Yeah this seems easy. Chill out in your indestructible hut and eat some hot Cheetos for a month, wait for the T-Rex to starve to death. Come out a millionaire.
Research suggests a T-Rex would need 50-100k kCal/day. Even if it ate a whole cow before starting, it would be hurting a week in.
Maybe it could survive the month, but would probably be severely malnourished at that point.
In any event, there is no mention of what happens if I fail to kill it. Does the experiment just end and I go home empty handed, or does the magic hut disappear and we fight it out to the death?
Seems like a reasonable assumption is that it gets 90-95% of its BMR per day; that is, its fed enough to stay alive for a long while, but it us on a duet and chronically hungry.
If you fail to kill it and survive, yeah seems like going home empty handed is the safe assumption.
Whenever the trex is far from the hut, taunt it into charging me, then run to safety. Do this all day, everyday for a month. Let it exhaust itself. Consider dirtying the knife and planting it blade pointing up outside the hut door as a makeshift infectious caltrop. Either it dies of exhaustion or infection.
I implore anyone thinking of trying this to consider that the Tyrannosaurus rex measured up to 43 feet long, stood about 12 to 13 feet tall at the hip, and weighed roughly 4 to 9 metric tons. Its skull alone could weigh up to 600 pounds, and it had a bite force estimated at 35,000 to 57,000 newtons.
You would be better off with a TSA-approved blade against a Bengal tiger. There is no amount of strategic planning that can compensate for your being so incredibly outclassed that you’d have a better chance at building the first antigravity spaceship in your invincible hut within that same month.
You would never take it in a straight fight, but there's a very good reason why humans absolutely dominate every animal on earth - our intelligence. The original post is too light on details, but in basically every scenario there almost certainly is some possible way to win that could be figured out.
the Tyrannosaurus rex measured up to 43 feet long, stood about 12 to 13 feet tall at the hip, and weighed roughly 4 to 9 metric tons. Its skull alone could weigh up to 600 pounds, and it had a bite force estimated at 35,000 to 57,000 newtons.
Now imagine the animal is exhausted, injured, hasn't eaten for a month and is asleep, and you're in for a 500 million USD reward. IDK that I'd take the chance, but it seems possible if you're relatively fit and knowledgable about hunting.
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I said a straight fight. Meaning just body fighting against body plus a short knife. There's tons of other ways to kill an animal. Poison collected from plants or other animals, starvation, dehydration, traps, pits, fashioning arrows, spears, causing infections, and on and on
Convo about what animals we could fight in a 1 v 1 fight came up, and a buddy chimed in with some solid piece of wisdom on the matter:
"If you think you're gonna lose, then you're gonna lose. Thinking you can win doesn't guarantee a win, but its impossible to win if you don't think you can."
Punji sticks. Me use poop and sharpness. Give big lizard tiny microbe. Big infection. Me eat meat and watch it slowly die painful horrible death weak from no food or water.
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why humans absolutely dominate every animal on earth - our intelligence.
We like to think that about ourselves, but in my opinion, that’s not the whole truth. After all, there are other intelligent life forms as well (though it’s certainly debatable whether they’re just as intelligent, “differently” intelligent, or simply less intelligent). The key reason why we, in combination with our intelligence, dominate the planet is, in my opinion, cooperation within social groups beyond the (extended) family. Religions, states, laws… all mental constructs we use to ensure that we can cooperate within massive groups. As far as I know, no one else does this.
In our scenario here, this crucial component is missing: While a human is (quite likely) more intelligent than the T-Rex, he is, after all, just one individual, and his true strength lies in the community. If we were to place 50 people together in this setting, I believe there would be significantly less doubt about the outcome.
Also our ability to run long distances. I have no idea on the speed of a T-Rex, but it may be possible to have it chase you long enough to wear it out.
Due to the mass of T Rex (4-6 tons) it would theoretically top out at 10-15mph, the same run speed of a trained marathon runner putting some effort in. An athlete could outrun a T Rex briefly, and the exertion would probably dissuade it from chasing for long.
T Rex predated upon slow, large herbivores. I think a hit & run tactic would eventually wear it down.
there's a very good reason why humans absolutely dominate every animal on earth - our intelligence
Gonna have to slight disagree on this one. I've always found out ability to organize and communicate in generalist situations to be far more valuable than individual intelligence (though that's also nothing to shrug at compared to other animals).
Naw, part of me is wondering if you'd be more likely to succeed in a 1-on-1 with the knife or a 3-on-1 unarmed. I still can't think of a good strategy, but I feel like wed stand a better chance that just any one of us out there.
I'm thinking of trying to start some kind of rope making operation in the hut (VERY wild card assumption that the resources for this would be available). If you and your two buddies could make enough rope to hog tie the Rex, then successfully did the thing while it slept, maybe you could also build some level of choker for it to suffocate the beast?
Idk, but I know that'd be a lot of rope. Gotta get multiple people on the task.
That might work. You could probably use multiple people to set up a trap and bait the beast in. There are definitely more options when you have more people to work with.
"organize and communicate in generalist situations"
So, intelligence? Humans didn't develop big brains for playing chess and doing theoretical physics, and most animal species that are considered "smart" are social (e.g. crows, most whales).
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Feels like a different flavor of "intelligence" since one is problem solving focused ("how do a beat an unbearable for with minimal gear") while the other is waiting for "triggers" and having "responses" ready ("I'm at my spot and need to wait for guy #2 to run past to drop the anvil") and then not freezing if one of the triggers is slightly off.
So anyway, in general, both probably count as intelligence, but in this specific case, I think its worth differentiating one from the other. The best organizer/team player is not gonna stand out when working alone, while the most intelligent problem solver may not be able to work on a team.
Sure, but the thing is, humans dominate every known animal in both. The way primitive humans (probably) lived, they needed to be both competent at individual problem solving and group coordination.
