• @[email protected]
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    32 months ago

    I will admit I had to scroll back up (or do a double take) to realize this was no real.

    That is sad.

    • Baggins
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      12 months ago

      So you know the difference between. Wyvern and a dragon then?

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        Basically and I think also from a Joe Rogan podcast. My Christian high school also taught about them in science class and pulled photos from shady websites to convince people most of whom actually believed it.

  • @[email protected]
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    202 months ago

    You know the weird shit about this headline? If it hadn’t been from The Onion, this could have been a real statement from RFK Jr.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Years ago, I would have immediately recognised this as an Onion article. Today, I have to admit that I didn’t recognise it before clicking on the link and seeing the page.

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        21 month ago

        Recently there’s been multiple onion articles that made my heart drop in the moments before realizing it was the onion.

        And then one actually wound up being true days later

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      As I was scrolling the post up and read the headline, I was completely ready to believe it actually happened until I scrolled enough to see the link to the onion.

  • @[email protected]
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    Dragons exist, they are called attack helicopters.

    This isn’t a reference to that shitty gender joke, it is just an observation that dragons are reptile attack helicopters with their range nerfed.

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      32 months ago

      Hmm. I’m not entirely sold that a flamethrower would be an effective weapon against a modern main battle tank.

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        Do you have ANY idea how hot a typical dragon fireball is??

        Besides, Fire Dragons are mostly cooks, glassblowers and welders.

        Anti-Tank Dragons are most typically Rust Dragons or Mud Dragons.

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          Do you have ANY idea how hot a typical dragon fireball is??

          Hmm. No, I don’t.

          considers

          Hmm. I mean, it’s orange, right? So figure black-body radiation determines the color.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation

          So maybe something like 2000°F, 1100°C?

          But I’m more thinking that a tank probably has a lot of thermal mass, and I figure that the dragon probably isn’t keeping sustained fire on the thing for all that long. I mean, I’ve no doubt that dragon fire would be horrific in an anti-personnel role, but against heavy armor? It’s gonna take a lot of energy to heat that up.

          EDIT: I feel like a “how would the 1st Armored Division do against Smaug” would be a good [email protected] question.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 months ago

            Does the dragon fire deplete the tank of oxygen?

            That could cause engine issues and crew issues, depending on duration.

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            I am sorry… but you do know all Fire Dragons are classified under Magma Breathers right? Do you honestly think dragons shit on their entire food chain, topple kingdoms and hoard rich people stuff, gems, jewels, rubies, the swords of kings… just to emphasize how little they give af… by blowing hot air?

            Yes Fire Dragons can easily blow hot air the way a roaring fire can easily blow hot air up into the sky, but if you think that is all Fire Dragons can do you need to educate yourself.

            No, they create a quantum tunnel to the heart of a nearby magma chamber and then dispense it directly onto the face of whatever they want to melt, I feel silly even having to explain this honestly.

            Prove me wrong and drive a tank through this I dare you

            https://youtu.be/grVuuaecwgA

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    Chinese propaganda depicting dragons as ‘lame floating snakes with mustaches’. I’m so offended! 😆

  • @[email protected]
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    62 months ago

    I fully ate the Onion with the headline. Absolutely no doubt, just resignation. Only coincidentally saw the community.