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We are worried about bringing back the mammoth (of course, while still killing everything else off) but I cant help but think a saddled up car-sized millipede c
by thghtihadanacct 5y ago
We are worried about bringing back the mammoth (of course, while still killing everything else off) but I cant help but think a saddled up car-sized millipede could get you around town like nothing else.
- lliamander 5y agoIt's the length of a car, not the size of a car. Still the mental image is entertaining (but mostly horrifying).
- chrisseaton 5y agoAnd it's a British car, so half the length of an American one.
- thghtihadanacct 5y agoIll ride it ... my bike still smaller.
- mbg721 5y agoDoes it come in Racing Green?
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- thghtihadanacct 5y agoDont need to make any other sound ... I wonder if millipedes make sound ... I hate splitting lanes with people on harleys since they still think making noise is useful. A pissed off millipede tho ...
- Someone 5y agoAnd not even that. FTA: “a creature thought to be three times as long — measuring 2.7 meters long (nearly 9 feet)” A fiat 500 Cinquecento, at 2.97 m, already is longer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500), and that’s a very small car, by current standards. The new Fiat 500 is 3.55 m, almost 20% longer. It’s more like a microcar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcar) or the electric Citroen Ami As to weight, it indeed is lighter, much lighter. FTA: “and weighing about 50 kilograms”
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoYou just need two, one for each foot.
- Pxtl 5y agoI feel like the megafauna that were eradicated by homo sapiens are fair game to try to resurrect. I mean, they're only gone because cro magnons got carried away slaying furry dragons.
- thghtihadanacct 5y agoI hear ya, its just unfortunate, but come on, a giant rideable millipede? Id trade my zero in less than that many seconds
- _carbyau_ 5y agoI think it'd be cool.. ..but practicality ran the horse out from that role. Compared to your zero the millipede would have... outputs.
- lumost 5y agoIt does make you wonder if the near ubiquitous dragon myth originated from megafauna hunts.
- pantalaimon 5y agoI thought it was dinosaur fossils
- neetrain 5y agoIsn't discovery of giant dinosaur fossils common before the Renaissance?
- bryanrasmussen 5y agothere are other theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book)
- jmnicolas 5y agoI have a hard time believing the disappearing of the mega fauna is solely due to homo sapiens: if it was the case there should be a few pockets of them remaining in the world. For example in western Europe bears were hunted to extinction before the middle ages, but you can still find bears in Russia and in the US.
- shepherdjerred 5y agoMay his passing cleanse the world
- me_me_mu_mu 5y agoI’d rather have pterodactyls so we can fly places in an environmentally friendly way. I miss the flintstones cartoons from when I was a child.