But fair, it's quite telling that this "human vs. t-rex" problem isn't presented as a group effort, but as "one vs. one". Many modern humans have deluded themselves into thinking that the greatest people work alone.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:43 AM)
Humans hunted wooly mammoths to extinction, and we'd do the same to T Rexes. 7 tons of mass is all well and good until a monkey who spent the last evening whittling a spear chucks it into your side from dozens of meters away.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 5:12 PM)
It's actually a single murder chicken the size of a mammoth, who can't retaliate to ranged attacks once I'm in my shelter, nor run away from me. I like my odds way more than team hunting mammoth herds.
Also: Big animals can be surprisingly stealthy. Elephants can sneak up on you when you're not looking.
Everytime you leave that hut and don't look at the Rex because you are busy digging or doing something else, you're in grave danger that it sneaks up on you. It's not gonna boom with every step like in Jurassic Park.
Hollywood’s favorite predator has a fatal physics problem: if a T. rex ever tried to sprint, its own massive weight would literally cause its leg bones to buckle and snap.
But What if T-Rex did not run? What if it just walked, but covered a lot of ground because of its long legs? The mechanical stress on the bones would have been much less severe if it didn’t get airborne while moving.
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Find a big artery close to the skin surface, sever it.
Have you seen a headless chicken freaking out and running around before bleeding out and dying? Now imagine that, except the chicken is 12 m tall, weighs 8 metric tonnes, still has its head, and that head is full of teeth the size of a kitchen knife.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:57 AM)
I would be very surprised if a T-Rex had any major artery close enough to its skin to get pierced by a standard hunting knife. That would've been a major evolutionary flaw considering the other animals they were up against.
That really depends on the shape of the animal and how it's hunting. E.g. leopards, tigers or most predatory birds don't have a well-protected neck at all, and it's probably not shaped like an elephant seal.
Finding that artery first try is going to be rather difficult, though.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 3:08 PM)
lol, I think within the last week here on Lemmy there was a story from someone working at an animal rescue about a hawk that got too fat to fly. It had been nomming on some local free-range chickens and someone found the too-fat-to-fly hawk and called the rescue.
If at the end of the time, I was able to walk free without consequence, I would take the challenge, and spend time observing the behaviour of the beast. How fast does it move? How deeply does it sleep? Does it go torpid? Does it overheat?
I feel like there may be a way to do it. If not, well, i had a month of vacation.
Do I get to choose the food and can I use it towards the production of improvised weapons, including chemical and bio weapons? Can I stay in the hut and throw things outside the hut?
If yes, sure.
Alternatively: is the t-rex provided food during this time?
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 9:35 AM)
If I can choose the food I'll eat 120 barrels of ammonium nitrate stored extremely closely together, 1 ton of tnt, percussion caps, enough wire to rig it all and a firing unit that leads into my indestructible bunker.
Shockwaves can go through solid objects without destroying them and still harming people on the other side. I would want more clarity on the indestructibility of the hut.
I think some of the other suggestions are better, but my first thought was burying the knife in its food supply (assumings it's being given like entire dead cows or something) and hoping it takes a big enough bite to swallow it.
I imagine that blade going through the digestive track has a good chance to kill it.
Meh, the esophagus is certainly tough enough for that but stomach acid can do a number on bones. The story is different for metal depending on stuff I don't know much about, but I imagine a quality blade would stand a good chance. And intestines should be softer than bone. And depending on how fast they digest, you might get a few tries at least... Idk I think it's a decent plan really
I would wait and hide, allowing the T-Rex to tire itself out. Then one night, when the T-Rex was especially tired and soundly asleep, I would carefully climb into the T-Rex’s cloaca. There I would stay for the rest of the month.
That’s it, you can keep the 500 million. I’ve already won.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:08 AM)
I would just sit it out, theres nothing i can do about it. The one exception is if the food i get can be used to make weapons and stuff. I might kill it in a month if i can do that.
I'm reading thru, and I understand that this thing was as talk as 200 standard sized ice creme cones with mandibles that exerted a good 2975.66634234Newton inches per racoon squared. But did you say, 1 month free room and board plus food? I'll bring my own WiFi. Sure, let's do this. The hut is indestructible and has working plumbing?
I'd use the knife to cut branches and turn them into spears. Carve them really nice and pointy. I'd poop on the ground and smear the tips of my spears in my own feces. I'd find a way to sneak up on it while it is eating or sleeping or doing whatever. Throw my spears as hard as possible and as many of them as needed to make sure at least some of them hit the target. Then wait.
My biggest problem is that I am as atheltic as a potato, so I'd probably not be able to throw it far enough and hard enough to penetrate the skin. Depending, of course, on where thr heck I am positioned during the attack. If I am somehow able to be perched in a tree or on a tall rock before attacking, then maybe I am at an advantage. I could be supliment the spears with blow darts, also covered in poop, if I have the time to develop and use that tool properly. Ideally, I would like a bow an arrow, but I dont believe I'd have the skill and time to make a more advanced tool like a bow. One month isn't a very long time, after all.
Since T-rexes more than likely had feathers instead of the scaly
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I'd use the knife to cut branches and turn them into spears. Carve them really nice and pointy. I'd poop on the ground and smear the tips of my spears in my own feces. I'd find a way to sneak up on it while it is eating or sleeping or doing whatever. Throw my spears as hard as possible and as many of them as needed to make sure at least some of them hit the target. Then wait.
My biggest problem is that I am as atheltic as a potato, so I'd probably not be able to throw it far enough and hard enough to penetrate the skin. Depending, of course, on where thr heck I am positioned during the attack. If I am somehow able to be perched in a tree or on a tall rock before attacking, then maybe I am at an advantage. I could be supliment the spears with blow darts, also covered in poop, if I have the time to develop and use that tool properly. Ideally, I would like a bow an arrow, but I dont believe I'd have the skill and time to make a more advanced tool like a bow. One month isn't a very long time, after all.
