Dinosaurs were around before Saturn had rings.

Saturn's rings are around 150 mio. years old.

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Aremel@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 2y

Now THAT is a shower thought.

downpunxx@fedia.io · 51 pts · 2y (9 replies)

all the dino dust was ejected into space and settled around saturn

fubbernuckin@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I have to know if this picture already existed or if you just made that because it's perfect

fubbernuckin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's not mine (unfortunately). I don't have an original bone in my body. See these bones? They're actually someone else's.

Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Why are you using someone else's bones and why can I see your bones?!?!

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y

Clearly you can see it's an old picture, from the ages when people actually drew/photoshopped new things, before memes were 100% made up of Drake and Wojak variations.

/boomerposting

ConditionOverload@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (3 replies)

This is that Charlie Kelley kind of logic.

AlbinoPython@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I don't know enough about planetary rings and dinosaurs to dispute it.

ConditionOverload@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

But what about Denim T-Rex?

gerbler@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Is dinosaur law just a precursor to bird law?

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y

more of a TIL than a shower thought

doesn’t make me any less cool

mipadaitu@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y

Interesting thought, but the rings may be older than that, and they may be reoccurring. That's just an estimate based on a range calculated in a recent study.

https://www.universetoday.com/161444/saturns-rings-are-much-younger-than-the-planet/

There's a lot more learning to do.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 2y

If they liked it, then they should have put a ring on it.

fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 2y

blows my mind every time I come across this trivia. thank you for sharing

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

So the dinosaurs all died of disappointment?

alquicksilver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Nah, most of them moved to Saturn after they got married.

sxan@midwest.social · 13 pts · 2y

What blows my mind even more is that, when dinosaurs existed*, the solar system was on the other side of our galaxy.

(*) Dinos were around for a really long time, so it was largely during the Cretaceous when the solar system was on the opposite side.

BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y

I also often calculate things like that in the shower

not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Dios mío, man.

BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · -12 pts · 2y

I also often calculate things like that in the shower