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rxkcdbyrandomaccount43543 xkcd #2823: Fossilhttps://xkcd.com/2823/View original on lemmy.world468Comments14Reply
Agamemnon lemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesIf 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?63Reply
CCrul lemm.ee2Hide 2 repliesHover text: The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot. 51Reply
andrew replylemmy.stuart.fun1Hide 1 replyFossiliferous seems like something you'd hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.7Reply
llugal replysopuli.xyzNobody hinders me from using that word fossiliferously in office or at home or wherever2Reply
Psythik lemm.ee3Hide 3 repliesI don't get it. Who is telling him not to boop the trilobites? What's wrong with booping the trilobite?10Reply
Flying Squid lemmy.worldI misread the first panel as "pry open an animal" at first and was thinking, "that is NOT how you make a fossil!"3Reply
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If 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?
No, they'll be 1/128 kilotrilobites
I think you would need 1,000,000,000,000
Wouldn't that make teratrilobite?
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Fossiliferous seems like something you'd hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.
Nobody hinders me from using that word fossiliferously in office or at home or wherever
I don't get it. Who is telling him not to boop the trilobites? What's wrong with booping the trilobite?
Do not boop the trilobite
D O N O T B O O P T H E T R I L O B I T E
Do not the trilobite.
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Boop
I misread the first panel as "pry open an animal" at first and was thinking, "that is NOT how you make a fossil!"