Since T-rexes more than likely had feathers instead of the scaly skin we associate them with, there is a good chance, the spear/blow dart would be able to penetrate the skin - if my aim, strength and speed wasn't total shit.
I would also have to do all of this within the first week and attack it repeatedly to make sure it got infected beyond what its immune system could repair by itself. I have no idea how long it would take for a T-rex to die of sepsis, but the earlier it is hit, the better.
When you are smaller than your prey, you have to think of how smaller creature becomes a threat to bigger creatures. Poison is almost always the answer. The only poison we have ready avaiable, is our feces.
More than likely, I would totally fail in a real scenario and stay in my indestructable hut the entire time.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:44 AM)
I was thinking a pungee pit, but yeah a month is no time at all for that kind of thing. You might be able to bait it into a spike wall if it's aggressive enough, but it might not be.
Do not leave the hut. Eat like an animal and throw your shit from the hut at the T-Rex's face. Hopefully it will get sick and perish on it's own from explosive T-Rex diarrhea.
Nile crocodiles eat about once a week on average and can eat twice a year and survive. I wouldn't count on a t-rex expiring from hunger in a month. Maybe from all the new germs, if it was time-traveled in, but not starvation.
It doesn't say the food you are given is for you either. You could be given a month's supply of food for the Trex that you can't eat. Can't be here clipping people's assumptions, this question is more of "yes and" situation
Humans used to hunt mammoths, and these fuckers don't even have a thick layer of fur armor. We used to hunt mammoths, because we were so fucking good at it we killed every last one of them.
I'm using my knife and making an atlatl, some spears smeared in shit, and I'm going hunting. Every time this bastard goes to sleep, he's getting a spear with a side of gangrene lodged in him. Fucker's missed out on 60 million years of techtree development, and has no reply to ranged strikes.
The real problem is we dont know what a live T-Rex looks like. It could have fur or feathers, it could have wings or wild talons on its hands. What are the odds their arms are as useless as we think they are for real?
I don't care if is has feathers, or long grabby arms, I'm waiting for it to fall asleep, and chucking a spear at it, and running, every single time until it dies of bloodloss, gangrene, or exhaustion.
Does the T Rex even understand what I did? Ranged attacks didn't exist for 65 million years after it went extinct, does something that evolved to hunt slow, armored herbivores have any response to ranged hit and runs? The many species of megafauna humans hunted to extinction before the invention of writing suggests no.
Well you'd only have a knife based on the post, so you'd have to throw it and retrieve it, and it wouldnt stay sharp forever. These are all issues with a spear too. I'm sure a T-Rex could out run you as well. Best bet might be to conserve energy and hope the dinosaur starves first.
Issue I see here, can you make good enough spears and throw them hard enough that they actually pierce its skin? Making megafauna-hunting-grade stone age weapons isn't that easy.
I wonder what it would sleep like. I imagined it laying down, but if it sleeps like a chicken, it's infinitely harder i think. Maybe befriending it and betraying it
I'd assume they're more like a flightless bird, like an emu. Those get on perfectly fine with just two legs and a long neck, and some of the recently extinct flightless bird species seem pretty terrifying at just a couple hundred kg.
It's always funny when people overestimate their own ability to fight an animal.
Yeah bro i could fight a gorilla.
I don't think i could, honestly, but spears and shit from the hut would be my best guess. Or wait until it sleeps and ram it through the eye with full force and run like a motherfucker. In movies they often spear big animals and they live for a long time and cause havoc, i would assume a spear through the brain isn't good no matter the size.
There's a fossil of a t-rex that's believed to have been very old when it died (like, 28ish). It had evidence of injuries all over it, including having been stabbed through the back of the skull and into the brain by another T-rex's tooth (the scar was old and healed, so it survived being bitten in the brain)
I wouldn't bet on anything but a long drawn out campaign against it
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I like the ideas here but I fail to see where you guys get the spears from. We only get a knife and food, which presumably doesn't come with a long stick.
A band of hunters was needed to take a mammoth down. Not a single person. And frequently they used traps to immobilize the animal before killing it from some distance with spears and stones.
I have a month, a place to avoid retaliation, the target can't run away or effectively hide, and no creature in its entire evolutionary history has ever seen a ranged attack before. Each time I hit it, it weakens snd slows as it bleeds, expends energy, and fights infection.
I like my odds with the sleepytime atlatl poo-spear better than being 1 of 20 guys trying to peel a mammoth off from a herd in random terrain.
If it's indestructible straw then you could set it on fire and it would burn perpetually, you could do some real damage to the t-rex with that. Same thing if it's made from indestructible bricks or indestructible wood.
I don't think indestructible straw could burn-- fire is sutained by a reaction that destroys its fuel, if the fuel cannot be destroyed it cannot produce the heat fire requires to stay alive.
Wait for it to sleep find some of it's shit slather it on, sneak up on it and hope I can cripple it by cutting through a tendon. Run like hell, repeat on other leg when it calms down. Hope it can't eat and dies before time runs out. Not sure I risk getting near it's head crippled or not.
I don't know if I could cripple it, but for $500mil I'd give my strategy a shot.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 7:42 PM)
Do you know where those are? Cause I sure as shit don't. Maybe give it some more stabby stabs with shit knife if it's in a bad spot. But 💯 on using a shit knife.
A lot of people are assuming the rex has no food. It also says you will be provided with food but doesn't say how or what or whos. There could be a month's supply of food in an inconvenient arrangement/format that might also serve as food to Rexy T Rex. And we can probably eat some of the same things a T-Rex could eat to stay alive for a month
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Step 2: keep your front door open, but go inside. Make him try to follow you, poking his head through the door.
