• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 months ago

    mega-birdos

    Pterosaurs weren’t birds; they weren’t even dinosaurs.

    I reckon if you gave me a bit of armor of some sort, a good knife and a baseball bat, I could take one on.

    Yeah, try that with a cassowary. Or even an ostrich or an emu. Australia lost two wars to emus. (Again, pterosaurs weren’t birds, but since you’re using birds as a comparison…)

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      8 months ago

      No, they’re not even avians, I know that. I thought the use of the word “birdo” implied a degree of me not being entirely serious.

      You know what emus and ostriches are though? Flightless.

      An ostrich can be half the weight of one of these things.

      They’ll maul you.

      And again, a hypothetical scenario where I had to pick between what is essentially an overgrown seagull vs a turbocharged ostrich of 100 times the ostrich’s size (t-rex).

      Like one of those “who would you rather fuck” hypotheticals. Entirely made up and unrealistic, but I can still have a preference.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Again, pterosaurs weren’t birds

      The closest thing we have around are bats. But bats are weirdly peaceful and most people have no idea of how well they can maneuver.