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Okay so my thought goes as following: Some birds are known for having a feeling of rythm and can be seen swinging along with music. Birds are somewhat related to dinosaurs. So if you could travel to the past with some nice music, there is a non 0 chance that you could dance with some dinosaurs (before being eaten).

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

Birds aren't somewhat related to dinosaurs, birds ARE dinosaurs. You can have a dinosaur dance party right now with a bunch of cockatiels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I have a small flock of chickens and I feel so called out right now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Since dinosaurs are somewhat related to birds and birds sing, there is a non 0 chance that you could have a karaoke party with dinosaurs (before being eaten).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh my gosh, brb gonna invent time travel to teach a T-Rex the phrase "Poly wants a cracker" or die trying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure you'd die REALLY quickly.

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

"AHHHH!!!! DON'T BRING THOSE MONSTERS OVER HERE!!!"

"They're not Monsters, they're animals. These ones are herbavores. Think of them like a big giant cow."

"I like cows....."

OF COARSE YOU LIKE COWS!!! COWS ARE AMAZING!!! DOGS ONLY ARE KNOWN AS MANS BEST FRIEND BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE SPACE TO HANG OUT WITH COWS ALL DAY!!!

All that being said, if we time traveled to dinosaur times, and got dinosaurs to dance? Well....we BETTER be playing "Get up, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur!"

Otherwise, what are we even doing here???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t breathing be an issue? Plus all the foreign bacteria, viruses, spores, etc?
Perhaps a very short and unpleasant dance party.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The oxygen level was slightly higher back then, but nothing that would kill a human. But yeah airborne pathogens would be a problem, maybe wear a hazmat suit (with active personal climate control) to the dance party.

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

maybe wear a hazmat suit (with active personal climate control)

They HAVE those??? Shit.....forget dinosaurs, with how global warming is going I need one just for waiting for the bus in the summer. I had no idea we could have air condition suits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There are solutions like https://en.gazdetect.com/ventilated-chemical-suit/ and I read about some that are kind of build like a fridge (with cooling liquid pumped through tubes and a radiator). I was not able to find examples for those, but I blame the decline of search engines for that 😜

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I wanna teach them to square dance