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fossilesque @mander.xyz

1y ago

Waka waka

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yuge stone
- Best stone
  
  Everybody's saying it.
!showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I thought it made birds with one stone
- In case anyone genuinely has this misconception: birds branched off from the other dinosaurs during the Jurassic, probably over 100 million years before the astroid hit. Dinos didn’t suddenly grow feathers and a beak because a big rock hit them.
  
  It would be cool though, if they did
  
  I did not know this.
  
  Interesting! Have we identified the last common ancestor of all modern birds yet? Or at least an estimate of when it would have lived?
Best KDR in history folks
Can it properly be said to be one stone once it got through the atmosphere?
- I doubt the atmosphere had much chance to break it up much since it was 10-15 km wide. Not like the little Chelyabinsk.
- Of course, it's like my f+#-: kidney stone. If it was just a bunch of chunks from the start I wouldn't have pissed blood.
- eh, seems like a technicality that you could reasonably argue either way
  
  Aka perfect fodder for wasting time on Lemmy.
Stroke of genius

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