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I rode a dinosaur, you IDIOT!

This was posted on one of the videos on the channel of archaeologist Flint Dibble (yes that is his real name, his dad is also an archaeologist and his brother’s name is Chip).

As it said, he debated Graham Hancock on Rogan because he felt Rogan’s audience needed to hear from an actual archaeologist about the nonsense Graham Hancock was pushing and hopefully get them interested in real archaeology, which I feel is a solid reason for going on Rogan and doing what he did. Too bad more actual experts aren’t asked to go on Rogan.

palebluethought ,

Poes law and all, but this one feels like a troll to me

FlyingSquid OP ,
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All I can say is Flint doesn’t think so. I’m guessing this isn’t the first comment like this he’s had to read.

gedaliyah ,
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Why would a Dinosaur hypnotist lie to me what would she have to gain?

£25k

Reverendender ,

I’ll do it for $20k!

TheFriar ,

I’m very curious what he thinks a “ghost writer” does.

SpaceNoodle ,

Writes books based on the accounts of ghosts, duh.

j4k3 ,
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I’m against gouging the gullible, but the bias is mostly because it would mean predation of my family and already fragile support network…

However… gooning dino kink for £25k sounds greyish boarder legit. Where’s the Khan academy 411?

homesweethomeMrL ,

I like Graham Hancock. He’s got some neat theories. Are they truth? Dunno. Am I gonna hassle some academic and be a dick about something because of them? No.

Remember back before someone put together the orientation of the Pyramids at Giza and Orion’s Belt? It was pretty astonishing if one had lived with the Pyramids for a long time and saw them as just sort of misaligned for ? reasons. Some guy had to get razzed for twenty years to get that out there before the interwebs.

We’ve over-compensated a bit, yeah.

TheFriar ,

I’ve literally never heard he name. Want to hit me with some of his most interesting theories?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Well the main one is that he posits there was a broad-reaching civilization on Earth that was effectively wiped out at the start of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago.

Typically the Mesopotamians, around 6,000 years ago are considered the first civilization. So it’s not likely to get any support for the idea of “civilization” before that. Most of what a civilization had is usually wiped out after a millennia or three. (Or deliberately destroyed, thanks The Pope.) Connecting them is difficult, but he finds interesting parallels, examples, possible ways it could have happened, etc.

One of those ways is through paleoastronomy, which upsets basically everyone and their dog, but it says essentially earthworks created to point to or mirror astronomical features can tell us things like when they were built. Or, with enough like-examples suggest a common theme or purpose.

He’s engaging and intelligent, and pretty laid back about the wild theories which makes some people really dislike him. Here’s a set of specials he did in the 90’s? I think? Which are pretty thought provoking if you’re into that kind of thing.

What I don’t buy is that all of history has been discovered, correctly interpreted, and sewn up with a bow on top. But I understand he’s particularly annoying to academics because he wants to be an explorer, an educator, a theorist, an archaeologist, an anthropologist, an astronomer; and yet he hasn’t completed coursework or any other feats of strength to prove he knows anything about those things. Skeptics just hate him immediately on the face of everything. Which, yeah. That also makes sense.

Today ,

If you could ride a dinosaur, what kind would you choose?

miseducator ,

Fucking t-rex, obviously.

ccunning ,

Spoken like someone who forgot about Pterosaurs…

TheFriar ,

Why not a pterodactyl? I’ll firebomb you riding your stupid little gimpy armed t-Rex from above and you wouldn’t even stand a chance

miseducator ,

Whoa whoa whoa. I was under the impression that I would be riding a dinosaur for recreation, not prehistoric warfare. You just go around firebombing dinosaur equestrians all willy nilly?

TheFriar ,

This is the fuckin Cretaceous period, brah. No such thing as war crimes yet so yeah I’m firebombing some fuckin peeps

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Pff. I fly and I evolved before them.

thesporkeffect ,

Flint Dibble sounds like a MST3K Dave Ryder name

at_an_angle ,

Blast Hardcheese.

TexasDrunk ,

I thought it was another of Dale Gribble’s pseudonyms to order pizza.

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