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

[Unhinged Finn]

. . .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:


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

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[zman77]

 

[sabremike]

 

[Nogatco Rd]

looks like the first time I took mushrooms

 

[Negan4Coach]

Has anyone encountered "WifeJack" yet? Fascinating psychodrama unfolding on X:

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Given that it's on X and it's involving a woman (or a drawing of one), I imagine the "psychodrama" is just a losing fight against the rampant misogyny on the platform.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

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.

I get nervous when I drive in a new city for the first time, despite having GPS and a cell phone if anything happens. I can't imagine the cajones it took for people to just hop in a canoe and sail until they found some inhabitable land.


This popped up in my twitter feed just now, coincidentally. The thought of riding something like this out in a tiny canoe utterly terrifies me.

 

[MinJaBen]

As complex as they are structurally, horseshoe crabs have only undergone minor variation for 450 million years.

Probably not true at all. They may look unchanged, but evolution doesn’t just stop. Probably lots of biochemical evolution going on that fossils won’t elucidate. For example, humans are constantly evolving, but the loci with some of the largest changes are in the immune system, which won’t show up in the fossil record.

 

[MinJaBen]

looks like the first time I took mushrooms

And the last time if it were me.