Charlie StrossMay 19

FIGHT!

Who wins, one-on-one:

(EDIT: it's in a space opera, the unicorns are GM horses, the raptors are modified birds. Boring, I know: no magic, no rainbows! But also starships and robots …)

Unicorns
40.5%
Utahraptor (like a big velociraptor)
59.5%
Poll ended at .
Show threadpatterMay 19
@cstross what next, Ohioraptor, Oklahomaraptor?
Show threadCharlie Stross
@patterfloof Actual velociraptors were much smaller than in Jurassic Park—about the size of a medium-large dog. Whereas I'm assuming a unicorn is equine-adjacent in size, pony to horse.
May 19 at 7:36pmWeb
Show threadTim BrayMay 19
@cstross @patterfloof Few know this, but real unicorns, unlike the ones in story books, are actually 10m long & weigh 600kg and up. Their front teeth and hooves have razor-sharp serrated edges.
Show threadBrian MarickMay 19

@timbray @cstross @patterfloof They're descended from Wolfe's destriers in Book of the New Sun.

... destriers haha didn't have to look that one up; they're horses... ok Severian is riding one, cool... what do you mean, "claws"? .... wait, "fangs"?

Show threadTomMay 20

@timbray @cstross @patterfloof
@marick

And, if the Met Police Special Assessment Unit are to believed, sometimes invisible.