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[โ€“] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] blasstula@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

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

[โ€“] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

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

[โ€“] mihor@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Sounds a lot like Minecraft.