Confirmed with Link: Meme/Like Thread 6 - A new season on the horizon

[Nogatco Rd]

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Are we sure that’s not Korn’s Friday night set at Woodstock ‘99?

 

[Unsustainable]

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

 

[NotOpie]

 

[Unsustainable]

 

[TaLoN]

I herd the inventory of autocorrect died recently. His funnel is tomato.

 

[LakeLivin]

 

[hangman005]

 

[Lempo]

That explains everything.

 

[tarheelhockey]

You know what's crazy about Egypt? How OLD the civilization is. Even during the times we think of as "Ancient Egypt", they had museums in Egypt at that time that were dedicated to Ancient Egyptian civilization.

The oldest hewn-stone structure known to man is the Step Pyramid, designed by Imhotep, the first architect and physician known by name in written history. Imhotep was thought to have lived in the 3rd Egyptian dynasty, around 2600 BC. But we have evidence of civilizations in Egypt about 1400 years earlier than that.

To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.

 

[hangman005]

To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.

especially when compared to @Gee Wally

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.

 

[Gee Wally]

especially when compared to @Gee Wally

 

[LakeLivin]

To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.

How about the fact that we ARE living with some animals that populated the world at that time, and in fact, WELL before that time.

Sharks have been on Earth for 450 million years. Probably not the modern sharks we know today, but also probably not too distinctly different.

 

[Porvari]

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

Sharks have been on Earth for 450 million years. Probably not the modern sharks we know today, but also probably not too distinctly different.

More modern sharks

 

[tarheelhockey]

How about the fact that we ARE living with some animals that populated the world at that time, and in fact, WELL before that time.

Sharks have been on Earth for 450 million years. Probably not the modern sharks we know today, but also probably not too distinctly different.

Some things have literally perfect form, which can’t be improved upon even by hundreds of millions of years of selective pressure. Animals which are in that ~500M range are basically as old as the ozone layer which allows for oxygen breathing to take place, and the surviving OGs are examples of mathematical perfection.

Sharks are one, horseshoe crabs are another. As complex as they are structurally, horseshoe crabs have only undergone minor variation for 450 million years. The general concept of a crab is such an efficient body type that it has triumphed repeatedly in several different branches of the evolutionary tree:

Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs?

Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I’ll sometimes just sit and think about how crazy those people had to be to expand all over the earth. The pacific especially. These people were in canoes, using stars to navigate and managed to populate nearly every landmass on the earth.

f***ing Hawaii is over 2000 miles away from the nearest landmass and people managed to reach it. It’s absurd.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

More modern sharks

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Are these guys more modern than those?

 

[LakeLivin]

Ran across this old MasterCard ad they decided not to use and felt it was worth reposting:

 

[Porvari]

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Are these guys more modern than those?

Seem pretty dated.

 

[LakeLivin]

Some things have literally perfect form, which can’t be improved upon even by hundreds of millions of years of selective pressure.

. . .The general concept of a crab is such an efficient body type that it has triumphed repeatedly in several different branches of the evolutionary tree:

Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs?

Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times

www.scientificamerican.com

Which is why the human will eventually evolve into a crabman.

Oh wait, we're already there!

CRABMAN:

[that was a really underrated show, imo]

 

[tarheelhockey]

I’ll sometimes just sit and think about how crazy those people had to be to expand all over the earth. The pacific especially. These people were in canoes, using stars to navigate and managed to populate nearly every landmass on the earth.

f***ing Hawaii is over 2000 miles away from the nearest landmass and people managed to reach it. It’s absurd.

I don’t think the average modern person understands just how completely insane it must have been to be on the high seas on a moonless night in a ****ing canoe.

Your average person, if they’ve ever been on a boat in the actual ocean not near shore, have done it in the context of a cruise ship or charter boat where things are all lit up and you’re sitting way up above the water. Imagine being right down on the water, surrounded by absolute pitch blackness, and the heaving of the swells, for… however long that must have taken.

The technological feat of surviving that journey is crazy enough, but the psychological experience of it must have been a next-level ordeal akin to space travel or spending a month in a cave. The fact that enough people chose to do it (and survived it) to populate the Pacific Islands is a hell of a thing.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Looks like he’s got 8 chessboards set up. If he lets grandmasters 1, 2, 3, and 4 go first, then he can use their opening moves on 5, 6, 7, and 8. He takes 5-8’s response and uses them as his own on 1-4.

If he played that way all the way through, he’s guaranteed to win or draw half of the games.