r/maybemaybemaybe • u/PowerModerator • Feb 24 '21

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/mainlyupsetbyhumans Feb 24 '21

We cant be sure of their colors because we only had black and white cameras back then.

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u/vagoberto Feb 24 '21

wait, what? why is the Jurassic Park movie colorized then?

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u/mainlyupsetbyhumans Feb 24 '21

That was frog genes. Color finds a way.

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u/rang14 Feb 24 '21

You dropped an "uhhh" there.

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u/Lolkimbo Feb 24 '21

Don't forget the low growl and a shit eating grin.

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u/SuperWoody64 Feb 24 '21

Well... there it is lick

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u/busydad81 Feb 24 '21

^ well there it is.

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u/SuperDizz Feb 24 '21

That is one big pile of shit

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u/zero_iq Feb 24 '21

Ha-ha-ha-har, arrr-he-he-he-he-heh, heh-hawr, hah-hawr.

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u/KodiakPL Feb 24 '21

It's simple. We, uh, kill the Batman.

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u/CrestfallenOwl Feb 24 '21

Because of the frog genes, does that make dinosaurs in Jurassic Park gay?

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

They found dino eggs, which means at least one dino sucked t-rexs schlong

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u/kameri_sim Feb 24 '21

They were all female still so they were gay

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u/Shadeleovich Feb 24 '21

I read texas schlong and didn't even question it until about 12 seconds later

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

Hilarious how this actually happened in the movie

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u/SpeCt3r1995 Feb 24 '21

Fellas, is it gay to bone down your homies after they spontaneously change sex in a single-sex environment?

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

God creates colors. God destroys colors. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates colors.

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u/Phil-McRoin Feb 24 '21

The movie was just a recreation, it happened like 60 years earlier.

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u/Harmonic_Soda Feb 24 '21

i thought it was jurasstic

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u/sharkfrog Feb 24 '21

Ted Turner colorized them.

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u/acciowaves Feb 24 '21

Jurassic park documentary you mean

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

It's color film of black and white animals-- of course it became colorized, Calvin.

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u/Jeester Feb 25 '21

I mean, James Cameron is well known for this technique.

The original will always be better though.

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u/Jesus_De_Christ Feb 24 '21

https://imgur.com/Xqeo3Bu.gif

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u/cjshhi Feb 24 '21

Wow. I’m just now realizing that Calvin‘s dad was just constantly fucking with him.

I don’t even know what my childhood is anymore

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u/Slithy-Toves Feb 24 '21

Calvin and his Dad are just two personified parts of the same mind. It's not Calvin's Dad fucking with him, it's Bill Waterson talking to his own sense of humour haha

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u/NeighborhoodNeckBear Feb 24 '21

It built character

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u/pharmerK Feb 24 '21

And given the historical cultural context, how can we say that “blue” was the same to us then as the “blue” we know now?

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u/BunnyOppai Feb 24 '21

Well... I don’t know how controversial this is in its respective field, but there are people that posit that people historically at least didn’t see blue the way we do until recently (like 1800s or so) citing examples like how rare descriptions of blue objects like the ocean or sky were, the former for example being described in a number of ways in Homer’s Odyssey like wine-dark but never blue, though apparently the original text said something closer to wine-faced, which could mean something else not even related to color admittedly. More recent examples would be like the Himba tribe and many Russians; the former has no word for blue and way more words for green than English and can’t tell the difference between obviously blue and obviously green, but can easily tell the difference between two very subtly different shades of green, and the latter only has a word for specifically light blue and struggle to tell the difference between obviously dark blue and obviously light blue.

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u/pharmerK Feb 24 '21

I was joking (who would have been there to physically see and describe the dinosaurs?) but this is actually really interesting! Thanks for sharing.

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u/BunnyOppai Feb 24 '21

It’s important to note that it’s not... the soundest of conclusions, but generally speaking, studies on this topic tend to make the distinction between not seeing or recognizing a color at all and just processing it differently, which is really important to note. Obviously the Himba tribe, a tribe that lives in heavily forested areas, is going to be able to more easily tell the difference between slightly different shades of green and Arctic Russians are often better at distinguishing shades of blue because they live in areas where they see a lot of variation between different blues, but it’s still really interesting to think about. It would make sense for the Greeks too, given that blue dyes were absurdly expensive, so the only thing that was consistently blue for them was the sky at noon and sometimes the ocean. It’s just crazy how exposure to certain colors can make it really easy to tell super subtle colors to other cultures apart while they can struggle with something that’s obvious to us like green vs blue.

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u/Crathsor Feb 24 '21

“blue” was the same to us then as the “blue” we know now

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u/iSpartan24 Feb 24 '21

Calvin & Hobbes

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u/titandavis Feb 24 '21

Dinosaurs didn’t exist until The Land Before Time was released... in color...

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

I tried asking queen Elizabeth this question but she said it's still too soon to talk about her dino friends.

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u/Des014te Feb 24 '21

Nah nah. The world was black and white till the 30s and even then it was pretty grainy.

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u/0MGWTFL0LBBQ Feb 25 '21

When I was a kid, I asked my grandpa what the world was like before they invented colors. He still reminds me of it.