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.
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.
Poop on the knife, stab it anywhere I can reach when it is inevitably near the hut trying to get me. Repeat until infection does its work.
Is that what a poop knife is?
Sadly no
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.
If you’re fed, it’s highly likely the T Rex is also fed.
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.
Actually it is believed that T Rex was warm blooded: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-rex-was-as-warm-blooded-as-humans-new-study-finds/
I think you misread me, that is the common theory yeah
Ahh reading over again you’re right my bad!
Chances are they probably only ate every 1 to 2 weeks by default.
What did they even do all day then?
Probably smoked weed and played Fortnite, they were likely a bunch of wankers.
wankers
With those arms? uh oh
Really long wein
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.
lay in ambush. Which, you know, involves laying around for long stretches of time
Great line to remember for my boss
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, 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.
your hut is in the middle. the food delivery is at one end or the other because you
don’tcan’t tip enough (weren’t given any money) for the dashers to risk their lives delivering a sack of soggy tacos.If you have to walk through trex territory to get food/water then it’s much harder…
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.
When was the last time it ate before going into the arena?
Pat someone like $250 million to shoot it from outside the arena.
I used to have a recurring adventure dream/nightmare like this when I was a kid. Except the hut was NOT indestructible.
Wait until it falls asleep infront of the hut, slit it’s throat and run back inside
You’re not gonna get through it’s hide fast enough lol
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.
Prose so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye.
Literally why humans (and our ancestors) were able to put themselves at the top of the food chain.
Strange, I don’t see the part about hiding in a prey’s cloaca for an entire month. 🤔
It’s heavily implied.
Clown in ambulance style? How big is a T’s asshole for a grown ass man to fit in??
If you do it right, t-rex will learn what it’s been missing and welcome you back with arms wide open.
I’m so flattered that you you see me as a grown ass man <3
Its not much of a leap to assume you’re an ass man
That is just disrespectful. They could be a General Manager, District Manager, or Regional Manager. You don’t know.
Somewhat related comment. Is it possible to kill a human with a thumbtack?
You can kill a human with a well place punch or just a chokehold.
So yes, you can also do it with a thumbtack.
You could totally rip open a neck artery with a thumbtack.
I imagine an infection would be the most likely killer. Maybe eventual bloodloss? Though that would take quite some time.
Yes, you just have to be patient
Get him to swallow it, and maybe.
Wait a month in the hut, if it dies on its own I win, if not I live anyway.
And you got a month of free room and board!
Except you didn’t kill it, it just died. You did not win.
I’ll kill it by removing it’s food source
Tell the T Rex the mysterious of the universe and watch it neck itself over the realization of it’s futile existence.
Too easy.
That only works on philosoraptors.
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?
Can I keep the hut?
“Yes, Richard, you can keep the hut.”
I also immediately thought of ayoade on taskmaster when I read that comment. I see you prole.
A hut, in this economy?
The only reason they can offer 500 million is because of the crypto sponsorship
All right, we’ll keep the sponsorship. I’m fine living in the Cypto.com Arena('s Previously Magic Hut).
Only the knife.
Surely the T-Rex also gets food and a hut
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.
That’s assuming it doesn’t have the capability to go into torpor.
Yeah that was my thought, just let it starve.
Guys I just checked t Rex extinct easy money they already ded
Never saw the jurassic Park sequels huh? There are islands with dinosaurs on them.
