The Badger's Smial

Also unfortunately I do believe a tornado, which had the power to lift an oil rig weighing 800+ metric tons, could probably lift a 100 ton dinosaur.

I could see my driveway when the tornado sirens began. I cut across the back lawn to get inside. The tornado/funnel tore apart trees all down the road I had walked. Branches littered the street and caused road closures. It did not hit my apartment but left debris at the edge of my apartment complex where I had just been walking (and where all the birds bolted from.)

I suspect even hundred ton dinos would be spooked of something that can throw a tree. And that's somewhat evidenced in the bird flight I saw.

Several of the world's most famous fossil-bearing rock formations preserve what would've been "grass"lands* and deserts, ample flat land- but, crucially, the Earth as a whole was much warmer than it is today (the polar ice caps would've covered one-third of their modern extent, no major glaciers, what're now Antarctica and Alaska would've only seen sparse snowfall in the coldest winters) meaning the cold air-warm-air interactions needed for tornado formation would've been a lot rarer to come by. Therefore, tornadoes in general would've been rare occurrences during the Mesozoic, and ones powerful enough to pose a threat to a large dinosaur would've been even rarer. However, regular storm activity still would've occurred, and the posited "maybe they just laid down/lowered their heads" speculation above is indeed a theory for how sauropods might've avoided getting struck by lightning in such conditions- I strongly doubt they sat on their heads due to how heavy their bodies were**, but they absolutely could lower their heads closer to the ground.

Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.

Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.

We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

Happy Pride!

Have your smarty-pants solve in one day a problem that took you all month. Have them learn in two months what took you two years. Have them know things offhand that you had to look up. Have them fire off snappy comebacks that took you a week to think of.

No need to pretend to knowledge you don’t have or give them nonsense Moffat brain magic.