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Everybody stop what you’re doing RIGHT NOW and celebrate the last Out of Touch Thursday of 2020

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Folks someone just made the most amazing thing I've seen in ages

the eye pinning when they're excited???? sent me

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New comic! (link)

Happy Solstice everyone. I hope you’re all doing ok.

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I have a new goal: bake bread using the geothermal gradient

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A snake in Thailand spent enough time sitting still in the water to grow moss and turn into a dragon, apparently.

More video at the source account!

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the modern specimen of a coelacanth that revealed they were not extinct was allegedly found by marjorie courtenay-latimer on dec 22nd, which may be timely for fishmas

By Fod, you're right ... we thought she was dead but she came back ...

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they need to invent the opposite of an nda called an fda where u have to tell everyone everything

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My Wife: whatcha thinking about

Me: Australia used to be populated by giant shortfaced kangaroos that walked like a man.

My Wife: what the fuck

Me: check it out

Unlike modern macropodids, which hop (either bipedally or quadrupedally), sthenurines seem to have abandoned saltation as a means of locomotion. Their comparatively inflexible spines, robust hindlimb and pelvic elements, and the lack of capacity for rapid hopping suggest that these animals walked bipedally, somewhat like hominids, even converging with those primates in details of their pelvic anatomy. Furthermore, their hooved single digits and metatarsal anatomy suggest that unlike their plantigrade relatives, sthenurines were digitigrade, walking on the tips of their "toes".

Procoptodon was not able to hop as a mode of transportation, and would have been unable to accelerate sufficiently due to its weight. Broad hips and ankle joints, adapted to resist torsion or twisting, point to an upright posture where weight is supported by one leg at a time. Its broad hips also allowed for another important modification – large buttocks – a feature shared with other walking species

Me: so yea

My Wife: no but actually what the fuck

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Winter Sun Yashica Yashinon 5.5cm f/1.8 Sony A7

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Can someone please explain to me what evaporated milk is? Wouldn’t that just be gas by definition? I live in constant fear

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Glacial Tributaries

Just as rivers have tributaries that feed their flow, small glaciers can flow as tributaries into larger ones. This astronaut photo shows Siachen Glacier and four of its tributaries coming together and continuing to flow from the top to the bottom of the image.  (Image credit: NASA; via NASA Earth Observatory) Read the full article

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@headspace-hotel @iamthepulta

people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

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despite what popular opinion may lead you to believe, some rocks actually do have scientifically-proven auras! Unfortunately, those rocks are uranium and the aura is cancer. 

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“IT’S A SWORD, IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.” My favourite scene from The Hogfather. ___ See how this comic was made here.

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Open the door, get on the floor

Everybody walk the dinosaur

Welcome to Cretaceous Week! (Dec. 20-26)

If the Earth's history were compressed into a single year, now would mark the Cretaceous Period.

Lasting roughly 79 million years, the Cretaceous Period is the longest period of the Phanerozoic. Though, there is still some debate over when exactly it started.

Geologic periods are usually formally defined by global markers known as index fossils. These fossils are of something that are constrained in time (i.e they show up in the record/go extinct after this point) and are globally distributed. A few different methods of marking the end of the Jurassic have been proposed, ranging from specific foraminifera or ammonites to U-Pb dating of certain rocks. Few of these methods result in an answer that agrees with one another though, so we are stuck with an estimate of 145 million years ago.

The Cretaceous is home for some of the more... charismatic dinosaurs. Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus-Rex, Velociraptors, ankylosaurus, and a lot of other dinosaurs that the average child has heard of, lived during this period. Though many didn't walk the earth at the same time. Stegosaurs and Triceratops, for instance, are separated by tens of millions of years of history and would have never seen one another.

Many modern animals and plants can trace their roots back to the Cretaceous. Modern sharks and fish begin to take off in the oceans alongside sea turtles (after their respective starts in the Jurassic), the first members of the families that would become placental mammals and monotremes dug burrows in the undergrowth, and, perhaps most impactful, all flowering plants get their start here before going on to make up the grand majority of modern plants.

The landscape they traveled was a little more familiar to that of today, as Pangaea and Gondwana broke apart in more of a hurry than they had in the Jurassic. South America, India, Antarctica, and Australia all split from Africa at this time, forming the south Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the process. However, the warm climate also meant that there was little ice, even at the poles. This resulted in higher sea levels and the flooding of vast tracks of land to form shallow seas, such as the Western Interior Seaway in North America, or similar formations in Africa and Scandinavia.

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While we don't know exactly when the Cretaceous started, we certainly know when it ended: 66 million years ago.

After a gradual decrease in biodiversity that certainly wasn't helped by the Deccan Trapps erupting in India, the non avian dinosaurs, the pterosaurs, and the Plesiosaurs went extinct with the Chicxulub impact off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. They were not alone. In the resulting impact winter (imagine a nuclear winter sans fallout or humanity) nearly 3/4 of all plant and animal species went extinct due to a collapse of plant life making food relatively scarce. Animals that survived were typically small (less than 55 lbs) and were omnivores, insectivores, or carrion eaters. Crocodilians were an exception to this rule, since river environments rely more on detritus than land plants, and modern crocodiles are capable of going months without food if necessary. Animals on the sea floor were also relatively unaffected.

After the dust finally settled, the survivors would go on to populate the earth, and fill in the niches that dinosaurs left behind. Mammals would radiate into a dizzying variety of forms, birds would continue to take to the skies, life as we know it would slowly begin to take shape. But that is a story for the Cenozoic era.

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You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."