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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago
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    Can you imagine being stuck in the dawn of human agriculture, and you seek shelter in a nice cave that you found… And then a Giant Sloth just lumbers in after a bit.

    I mean, I imagine any Homo species of the time would know not to go inside one of these, but still.

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      So not giant sloths specifically, but Australian Aboriginals have oral histories describing megafauna that went extinct around the same time period

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        wow, that implies an aboriginal oral history spanning at least 40,000 years if true

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      Megatheriums were herbivores, so it would be like spending the night with an elephant.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium#Ecology

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        I hear what you’re saying, and I recognize anyone inside would be safe from being eaten… However, as with an elephant, I wouldn’t want to be woken up in the middle of the night having intruded upon their home.

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          nah they’d be chill. They’d be like “waaat” and make some initial annoyed sounds at first, but then once you pull out the bong they’d settle down real quick

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            Giant Sloths high as fuck… Would that make the super sloths, or go the opposite way and speed them up?

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      Sounds a lot like Minecraft.

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