rxkcdbyrandomaccount43543 xkcd #2823: Fossilhttps://xkcd.com/2823/View original on lemmy.world468Comments14
Agamemnon lemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesIf 8 trilobites hang out together, would they make a trilobyte?63
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. 51
andrew replylemmy.stuart.fun1Hide 1 replyFossiliferous seems like something you'd hear when Bill and Ted become paleontologists.7
llugal replysopuli.xyzNobody hinders me from using that word fossiliferously in office or at home or wherever2
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?10
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!"3
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.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2823:_Fossil
Boop
I misread the first panel as "pry open an animal" at first and was thinking, "that is NOT how you make a fossil!"