a fleeing bug, the big guy burps and I looked up to see him puke. No matter how fast I tried to scurry away the goo was too much and it squished me flat"

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, hopefully you have better luck on this side"

[–] DrMoronicAcid 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This reminds me of a similar paper - "pressures produced when penguins poo"

[–] latenightnoir 12 points 4 days ago

Heeey, now I don't feel so bad about my University days, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Why have I had to wait two and a half years to receive this important information?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I’m impressed someone thought about this question

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Needs more jpeg.

[–] LovableSidekick 4 points 3 days ago

Police investigators are on the scene dusting for regurgitant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok sure. But how many keg stands would they do before vomiting?

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