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.
Pat someone like $250 million to shoot it from outside the arena.
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.
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
I used to have a recurring adventure dream/nightmare like this when I was a kid. Except the hut was NOT indestructible.
When was the last time it ate before going into the arena?
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
give it fugu livers or anything that is mildly toxic for us
I’d just wait for it to die of the common flu
Somewhat related comment. Is it possible to kill a human 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
Wait a month in the hut, if it dies on its own I win, if not I live anyway.
Except you didn’t kill it, it just died. You did not win.
And you got a month of free room and board!
I would be so down. I would die, but it would be awesome.
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?
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
Probably smoked weed and played Fortnite, they were likely a bunch of wankers.
wankers
With those arms? uh oh
Really long wein
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.
One month? After one week, something is dead unless there’s plentiful food.
Oddly enough, the larger an animal is, the less food it generally needs relative to its body mass. “Kleiber’s law” basically says that an animal’s energy requirements increase more slowly than its body mass. A rex would have had enormous absolute energy requirements, but could likely have survived considerably longer than a week without eating.