Step 3: fucking stab his face from a safe distance, since the opening in the indestuctible house can never be forced wider he can never get further inside than is safe for you
Step 4: repeat as above over days until the t-rex has bled out. a ~25 cm knife could probably still cause injuries that sum up, even on a big ass dino.
I think the hardest part is getting into stabbing range when the angry head pokes through your door.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 11:40 PM)
Except it's an animal, not a mindless monster. Unless you're its only possible food source, it will probably just avoid you after a couple of attempts and knife wounds. And if you are the only food source for it, you can just wait it out in the hut.
How are they getting the T-Rex? The answer makes a difference since if they are using a time machine to bring one from the past just do nothing and wait for a few million years of bacterial and viral evolution to take it down.
Hell yeah! Just dig a nice deep hole next to the hut and hide inside whenever it gets close. Then lure it in once the hole is deep enough after covering it in sticks and leaves. Now, I'm not talking a T-rex sized hole. Just enough for 1 foot. Once it steps on it and its weight breaks its leg you wait for it to die inside the hut.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 11:55 PM)
I'll just stay inside the hut thanks. An animal that big will starve to death without anything substantial to eat. And by substantial I mean like elephants and shit. These animals needed a lot, and I mean a lot, of calories to keep going. One month should be plenty of time for attrition to get the job done.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:15 AM)
Larger animals are more energy efficient, and require fewer calories per pound than smaller ones do.
So, it's likely the T-Rex is being fed over this month, possibly by your competition. It would be fine eating a full grown adult once a week or so, though it wouldn't be happy about it.
It depends on its age, activity level and metabolism. A warm-ish blooded active predator is gonna need way more than 1 human a week. It'll be wandering its large territory looking for meals, not charging after candy bars.
A large adult is also likely too slow to catch a running human; one quick turn, inconvenient obstruction (huge tree, boulder, invincible hut) could result in a leg-breaking accident that the T-Rex would know better than to bother with. A young or adolescent animal would be way more dangerous though.
I'll just stay inside the hut thanks. An animal that big will starve to death without anything substantial to eat. And by substantial I mean like elephants and shit. These animals needed a lot, and I mean a LOT, of calories to keep going. One month should be plenty of time for attrition to get the job done. If I have to actively participate in its death though, I'll just wait until starvation/illness weaken it to the point where it can barely move, make some spears by sharpening stone sticks, and stab it through the eyes until it stops breathing.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:18 AM)
Good question. It depends on the environment. There may need to be some stealth gathering necessary when I can confirm the T-Rex is asleep. If water is included with food, or the food provided is high in water content (basically fruit), I'll be fine. Harvesting dew is hard but doable, but not nearly enough to survive.
I was about to post that there was also more oxygen in the atmosphere during dinosaur times hence why they were so big, but I did a search to make sure and it turns out to be a debunked myth. There was a high oxygen era, but not during dinosaurs. TIL
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Oddly enough, the larger an animal is, the less food it generally needs relative to its body mass. "Kleiber's law" basically says that an animal's energy requirements increase more slowly than its body mass. A rex would have had enormous absolute energy requirements, but could likely have survived considerably longer than a week without eating.
We're locked in the arena. I'm safe in my indestructible hut. I also get food. So all I have to do is sit there and wait for the t-rex to starve to death and/or die of dehydration.
With literally zero expenditure of effort I'll make the $500mm in like two weeks.
your hut is in the middle. the food delivery is at one end or the other because you ~~don't~~ can't tip enough (weren't given any money) for the dashers to risk their lives delivering a sack of soggy tacos.
A predator like that probably won't starve in a month. Its a bit hard to say, you could compare with a crocodile (larger ones can fast for 2 - 3 years) but they are cold blooded which is a huge metabolic advantage here.
Lions can go 2 weeks without eating, and are far smaller which means there's less of them to waste away before they perish. A massive predator like a rex would having huge amounts of mass to lose before it died.
Chances are they probably only ate every 1 to 2 weeks by default. A month is not much of a stretch for it, so you likely fail.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 5:59 AM)
I'm not sure I agree on the longevity. Trex is no crocodile that can sit there with essentially zero energy expenditure for hours/days/weeks; Trex stands upright and has to walk which requires a lot of muscle output.
Also what about water? Are you saying it wouldn't die of dehydration either?
Why would it be wandering around if it was stuck in a relatively small space? It can sit or lie down, being bipedal doesn't mean it needs to be constantly standing or walking.
I looked into this afterward and there's actually a study by Barrick and Showers (1999) estimating that a large tyrannosaur could consume 2 - 3 weeks' worth of food in a single meal, and that's before accounting for its existing fat reserves. Remember, a starving animal will burn through its fat reserves and eventually its muscle tissue before it dies, so at that size it's potentially got significant runway.
There's also Kleiber's law, which says larger animals have proportionally lower energy requirements relative to their body mass. Obviously a rex would need an enormous amount of food in absolute terms, but that doesn't mean it would actually need to eat particularly frequently. Throw that all together and i highly doubt a month would be enough to starve one to death.
Dehydration is a much better argument though, I'll give you that. I've no idea how long a rex could survive without water
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Why would it be wandering around if it was stuck in a relatively small space? It can sit or lie down, being bipedal doesn't mean it needs to be constantly standing or walking.
I looked into this afterward and there's actually a study by Barrick and Showers (1999) estimating that a large tyrannosaur could consume 2 - 3 weeks' worth of food in a single meal, and that's before accounting for its existing fat reserves. Remember, a starving animal will burn through its fat reserves and eventually its muscle tissue before it dies, so at that size it's potentially got significant runway.
There's also Kleiber's law, which says larger animals have proportionally lower energy requirements relative to their body mass. Obviously a rex would need an enormous amount of food in absolute terms, but that doesn't mean it would actually need to eat particularly frequently. Throw that all together and i highly doubt a month would be enough to starve one to death.
