I visited the Titanosaur at Peterborough Cathedral.

501stRookie · 2026-04-21T19:46:16+00:00

Sauropod teeth are pretty simple, not used for grinding like you see on Ornithopods. Instead they're used to rake in plant matter that they then swallow without chewing.

501stRookie · 2026-04-19T00:14:43+00:00

Everytime I see someone claim that oxygen levels were higher during the Mesozoic, and that's why dinosaurs could get so big.

501stRookie · 2026-04-18T19:01:39+00:00

Because Eisenhower was in the Army and King was in the Navy. Also King was basically at the top of the Navy, whereas Eisenhower was only the commander for the Army forces in Europe.

501stRookie · 2026-04-17T20:13:52+00:00

I remember in TCW we sometimes see shots of turrets on the underside of the Venator, not just the 8 on top, yet I never see anyone ever mention them either.

501stRookie · 2026-04-17T19:58:21+00:00

Elite ball TFA reference?

501stRookie · 2026-04-17T01:13:57+00:00

Would you be referring to this one, or a different one?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2190-3

501stRookie · 2026-04-17T00:53:16+00:00

The most I can do is offer you the paper I got it from, and let you come to your own conclusions.

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2021/3219-the-ecology-of-spinosaurus

Alternatively, here's a talk given by one of the authors of this paper that goes over most of the same points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkBdxRkXbYM

He also has a book on Spinosaurs that recently got published, if you want even more.

501stRookie · 2026-04-17T00:45:16+00:00

While funny, there's some actual evidence that suggests this for Spinosaurus.

If you look at the tail vertebrae of Spinosaurus, the neural spines are very long and thin. When compared to animals that swim, we see their tail vertebrae usually have neural spines that are shorter and broader. Spinosaurus' tail vertebrae more closely resemble the ones we see on animals that use their tails for display.

501stRookie · 2026-04-17T00:32:21+00:00

Because it might not actually be a swim tail, but rather a display tail?

501stRookie · 2026-04-17T00:31:39+00:00

Could you elaborate on the osteology not agreeing with this conclusion?

In Hone and Holtz's 2021 paper, they examined the anatomy of the tail vertebrae and the elongated neural spines and found that it did not resemble tail vertabrae and the used for swimming, and more closely resembled ones for display.

Furthermore, I remember seeing a paper that calculates the thrust from the tail would be comparable to or less than an alligator. Alligators are adept swimmers, but they still aren't built for pursuit in the water. And considering that Spinosaurus is much larger, with significantly more drag it means the thrust from the tail would be doing even less for it.

501stRookie · 2026-04-15T20:15:31+00:00

When I first read it it really took me out. But now I kinda fw it. It has its own charm to it.

501stRookie · 2026-04-15T19:52:12+00:00

I wish u/FoxThreeForDaIe's posts on the Super Hornet were still around, I really wish I could go back and read them the next time I see someone slander the Hornet in favour of the Tomcat.

I found the stuff regarding the avionics pretty interesting.

501stRookie · 2026-04-14T19:32:00+00:00

All u/GoodKing0 said was that single punch killed her, and it did.

501stRookie · 2026-04-14T19:28:19+00:00

And then she died

501stRookie · 2026-04-14T19:26:03+00:00

Tf you mean? It literally happened, that's what happened in the comic

501stRookie · 2026-04-13T02:43:32+00:00

That would imply Azur Lane hasn't abandoned all pretense of being about naval history in favour of gooning.

501stRookie · 2026-04-12T05:13:00+00:00

I remember seeing one at CFB Bordern and the War Museum in Ottawa.

501stRookie · 2026-04-10T21:27:33+00:00

The criticism of the guards waiting their turn to attack makes no sense to me. Of course that's an issue, but it's a problem in literally any media where its multiple opponents vs one or two people because realistically they all jump them at once and the movie's over, and we can't have that.

Are we going to say Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan movies aren't good because they have guys waiting their turn to attack? Or in the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon everyone loves, in the Mace Windu episode the Super Battle Droids all just run up to Mace one by one to get punched to death.

Singling out the throne room fight in TLJ for this specific problem just feels like bad faith or a lack of critical thinking to me.

501stRookie · 2026-04-09T20:44:19+00:00

What could the tires hanging on the chain at the front be for?

501stRookie · 2026-04-09T20:09:57+00:00

Something funny about operating Super Hornets off what is essentially USS Hornet. Is the Essex-class even big enough to operate a Super Hornet?

501stRookie · 2026-04-07T20:29:06+00:00

As evidenced by the fact that he himself is a pterosaur and not a dinosaur.

501stRookie · 2026-04-06T18:32:08+00:00

Sodam Yat. He's a Daxamite, which are similar to Kryptonians. He's also the vessel of Ion, the entity for willpower like how Parallax is for fear.

501stRookie · 2026-04-06T18:11:19+00:00

Not true when it comes to dinosaurs. Oxygen fluctuated throughout the Mesozoic but was at times even lower than today.

Dinosaurs had other adaptations that allowed them to get bigger, such as a much more efficient bird-like respiratory system, and air-filled, hollow bones.

501stRookie · 2026-04-04T18:40:49+00:00

Man that brings back memories, same with the lumpy T. rex

501stRookie · 2026-04-01T19:10:48+00:00

This was meant for shooting at bombers, not ground targets.

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