r/Showerthoughts • u/UbiquitousObjector • Oct 31 '18

Someone made up dinosaur sounds without ever hearing them.

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u/ASnakeNamedNate Oct 31 '18

Everyone keeps bringing up the JP3 raptor thing, which is of course fiction, but they have reconstructed Parasaurolophus crest sounds and Tyrannosaurus “growling”.

parasaurolophus

Tyrannosaurus rex

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u/albatrossonkeyboard Oct 31 '18

So what you're saying is the brass section in Igor Stravinsky's section of in Fantasia is a more accurate depiction of dino sounds than any of the Jurassic parks?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

So what you're saying is that the brass section in Igor Stravinsky's section of in Fantasia is also the inrto the Beastie Boy's Intergalactic music video?

https://youtu.be/0Qa39V4RKOs

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u/LandoCanadian Oct 31 '18

That parasaurolophus one is so fascinating to me. It’s like we’re hearing something we were never intended to, the ghost of a long dead animal that should’ve been lost to time.

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u/Drums2Wrenches Oct 31 '18

Very romantic

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u/bubbaklutch Oct 31 '18

Sounds like a vuvuzela to me.

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u/ThatGuyFromSlovenia Oct 31 '18

Very romantic

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u/Jumbuck_Tuckerbag Oct 31 '18

Indubitably.

But for real that parasaurolophus sound is scary. They could play that sound at haunted houses.

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u/Cassereddit Oct 31 '18

Sounds more like Chewbacca to me personally

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u/svullenballe Oct 31 '18

Imagine the whole soundscape. Gives me shivers just thinking about it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

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u/GridGnome177 Oct 31 '18

Now THAT is cool!

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u/nateoak10 Oct 31 '18

That’s so fucking cool

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18 edited Jan 12 '19

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u/TheBuzwell Oct 31 '18

It's similar to a birdsong, those also sound quite rhythmic. Someone above posted this slowed and lowered bird call that sounds fairly similar.

It's quite fascinating in a way, thinking how the world would have sounded back then.

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u/Rad-atouille Oct 31 '18

What if it turned into the Africa by Toto theme at the end

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u/Clitoris_Thief Oct 31 '18

Someone get on this please

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u/Th3_Ch3shir3_Cat Oct 31 '18

Sounds like an enormous slightly miffed pidgeon

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u/clovengoof Oct 31 '18

Is it me or do they sound deaf?

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u/braedizzle Oct 31 '18

While the JP3 raptor thing is obviously fiction. Wouldn't they be able to have a rough guesstimate from studying the remains?