Dehydration is a much better argument though, I'll give you that. I've no idea how long a rex could survive without water, and I doubt anyone can reliably estimate it. I'd imagine that would kill it long before starvation did.
Although interestingly, the original scenario only says you're provided with food, it doesn't actually mention water for either of you.
But if it rained, water would pool in its footprints and you'd definitely be screwed.
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Predators tend to spend most of their time just laying around.
We suspect dinosaurs were metabolically similar to Komodo dragons, which are also probably an example of island dwarfism. So they're probably the closest analog we have. And they either eat scraps or lay in ambush. Which, you know, involves laying around for long stretches of time.
If I'm allowed to have alcohol then I molotov the T-Rex. I rinse and repeat until it collapses from exhaustion, stab it in the eyes, then set it on fire again.
Apparently T-Rex can live up to a couple weeks without food.
So I would spend most of that time pestering it, throwing rocks and stuff just to keep it awake and agitated. Ideally get it to chase me back into my indestructible hut.
After week 3, if it isn't dead, it will be so lethargic and ill that I could hack away at it's tail until enough bleeding finishes the job. It says I have food, it does not say he has food.
The correct answer is to befriend the t-rex and then team up to kill the multi millionaires caging up people and extinct animals for violent entertainment.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Research suggests a T-Rex would need 50-100k kCal/day. Even if it ate a whole cow before starting, it would be hurting a week in.
Maybe it could survive the month, but would probably be severely malnourished at that point.
In any event, there is no mention of what happens if I fail to kill it. Does the experiment just end and I go home empty handed, or does the magic hut disappear and we fight it out to the death?
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in reply to crank0271 • • •A hut, in this economy?
The only reason they can offer 500 million is because of the crypto sponsorship
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in reply to crank0271 • • •"Yes, Richard, you can keep the hut."
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in reply to radix • • •Seems like a reasonable assumption is that it gets 90-95% of its BMR per day; that is, its fed enough to stay alive for a long while, but it us on a duet and chronically hungry.
If you fail to kill it and survive, yeah seems like going home empty handed is the safe assumption.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I implore anyone thinking of trying this to consider that the Tyrannosaurus rex measured up to 43 feet long, stood about 12 to 13 feet tall at the hip, and weighed roughly 4 to 9 metric tons. Its skull alone could weigh up to 600 pounds, and it had a bite force estimated at 35,000 to 57,000 newtons.
You would be better off with a TSA-approved blade against a Bengal tiger. There is no amount of strategic planning that can compensate for your being so incredibly outclassed that you’d have a better chance at building the first antigravity spaceship in your invincible hut within that same month.
Anyway, I would still probably try, for $500M.
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in reply to Glowstick • • •BUT!
I could take it in a fight.
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in reply to drolex • • •Convo about what animals we could fight in a 1 v 1 fight came up, and a buddy chimed in with some solid piece of wisdom on the matter:
"If you think you're gonna lose, then you're gonna lose. Thinking you can win doesn't guarantee a win, but its impossible to win if you don't think you can."
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in reply to Glowstick • • •We like to think that about ourselves, but in my opinion, that’s not the whole truth. After all, there are other intelligent life forms as well (though it’s certainly debatable whether they’re just as intelligent, “differently” intelligent, or simply less intelligent).
The key reason why we, in combination with our intelligence, dominate the planet is, in my opinion, cooperation within social groups beyond the (extended) family. Religions, states, laws… all mental constructs we use to ensure that we can cooperate within massive groups. As far as I know, no one else does this.
In our scenario here, this crucial component is missing: While a human is (quite likely) more intelligent than the T-Rex, he is, after all, just one individual, and his true strength lies in the community.
If we were to place 50 people together in this setting, I believe there would be significantly less doubt about the outcome.
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in reply to Glowstick • • •Coldcell
in reply to Cethin • • •Due to the mass of T Rex (4-6 tons) it would theoretically top out at 10-15mph, the same run speed of a trained marathon runner putting some effort in. An athlete could outrun a T Rex briefly, and the exertion would probably dissuade it from chasing for long.
T Rex predated upon slow, large herbivores. I think a hit & run tactic would eventually wear it down.
SpaghettiMaster
in reply to Coldcell • • •DahGangalang
in reply to Glowstick • • •Gonna have to slight disagree on this one. I've always found out ability to organize and communicate in generalist situations to be far more valuable than individual intelligence (though that's also nothing to shrug at compared to other animals).
Naw, part of me is wondering if you'd be more likely to succeed in a 1-on-1 with the knife or a 3-on-1 unarmed. I still can't think of a good strategy, but I feel like wed stand a better chance that just any one of us out there.
Axeman666
in reply to DahGangalang • • •DahGangalang
in reply to Axeman666 • • •Lol, not the intention.
I'm thinking of trying to start some kind of rope making operation in the hut (VERY wild card assumption that the resources for this would be available). If you and your two buddies could make enough rope to hog tie the Rex, then successfully did the thing while it slept, maybe you could also build some level of choker for it to suffocate the beast?
Idk, but I know that'd be a lot of rope. Gotta get multiple people on the task.
Axeman666
in reply to DahGangalang • • •rumschlumpel
in reply to DahGangalang • • •"organize and communicate in generalist situations"
So, intelligence? Humans didn't develop big brains for playing chess and doing theoretical physics, and most animal species that are considered "smart" are social (e.g. crows, most whales).
DahGangalang
in reply to rumschlumpel • • •Eh, yes?
Feels like a different flavor of "intelligence" since one is problem solving focused ("how do a beat an unbearable for with minimal gear") while the other is waiting for "triggers" and having "responses" ready ("I'm at my spot and need to wait for guy #2 to run past to drop the anvil") and then not freezing if one of the triggers is slightly off.
