We live closer in time to Tyrannosaurus rex than it did to Stegosaurus.
@Sheril Not if John Hammond has anything to say about it.
@Sheril @UrsaAshBear Not if Ken Ham has anything to say about it, too!
@UrsaAshBear @stribley Two very different characters, but both true.
@UrsaAshBear @Sheril I’m not sure which is more sinister 🤔
@UrsaAshBear How interesting! I learn something new every day.

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I tried explaining that to a six year old once. Push back was INTENSE. 🦖 😖

@Sheril hah, take that, steg
@Sheril I don’t know why people say that when there’s so much credible irrefutable evidence from the best science labs, and of course Ken Ham who would never lie and deliberately take advantage of stupid people just to build a super lame theme park that Jesus rode dinosaurs.
@Sheril but they look so cool together in Fantasia
@Sheril why you do this to me... choosing violence

@Sheril #TopFact.

Also, if we're at home to being pedantic, that dinosaur on the right could well be an Allosaurus instead of a T Rex, since it lived in the late Jurassic alongside Stegosaurus and had three fingers instead of two.

@Sheril And yet both could have watched The Rolling Stones perform
@Sheril @lisamelton i love things like this. Another example: Cleopatra lived closer to our time than she did to when the Great Pyramid was built.

@Sheril and Sirius the dog star was born about the time Tyrannosaurus evolved!

timelines are cool i wish more people shared logarithmic timelines of stuffs

@Sheril full reply-guy mode: that thing has 3 fingers instead of two and is likely an allosaurus instead of a t-rex. Allosaurus was a contemporary of the Stegosaurus in late Jurassic. You can block me now I deserve it.
@jesse @Sheril I’m pretty sure that is a sharp-tooth, not an allosaurus.
@RadiantPumpkin @jesse @Sheril I was today years old when I realized it was “sharp-tooth” and not “shark-tooth.”
@Sheril @lisamelton I honestly think about this way more often than I probably should.
@Sheril That can't be true. There is a photo of them together right there!
@Sheril must have been a long fight then
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Humans can’t handle time scales outside their own life spans very well.
Also tried to explain to my daughter that the metamorphic rocks she was collecting were older than the dinosaurs. She found it cool.
@Sheril we just passed that milestone a few weeks ago, right? :)
@Sheril seems fitting, as we appear to becoming fossils the way things are going.
@Sheril #explore society is becoming more transactional, you don't really see people paying it forward, or commemoratively! Its very true more in a T-Rex times.