Would any of those have been usable as building lumber; or would they have been like palm trees, tall but more or less giant stalks?
I asked my dentist about 1 million RPM dental drills. He said they were too damn fast - if you moved, the drill would cut through the tooth. So, he stuck with the traditional slow (200-300K RPM) ones.
Palm wood is used for construction all over the place.
But no, most Carboniferous trees were unifacial, they didn’t produce timber-like wood:
I was going to say, i have some doodads made of palm wood just because it’s pretty.
“They just want researchers in the enclosure to feel enriched and stimulated. (‘The Enclosure’ is what archivists call the shadowy world outside their archives in which so many people are trapped.)”
“Unfortunately, KM3NeT led to the discovery of the Pauli anglerfish, which emits Cherenkov radiation to prey on neutrino researchers.”
That sort of a groaner of a pun isn’t his usual style.
But I suppose this particular one is too nerdy to be from anyone else.
How DO they filter out extraneous light sources?
I assume he recently became a father. That’s the only explanation for a dad joke of this magnitude.
“AAAAAA A ÃA̧AȂA̦ ǍÅÂÃĀÁȂ AAAAAAA!”
And, of course, someone has already created a web page that translates Scream Cipher.
Sorry, what I meant to say was: Aâa̲, åa̮ a̧åäȃãá, ãåǎáåâá a̰aã aăȃáaa̲a̦ a̧ȃáaāáa̲ a ȁáȧ a̯aa̋á āa̰aā āȃaâãăaāáã Ãa̧ȃáaǎ A̧ảa̯a̰áȃ.
Would that be pronounceable as a tonal language?
So that’s what the “Words that end in GRY” guy was saying!
“I can’t get over the suspicion that all those viral pictures are photoshopped and ‘Flemish’ belongs in the lower right circle.”
Isn’t the Atacama giant more archaeological than geologic/planetary? Also, it seems a bit of a cheat to have both planetary and space categories. Iron giant means different things for space and “not real”, but gas giant refers to the same thing.
Not necessarily. The “not real” Iron Giant was a space iron giant.
True, though I assume he was referring to one of these, given the pattern of red/blue:
And if not, then that makes it even less clever.
That’s oddly specific
It’s actually 101500 years. Quite a long time!
“These dinosaur bones are 65,000,003 years old!”
“I asked a museum security guard three years ago…”