So anyway, in general, both probably count as intelligence, but in this specific case, I think its worth differentiating one from the other. The best organizer/team player is not gonna stand out when working alone, while the most intelligent problem solver may not be able to work on a team.
rumschlumpel
in reply to DahGangalang • • •Sure, but the thing is, humans dominate every known animal in both. The way primitive humans (probably) lived, they needed to be both competent at individual problem solving and group coordination.
But fair, it's quite telling that this "human vs. t-rex" problem isn't presented as a group effort, but as "one vs. one". Many modern humans have deluded themselves into thinking that the greatest people work alone.
Geth
in reply to blarth • • •Glowstick
in reply to Geth • • •1 meter = 3 feet
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in reply to DamoclesDurden • • •Enkrod
in reply to blarth • • •Also: Big animals can be surprisingly stealthy. Elephants can sneak up on you when you're not looking.
Everytime you leave that hut and don't look at the Rex because you are busy digging or doing something else, you're in grave danger that it sneaks up on you. It's not gonna boom with every step like in Jurassic Park.
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in reply to Axeman666 • • •Why would a Tyrannosaurus rex be physically unable to outrun a human without its own leg bones shattering?
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in reply to WolfLink • • •Actually, You Could Have Outrun a T. rex
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in reply to Axeman666 • • •m.youtube.com/watch?v=4f-SPNk0…
But What if T-Rex did not run? What if it just walked, but covered a lot of ground because of its long legs? The mechanical stress on the bones would have been much less severe if it didn’t get airborne while moving.
- YouTube
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in reply to Axeman666 • • •The mobility issues seem to be greatly overstated
It might not be able to run, but it's still fast, and seemingly built like a handcart. Newer research suggests it could turn and lunge very quickly
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in reply to Axeman666 • • •I would love to, but I can't find a damn thing with search these days. Apparently a robot named t-rex that is way more important to know about
I did watch this recently though, it seems well researched and paints a picture with what we know
youtu.be/cN2WblQ055g
The Greatest Controversy in Dinosaur History
New Scientist (YouTube)Axeman666
in reply to theneverfox • • •I know, I was just bitching about the same thing. All search engines are trash now even DDG. If anyone knows of one that doesn't use AI, I'd love to know about it.
No worries, I'll check it out. Thanks!
makeshiftreaper
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •fake: trex and humans did not coexist
gay: op is gay
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Is all that is in the area: trex, you and the hut? No were else to hide... So it can see me from far away.
I hide in the hut stabbing at its nose, it moves far enough away, I taunt it back, rinse and repeat.
It dies of blood loss, or maybe infection.
Programmer Belch
in reply to absGeekNZ • • •DaddleDew
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •The T rex must sleep at some point. Find a big artery close to the skin surface, sever it. Watch it bleed out to death.
Or just stay in the hut and enjoy one month of free food and rent.
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thebestaquaman
in reply to DaddleDew • • •Have you seen a headless chicken freaking out and running around before bleeding out and dying? Now imagine that, except the chicken is 12 m tall, weighs 8 metric tonnes, still has its head, and that head is full of teeth the size of a kitchen knife.
Hubi
in reply to DaddleDew • • •rumschlumpel
in reply to Hubi • • •That really depends on the shape of the animal and how it's hunting. E.g. leopards, tigers or most predatory birds don't have a well-protected neck at all, and it's probably not shaped like an elephant seal.
Finding that artery first try is going to be rather difficult, though.
olduffer
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •bstix
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Keep feeding the t-rex with my unlimited supply of food. It will overeat and get lazy.
I've seen it happen with birds. If they eat too much you can just walk over and pick them up.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •If at the end of the time, I was able to walk free without consequence, I would take the challenge, and spend time observing the behaviour of the beast. How fast does it move? How deeply does it sleep? Does it go torpid? Does it overheat?
I feel like there may be a way to do it. If not, well, i had a month of vacation.
SpaghettiMaster
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Do I get to choose the food and can I use it towards the production of improvised weapons, including chemical and bio weapons? Can I stay in the hut and throw things outside the hut?
If yes, sure.
Alternatively: is the t-rex provided food during this time?
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I think some of the other suggestions are better, but my first thought was burying the knife in its food supply (assumings it's being given like entire dead cows or something) and hoping it takes a big enough bite to swallow it.
I imagine that blade going through the digestive track has a good chance to kill it.
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in reply to CMahaff • • •RobotsLeftHand
in reply to prole • • •I can't imagine killing a hippopotamus with a knife. I don't care if it's sleeping well after I attempt to attack it. One result, every time.
Now I'm imagining a far more dangerous monster, several times larger and faster. Yeah, it's just not a weapon in my mind.
wuffah
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I would wait and hide, allowing the T-Rex to tire itself out. Then one night, when the T-Rex was especially tired and soundly asleep, I would carefully climb into the T-Rex’s cloaca. There I would stay for the rest of the month.
That’s it, you can keep the 500 million. I’ve already won.
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in reply to FearMeAndDecay • • •prole
in reply to wuffah • • •Literally why humans (and our ancestors) were able to put themselves at the top of the food chain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persiste…
Persistence hunting - Wikipedia
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •I'd use the knife to cut branches and turn them into spears. Carve them really nice and pointy. I'd poop on the ground and smear the tips of my spears in my own feces.
I'd find a way to sneak up on it while it is eating or sleeping or doing whatever. Throw my spears as hard as possible and as many of them as needed to make sure at least some of them hit the target. Then wait.
My biggest problem is that I am as atheltic as a potato, so I'd probably not be able to throw it far enough and hard enough to penetrate the skin. Depending, of course, on where thr heck I am positioned during the attack. If I am somehow able to be perched in a tree or on a tall rock before attacking, then maybe I am at an advantage.
