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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
This meme is bullshit, they aren’t just eyeballing it. They analyze bones for muscle attachments and do modeling and shit
They used to model dinos after lizards which have the skin stretched over their bones for the most part. That was decades ago, but the anemic dinosaur art lives on.
Yes, modern reconstructions take into account muscle tissue and the fact that dinos were not just giant lizards.
Yes they used to not know what they were doing before they figured out what they were doing
Science is a process. Just because it's improved today doesn't mean it's perfect.
It could be that all of the lifeforms the aliens have ever seen had that shrink-wrapped look, so they'd have no reason to look for muscle attachments
Which will be our trump card used to defeat them in the coming human versus alien war.