I could be supliment the spears with blow darts, also covered in poop, if I have the time to develop and use that tool properly. Ideally, I would like a bow an arrow, but I dont believe I'd have the skill and time to make a more advanced tool like a bow. One month isn't a very long time, after all.
Since T-rexes more than likely had feathers instead of the scaly
... Show more...I'd use the knife to cut branches and turn them into spears. Carve them really nice and pointy. I'd poop on the ground and smear the tips of my spears in my own feces.
I'd find a way to sneak up on it while it is eating or sleeping or doing whatever. Throw my spears as hard as possible and as many of them as needed to make sure at least some of them hit the target. Then wait.
My biggest problem is that I am as atheltic as a potato, so I'd probably not be able to throw it far enough and hard enough to penetrate the skin. Depending, of course, on where thr heck I am positioned during the attack. If I am somehow able to be perched in a tree or on a tall rock before attacking, then maybe I am at an advantage.
I could be supliment the spears with blow darts, also covered in poop, if I have the time to develop and use that tool properly. Ideally, I would like a bow an arrow, but I dont believe I'd have the skill and time to make a more advanced tool like a bow. One month isn't a very long time, after all.
Since T-rexes more than likely had feathers instead of the scaly skin we associate them with, there is a good chance, the spear/blow dart would be able to penetrate the skin - if my aim, strength and speed wasn't total shit.
I would also have to do all of this within the first week and attack it repeatedly to make sure it got infected beyond what its immune system could repair by itself.
I have no idea how long it would take for a T-rex to die of sepsis, but the earlier it is hit, the better.
When you are smaller than your prey, you have to think of how smaller creature becomes a threat to bigger creatures. Poison is almost always the answer. The only poison we have ready avaiable, is our feces.
More than likely, I would totally fail in a real scenario and stay in my indestructable hut the entire time.
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in reply to Pyr • • •Pyr
in reply to RBWells • • •I think dinosaurs are more closely related to birds than present day reptiles. T-Rex in particular were warm blooded I believe.
If more similar to a chicken than a crocodile they wouldn't go too long without food.
Jarix
in reply to Pyr • • •100_kg_90_de_belin
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Godric
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Humans used to hunt mammoths, and these fuckers don't even have a thick layer of fur armor. We used to hunt mammoths, because we were so fucking good at it we killed every last one of them.
I'm using my knife and making an atlatl, some spears smeared in shit, and I'm going hunting. Every time this bastard goes to sleep, he's getting a spear with a side of gangrene lodged in him. Fucker's missed out on 60 million years of techtree development, and has no reply to ranged strikes.
Rekorse
in reply to Godric • • •Godric
in reply to Rekorse • • •I don't care if is has feathers, or long grabby arms, I'm waiting for it to fall asleep, and chucking a spear at it, and running, every single time until it dies of bloodloss, gangrene, or exhaustion.
Does the T Rex even understand what I did? Ranged attacks didn't exist for 65 million years after it went extinct, does something that evolved to hunt slow, armored herbivores have any response to ranged hit and runs? The many species of megafauna humans hunted to extinction before the invention of writing suggests no.
Rekorse
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in reply to Rekorse • • •FatVegan
in reply to Godric • • •It's always funny when people overestimate their own ability to fight an animal.
Yeah bro i could fight a gorilla.
I don't think i could, honestly, but spears and shit from the hut would be my best guess. Or wait until it sleeps and ram it through the eye with full force and run like a motherfucker. In movies they often spear big animals and they live for a long time and cause havoc, i would assume a spear through the brain isn't good no matter the size.
_stranger_
in reply to FatVegan • • •There's a fossil of a t-rex that's believed to have been very old when it died (like, 28ish). It had evidence of injuries all over it, including having been stabbed through the back of the skull and into the brain by another T-rex's tooth (the scar was old and healed, so it survived being bitten in the brain)
I wouldn't bet on anything but a long drawn out campaign against it
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in reply to Godric • • •Godric
in reply to mefisdo_dot_info • • •I have a month, a place to avoid retaliation, the target can't run away or effectively hide, and no creature in its entire evolutionary history has ever seen a ranged attack before. Each time I hit it, it weakens snd slows as it bleeds, expends energy, and fights infection.
I like my odds with the sleepytime atlatl poo-spear better than being 1 of 20 guys trying to peel a mammoth off from a herd in random terrain.
weps
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •When it falls sound asleep I stab it in a foot or it's neck or it's eye.
I think I eventually do enough damage after it's hobbled so it bleeds out.
Pyr
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in reply to Pyr • • •TrackenDaKracken
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •It all depends on this "hut". Is it made of straw, wood, or bricks?
If that t-rex isn't getting fed, I'm not sure even bricks would keep it out, though. It ain't no wolf.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Wait for it to sleep find some of it's shit slather it on, sneak up on it and hope I can cripple it by cutting through a tendon. Run like hell, repeat on other leg when it calms down. Hope it can't eat and dies before time runs out. Not sure I risk getting near it's head crippled or not.
I don't know if I could cripple it, but for $500mil I'd give my strategy a shot.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •small indestructible hut is too much of an advantage, no fair to T-Rex
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in reply to Mulligrubs • • •deft
in reply to isleepinahammock • • •GregorGizeh
in reply to deft • • •Step 1: lure t-rex to house
Step 2: keep your front door open, but go inside. Make him try to follow you, poking his head through the door.
Step 3: fucking stab his face from a safe distance, since the opening in the indestuctible house can never be forced wider he can never get further inside than is safe for you
Step 4: repeat as above over days until the t-rex has bled out. a ~25 cm knife could probably still cause injuries that sum up, even on a big ass dino.
I think the hardest part is getting into stabbing range when the angry head pokes through your door.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Even if you value your life at just $1, I doubt your odds are better than 500m:1
But I see that you get to choose a prison with food, and you just get to stay in your prison. Is there internet? What kind of PC?
ButtermilkBiscuit
in reply to humanspiral • • •Asking the important questions.
Dialup internet - x86 Intel era MacBook with a janky charger
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in reply to ButtermilkBiscuit • • •Zozano
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Is killing it with the knife a requirement?
Because if I can make some shit covered spears and throw them from the safety of my indestructible hut then I'd try.
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in reply to Etterra • • •Not nearly as much as you'd think.
As it happens there's an XKCD about it.
what-if.xkcd.com/78/
Larger animals are more energy efficient, and require fewer calories per pound than smaller ones do.
So, it's likely the T-Rex is being fed over this month, possibly by your competition. It would be fine eating a full grown adult once a week or so, though it wouldn't be happy about it.
T-rex Calories
what-if.xkcd.comEtterra
in reply to SippyCup • • •It depends on its age, activity level and metabolism. A warm-ish blooded active predator is gonna need way more than 1 human a week. It'll be wandering its large territory looking for meals, not charging after candy bars.
A large adult is also likely too slow to catch a running human; one quick turn, inconvenient obstruction (huge tree, boulder, invincible hut) could result in a leg-breaking accident that the T-Rex would know better than to bother with. A young or adolescent animal would be way more dangerous though.
Etterra
in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •cub Gucci
in reply to Etterra • • •Will you keep your feces inside of the indestructible hut for trex not to eat your shit?
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Tell the T Rex the mysterious of the universe and watch it neck itself over the realization of it's futile existence.
Too easy.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •This is easy.
We're locked in the arena. I'm safe in my indestructible hut. I also get food. So all I have to do is sit there and wait for the t-rex to starve to death and/or die of dehydration.
With literally zero expenditure of effort I'll make the $500mm in like two weeks.
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in reply to SirEDCaLot • • •A predator like that probably won't starve in a month. Its a bit hard to say, you could compare with a crocodile (larger ones can fast for 2 - 3 years) but they are cold blooded which is a huge metabolic advantage here.
Lions can go 2 weeks without eating, and are far smaller which means there's less of them to waste away before they perish. A massive predator like a rex would having huge amounts of mass to lose before it died.
Chances are they probably only ate every 1 to 2 weeks by default. A month is not much of a stretch for it, so you likely fail.
SirEDCaLot
in reply to NuanceDemon • • •I'm not sure I agree on the longevity. Trex is no crocodile that can sit there with essentially zero energy expenditure for hours/days/weeks; Trex stands upright and has to walk which requires a lot of muscle output.
Also what about water? Are you saying it wouldn't die of dehydration either?
NuanceDemon
in reply to SirEDCaLot • • •Why would it be wandering around if it was stuck in a relatively small space? It can sit or lie down, being bipedal doesn't mean it needs to be constantly standing or walking.
I looked into this afterward and there's actually a study by Barrick and Showers (1999) estimating that a large tyrannosaur could consume 2 - 3 weeks' worth of food in a single meal, and that's before accounting for its existing fat reserves. Remember, a starving animal will burn through its fat reserves and eventually its muscle tissue before it dies, so at that size it's potentially got significant runway.
There's also Kleiber's law, which says larger animals have proportionally lower energy requirements relative to their body mass. Obviously a rex would need an enormous amount of food in absolute terms, but that doesn't mean it would actually need to eat particularly frequently. Throw that all together and i highly doubt a month would be enough to starve one to death.
Dehydration is a much better argument though, I'll give you that. I've no idea how long a rex could survive without water
... Show more...Why would it be wandering around if it was stuck in a relatively small space? It can sit or lie down, being bipedal doesn't mean it needs to be constantly standing or walking.
I looked into this afterward and there's actually a study by Barrick and Showers (1999) estimating that a large tyrannosaur could consume 2 - 3 weeks' worth of food in a single meal, and that's before accounting for its existing fat reserves. Remember, a starving animal will burn through its fat reserves and eventually its muscle tissue before it dies, so at that size it's potentially got significant runway.
There's also Kleiber's law, which says larger animals have proportionally lower energy requirements relative to their body mass. Obviously a rex would need an enormous amount of food in absolute terms, but that doesn't mean it would actually need to eat particularly frequently. Throw that all together and i highly doubt a month would be enough to starve one to death.
Dehydration is a much better argument though, I'll give you that. I've no idea how long a rex could survive without water, and I doubt anyone can reliably estimate it. I'd imagine that would kill it long before starvation did.
Although interestingly, the original scenario only says you're provided with food, it doesn't actually mention water for either of you.
But if it rained, water would pool in its footprints and you'd definitely be screwed.
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in reply to NuanceDemon • • •What did they even do all day then?
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in reply to Hupf • • •Predators tend to spend most of their time just laying around.
We suspect dinosaurs were metabolically similar to Komodo dragons, which are also probably an example of island dwarfism. So they're probably the closest analog we have. And they either eat scraps or lay in ambush. Which, you know, involves laying around for long stretches of time.
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in reply to NuanceDemon • • •T. rex was as warm-blooded as humans, new study finds
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in reply to Lucille • • •You can kill a human with a well place punch or just a chokehold.
So yes, you can also do it with a thumbtack.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •If I'm allowed to have alcohol then I molotov the T-Rex. I rinse and repeat until it collapses from exhaustion, stab it in the eyes, then set it on fire again.
If I can get a molotov in its mouth, even better.
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in reply to 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 • • •Apparently T-Rex can live up to a couple weeks without food.
So I would spend most of that time pestering it, throwing rocks and stuff just to keep it awake and agitated. Ideally get it to chase me back into my indestructible hut.
After week 3, if it isn't dead, it will be so lethargic and ill that I could hack away at it's tail until enough bleeding finishes the job. It says I have food, it does not say he has food.
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